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August 22, 2017

Luca Rau takes German 4WD Modified Buggy title

The 4WD portion of the German 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the RC-Cars Köngen club in the south of the country. In the 4WD Modified class it was local hero, Luca Rau (Xray) who took the overall TQ from SWorkz’ Micha Widmaier in 2nd and Jörn Neumann 3rd. The finals then saw Luca checking out in A1 and A2 for an early title win while runner-up after the qualifiers, Micha Widmaier scored a DNF in A1 only to come back in A2 with a 2nd place and the win in A3 to take the vice-championship from Tom Maquel (Team C) in 3rd. With the 2nd place in the Modified class, Micha Widmaier secured himself the German Youth title while Elias Ehrmann/Schiller (Xray) snatched the German Junior title with a 23rd place overall.

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August 22, 2017

BRCA Clubmans Series Rd6 – Report

The Stafford club in the heart of the UK hosted the penultimate round of the BRCA 2017 Clubmans series last weekend, once again a near fully entry contested the three classes. In the 13.5 Touring class it was close battle between Liam Brooks, Andy Murray and Markus Askell and this was the qualifying order after four rounds of qualifying. In the two-leg finals it finished one leg each to Liam and Markus with Liam taking the overall win over Markus on a faster time. The result sets up great final round with Markus moving in to contention but he will have to fight off a hard charging Adrian Bidewell who, by his standard, had an off day at Stafford.

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August 21, 2017

Jarno Pijpers wins at NRW-Cup Rd6

Round 6 of the popular NRW-Offorad-Cup was recently held at the Mach-One Helmond track in the Netherlands. 60 entries from Belgium, Germany, the UK and The Netherlands made for competitive racing and in the 2WD Buggy class it was Jarno Pijpers with the win from James Chappell 2nd and Julian Heitjan 3rd.

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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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