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June 26, 2017

Aaron Dexter TQs & wins WA Challenge Cup Rd2

The Australian Model Off-road Buggy Club recently hold round 2 of the WA Challenge Cup. With some rain the few days before, the track was super wet and soft. Aaron Dexter had some mixed qualifiers, although due to the qualifying format using laps and time over points, he grabbed the overall TQ by 0.005 seconds over 36 laps. After the semis, that put Aaron P2 on the A-main grid behind Brady Piggot, both drivers had a good start on the tone and they pulled away from the field quickly. Soon Brady started to have a couple of mishaps which allowed Aaron to stretch the lead. A few mistakes here and there would drop his lead to as much as two seconds but Aaron managed to pull out to a 20-second lead before having a couple of silly mistakes again within the laps bringing 2nd place Kyle Francis closer than he would have liked. Nevertheless Aaron managed to win the 40-minute A-main by 13 seconds.

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June 26, 2017

Renaud Savoya takes French Nitro Buggy Champs Rd4

The fourth round of the French Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at Saint-Aubain-sur-Mer in the Normandy this past weekend. The dirt track held loads of bumps and dust, making it a real challenge for all drivers. Ultimately it was TLR’s Renaud Savoya who made the best out of the conditions, bringing home the TQ and win from Xray’s Jean-Pierrick Sartel in 2nd and TLR’s Jerome Sartel in 3rd. Eduard Hugon (Agama) and Jean Marc Lacheze (HB Racing) would round out the top 5 result.

Image: Jerome Sartel

June 26, 2017

French Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

La Ferriere-Aux-Étangs near Caen with its fast and bumpy track played host to round four of the French Electric On-road Nationals. In the 10.5T Blinky Touring class Steeve Favrelle set the early pace by TQing two rounds while Pierre Delorme also scored a TQ run on Saturday. Sunday came and it was again the duo of Steeve and Pierre that dominated the qualifiers with Pierre ultimately walking away with the overall TQ from Steeve in 2nd.

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June 26, 2017

Jared Tebo takes ROAR Nitro Buggy title

Stateline R/C Raceway in Fremont, Indiana played host to the 2017 ROAR Fuel Off-road National Championship this past weekend. Mixed weather conditions made this challenging for both drivers and the organisers and in the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann who took the overall TQ honours courtesy of round wins in Q3 and Q4 while the only other round TQ holders, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin and Kyosho’s Jared Tebo had to settle for 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the finals things mixed up a bit with Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz looking really fast but being a bit too inconsistent, this allowed Jared Tebo to take another national championship title, although after quite a winning drought at national-level events. Ryan Lutz had to settle for 2nd overall while defending champion, Spencer Rivkin completed the podium in 3rd after a great recovery following an early mistake.

Image: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

June 26, 2017

Zuber & Hundertmark win at North German regionals

Round 3 of the North German Off-road regionals was held at the astro turf track in Celle near Hannover. The weather was great on Sunday but the challenging and bumpy track, that changes traction a lot during the day, made things difficult. Unfortunately the turnout of drivers was pretty low meaning a lot of hassle for drivers who competed in more than one class. Overall and in the stadium truck class it was John Zuber who brought home the win from Michael Bossel and Mirko Johne while the 4WD class was won by Lars Hundertmark from John Zuber 2nd and Olaf Stein 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 26, 2017

BRCA Touring Car Series Rd3 – Report

Mixed weather conditions was the challenge for drivers at round three of the BRCA Touring Car Series, held at the Stafford track, with rain disrupting most of the morning’s qualifying runs and with Saturday’s practice held in the dry sunshine, this left drivers with little track data going into the meeting. Modified class championship leader, Olly Jefferies saw off a strong challenge in qualifying to take TQ with his Xray ahead of Chris Grainger’s Team Associated with Alex Gardner getting his best run at a UK national lining up third for VBC.

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June 23, 2017

Helder Barros wins at Portuguese regionals Rd3

Round 3 of the Portuguese central division regionals was held at the Ortigosa track recently. Hot weather with ambient temperatures of about 40 degree Celsius made for challenging racing conditions and in the main final it was Helder Barros (TLR/Picco) who would prevail as he took the win from Ricardo Simao (Mugen/O.S.) in 2nd and Pedro Gomes (Xray/FX9 in 3rd.

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June 23, 2017

Kiriazis & Diamadis win at RCManiacs Argos race Rd1

The Argos track in Greece played host to round 1 of the RCManiacs series. The Wednesday evening event attracted racers from Athens, Patra and Argos to compete on the new high-traction track and in the Touring Modified class it was Diamadis who took the TQ after a close fight with Kiriazis. All three finals were then won by Kiriazis with Diamadis coming in 2nd and Kidi 3rd, making it an Xray 1-2-3.

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