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October 22, 2015

McIntosh & Cruz take ROAR Region 4 titles

The Region 4 ROAR Regionals were held at Sundancers RC park in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Great weather greeted the racers for a weekend full of racing. It began with Friday practice, qualifiers on Saturday using qual points and the main events on Sunday. Brett Kingsbury had the TQ in Nitro Buggy however Jason Ruona was starting in P2, and was going to apply pressure from the tone. As the two raced away in the early laps, Ruona moved into the lead and controlled the pace. As first pit stops cycled through, Kingsbury and Ruona had a comfortable lead and were working through some traffic taking the lead depending on mistakes. Kingsbury had to take an extended pit for repairs giving Ruona a huge lead. As time was winding down, an unfortunate flame out during the 2nd to last fuel stint took Ruona out of the lead but a quick restart would still get him out in second where he would stay till the end behind winner Leon McIntosh.

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October 22, 2015

Neil Pestka wins at 2015 Fall Brawl

The 2015 Fall Brawl would be the last race of the season in the Midwest for 1/5th scale racing. The weather was calling for cool days and cold nights dipping into the high 20’s but this didn’t stop the racers for coming out for the closing race of the season. Friday would be practice all day followed by Saturdays qualifying and the mains on Sunday. Neil Pestka would win the Buggy A-main after having a disrupted practice and qualifying day due to work commitments. Neil would start 12th in the buggy A-main and he would slowly move up in position and before he knew it he would take the lead about 6 minutes into the race and he would hold the position for the remainder of the race to take home the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 22, 2015

Sandro Sammarini wins at SRC Trophy

The Italian SRC Trophy was held at the Montegiorgio track in several 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes and with a total of 63 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th category Sandro Sammarini would take the TQ and he also went on to win the A-main event from runner-up Stefano De Rossi and Attilio D’Angelo who would round out the top 3 result.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

October 21, 2015

Menicucci & Spiniello win at SRC Trophy

The SRC Trophy was held in Montegiorgio, Italy over the weekend in the three classes of Electric Touring Modified, 1/8th Nitro and 1/10th 200mm Nitro. In the Electric Touring Car class Alessio Menicucci was the man to beat and he took quite an easy TQ from his teammates Mattia Collina and Alessio Mancini. In the A-mains it was again Alession Menicucci who came out fastest as he was able to secure the day’s win early while Mancini and Collina battled for the runner-up spot. At the end Alessio Mancini was able to leave Mattia behind with the three making a podium lock-out for Xray.

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October 21, 2015

Jack Embling joins Kyosho international team

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of UK’s Jack Embling to the international team. Jack will be using the Inferno MP9 TKI3 chassis with Reds Racing engines and AKA tyres. The young man has improved each year of his career and is now ready to go that extra step and follow his new team mate Elliott Boots to success in 2016. Jack had the following to say:

I am incredibly excited to be joining Kyosho factory team for 2016. It’s always been my ambition to drive for Kyosho and I see this as a great opportunity to take my racing to the next level. I would like to thank Mike, Christophe, Kenji and Mitsuo for making this happen. So 2015-2016 is going to be a busy year, starting with the upcoming race at Padova in November, then on to Montpellier, Neo, Euros, UK Nationals, and the Worlds in Vegas, its going to be a fantastic year. I am feeling super confident running one of the best packages around with my proven Reds engines and AKA tyres.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

October 21, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at MNRC Series finals

Last weekend the MNRC Series finals headed to the Motodome race facility in Browerville, Minnesota. The event had some 160 entries and in the Nitro Buggy class, Adam Drake took the TQ honors and he would also win the 30 minute main final. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truck final Adam again controlled the race and to take the day’s win.

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October 20, 2015

Luk Chi Hung wins at Team C Open

Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong played host to the Team C Open. Up and coming Lai Chan Hay (Mugen) took the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro class in what was his first ever race in this class and Lai would also set a new lap record with 13.9 seconds. In the 45 minute main final the TQ holder would ran into unexpected issues promoting Luk Chi Hung (HB) into the lead which he would maintain until the end to take the win some eight laps in front of Ng Chui Man (HB) who was in an exciting fight with Simon Tung (HB) in the closing stages. Ultimately both were only separated by one second.

Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]

October 20, 2015

Semi Pro class win for Deslina at Mugen Cup

Last weekend’s Mugen Cup at the MRCC Track in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia not only saw Jason Nugroho taking the win in the Pro Buggy class but also Deslina (Kyosho) coming out successful in the Semi Pro category. Jhonny placed his Xray buggy on the TQ in the class but he got into traffic in the 45 minute main final and only finished in 4th place. Up front Awi (Xray) would end the race on the runner-up spot while Bun Bun (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result.

View the final result here