February 26, 2020

2020 The Dirt Nitro Challenge – Report

There are races and then there’s the Dirt Nitro Challenge. It’s unlike any race in the entire world and year after year, it attracts the best in the world to compete on one of the gnarliest tracks ever created. These two factors alone make this race, in every bit of the word … legendary. The Dirt Crew has built a reputation of creating some of the most technical and challenging tracks and no one does it better than Joey and Aaron. Thanks to their hard work and unique track building style, drivers are blessed with some epic racing that’s not often seen at other events. The DNC only happens once a year and in many ways, this is a very good thing as it keeps this event truly unique making drivers thirst for a full year before they get to experience it again. This year’s track layout was awesome. By transforming a simple straightaway into a tough rhythm jump section made for more jumps, more air, and more fun. This layout featured a lot of turns with intense angles and jump sections that increased the degree of difficulty significantly. However, many found the challenge very rewarding as you could really see the separation of driver talent as well as equipment. Throughout the weekend, the track just kept getting worse, but in some ways made the racing even better as the track became the speed equalizer for everyone. By the mains, it was one of the most blown out tracks ever to hold a Pro Nitro Buggy race, yet featured some of the best racing in history.

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February 25, 2020

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd6 – Report

This past weekend was the sixth round of the very popular Worksop Series, there was once again a great entry of drivers in the main classes of 2WD and 4WD buggies, then some 2WD stadium trucks and vintage buggies also. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The control tyre in the buggy classes is the Schumacher Yellow Honeycomb, this works superbly well at Worksop. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Neil Cragg, taking TQ in all four rounds to take pole position from Greg Williams and Edward Callan.

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February 25, 2020

Simon Horak TQs and wins at Czech Speed Challenge

The Speed Challenge race was held in the Czech Republic recently and it was Simon Horak who would sweep the Formula category. Simon was able to bring home the triple of overall TQ, win and fastest lap, leaving behind Petr Svatak and Ales Raud in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


February 25, 2020

Rug Racers Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Rug Racers electric on-road indoor series was held in Ware, Herts, UK this past weekend. The event saw the running of the usual mix of classes and Billy Fletcher took the 13.5T Touring TQ by just 2.2 seconds. The finals were not to go Billy’s way, so Ashley Wiffin came through and took the overall win, with Ricky Copsey who was on the heels of Ashley in the second final who eventually took 2nd with TQ man Billy Fletcher taking 3rd place.

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February 25, 2020

Weylin Rose doubles at DieHard RC Winter Series Rd9

Round 9 of the DieHard RC Winter Off-road Series was held in Snohomish, Washington this past weekend, attracting over 180 entries including a strong field of 20 novice drivers. In the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Team Associated driver, Weylin Rose with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in the single 6-minute A-main event, leaving behind Jonathan Cantrell (Team Associated) in 2nd, some 4.1 seconds back. TLR’s Jeff Jenkins Jr. would complete the top 3 result, roughly 0.8s behind Jonathan. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was again Weylin Rose with the overall TQ and win as Wes Briscoe came in 2nd, already two laps down after the single 6-minute A-main. Jonathan Cantrell would end the day on the 3 spot, some ten seconds behind Wes.

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February 25, 2020

Mario Spiniello wins at Freedom Cup WRS 2K20

Last weekend the Freedom Cup WRS 2K20 race was held at the Miniautodromo TQ-Road track in Teverola, Italy. The 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class saw Mario Spiniello taking the TQ by about four tenths of a seconds from Ciro Borrelli in 2nd. The A-main was a very difficult affair for many drivers because of the high tyre wear. Mario decided to start the 30-minutes long encounter with hard compound tyres and so he had to be on his toes the whole time. With a controlled pace he was able to manage the tyres in the first half of the race while keeping a 2nd place and when Ciro Borrelli suffered an engine flame out during his fourth fuel stop, Mario was able to regain the lead and to take the win from Ciro in 2nd. Behind the two, Pasquale Natale would complete the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


February 24, 2020

2020 Florida Winternats – Report

The annual Florida Winternats were held in Fort Myers, Florida this past weekend in 1/8th IC Track and GT classes as well as a 1/10th Nitro Sedan category. 1/8th IC Track was top qualified by Ralph Burch, however it was Eduardo Cabal with the overall win in the 40-minute A-main some three laps in front of Lazaro Alonso in 2nd. Tony Rice would round out the top 3 podium result another seven laps down.

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February 24, 2020

Claudio Souto wins at Troféu InterPistas Rd1

Round 1 of the 2020 Troféu InterPistas series was hosted by the Portuguese Radiomodelismo do Porto club this past weekend. Held at the ARMAIA track the event saw the running of several nitro and electric on-road classes and in EFRA 1/8th IC Track it was Jose Carlos Pequito with the overall TQ after a clean sweep in the qualifiers. The 30-minute A-main event then saw Claudio Souto (WRC Racing) taking the win, a lap in front of José Félix (WRC Racing) in 2nd while António Guedes (Mugen) came in 3rd, another lap down.

Source: Maxima Mx [facebook.com]


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