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May 25, 2011

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian Nats Rd3

For the third race of the Belgian touring car season last weekend, they went to the track of RCR at Roeselare. On practice Saturday the competitors had a sunny day but during the night some rain was expected. The track was wet on sunday morning but a little sunshine and the track was dry and for the whole day it was cloudy but no rain. Qualifying in the EFRA class it was Corally driver Olivier Bultynck that took the TQ ahead of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. The final results were a repeat of the qualifying results, with Olivier taking the win after the first 2 A-mains despite having to come from behind in the first final. Xray driver Thomas Stockman took 2nd and Nick Joosens driving a Yokomo was 3rd.

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May 25, 2011

Kyle Johnson takes 4wd at Silver State SC race

Fresh off his Silverstate Nitro Challenge win with his Losi 4wd TEN-SCTE Team Losi Racing driver Kyle Johnson TQ’d and won the Silver State Short Court race at 702 raceway in Las Vegas. The event was a two day race with qualifying Saturday and mains on Sunday. Kyle showed speeds that no one could match in qualifying allowing him to start up front on Sunday for the main. Kyle took his blistering speed right into the main on Sunday to take the overall win.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 24, 2011

Dave Henry does triple at RC Pro Series Rd1

This past weekend was Rd1 of the RC Pro Series in Ontario, Canada. TLR was in strong attendance with Dave Henry, Taylor and Tommy Giovinazzo there. Dave Henry would have a great weekend taking the TQ and win in Pro nitro buggy, Pro electric buggy and Pro 2wd SCT. The surprise of the weekend was TLR privateer Jay Christiano finishing 2nd in Pro nitro buggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 24, 2011

Noriyuki Kawashima wins Tresrey Off-Road Race Rd5

Round 5 of the Tresrey Off-Road Race 4WD Challenge with ‘Charity Auction for Sendai earthquake’ was held last Sunday at the TRS circuit in Matsusaka-city, Japan. 73 racers joined the event, making it the best attended race that the TRS circuit ever had again for an off-road event. In the first qualifying round, it was TRF (Tamiya Racing Factory) driver Satoshi Maezumi who managed to take top time for this round. In round 2, Maezumi broke his car in the warm up run which gave him a DNS while Noriyuki Kawashima (ZX5) managed 12 laps with 5:04.5 in this round who managed to take overall TQ. Hideki Nakajima (B44) took 2nd with a 5:05.2, with Maezumi (TRF502X) taking 3rd with 5:05.3. Unfortunately the finals were cancelled because of heavy rain and so the final result was decided based on everyone’s qualifying result. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a DEX410 2010 spec kit, Speed Passion RS2 kits, ESCs and motors. The Charity Auction for Sendai earthquake was also held with a total of 29 items on offer which included all the famous driver’s body shell from Europe and US (like David Spashett, Dustin Evans, Hupo Hönigl and more) and Ryan Cavalieri’s pit stand. Tresrey are sending the total amount of this charity auction (JPY87,900) with all the entry fee of the race and some other donations to the Japan Red Cross. Special thanks to the drivers and people who gave their items for this charity auction.

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May 24, 2011

Seyong Oh & Sangjun Nam win Capricorn NC Rd1

The 1st round of the 2011 Capricorn Nitro Challenge Open, which had been postponed due by bad weather, finally took place last weekend in South Korea. In the 1/10th class it was Hyunho Ahn that took the pole position with his Capricorn LAB-C01, but in the final it was Seyong Oh that took the win ahead of Hyunho Ahn and Sangho Lee, to give the LAB C01 the complete podium. In the 1/18th scale class, it was Shepherd driver Jinwoo Park that was top qualifier but problems in the final meant he was not able to threaten for the win. The race was won by Capricorn LAB-C801 drier Sangjun Nam that took the win from the Serpent pairing of Youngjun Kim and Seyong Oh in 2nd and 3rd.

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May 24, 2011

Sander Borghoff wins Rd2 of Dutch 1/10th Nats

Last weekend saw the 2nd round of the Dutch 1/10th scale nationals held in the northern part of the Netherlands, in Groningen. A long journey for most of the visitors, it always proves to be a worthy trip to the technical but bumpy track of the REAL’80. Saturday’s training saw a sunny and dry day with lots of drivers adapting the setups to the bumpy ride. After a nice day of training, a barbeque was organized to enjoy the weather even more.

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May 24, 2011

Klausner & Singer wins Austrian Nationals Rd1

Last weekend saw the first of six rounds of the Austrian National championship run at the MRC Frühwirth Sollenau track, which has been off the National calendar for some years because of a very strange rule, which was canceled at the last AGM of the Austrian federation. With total 69 entries we saw good competition in both classes.

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May 24, 2011

Southeast Short Course Nats report

Racers came in from all across Florida to compete at the first Annual Southeast Short Course Nats held at Bashers R/C in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Mike Applegate was on-fire with the race direction and once again controlled an action packed event. Each main is announced with enthusiasm and with a packed house of racers and spectators the main events were always exciting.

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