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September 15, 2014

Robert Batlle makes it 9 in a row

Mugen’s Robert Batlle has secured his 9th Spanish national title in a row after winning the 3rd round of the Spanish 1/8th off-road nationals this past weekend. Held in Redovan, Alicante on a large and challenging track the race was first dominated by Oscar and Bryan Baldo with Oscar taking the TQ and Brian the pole position for the final while Batlle only started from 7th into the main. During the final Bryan Baldo, Robert Batlle and Jose Escudero swapped positions several times and nothing was decided until the last lap when Robert was able to pass Bryan after the then-leader crashed. At the end Robert took the day’s win in this 3rd out of four rounds this year to take the national title early. Bryan Baldo finished 2nd while Jose Escudero completed the podium.

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September 15, 2014

David Ronnefalk TQ’s & wins at Italian Job Race

David Ronnefalk TQ's & wins at Italian Job Race

The 2014 Italian Job Race was held at the IBR Padova indoor clay track this past weekend with some of the best Italian drivers and some swift international guests in attendance. In the build up to forthcoming IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships many drivers used the race for final preparations and after five rounds of qualifying on the recently rebuilt track reigning European Champion David Ronnefalk took the TQ for the finals from TLR’s Alex Tanchettin and Riccardo Berton (Kyosho). Atsushi Hara (SWorkz) and Davide Ongaro (Mugen) completed the top 5 result.

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September 15, 2014

Rayan Medjoubi wins at French Elite champs Rd5

The 5th and final round of the French Elite championship was held in Savigny Le Temple in the South of France. The main final saw the absence of some of the usual front runners such as Renaud Savoya racing in Italy, Jerome Aigoin staying at home and Jerome Sartel failing to proceed to the main final. French ace Yannick Aigoin looked like he could cruise to the win but issues and a tyre coming unglued made way for JQ Products driver Rayan Medjoubi who had a flawless run in the main to take the win some 12 seconds in front of Lorenzo Crolla (Xray). Kyosho driver Jonathan Bacro completed the final in 3rd place, a lap down on the top 2 drivers.

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September 12, 2014

Swiss IC On-road Championships final round – Report

Swiss Nitro On-road Championships final round - Report

The final round of the Swiss Nitro On-road Championships took place in Aigle, in the French speaking part of Switzerland. In the 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch had a very swift 3rd qualifying round that handed him the overall TQ in front of championship favourite Mattia Pesenti. In the 1/10th class, Traugott Schaer dominated the whole qualifying and he was followed by Nuno Santos in 2nd and Michael Schaefer in 3rd.

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September 12, 2014

US Nitro World Cup – Announcement

The 2nd running of the US World Nitro Cup will be held December 4th to 7th at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. With last year being a great success, this year’s race has already received commitments from European drivers such as Dario Balestri, Robert Pietch, Kyle Branson and defending 1/8th Champion Alberto Picco, to be in attendance. This year’s qualifiers will be four minute runs instead of five, but the event is keeping its triple “A” main finals format. The race will take place close to all the major Florida attractions such as Disney, Epcot, MGM, Universal Studios etc. and it is open to three classes, Sedan, 1/8th Masters and 1/8th Open. Full details on the event can be downloaded here (PDF).

September 12, 2014

Daan Jacobs wins in Heemstede

The 6th and final round of the Dutch nitro on-road nationals was held at the MACH track in Heemstede. During practice it soon became clear that a lot of drivers were able to pull very fast laps, promising close racing in the qualification and the finals. On Sunday’s qualifying Daan Stuiver was the fastest driver of the National class with three consecutive laps in 48.724 seconds. Daan Jacobs followed behind with 48.777 while Julius Kolff scored a 48.823. Ricardo Hofmeijer completed the top 4 so far.

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September 12, 2014

David Ronnefalk takes Swedish Cup Series

Last weekend the fourth and final round of the Swedish Cup Series took place at the track of Borås MRK. Normally a place where rain comes into play, however this year it was not like that as the sun was out all weekend. The overall winner of the cup was going to be decided with a few guys having a shot at it. However the race was pretty much dominated by David Ronnefalk as he TQ’ed every round of qualifying and later on started from pole position into the final. The spectators then witnessed a close and fun battle between David and Kennie Ekenstierna towards the end with David coming out on top ultimately. This meant the overall cup would went to David as he won all three races he attended after missing one round due to a date clash.

Thanks to David Ronnefalk for sending the report.

September 11, 2014

Aaron Stringer doubles at debut

Over 70 drivers made their way to Maryborough, QLD for the Wide Bay Weekender Challenge. Reds Racing’s newly signed Aaron Stringer was on fire during qualifying as he TQ’ed all Buggy qualifying rounds and won three out of the four Truggy qualifiers to take the overall TQ in both classes. Unfortunately the weather moved in for the finals and while the host club tried hard to clean up the track, mother nature won and the event was called off and the results were based off qualifying handing Aaron the overall win in both Nitro Buggy and Truggy while Reds Racing teammate Shane Freiberg took the runner-up spots behind Aaron.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]