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May 19, 2014

King & Tessmann win at Lone Star Challenge

The 2014 Lone Star Challenge took place in Austin, Texas on the Thornhill Racing Circuit. The race was run on a track built by The Dirt’s Joey Christensen and it doubled as the warm-up for this year’s ROAR Gas Nationals and was also the third stop of the 2014 USPro Cup tour. The 1/8th Nitro Buggy class had Ty Tessmann taking the first qualifier from Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler while Ryan Mayfield just edged out Ty in the 2nd qualifying round by 0.1 seconds. Ty stroke back in the 3rd qualifier by taking the round TQ from Ryan Maifield. The 4th and final qualifying round then went to Josh Wheeler who left Cody King and Adam Drake behind. After the semi finals Ty Tessmann put his Hot Bodies buggy on the pole position for the 1-hour A-main with Adam Drake (TLR), Ryan Maifield (Team Associated) and Ryan Lutz (Team Durango) completing the top 4.

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May 19, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Belgian SCT Cup was run in Seraing, Belgium. The track layout with its few low-speed corners, elevation changes and nice jumps made for close racing while its surface dries very fast which was a plus over the weekend too. In Pro2 the race was on between Juian Andre (Team Associated), Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) and Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT) who each took a leg in qualifying. Philippe and Julian where also tie on points but at the end Julian took TQ with a better time. In Pro4 Thierry Matthieu (Tekno) dominated qualifying like he did in Brussels. Nicolas Evens (TLR) followed in front of Jean-Yves Konings (Team Associated).

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May 15, 2014

Nitro-West-Masters – Announcement

Nitro-West-Masters - Announcement

The Nitro-West-Masters will start into its 6th season this coming weekend. On the 17th and 18th of May the first of six rounds of this popular nitro racing series, held in Western Germany and the Netherlands, will take place at the famous track in Oberhausen. The following rounds will be run in Dueren (07th/08th June), Bad Breisig (05th/06th July), Haltern (26th/27th July), Velp/NL (27th/28th September) and Dormagen (11th/12th October).

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May 15, 2014

Luis Fernando Ramirez wins at Mexican nationals Rd2

The 2nd round of the Mexican Off-raod Nationals was held in Chihuahua, on one of the most aggressive tracks in Mexico with around 90 drivers attending. Luis Fernando Ramirez put his buggy on pole position for the 45 minute final that the young man lead for nearly all of the time. At the end he was able to cross the finish line in first place followed by Jorge Acosta and Juan Gonzalez who completed the Nitro Buggy podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 15, 2014

Van Iperen & Arents win at wet Dutch nationals Rd2

Last weekend the Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals had their 2nd round run at the REAL80 track in Groningen. Despite the wet weather all weekend 39 drivers attended. After 3 rain soaked qualification rounds it was John Lenaers and John Ermen who took the pole of the NK class semi finals. After the semi finals there was an interesting drivers list for the main final, as both John’s were not able to reach the final. The main itself then did look more like a battlefield. Heavy showers made for huge puddles on the track which were almost impossible to drive through but the battle for the podium went on despite many stalling engines. Finally it was Jeroen van Iperen who took the win followed by Tjibbe Keller and Ad Vissenberg.

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May 14, 2014

Kiss-Orban wins at Hungarian nitro on-road nats Rd1

The Hungarian nitro on-road national series kicked off last weekend at the Hungaroring. The weather was a little bit tricky and the qualification heats where run under rainy condition, but fortunately the 30 minute final would be run under dry conditions. The TQ went to Zsolt Bajusz (Capricorn/Max), but he soon lost the first place due to a small mistake. This allowed Laszlo Kiss-Orban (Capricorn/Reds) to pass Zsolt and from that moment on he never looked back to take the win from Zsolt Bajusz and Matyas Mohl (Serpent/Picco).

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 14, 2014

Drake doubles at JBRL Nitro Series Rd2

This past weekend was the second round of the 2014 JBRL Nitro Series at Palm Desert Raceway. The event had 180 entries including Adam Drake, Cody King, Drew Moller, Cody Smith and Jeremy Kortz. At the start of the Buggy final Drake, Moller, and King pulled away from the rest of the field. Moller then ran out of fuel trying to do minute pit stops which gave Drake a comfortable 7-8 second lead over Cody King. In the closing laps of the race King ran out of fuel giving Drake almost a full lap lead over Cody Smith. Drake went on to take the victory followed by Cody Smith in second and Cody King in third.

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May 13, 2014

Tyler Jones wins at 2014 Post Derby Classis

The Post Derby Classic took place at the Adventure RC Raceway in Louisville, KY this past weekend. It was the first ever trophy race held at this indoor facility and the event had 104 entries and drew some of the fastest racers in the Midwest. Tyler Jones would lead the entire 1/8th E-Buggy A main wire to wire. He would be challenged a few times by fellow TLR teammates Dylan Gerard and Jimmy Vanderhaar but would fight off the challenges for the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]