The fourth round of the Alpencup series was recently held on the all-new astroturf track of the EFAC Hohenems club. In the 2WD Buggy class, Xray’s Nico Schmid brought home the win, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, from Xray team mate and TQ holder Michel Buschor. Nico’s brother Florian Schmid (Xray) rounded out the podium in third.
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Round two of the Austrian Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the Waidhofen track. Xray’s Martin Wollanka made a clean sweep, taking the TQ after the qualifiers and the pole position for the A-main with his FX-powered ride. The main final was then also won by Martin in pretty dominant fashion, as he ended the race a lap ahead of Dominic Bauer (Mugen/Novarossi) with Maximilian Hauenschild (Mugen/Novarossi) coming in third.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Northern California’s Central Valley RC Raceway hosted the 2nd race of the Nitro Nights Series with some of Northern California’s top drivers were in attendance including Jonathan Hernandez, Bryce Beaver, and Austin Blair. In Pro Buggy and after a flawless drive Cooter Kenney brought home the win from second placed Bryan Curran and third placed Bryce Beaver.
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This past weekend, the 10th annual Big Fat Turkey Race was held in Camarillo, California. With nice weather and with just over 130 entries and 18 heats, it was bound to make for a good day of racing. In the Modified Touring Car class the race for the win was on between veteran racer Barry Baker (Team Associated), Max Kuenning (Xray) and Randy Caster (Team Associated). In the opening two mains Kuenning scored a 3-2, Baker a 2-1, and Caster a 1-4. At the start of A3, Caster put a small gap between himself and the second and third spots of Baker and Kuenning. On lap 23, Baker got into some traffic and had to retire early due to a mechanical failure. With the points from A1 and A2, Randy needed a win in A3 to take the overall; but if Kuenning won, it would make for a 3-way tie for the win. At the finish line, Kuenning held on the for the win, forcing a three-way tie. Coming down to the driver’s fastest single main event as the tie breaker, Baker took the overall, beating Kuenning by only nine-tenths of a second.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
The Euro Offroad Series is excited to announce the addition of a new high profile event to the calendar with Warsaw Moto Show in Poland the venue for the second round of the 1:10 electric offroad indoor championship. Having already confirmed the sixth season of the EOS will again kick off at the Nurburgring, Germany, in September on the same weekend as the famous circuit hosts the full size Blancpain GT Championship, the Polish round will take place on November 18-20.
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The Greek National Cup was held at the Modelodromio track in Patra in sunny weather conditions. Xray’s Dimitriou would TQ three of the four qualifiers what gave him the overall TQ from Papadopoulos (Xray). In the main, Dimitriou was the fastest driver on the track in the very hot conditions, allowing him to take the win with a huge margin from second placed Papadopoulos while Christodoulou (Mugen) finished in third place.
The popular Herts dirt track played host to the third round of this year’s BRCA National Nitro Buggy Championship. In the qualifiers Kyosho’s Elliott Boots and Agama’s Darren Bloomfield battled it out for the overall TQ and in the end it would be Darren to hold the upper hand with Elliott in second and Lee Martin (Mugen) in third. After the semis, Lee would then be on pole position for the main final that he would lead in the opening stages until two engine cuts let him drop back, leaving Darren and Elliott to battle it out. Elliott managed to catch up to Darren in the closing stages but he made a mistake at the back of the track which was his last chance to possibly take the win. The oil from the track got into the tyres, making them very soft and Boots car quite edgy to drive. Up front Darren drove great all weekend and he took the win while Elliott ended up 2nd but still leading the championship.
Source: Elliott Boots [facebook.com]
The Plex in Omaha, Nebraska held a round of their Summer Series races this past weekend, attracting a good amount of drivers to get some laps under their belts in preparation for the forthcoming 2016 ROAR 1/10th Nationals. The race format was practice on Friday evening and Saturday morning followed by two qualifiers and single mains. Kyosho’s Jared Tebo would make a clean sweep in the 4WD Modified Buggy class taking the TQ after the two rounds of qualifying and grabbing the win in the 8 minute A-main. 2WD was a bit different as in Q1 Jared needed to be marshalled but he still took the TQ but in Q2 numerous moments had Tebo missing out on the top spot by 2 seconds. The 2WD main then was a pretty exciting affair. Coming from the 2 spot and racing the leader nose to tail until the very last lap leader Alex went a car width too wide after the whoops, allowing Jared to take the lead and the win.
