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October 24, 2012

Adrian Berntsen wins Norwegian Indoor opener

The opening round of the Norwegian national indoor series was held by the host club VMBK in Fagernes last Sunday and Adrian Berntsen sent us this report. The race saw some 43 drivers attending in four different classes, including 1:10 Modified, 1:10 Stock, 1:12 Pan Car, and M-Chassis. The track was as always in this event, big with a size of approximately 600m2 with a nice and well combined layout. Especially for me and Petter, the traction was totally different from what we were having in the ETS round in Germany one week before, so this would give us some challenges on finding a new and better setup for our ORCA powered T4’s.

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October 24, 2012

Sweep Rug Racers Rd1 report

The Sweep Rug Racers UK series began on Sunday 7th October with Round 1 seeing some changes to last year’s series. The 13.5t Touring Championship stays as was but this year a switch to 17.5t ‘Blinky’ (or stock) was welcomed by many. As well as this the SUKRR series has also become home to the Mardave Championship this winter providing a great series for those racing a Mardave chassis. In 13.5t we had a 2 way battle between Tony Broad and Schumacher’s Ashley Wiffen. The pair would put in some great qualifying runs pushing each other all the way. It would be Tony though that would take pole for the A-Main with Ashley’s Mi4cxl right behind him in 2nd, Richard King with his Awesomatix in 3rd.

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October 24, 2012

Austria to host Euro Offroad Series Round 3

With the second season of the ‘TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby’ set to get underway this weekend (26-28 Oct) in Poznan, Poland, the series’ organisers are delighted to announce that the 3rd & penultimate round will take place in Austria. Expanding from three to four events for the 2012/13 season, the EOS’ first ever visit to Austria will take place in the centre of the country in the city of Leoben from March 8-10. As with the Polish and two German events on the schedule, the race will also take place indoors ensuring racers are guaranteed three days of racing irrespective of the weather.

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October 23, 2012

Kazuya Tanaka wins Japanese National title

The 1/8 Off-road Japanese Championship was held last weekend in Matsuzaka and saw Kazuya Tanaka (Kyosho/Reds) put in a perfect qualifying run with with three TQs to take the top spot. Just after the start of the one hour final, Tanaka would loose first position due to a mistake but just ten minutes later he was able to catch the race leader make the pass. After that he lead to the end to win the National title ahead of Kyosho team mates Itaru Kawamoto and Takuya Kimura.

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October 23, 2012

Ryan Lutz wins The Dirt Nitro Challenge Italy

The Dirt track at IBR Padova in Italy is one of the most amazing off-road racing facilities in the world. A custom built structure housing a track designed by the well known Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen, it all added up to a recipe for amazing racing. Team Durango drivers Jörn Neumann and Ryan Lutz showed their pace early in the chaotic practice and showed they would be a serious threat. In qualifying both Team Durango drivers had the pace to take TQ but bad luck saw Ryan 6th and Jörn 8th overall in qualifying.

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October 23, 2012

Jared Tebo dominates US Worlds warm-up

The 2012 A-Main Hobbies US World’s Warm-Up Race was held October 18th – 21st at Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, CA. This would be a great tune-up race for some of the best US 1/8 nitro off-road buggy drivers. In attendance was: Current IFMAR 1/8 Buggy World Champion Cody King, Current IFMAR 1/8 Buggy Worlds TQ & 3rd Overall Jared Tebo, 2-time ROAR 1/8 Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, & Previous ROAR 1/8 Truggy National Champion Ryan Maifield.

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October 22, 2012

Renaud Savoya wins C-Netic Challenge

Factory Xray/RB/Sweep driver Renaud Savoya made the second stop on his Asian Tour, hitting up the C-Netic Challenge race in Indonesia, getting in some last minute international running prior to the World Championships in 6 weeks time. Reno filed the following report. “Asian tour round 2. This time I flew to Surabaya, Indonesia for C-Netic challenge. From what I saw last year, the track seemed to be one of the most selective in the World. That came true as the layout was fully 3D, with 9 meters elevation on the back section. The club put a serious work together to get this done. Asian racing is probably one of the best place to race RC in the world as they have crazy layouts, professional marshals, awesome pit area etc.

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October 20, 2012

Mark Green seals British title with Rd9 win

The ninth and final round of this years championship was hosted by the Mendip circuit at Weston Super Mare. With Tim Wood away on Holiday in Egypt to celebrate his 30th birthday, it became a clear fight between defending champion and Mugen / Sirio / Contact driver Kyle Branson against former champion of Serpent / Novarossi driver Mark Green. These two add a clear driver consistency and car setup advantage over the chasing pack throughout Saturday practice and also on race day. The chasing pack of Andy North, The Hastings, Danny Bancroft and Neal King battled it out for the minor championship positions which were again undecided heading into the season finale.

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