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July 20, 2011

Adam Drake sweeps at Bring the Heat

Adam Drake has won both the 1/8 scale nitro Buggy and Truggy class at the Bring the Heat event at the Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Mississippi. TLR’s Mark Pavidis took TQ in both classes but only managed to finish second behind team mate Drake. Third on the podium was in Expert Buggy was TLR’s Josh Glancy who left Alan Burton (Agama) and Ronda Drake (Mugen) behind. In Expert Truggy that certain Mrs. Drake finished forth with Denver Houghton (TLR) in fifth position.

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July 18, 2011

Burly & Newton win BRCA GT10 & F1 nationals Rd2

The second round of the inaugural BRCA F1 and GT10 nationals took place at Ardent Raceway. In the GT10 class that is closely based on the World GT formula pioneered in the US, Luke Burley took a dominant TQ driving a GM powered Associated 10R5.1. Luke was the class of the field all day leaving Mark Burgess in 2nd on the A-final grid ahead of Jason Butterfield, both also driving Associateds. In the A final Luke cruised to a comfortable win and in doing so almost lapped the entire field. He was followed home by Jason Butterfield in second and Chris O’Donoghue in third position.

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July 15, 2011

Marco Müller wins Swiss 1/8th Rd3

The 3rd round of the Swiss National Championship was held at the beautiful track of Lostallo in the South of Switzerland. Already during qualifying Shepherd driver Marco Müller showed a good performance with his Velox V8 “eleven” taking the pole-position about 1 sec in front of his Shepherd teammate and World Championship finalist Simon Kurzbuch in 2nd. Both drivers had no problems to win their semi-finals while Müller took the pole-position for the 45min final as he had the faster time. At the start of the final Müller defended his first position and increased the gap on the rest if the field step by step. At no time of the race he was challenged and crossed the finishing line convincing 2 laps in front of the Mugen pairing of Luca Martinelli and Silvio Hächler.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 14, 2011

Ryan Lopez takes Georgia Champion Series race

This past weekend was the Georgia Champion Series Race and TLR posted more excellent results with team drivers Ryan Lopez, Shane Ogden and Cole Ogden. Taking the overall series win in the 1/8th Buggy class with his TLR 8ight 2.0 was Ryan Lopez who chose Losi Red Ultra Digits to last the long one hour main event. Rounding out the podium was Shane Ogden in 2nd and Cole Ogden in 3rd.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

July 14, 2011

Oscar Cabezas takes Rd3 in Spain

The 3rd round of the Spanish 1/8 Onroad Nationals, took place in Vigo, Northwest Spain, last weekend. Drivers were not happy on Friday due to the rain and Saturday was also expected to be a rainy day, however before the afternoon the sun finally appeared to dry the track and let the race begin. Motonica/Merlin driver Oscar Cabezas TQ’d the race, making over 10 TQ’s in a row in the Spanish Championship. The final was hotly disputed. In the very first laps, Oscar realizaed that he didn’t have the proper engine tuning, his more running too rich and so he had to decide on a conservative fuel strategy, meaning he had to refuel twice more than his direct rivals. Despite this he was always in contention. The last lap he in 2nd position, and on this lap Nacho López, who was leading, felt a lack of fuel in his Serpent, and had to make a quick fuel stop to secure the second position and so Oscar could take the win with Nacho 2nd and Víctor González in 3rd.

Source: Merlin [merlinfuel.com]

July 12, 2011

Cuypers heads all Belgian podium at Dutch Nats Rd4

Last weekend was the 4th round of the Dutch 1/8 onroad nationals, this time on the 2011 1/10 EC-B track, the Baanbrekers in Rucphen. With good weather, a lot of rubber on the track from the EC-B and 45 drivers on the fastest track in Holland it promised to be a very good race and it didn’t disappoint. Steven Cuypers was in very good shape the whole weekend and showed that by taking the top spot after the 1st round of qualifying followed by John Ermen, Robin d’Hondt, Gunther v. Steay. Finally after 3 rounds it was Rick V taking the pole followed by Steven Cuypers just half a second back, with Robin d’Hondt and Ilia v. Gastel completing the top 4. Both Robin and Ilia had an extra handicap by starting in the lowest heat with much slower drivers because their listing in this years ranking, Ilia had a collision in the 1st heat damaging his car a lot but managed a direct main final place with the other 2 sessions.

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July 12, 2011

Bowie Ginting wins Rd5 of Indonesian Nationals

The 5th round of the Indonesian EP National Championship was held last weekend in Sunter International Speedway. 40 drivers attended the race with Hot sunny weather during the qualifying rounds. In the Stock Touring class, it was Bowie Ginting who took the TQ spot with the brand new Serpent S411, with a time of 20 laps @ 5.08. Suwardi Suliandy followed in 2nd with his TOP Photon, 2 seconds behind Bowie. Teddy Syach (Tamiya), Chandra Yosef (Xray) and Rama Tribudiman (Tamiya) completed the top 5 qualifying of stock touring while Chester Thamrin placed his Tamiya FF-03 Pro on the TQ spot for the FWD class.

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July 12, 2011

Desoto wins 2nd Annual Novarossi Challenge

The 2nd Annual Novarossi Challenge was held at Controlfreakz track in Chaplin, Connecticut home of the 2011 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals. With Desoto Racing and Novarossi World providing lots of prizes, turnout was very good with 100 racers taking part in three classes: 1/8th Scale, 1/10 Sedan and 1/8th GT. 1/8th scale had the biggest turnout and was an exciting battle for TQ and the race win. In qualifying Richie Siriano, Joaquin Desoto and Kenny Ives fought for TQ with Kenny Ives Jr taking the top spot in the last Qualifier. The race was wild at first with Siriano the early leader followed closely by Taskila, Desoto and Jackson. At the 15 minute mark, the battle for the win was down to Jackson and Desoto. Jackson was pitting at 4:30 while Desoto pitted every 4 minutes. The battle continued back and fourth until traffic and mistakes separated the two at about the 25 minute mark. With 10 minutes to go Jackson made a mistake that allowed Desoto to build a lead and cruise to victory. Taskila drove a consistent race to take 2nd and pole sitter Ives Jr recovered to take 3rd. In Sedan, It was Diatta Collymore taking the TQ and win, while in GT, John Q took the TQ spot but had problems in the main. The main saw Luis Mercado drive a clean race to take the win.

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