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January 25, 2017

Aaron Stringer doubles at Pine Hills race

The recent Pine Hills race saw Mugen’s Aaron Stringer walking away with a double win in the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes. Aaron would grab the top qualifying honours in Buggy while Mitch McCallum (Kyosho) went fastest after the qualifiers in Truck. The Buggy final then saw Aaron bringing home the win from Mitch McCallum and Alex Bernadzik (Team Associated) in second and third respectively. In Truggy it was again Aaron who walked away with the hardware while Caleb Noble (Mugen) and Mitch McCallum (Mugen) had to settle for second and third.

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January 25, 2017

Alex Zanchettin successful at Enjoy Drive race

This past weekend the Enjoy Drive race was held in Rome, Italy and it was newly signed Tekno driver Alex Zanchettin who took the winning honours in the Electric Buggy class with his TMG-powered buggy. Patrick Pistolesi (Mugen/TMG) would come in second.

Source: Tommygarage [tommygarage.eu]

January 24, 2017

Lutz, Bornhorst & Drake win at Southern Indoor Champs

The 2017 Southern Indoor Championships were held in Alabama. The weekend started off a bit crazy with a tornado hitting the area on Saturday which caused a 4-hour delay but with running the electric program with available sunlight and after the power was restored qualifying was finished up around 1am Sunday morning. The layout for this year’s SIC offered some big air and some fast air sections and the surface was a little on the looser side. In Nitro Buggy Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz would take the TQ after a battle with Tekno teammate Joe Bornhorst who would start second into the main. Nitro Truggy also saw the Lutz-Bornhorst duo up front while E-Buggy was TQ’d by Mugen’s Adam Drake from Lutz and Bornhorst.

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January 24, 2017

Burak Kilic doubles at OWL Messe Cup

The OWL Messe Cup was held in Bad Salzuflen, Germany over the weekend. Organised by the MCC Silixen club and held as part of a hobby fair the event attracted some of the fastest drivers from Germany to compete in several electric off-road classes. In the premier 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Agama’s Burak Kilic that came out fastest after the triple 10-minute A-mains. Coming from the 2 spot on the grid the young man at first suffered from missing Friday’s practice sessions due to school duties but he made up for it in the mains, taking the overall win from Thunder Tiger driver and 2016 Messe Cup winner, Marvin Fritschler, and Burak’s brother Berkan Kilic (Agama).

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January 24, 2017

Horizon Hobby supported JP Montoya takes ROC title

This past weekend not only the annual Reedy International Offroad Race of Champions was held but it also saw the running of the iconic Race of Champions, an annual event that draws many of the biggest names from across the world of racing. Formula 1, NASCAR, World Rally Cross, MotoGP – they all come to one spot where they go head-to-head on the same track in identical cars. The 2017 edition, held at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida, saw Colombian motorsport great, Horizon Hobby sponsored Juan Pablo Montoya taking on a field of the world’s best drivers in front of 15,000 fans to win the title of Champion of Champions. In addition to Montoya, this year’s roster of competitors included other notables such as Tom “Mr. Le Mans” Kristensen, four-time Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel (and last year’s ROC Champion of Champions), Felipe Massa, David Coulthard, Kyle Busch, Travis Pastrana – and the list goes on. This year’s event also featured a brand new figure-of-eight track that challenged drivers even more. The best-of-three Grand Final boiled down to a battle between Montoya and Kristensen in which Montoya took two straight heats to become the undisputed Champion of Champions.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.com]

January 24, 2017

Deniz & Yazıcı win at Jump Buggy Jump race

The Jump Buggy Jump race was recently held in Nicosia, Cyprus and it attracted a good amount of drivers including guests from Turkey. In the 4WD Buggy class it was Niyazi Deniz who came out fastest after the A-mains from Ahmet Akber in second and Umut Türkay in third. In 2WD Murat Yazıcı took the day’s win from Alain Sarafyan and Umut Öztümen in second and third respectively.

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January 23, 2017

Essex Winter Series Rd4 – Report

The penultimate round of the Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend at the popular venue in South-East England. Despite the freezing temperatures outside, the fully heated hall and pits saw most racers resorting to t-shirts and the track groove up quickly. With Championship leader, and winner of all three events so far, Elliott Harper on international duty for Schumacher, others would be hoping to take advantage and a useful points haul from the day. Olly Jefferies would be the one to make the most of that – despite tough competition, the Xray driver went on to top all four of the qualifying rounds. However, behind Olly, tight battles for the remaining A-final places raged throughout each run. Infinity’s Andy Moore, running the Infinity prototype touring car for the first time in the UK, was Olly’s closest challenger in the opening qualifier, ahead of Olly’s Xray team mate Alexander Hagberg, the Team Associated cars of Chris Grainger and Alan Bickerstaff, and Kyle Branson, also running the new Infinity car.

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January 23, 2017

Protoform WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 landed in the capital city of Edmonton, Alberta. Hosted by NASCAR, it was a very cold Winter weekend, perfect for indoor racing. Running on new black carpet, NASCAR took their track design to a completely different level, with a beautiful layout complete with green felt inserts. In the Touring Modified class top Western Canadian racer, Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah was in top form at his home club, and dominated the first two A-mains. Xray teammates Blake Bell and Danny Buck would each take a 2nd, and fellow Xray driver Luke Pittman would take 3rd both opening rounds. With Wayne’s place secured, and sitting out A3, Blake Bell would lock up 2nd overall, and Luke would take 2nd over top privateer Josh Carter to take the final podium spot. Danny Buck shown in podium picture but points were later corrected to Luke.

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