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April 26, 2016

Adam Drake sweeps 2016 Philippine Masters

This past weekend the Philippine Masters was held at Quezon City Radio Control Car Club. The event hosted many drivers from throughout Asia as well as Adam Drake and Aaron Gomez from the USA. Quezon City Radio Control Car Club has been around for nearly twenty years and has host the last six Philippine Masters. Saturday was Nitro Buggy racing and consisted of three rounds of qualifying, using rocket round due to the consistency of the track. Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy followed by teammate Aaron Gomez. The 60-minute Nitro Buggy final was under the lights on Saturday night and Adam Drake won the main by a large margin. Sunday was Nitro Truck and 1/8th E-Buggy racing using the same format as Saturday. Adam Drake again was the top qualifier and won the 60-minute final while in the E-Buggy class Edward Sio came out fastest.

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April 26, 2016

Tanner Day doubles at Kyosho 3 Lap Challenge

The 2nd running of the Kyosho 3 Lap Challenge took place at Nor-Cal Hobbies in San Jose, California this past weekend. In a break from the traditional qualifying format, the fastest three consecutive laps comprised the contestants’ times. To add even more challenges, dirt engineer Anton Aaroe designed a track layout specifically for this event, complete with a wicked challenging large quad jump that tripped up many drivers and shone a spotlight on those that conquered it. It was an accomplishment for drivers to complete one fast lap, let alone three, making for an exciting and unpredictable race. In Modified 2WD Buggy, Tanner Day held TQ over fellow team mate Charlie Cavalier by 1.9 seconds. In the main event, a mistake by Tanner in the quad jump put Charlie in the lead, but only for a minute. The 17-year old regained the lead and won with Charlie 2nd, and Antonio Counsil 3rd.

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April 25, 2016

RC LeMans Series Rd1 – Report

The season opening round 1 of the popular RC LeMans Series was held this past weekend at the Dutch Appeldoorn track. The weekend started out in cold but dry weather on Saturday but it turned to the worst on Sunday with rain, snow, hail, wind and sun making for challenging track conditions. After the rocket round qualifiers Tim Altmann would grab the TQ in the Modified LMP1 class from Kai Altmann and Tobias Weist. Reinder Wilms and Ben Voorhaar completed the top 5 result. In the Stock LMP2 category, 2015 championship runner-up, Mathijs Hermens beat 2015 champion, Sascha Lennartz for the pole position. In the Modified A-main finals Tim would take leg wins in a wet A1 and a dry A3 to take the overall win from Kai and Reinder while in the Stock class, TQ holder Mathijs came out fastest from Franz-Jakob Reinartz and Sascha Lennartz.

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April 25, 2016

Thomas Mayr takes Austrian E-Buggy Nats Rd1 win

Jürgen Trieb takes Austrian E-Buggy Nats Rd1 win

The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th E-Buggy national championship was held at the famous and European Championship approved Fehring multi-surface track. The qualifiers saw Christian Landl (Mugen) taking the TQ honours by TQing two of the five rounds to leave Thomas Mayr (SWorkz) and Hupo Hönigl (Xray) behind in second and third. After the triple A-mains Thomas would then come out successful thanks to wins in A2 and A3, leaving Jürgen Trieb (SWorkz) behind in second place. TQ Christian Landl had to settle for third overall.

Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]

April 25, 2016

Reza R. wins Indonesia National Buggy Champs Rd2

For the second round of the Indonesia National Buggy Championship the racers travelled to Maribaya, Lembang to compete at the Maxspin track. TLR driver Reza Rakasiwi would take his Maxmia-powered buggy to TQ honours and he would also come out fastest in the hour long A-main final that he would win with a 2-lap margin from Mugen/O.S. driver Stanley Wangsanegara on the runner-up spot. Adrian (TLR/O.S.) came in third another lap down while Ivan B. (Kyosho/Maxima) and Chopin Y. (TLR/Novarossi) rounded out the top 5 result.

Image: Jason Nugroho

April 25, 2016

Jiri Mara successful at Czech Open series Rd2

Round two of the popular Czech Open series for 1/8th nitro buggies was held at the Horni Jeleni track over the weekend. The qualifying was a very tight affair with local star Max Götzl, Jiri Mara, Tomkas Kapicka and Kaja Novotny all being in the mix for the overall TQ. Eventually Jiri would come out fastest after the qualifiers from Max and Kaja in second and third respectively. After a couple of changes for the semifinal Kaja, who struggled a bit with overall grip, managed to take the pole position for the A-main that saw the top 4 drivers quickly pulling away from the field. Around the 15 minute mark Jiri and Kaja had opened a gap on the chasing pack with both swapping positions several times. Some 26 minutes into the race Kaja had to let Jiri go as the Xray driver encountered a small drivetrain problem with a stone in the clutch bell hindering his car’s performance. This meant Jiri Mara (Serpent) would be able to cruise to the win with Kaja taking the runner-up spot from Tomas Kapicka (Kyosho).

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April 25, 2016

Alex Zanchettin wins Italian Nitro Buggy opener

The opening round of the Italian Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the Pista Le Pescine track in Rosignano. TLR’s Alex Zanchettin was on a mission all weekend, taking the TQ after the three rounds of qualifying and grabbing the win in the main final, ending a long winning drought. The runner-up spot was snatched by Riccardo Berton (Kyosho) who ended the A-main only 3 seconds shy of Alex. The final podium spot was obtained by TLR’s Marco Baruffolo who recovered back to third after a troubled start.

Image: Marco Petella

April 25, 2016

Kurzbuch takes ENS win with ‘perfect’ race strategy

Kurzbuch takes ENS win with 'perfect' race strategy

Simon Kurzbuch put his quest to regain the Euro Nitro Series title he lost to Dario Balestri last season firmly on track by denying the Italian a home victory today in Bologna. Starting the season opener from 4th on the grid, Balestri the Top Qualifier, Kurzbuch would have a race long battle with the Capricorn driver ultimately securing the win in the pits. Picking up where he left off last season when he won the season finale ahead of the champion to be, Kurzbuch’s third ENS win capped off the perfect day for his Shepherd team – Dirk Wischnewski winning the 1:10 A-Main for the German manufacturer. With rain forcing the race distance to be reduced from 45 to 30-minutes, the race started on a slightly damp but drying track with a fast starting Mirko Salemi leading the way until a tyre stop at 8-minutes. While this left Balestri to lead, the stage was set for a duel between the two champions which appeared to be decided by a quick final stop from Kurzbuch but ultimately it was strategy that would decide the race with Balestri quickly fading in the closing minutes, his Capricorn down to the rims. Finishing on the same lap as Balestri, Robert Pietsch would complete the podium for the first of the championship’s four races with Salemi, who impressed many this weekend, getting fourth a lap further back.

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