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June 21, 2016

Tom Yardy crowned BRCA Mid West Off-road Champ

Tom Yardy has completed a successful defence of the BRCA Mid West off-road regional championship in both 2WD and 4WD, with two rounds left to spare. Having already wrapped up 2WD a couple of weeks previously at Oswestry, with a 3rd win in three rounds using his Schumacher Cougar KF2 mid. Tom repeated the feat in 4WD this weekend at the new Coventry Model Car Club track with his Cat K2, winning all qualifiers and three legs of the final. Tom said “it’s great to continue my run of regional series wins with Schumacher, back in 2002 I won my first 2WD regional championship with a Schumacher Fireblade so it’s nice to win once more in my 2nd spell with the team. The cars have been dialled on all tracks so far, this weekend my 4WD was unbelievable on the new Coventry track! A big thanks to my Dad and Trish for their support, and of course Schumacher and their range of fantastic brands.”

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

June 20, 2016

Czech 1/10th Buggy Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Czech 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at the big astroturf track in Potstejn. Heavy rain kept most of the drivers from attending the free practice on Friday and even on Saturday morning the track was rain soaked but every driver tried to get at least a couple of laps in. In the 2WD qualifiers Marek Schiller would take the TQ from Kaja Novotny, who suffered from unusual mistakes. In the 4WD class Kaja then went on to win Q2 and Q3 for the overall TQ.

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June 20, 2016

McBride & Stringer win at Australian Off-road Nats Rd2

McBride & Stringer win at Australian Buggy Nats Rd2

Over 190 drivers arrived to contest the second round of the Australian National Championship in Brisbane with two classes consisting of Buggy and Truggy were to be contested over the four days. Due to the change in the schedule the Buggy final was to be run first. The top 3 of McBride, Stringer and Laughton cleared out very quickly from the pack with the lead changing frequently in the first 10 minutes. A failed clutch bearing saw Laughton out at the 11-minute mark which left Aaron and Kyle to battle it out. McBride had a tire come loose which forced a tire change, which was done in record time by his dad Scott, and saw Kyle out only 12 seconds down. A thrilling race then developed between Stringer and McBride. At the end Aaron Stringer missed the last lap by 0.9 of a second giving him second for Buggy behind winner Kyle McBride with Mitch Mcallen coming in third.

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June 20, 2016

2016 Nordic Championships – Report

The Pitkämäki RC-Circuit in Vaasa, Finland played host to the 2016 Buggy Nordic Championships and the combined second round of the Finnish nationals. Considered to be the sunniest city of Finland, things were a bit different this weekend as rain postponed the start of the controlled practice and qualifiers on Saturday. At the end only the opening qualifier for both the 2WD and 4WD classes could be held. Sunday started off with more drizzle and moist weather. A muddy second round of qualifiers was interrupted by light rain and after another delay, round three started in dry weather conditions. The TQ in the 2WD class went to Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen who won two of the three qualifiers with a clear margin on his competitors. Joel Valander would come in second while Karri Salmela rounded out the top 3 result.

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June 20, 2016

David Ronnefalk TQs & wins Swedish Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish 1/8th Off-road Cup was held this past weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and he would continue to dominate in the 45-minute main final by bringing home the win almost two laps in front of Markus Sandberg (Mugen). Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson would complete the podium result in third, another lap down.

Image: David Ronnefalk

June 20, 2016

2 out 2 as Kurzbuch dominates ENS Germany

Simon Kurzbuch made it two out of two in this season’s Euro Nitro Series with a dominant drive at Round 2 in Germany. Top Qualifier at Minidrom Ettlingen, topping both rounds of qualifying that could be completed in-between the rain on Saturday, the Shepherd driver put in a text book performance in the 45-minute main to win by over a lap. With last year’s winner Dario Balestri, who qualified 2nd expected to at least make the World Champion work for the win, that challenge lasted only 2-minutes as the Capricorn driver shed a front wheel. This left Bruno Coelho to provide chase but the Xray driver would make a mistake leaving Kurzbuch to cruise home for an extensive lead in the championship standing. One-lap down, a great drive from Toni Gruber would see the ARC driver finish second to claim his first ever ENS podium having seen off the challenge of Alberto Picco. Crossing the line 3rd, Picco’s Mugen would fail post race scrutiny, the tank deemed to big, which promoted Capricorn’s Robin D’hondt up a spot to compete the podium.

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June 20, 2016

Leino wins exciting German ENS encounter

Teemu Leino took victory in an exciting 1:10 A-Main at Round 2 of the Euro Nitro Series in Germany, the Infinity driver winning by 1-second from Dominic Greiner in a battle that would see the podium all finish on the same lap after 45-minutes of racing. Starting second on the grid, the Finn would take the initial lead after 3-laps but chased by Greiner would end up on the grass when the Serpent driver ran into the back of his Capricorn. With Greiner waiting for Leino to rejoin the track, the pair would drop down the order handing Top Qualifier Erik Dankel back the lead before being passed by Bruno Coelho. Unfortunately for former champion Dankel a flame out would scupper his chances of a podium result at his home track. Holding his lead for 45-laps, Coelho would lose the lead when he made a stop for tyres but his race hopes would later fade when he suffered a flame out on his in lap with 2-laps lost getting it fired back up. All the time Leino and Greiner were working their way back to the front but ultimately able to stretch his fuel a few seconds more between stops to save one trip to the pits it was Leino who would come out on top with an impressive drive by Patrick Nahr seeing him join them on the podium. For last year’s race winner and winner of this season’s opening race Dirk Wischnewski today’s race would net a fourth from ninth on the grid.

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June 20, 2016

2016 Nor-Cal Championships – Report

This past weekend Nor-Cal Hobbies was over run with contestants coming from all across California battling for a chance to win a coveted boxing belt at the 8th running of the Northern California Off-Road Championships – The Nor-Cal Champs. The course was a challenge for both Spec and modified class drivers. The Spec drivers had to deal with a challenging right side drop down, with back section that only Modified drivers could only triple. After two days of qualifying and a fierce triple A main format, Mason Eppley from Tekno set the track record of 13.9. Derek Stepanson (TLR) won 2WD Modified and 2WD Short Course. Matt Olson (MIP) also took home two belts from the 4×4 Short Course Classes and 1/8th E-Buggy. Rudy Rico (Team Associated) took the 2WD 17.5 Expert Buggy while Rob Russel (Team Powers) took a belt in 40+ 17.5 Buggy and got a 2nd in Expert. Finally Newcomer Julian Jimenez took the 13.5 Stadium Truck belt.

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