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September 9, 2011

Dylan Rodriguez wins EP Buggy class at JBRL Rd6

This past Labor Day weekend, Jimmy Babcock’s JBRL Nitro Series headed to ARC Raceway in Temecula, CA for Rd6. With little over 150 entries, it was sure to be a competitive day. In 1/8 Electric Buggy, Dylan Rodriguez of Mugen Seiki/ Proline Racing/Tekin set the TQ going into the 10min main event. Lining up 2nd was Shane Lyon with his Mugen/Proline Racing ride and 3rd was Aaron Huerta of Mugen Seiki/Proline Racing/Handle IT Hobbies. The main event was a tight race between Dylan and Aaron. Aaron taking the lead at one point for a few laps but a mistake with a few minutes to go would put Dylan back to the lead to never look back, winning by a 4 second margin. Shane rounded up the last podium spot.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

September 8, 2011

Simões & Miguel take Portuguese National titles

Jorge Simões and Hugo Miguel take titles at the season finale of Portuguese EP TC championships at the Maiorca Track, near Figueira da Foz. In the Stock class Pedro Canastra with is TOP showed pretty well in qualifying, TQ’ing 3 of the 4 rounds and grabbed the TQ spot for the finals. But in the finals he couldn’t convert his performance into the overall win since Jorge Simões with his Associated TC6 found a way to counter Pedro’s performance. Jorge won all the A finals and become the 2011 Stock Portuguese Champion. Jorge stated that is very grateful for all of is support this year, specially to Rick and Traci at Team Associated, Weylin Rose at Viper R/C and Nuno Carriço from Super*Models.

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September 7, 2011

Annual Labor Day Challenge report

This last weekend Clark RC Park held its 3rd Annual Labor Day Challenge with some of the top drivers in the midwest showcasing their skills. Jeremy Whiting set a blazing fast pace in both nitro Buggy and Truggy with Taylor Timmerman putting in a 2nd place effort in the last round of Truggy qualifying. Jeff Stanford held on to the number two spot in the Buggy class. E Buggy saw Daryl Frank light the track up to take the spot followed closely by Zach Whitrock.

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September 7, 2011

Cuypers wins Rd6 as RickV is Dutch champion

Last weekend the 6th and final race of the 2011 Dutch nationals was held at the MBC Sluis track in Gouda. Although the leading drivers in both classes were very secure to get the title there was still little room for mistakes. RickV had to reach a top-4 position to stay ahead of Belgian driver Steven Cuypers if he could win this race. The day started with some rain fading away from a huge overnight storm.The track was slowly drying and all fast times were set in the last qualification sessions. Steven Cuypers managed to take the pole followed by RickV, John Ermen and Gunther van Staey.

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September 6, 2011

Clean sweep for Adam Drake at JBRL Rd6

Round 6 of the JBRL series took place last Sunday at the ARC track. The 1/8th Expert Truck class saw Team Losi Racing / Novarossi’s Adam Drake take TQ honors in both rounds of qualifying with his TLR 8ight T 2.0, while second and third on the grid was TLR’s Matt Schreffler and Matt Castellano. The beginning of the 20 minute final was a great battle for second between Schreffler, Castellano and King which allowed Drake to pull out over a half lap lead. Drake won the final followed by Matt Schreffler in second and Cody King in third.

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September 6, 2011

Andy Moore clinches BTCC series victory

Last weekend saw the 2011 BTCC summer championship come to a close at the fantastically fast Mendip circuit. The 5 round series which has been massively successful this year and has seen entries of between 130 to 150 drivers at each event, running on the Sorex 32RY control tyre. Going into the final meeting of the year there was still plenty to play for in terms of overall championship positions. Olly Jefferies and Andy Moore could both take the win in the modified class with good results. Zack Smith, Ryan Edwards and James Hart were all in with a shout in Pro stock and Rob West and Zack Finlay would battle in out the 13.5T class. All these guys were ready and raring for this event.

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September 6, 2011

Michael Salven takes German 1/10 title

A brilliant anniversary for Michael Salven: On Saturday he celebrated his birthday and became 50 years old. With third position in qualifying just 4/10 of a second behind European Champion Robert Pietsch “Mr. Serpent” showed that he hasn’t lost any of his speed. And Sunday even turned for the better: In the 45 minutes final under difficult conditions Salven made himself his own birthday present and captured the title of German Champion nitro 1/10 scale. It is not only another title for Michael Salven, it is a special one because exactly 28 years ago (1983) he celebrated his first German title on the same track of the MSC Kirchhain, located 100 kilometre in the north of Frankfurt/Main.

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September 6, 2011

Arnaud Matieu is French 1/8th Champion

Last weekend saw the last round of the French championship held on the fast, thrilling and famous track of Clermont Ferrand. Weather was an important issue with just a few drops of rain on Saturday during qualifying and showers for the lower finals but for both main finals it was dry but the track had a different grip from qualifying. In both categories, there was a battle for the championship. In National it was between Damine Thirion and Jérémy Cassagne. And in the Elite class, four drivers could win the championship.

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