The 4th round of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Nitro Series was held at Heritage R/C Park in Chula Vista. While Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) came out successful in the supporting 1/8th E-Buggy class, Drew Moller (Mugen), Adam Drake (TLR) and Cody Smith (TLR) formed the Expert Nitro Buggy podium.
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The 2nd Annual Big Bend Off-Road Shootout was held at the Capital City Raceway in Tallahassee. Reds Racing team drivers Eduardo Cordoba and Cole Ogden dominated both the Nitro Buggy and the Nitro Truggy classes. While Eduardo came out successful in the Truggy class and came in 2nd in Buggy his team mate Ogden took the win in Nitro Buggy and the runner-up spot in Truggy.
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This past weekend was the O.S./Futaba Challenge in St. Louis, MO. The track was built by The Dirt Racing with lots of jumps and some nice flowing sections that made for good racing. The racing format was best 2 out of 3 qualifiers with two 20 minute main events for both pro buggy and truggy. There would also be a dash for cash with the top 6 qualifiers starting in inverted order. Truggy qualifying went very well for Josh Wheeler as he managed to TQ the first two rounds to take the overall TQ. Buggy was going to be tough with top names like Jared Tebo, Ryan Lutz and Taylor James. The first round went well but a mistake would cost Josh the overall TQ to Taylor James. The 2nd and 3rd rounds went much better and Wheeler TQ’ed both rounds.
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The 5th Annual East Coast Champs took place at R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, MA with around 100 entries. TLR’s Adam and Ronda Drake were on hand for the event not only to race, but to offer help to all the racers. Adam was the top qualifier in 1/8th nitro buggy and 1/8th nitro truck. Drake then went on to win the 1/8th nitro buggy final followed by Renato Tradardi, Gunnar Rieck, Richard Saxton, and Ronda Drake and he also came out successful in the 1/8th nitro truck class followed by Ronda Drake in 2nd and Anthony Mazzara in 3rd.
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With only two races to go Kurt Vanvlemen (Mugen/O.S.) in the Masters class and Bas Beunis (Mugen/O.S.) in the Hobby category are on their way to snatch the overall 2014 Benelux Truggy Championships in their respective classes. The runner-up spots are currently also taken by Mugen drivers with Bjorn Nagels in the Masters class and Jos Borgdorff in the Hobby category.
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The 3rd round of the BRCA National series took place at the Kent track just outside Maidstone over the weekend. The weather was very hot and humid on Saturday which made it pretty hard work for all the drivers as they got used to the excellent but very technical track layout that had been set down. In response to the track breaking it up at some races recently, the club had added oil to the dirt mix in many areas, and this held the dirt together well providing a contrast in surfaces between the smooth pile desertions and the loose dusty ones.
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Maxima announce the signing of young talent Malin Karlsen. The 9-years old and super-fast girl from Norway will use Maxima fuel for the remainder of the 2014 season and beyond. Malin has the following to say about her latest sponsorship deal:
The 2014 Nordic 1/8 Off-road Championship was the first meeting running the fuel of my newest sponsor MAXIMA Fuel. I want to thank Sascha Baumann at Chiratech Europe Gmbh for this opportunity and for believing in me. I look forward to be running the Maxima Dirt series fuel in my FX Engines powered Xray XB8 for the reminder of the 2014 season and the upcoming 2015 season.
Source: Chiratech Europe [chiratech-europe.com]
The 4th and final round of this year’s Italian 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the “Ongaroring” in Sacile in Northern Italy. The free practice sessions of the F1 category had young Davide Ongaro (Mugen) clocking the fastest times followed by Alex Zanchettin (TLR) and Riccardo Berton. Marco Baruffolo (RB) and Riccardo Rabitti (Radiosistemi) completed the top 5.
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