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April 28, 2016

Mustafa Alp doubles at TORC Rd1

Round one of the Turkish TORC series was held in Bumod Bursa in pretty cold weather conditions. About 70 drivers competed in the four classes of 1/8th nitro on-road, 1/10th nitro on-road as well as electric Modified and Stock Touring. In the 1/10th Nitro class it was Mustafa Alp who dominated qualifying by TQing all five qualifiers to grab the overall TQ easily. In the 45-minute main final Mustafa easily pulled away from the field and he was able to cruise to the win with a 5-lap lead on Halit Körpe, who was promoted into the second spot thanks to some last minute carnage caused by a rain shower in the closing stages. As the only top driver who did not change tyres mid-race, Alain Sarafyan was awarded with a third place and the final podium spot.

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April 28, 2016

Keven Hebert doubles at Mile High Indoor Champs

In only a few years, the Mile High Indoor Championships has transformed from a cozy regional event into a full-blown national competition. The best drivers from around the country converged upon the newly carpeted 5280 Raceway for the last major event of the carpet racing season. In the Touring Modified class, Keven Hebert went on to grab the pole position for Sunday’s single A-Main event with Ralph Burch lining up second followed by ROAR Carpet Nats winner Chris Adams in third. In the A-main Keven took the lead over the second- and third-place cars early on in the main event. Adams and Burch later retired after a huge crash, which allowed Keven to claim the win by half a lap over the second-place finisher. In 1/12 Modified qualifying, Keven claimed the pole position by a margin of four seconds over Kory Harbke. In the main event the two battled head to head over the last four minutes, with Keven taking another win to cap off a very successful weekend in the Mile High City.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

April 27, 2016

Rico, Mitch & Olson win at Comstock Challenge

The first Comstock Challenge was held at the newly reopened Track Time Hobbies and Raceway located in Reno, Nevada. This year’s race saw people travelling from as far as Sacramento and Las Vegas to compete in the 122 entry race. The weekend started off with a club race on Friday night followed by practice and the first qualifiers on Saturday with a final qualifier and the mains on Sunday. The 4WD Modified Buggy A-main was then won by Rudy Rico while the Modified Truck class had JR Mitch coming out successful. In 4×4 SCT Matt Olson would end the day on top of the podium.

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April 26, 2016

JQ doubles at JQRacing event in the Dominican Republic

JQRacing’s Joseph Quagraine, currently on sort of a World trip, flew over to the Dominican Republic for the 1st JQRacing event. The race saw an RC clinic on Saturday and a race on Sunday with the track being a unique zig zagging between coconut trees, with a true exotic and off-road feel. JQ managed to win both 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes, with local Kyosho driver Carlos Sikora coming in second in both categories. Luis José Cabral would then finish third in Nitro, and Elvin Alba grabbed the final podium spot in E-Buggy.

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April 26, 2016

Rob Jansen successful at Dutch electric on-road opener

Round one of the Dutch Electric On-road National Championship was held at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn. The weather played havoc all weekend, heavily affecting the action on track and in the Touring Car Stock category, the Modified class wasn’t run unfortunately, Rob Jansen (Team Magic) would walk away with the win after coming out successful in the wet A1 and dry A2 to grab the overall win early. Sybrand De Boer (Kyosho) took the runner-up spot from third placed Tim Streefkerk (Xray).

View the overall result here

April 26, 2016

Dan Jacobs wins Dutch 200mm Nationals opener

The season opener of the Dutch 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Heemstede track over the weekend. With a new spec tyre selected for the season all racers were eager to make maximum use of the practice session on Saturday although all conclusions made were pretty much useless on Sunday when the weather turned to the worst with rain, wet snow, hail, and sunshine showing up in differing combinations. In the end only the wet qualifiers would count as not all drivers had been able to run on a completely dry track. Ultimately it would be Daan Jacobs that claimed the TQ while Julius Kolff almost missed the final in 9th place.

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April 26, 2016

Tasos Paparegas wins Greek Buggy Nationals Rd1

Round one of the Greek National Buggy Championship was held in Crete and it saw Xray’s Tasos Paparegas (Xray) taking the win in the 45 minute A-main. Coming from the 3 spot on the grid Tasos moved his way up the field to take the day’s win from runner-up Terzis (Mugen) while Anapoliotakis (Mugen) completed the top 3 result. Behind the three Perogiannakis (Mugen) and Papanikolaou (Kyosho) would round out the top 5.

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April 26, 2016

2016 Norwegian Outdoor Cup Rd1 – Report

2016 Norwegian Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Norwegian Outdoor Cup was held at the Stavanger Forum Raceway in the city of Stavanger located on the south-west coast of Norway. The asphalt track is located inside a rubber clad storage warehouse and and it thankfully features a roof as it started to snow during the weekend. The event saw the running of four different classes including Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T blinky, Touring 21.5T blinky and M-Chassis. The Touring Modified qualifiers were dominated by newly crowned Norwegian indoor champion Nikolai who took the TQ with Helge in second and Svein third.

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