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August 21, 2017

Pelle Culmsee takes Danish 1/8th Buggy title

The fourth round of the Danish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held at Hillerod RC Racing this past weekend. Unsteady weather made things difficult and that’s why the Nitro Buggy race ended early on Sunday after the qualifiers due to rain flooding the track. With round TQs in Q1 and Q2 Pelle Culmsee would take the overall TQ and thus the day’s win that also won him the overall championship as with four straight wins and three TQs out of six races Pelle has a large enough margin on his competitors.

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August 21, 2017

Bloomfield doubles at BRCA Truggy & E8 Nats Rd5

Round five of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Nationals was held at Remote World in Slough this past weekend. Agama’s Darren Bloomfield would make a clean sweep and take the TQ in E-Buggy and also in Nitro Truggy, a class he barely runs. The 12-minute E8 A-main then again saw Darren excel as he took the win some four seconds in front of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots with Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) coming in a distant 3rd, a lap down on the two frontrunners.

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August 18, 2017

Dreighton Stoub takes ROAR 13.5T 4WD Buggy title

The 2017 ROAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road Nationals were held at The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C. last weekend. As a facility that doesn’t have a signature event, most of the competitors had never been there before. With an evolving surface and unknown preparation, it was a new challenge each day. In the up-and-coming and very competitive class of 13.5 4WD Buggy, Team Associated supported driver Dreighton Stoub started on pole. After a rough A1 from Stoub that saw privateer Jackson Brunson, also driving a Team Associated buggy, take the win, the race was on. In A2 it was another AE privateer, Will Cushing who got the win while Stoub finished second. This set the stage for a winner-take-all scenario in A3 among the three drivers. After the dust settled and the times were posted, it was a three-way tie for the win. Utilising the ROAR tiebreaker system of combined laps and times of the two best points, Stoub won the National Championship by just four seconds over Cushing, who beat Brunson by just a second while Team Associated’s AJ Maasco finishing fourth.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

August 17, 2017

Miikka Luhta takes FinTrack 21.5T Stock title

The FinTrack Tour 2017 recently concluded and in the Touring 21.5T Stock class it was Destiny driver Miikka Luhta who brought home the title. A total of 31 drivers took part in the championship series that consisted of six rounds – four run on carpet and two on asphalt. With the win Miikka also became the 2017 Junior Champion.

Image: Vesa Yli

August 17, 2017

Jean-Pierrick Sartel sweeps French Night Race

The Noeux le Mines track in France played host to the “The Nocturne” 1/8th off-road night race recently. The race format would see two practice and three qualifying rounds followed by three finals for each main with the event kicking off on Saturday afternoon and ending on Sunday afternoon. Classes run were 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy and both categories were swept by Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel who took the Nitro win from TLR’s Jerome Sartel while Felix Kogler (TLR) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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August 17, 2017

Jeremiah Ward doubles at Triple Crown Series Rd3

The third and final round of the Triple Crown Series was recently held at Leisure Hours Raceway. The day started out under cool cloudy threatening skies but the weather would however hold out and the organiers were able to get the event started. Despite some tire issues in the qualifiers of the 17.5T Touring class, Jeremiah Ward would secure himself the top spot in Touring and also in USGT and after the mains he would also walk away with the wins in both classes.

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August 17, 2017

RRR Summer Challenge – Report

The RRR Summer Challenge was recently held in Richmond, British Columbia. The race format was a single day trophy race with three qualifiers and single mains, followed by 3-hour Nitro and Electric Enduros on Sunday. Touring Modified was full of close battles throughout the day with Logan Ruck ultimately holding TQ going into the main. Luke Pittman had been able to challenge Logan throughout the day along with Alex Pate and Keith Yu, however none of the three could best his TQ setting run of 19 laps in 5:11. Going into the main Ruck and Pittman pulled out from the field and began battling for the top spot, but Ruck was able to run a flawless race and never gave Pittman the opportunity to make a pass.

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August 17, 2017

Oliver Havranek doubles at 2017 IYRCA

The 2nd annual IYRCA International Junior Championships were held in Prague, Czech Republic last weekend. The event was held in the four categories of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and 1/14th scale and it attracted up and coming drivers from seven countries. Top qualifier in the Touring Mod class, Xray’s Oliver Havranek, reining IYRCA Champion, would defend his title after a nice fight with Yokomo’s Harley Eldridge in the opening stages but later the young girl had to cope with Matej Šulc who ultimately took the runner-up spot behind Oliver while Harley had to settle for 3rd overall.

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