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March 24, 2014

Alex Zanchettin wins at Italian Buggy champs Rd1

The national Italian Nitro Buggy championship kicked off last weekend at the Naxos World track. TLR’s Alex Zanchettin took the TQ and started off strong into the final. Alessandro Stocco, Davide Ongaro and Riccardo Berton tried to follow while Davide Tortorici fall back to the end of the field following some some first lap contacts. 20 minutes into the race Alex was still in the lead while Berton and Ongaro battled for second place. Tortorici and Stocco where in a fight for the fourth place while on top the positions seemed cemented with Alex, Riccardo and Davide being the top 3. With 10 minutes to go Riccardo Rabitti and Fabrizio Teghesi battled for forth but up front Alex Zanchettin (TLR) took a never endangered win in front of Riccardo Berton (Kyosho) and Davide Ongaro (Mugen). Riccardo Rabitti (Radiosistemi) and Fabrizio Teghesi (Kyosho) finished 4th and 5th respectively.

Source: RCRevolution [rcrevolution.net]

March 24, 2014

Jerome Aigoin wins French 1/8th buggy nats Rd1

Jerome Aigoin wins at French 1/8th buggy nats Rd1

The French 1/8th nitro buggy nationals opening race was held at the MRCT Le Teich track near Bordeaux. The event saw Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin taking the win from his brother Yannick Aigoin (Team Associated) while Agama’s Jerome Sartel finish 3rd to round out the podium. Jean-Pierrick Sartel and Edouard Hugon completed the top 5 result. It was a bad weekend for Xray’s Renaud Savoya who was DQ’d from the semi for his car failing tech inspection, it was not able to roll backwards through the measuring box.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

March 23, 2014

Inaki Pahisa wins Spanish 200mm on-road nats Rd1

The Automodelismo Radio Control Alcobendas in Madrid held the first round of the Spanish 200mm nationals this weekend. The qualifiers saw Eduardo Fdez-Escandon Riera taking TQ from Inaki Pahisa and Fabio Barbosa Araujo. In the 30 minute final Inaki (Mugen) came in frost some 9/10th of a second from Victor Pelaez (Serpent) and Johnny Pastor (Mugen) who was a lap down. TQ Eduardo Fdez-Escandon Riera finished fourth, Juan Hidalgo completed the top 5 result.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

March 21, 2014

Martin Lissau joins Shepherd for 2014

Shepherd Micro Racing announce the re-signing of the former 1/5th Scale World Champion and 2008 1/10th World Championship finalist Martin Lissau. After a break from 1/10th scale racing he will attend the national championship in Denmark, selected ENS events as well as the the European Championship in Valencia using Shepherd’s Velox V10 Pro chassis. Martin has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to be back in the great Shepherd Team and looking forward to an interesting and funny year. The development of the V10 to the Pro version was such a big step forward that I’m really optimistic for the upcoming races. I would like to thank Patrick and the whole Shepherd Crew for this great opportunity.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

March 20, 2014

Drake, Glancy & Hollis win at Ice Breaker

Drake, Glancy & Hollos win at Ice Breaker

This past weekend was the Ice Breaker at Indy RC World, a venue that features an indoor off-road track. The layout for the Ice Breaker was very technical and had lots of jumps. Qualifying was dominated by TLR’s Adam Drake. He TQ’ed all three round of qualifying in both Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck. The track grooved up throughout the weekend and was high bite for the mains on Sunday. In the 45 minute Truck final, Drake slowly pulled away and won the final. Second place went to Josh Glancy making it a TLR/Novarossi/Pro-Line 1,2. In the 45 minute Buggy final most of the guys switch to a harder compound tire and the race was on between Drake and Glancy. Both drivers were pitting at 11:30. They exchanged the lead throughout the race and finished only 1-2 seconds apart. In the end, Josh Glancy took the win followed by Adam Drake and Taylor Peterson finished third a lap down to the leaders. TLR’s Cody Hollis took the win in Electric 1/8th Buggy as well.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

March 19, 2014

1st Annual South Florida Winter Champs – Report

Coral Springs RC Track hosted the first annual South Florida Winter Championship and they did not disappoint. Friday morning racers were greeted with a fresh new layout and amazing weather. Without a cloud in the forecast racers began to arrive early Friday morning for early practice and to get there cars dialed in for the weekend. Saturdays race program would bring 3 qualifiers, rocket round style and some fierce competition with over 190 entries. By mid morning the track was well grooved and racers qualifying times continued to improve. Sunday the dust was settled and the mains were set.

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March 19, 2014

Alexander Hagberg continues with Orcan

Xray factory driver Alexander Hagberg has re-signed his contract with Orcan, the German company announces. Alexander will continue to use Orcan’s nitro engines, such as the newly designed .12 RS3-MH, fuel, mufflers and other accessories for this 2014 nitro on-road campaign. The 24 year old Swede is focused on the 200 I.C. World Championship in Bangkok this year and he will also compete at the European Championships and selected races of the Euro Nitro Series ENS as well as local races. This is what Alexander has to say about the deal:

For 2014, being a worlds year for the 200mm IC class, it will be more important than ever to have a good and reliable engine set-up. I will continue with my Orcan deal throughout this season, using engines, mufflers, fuel and accessories from the German brand at all my nitro races. I want to thank Bertram Kessler and SMI for this opportunity, and I am looking forward to EC, WC, ENS and Swedish Cup races together with this sponsor.

Source: Orcan [orcan.de]

March 18, 2014

John Michael doubles at March Madness race

The March Madness race at The RC Pit saw John Michael taking the win in Pro Buggy following an exciting first part of the race. While being in front he got hung up on a pipe where there was no marshal which allowed the 2nd and 3rd driver to catch up and John fell back to 2nd place. 4 laps later John regained the lead and he was able to take the win. Griffin Hanna finished 2nd. In E-buggy John Michael followed closely to the leader Griffin Hanna for the first 4 minutes of the race. Once the leader made a mistake John Michael got past and stretched out his lead over the next 6 minutes to take the win.

Click here to view the E-buggy podium