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October 9, 2018

Ty Tessmann wins at US Open Championship

The 2018 US Open Championship was held at Sun City RC Raceway in Canutillo, Texas on an old school, loamy dirt track. It was packed well and smooth and the shape of the track was a little different from the usual as it was 180 x 180 which made the back lanes far away and a little challenging to get through because of the distance. In the Nitro Buggy class and after the semifinals it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield with the pole position for the main final from Ty Tessmann (Xray) 2nd and Cole Ogden (HB Racin) 3rd. The main was 60 minutes, so to would be good practice for the worlds. As the main started Ty was feeling pressure from Cole while trying to stay with Maifield and Tessmann started to push a little bit too hard and was hitting ruts that he shouldn’t have been. Cole would get by him, but then Ty settled down and just drove clean lines and slowly caught up to Cole again and passed him, then Maifield made a big mistake and Tesmann got by him and he would continue to create a bigger gap throughout the race and was able to hold onto the lead for the remainder of the race for the win in front of Cole Ogden and Ryan Maifield.

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October 9, 2018

Carsten Keller doubles at Messe Cup

The annual Messe Cup was held as part of a hobby fair in Leipzig, Germany last weekend. The race saw the running of several classes and it was Carsten Keller who took a double victory in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy categories. Carsten took the TQ in the Nitro Buggy class and he also came out on top after the 20-minute A-main to take the day’s win from Sebastian Winterstein in 2nd and Laurin Czypulowski in 3rd. Over in the E-Buggy category it was again Carsten with the TQ and with a clean sweep in the semifinals and dual A-mains he took his second overall win of the weekend, leaving behind Aaron Rönick and Yanic Grieger in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]

October 9, 2018

Vasilis Lykaris takes Greek National 200mm title

The sixth round of the Greek 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring Championship took place at Fanatix Racing Track recently. After four rounds of qualifying, Vasilis Lykaris managed to take the overall TQ with Nikos Karabelas in 2nd and 14 years old George Lekkas, making its A-final debut, qualifying 8th on the grid. In the final Vasilis started pulling away from the field early on and from there he drove an error-free final and crossed the finish line first while George Lekkas managed to finish 6th. Nikos Karabelas had to battle for the runner-up position very hard throughout the whole race, but he managed to bring it home and scored important points to achieve a 2nd position in the championship behind Vasilis.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

October 9, 2018

Sunpadow sign Jin Sawada

Sunpadow have announced the signing of newly-crowned Japanese National Champion, Jin Sawada to their factory team. Jin will use Sunpadow’s line of competition battery packs at all major events from now on.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

October 9, 2018

Carlos Duraes takes Portuguese Nitro Buggy title

The fifth round of the Portuguese 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held at the Radiomodelismo de Freixedas club last weekend. Serpent’s Carlos Duraes took the overall TQ after the three qualifying rounds with Mugen’s Ricardo Monteiro and Team Associated’s Nuno Casal coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 45-minute main final then again had Carlos controlling the field, taking the win a lap in front of Goncalo Melo (TLR) while Ricardo Monteiro rounded out the top 3 another lap down. With the win at round 5 Carlos Duraes also secured himself the overall championship title in the Nitro Buggy class.

Image: Carlos Duraes

October 9, 2018

2018/19 Rug Racers Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2018/19 Rug Racers series was held last weekend. The new series returned with a few changes made to the track in an effort to help with the racing and limit the number of car breakages. The 13.5 Blinky Touring win was taken by long serving Ashley Wiffen. Ashley was being pushed hard by Jamie Hickin but was able to hold him off for the overall A-final win from Jamie Hickin in 2nd and Shaun Batt in 3rd.

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October 9, 2018

Kevin Nielsen joins Xray factory team

Xray have announced the addition of Danish top driver, Kevin Nielsen to their factory team. The multi-time ETS and DHI Cup A-finalist will campaign Xray’s T4 platform at national and international events such as the ETS, DHI Cup, XRS and more and he had the following to say about the deal:

I’m extremely happy and proud to join the Xray factory team. Thanks to Xray for putting the trust in me. My dream just came true. The quality of the products is just amazing, and the cars are on point like the support no matter what level you race at. I will as always try my best to get some great results both in nationals and internationals races.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 9, 2018

Max Gotzl doubles at Czech Open finale

The final round of 2018 Czech Open Series was held last weekend at the popular Horni Jeleni track. Max Gotzl showed a fast pace from the get to, taking a double TQ in the Nitro and Electric 1/8th Buggy classes. In Nitro Tomas Kapicka and Jiri Mara came in 2nd and 3rd respectively, in E-Buggy it was Vaclav Broz in 2nd and Petr Tomasek in 3rd. After a straight forward win in his semifinal Max Gotzl (Xray) would also take the pole position for the Nitro A-main and right from the start the young man opened a gap on the field that he would be able to manage until the end to take his first overall victory of the weekend. Jiri Benes (Xray) came in 2nd while Tomas Kapicka (Kyosho) rounded out the top 3.

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