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June 7, 2011

Oscar Cabezas dominates Rd2 in Spain

The second round for Spanish 1/8th Onroad took place last weekend at Almussafes, Valencia. Oscar Cabezas with his Vox engine powered Motonica, fueled by Merlin Pro-Racing fuel, took all 4 qualifiers giving no option to his rivals. The main final saw Óscar Cabezas maintain his first position at the start followed closely by Nacho López who had a different fuel strategy. However right after the tire stop, Nacho had a mechanical trouble and could not fight for the victory. Oscar would take the win by 5 laps ahead of Victor González in 2nd and Sergio Montesinos 3rd.

Source: Merlin [merlinfuel.com]

June 7, 2011

Haikal & Mizan win Malaysian Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of Malaysia National Championship series was hosted by RCAC at the Titiwangsa R/C track in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. As the track was a little bit wet in the morning the conditions were not easy for the contenders. The races started with the qualifying of the 1/8th scale category. At his 1/8th scale debut race Haikal immediately piloted his Shepherd V8 ‘11 to the provisional TQ spot in the first round of qualifying. The combo of his out of the box Shepherd car with default factory settings and Shepherd tires work flawlessly on the damp but drying track. Despite the best effort by the other drivers during the 2nd and 3rd rounds of qualifying the he kept his TQ position for the 45 minute final.

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June 7, 2011

Rick V makes it 3 from 3 in Dutch Nationals

Last weekend was the third round of the Dutch 1/8 nationals held on the very small and tricky track of MBC de Sluis in Gouda. With a whole week of very good weather sadly enough Sunday started with rain. In the third round of qualifications the track was almost dry so the race director declared the last 2 heats dry which did not count. In the NK all drivers had a “wet” qualification time so everyone made it into the finals. On pole it was Rick V who decided to drive his old MRX-4X and was forced by rules to drive with it the whole day, he was followed by Arie Manten, John Ermen and Gunther v. Staey.

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June 6, 2011

Cavalieri is ROAR Buggy Champion

Team Associated completed the double today at the 2011 ROAR 1:8 Offroad Nationals with Ryan Cavalieri winning the Buggy main ahead of team-mate Ryan Maifield who earlier in the day lifted the Truggy crown at Thunder Alley. What started out as a thrilling battle which produced many lead changes, in the end Cavalieri took any easy win as Top Qualifier Jared Tebo hit trouble and Maifield suffered a flame out.