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March 5, 2018

Ryan Lutz sweeps 2018 Holiday Hangover

The Holiday Hangover RC Arenacross 2018 was held in Moses Lake, Washington this past weekend in several 1/8th and 1/10th off-road classes. Ryan Lutz again made a clean sweep in all classes he entered and would walk away with the TQ and wins in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and Expert E-Buggy. Jason Hunt and Carson Phipps would round out the Nitro Buggy top 3 while Carson Phipps and Bryce Beaver accompanied Ryan on the Nitro Truggy podium. Over in Expert E-Buggy it was Tyler Wilbur with the runner-up spot from Derek Rasheed 3rd.

Image: Ryan Lutz

March 5, 2018

Pontus Larsson TQs & wins at Spring Indoor race

The Vedum Spring Indoor race was held this past weekend and it was Pontus Larsson who swept the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class. The race was held in a large indoor facility laid out with astro turf and Pontus was able to take the TQ, semifinal win and also the overall, leaving behind Alexander Castlind in 2nd and Micke Svensson in 3rd. The top 5 result was rounded out by Kristian Johansson and Per Carlsson.

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March 5, 2018

Elias Johansson sweeps Winter Indoor series finale

The final round of the Swedish Winter Indoor series was held at Sundsvall RC Klubb this past weekend. Elias Johansson was in control of things all weekend in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes as he took a double TQ from Viktor Östling (Xray) in both categories. In the triple 2WD finals Elias brought home the wins for a clean sweep from Viktor while Sebastian Johansson (Schumacher) completed the top 3 results. Over in 4WD it was again Elias with three solid wins to leave behind Viktor Östling (Xray) and Felix Angseryd (Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. With the wins, Elias would also snatch the overall titles in both classes.

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March 5, 2018

Rivkin, Tessmann & Evans win at Desert Classic

This past weekend the annual Desert Classic was held at Hobby Action RC Raceway in Arizona. The track has a very unique type of dirt that provides extremely high traction, that even increased during the weekend, and then the surface breaks up a little bit which can make it edgy and very challenging. In the premier 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin with the win from AE teammate, Dustin Evans in 2nd. Xray’s Ty Tessmann, who started from 6th on the grid, made some good progress thanks to various setup adaptions and he would ultimately bring home the final podium spot.

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March 4, 2018

Sobue wins A2, new TITC Champion to be crowned

In a dramatic turn of fortunes TITC 2018 is going to see the crowning of a new champion as Akio Sobue took the win in an action packed A2 at RC Addict. Having spun out on the opening lap of the opening encounter, defending champion Bruno Coelho looked to have returned to his qualifying form but with a comfortable lead the Xray driver flipped in the sweeper dropping down the order and out of contention for a third consecutive win at Asia’s most famous race. Coelho was initially followed by A1 winner Alexander Hagberg but was given a huge break when Naoto Matsukura ran into the back of the Swede with Sobue the benefactor moving up to second. Moments later however that became the lead as on the same lap Coelho touched the curbing and flew off the track. Also taking advantage of the two incidents, Marc Rheinard suddenly found himself in second which he would hold to the end after seeing off a valiant challenge from Hagberg. A similar battle went on behind with Meen Vejrak seeing off Coelho for 4th.

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March 4, 2018

Hagberg wins exciting first A-Main

Alexander Hagberg took the win in an exciting opening A-Main at the TITC, the Xray driver withstanding intense pressure from Infinity’s Akio Sobue to cross the line 17/100ths in front. Having had the perfect week leading up to the A1, reigning champion Bruno Coelho’s domination came to an end on the first lap. Starting from the TQ, he would lose his Xray approaching the front straight spinning in front of the pack with Naoto Matsukura unable to avoid him. This let second place qualifier Hagberg go to the front with Sobue in tow and closing. All over the back of the leader, fourth place starter couldn’t find a way by with an attempt at the end of the front straight resulting in contact. With Sobue waiting on Hagberg to retake the lead, this brought Meen Vejrak into the lead battle but after a couple of laps the Yokomo driver dropped off give Sobue breathing room for a second attempt to pass but Hagberg kept his composure to secure the win.

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March 4, 2018

Xray 1-2 for TITC A-Main

It will be an Xray 1-2 on the grid for the TITC A-Mains later today at RC Addict In Thailand as a P2 in the final qualifier this morning bumped Alexander Hagberg up two spots to start second behind team-mate & Top Qualifier Bruno Coelho. Having wrapped up the overall TQ in the fourth round of qualifying yesterday, Coelho would complete a clean sweep of qualifying, again topping the times in the sixth & final round this morning. Behind the Xray duo, the attack is set to come from Infinity with Naoto Matsukura third ahead of team-mates Akio Sobue and Marc Rheinard with 2017 race contender Jilles Groskamp also making the grid for the team albeit in 10th spot. For last year’s podium finishers Nicholas Lee and Ronald Volker, its been a tough event with both finding themselves in the B-Main with Meen Vejrak Yokomo’s top hope staring 6th on the grid ahead of team-mate Naoki Akiyama.

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March 3, 2018

Hagberg best of the rest in Q5

With the Bruno Coelho domination at the TITC showing no signs of abating, the Portuguese driver notching up his fastest TQ run in the penultimate qualifier even with getting out of shape, it was team-mate Alexander Hagberg who came out best of the rest. Posting a time 1.6-seconds off Coelho’s 5th TQ run, the result puts the Swede in contention to make it an Xray 1-2 on the grid that will decide the champion at the 16th running of Asia’s most famous race. Akio Sobue would complete the Top 3, with the Infinity driver together with team-mate Naoto Matsukura and, with an outside chance, Marc Rheinard all vying to start second with one final qualifier left to run on Sunday morning.

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