Colton Kiefer has won the 1/8th E-Buggy class at the 2014 Chi-Town Shootout. He took the win in front of Tekno’s Randy Cathcart while Mike’s Serpent team mate Joe Sorwell completed the podium. Adam Cholka and Pinky McCarty finished 4th and 5th respectively.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The first round if the Paraguayan national 1/8th off-road championship attracted drivers from Hohenau, Capitán Meza, Ciudad del Este and Asunción. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifiers, 30 minute semifinals and a 45 minute main. The race then was won by Manuel Dressler, Michael Mende and Fabio Lang (all Serpent).
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Beside 1/12th scale pan car racing the 2014 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals, held at the HobbyTown USA HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska, also had a lot of touring car action to offer. Paul Lemieux (Xray) would TQ the Modified class by less than 0.5 seconds over Kody Knudtson (Awesomatix). Filling out the top five would be Keven Hebert (Associated), Josh Cyrul (Awesomatix) and Andrew Doherty (Xray). In A-main 1 Paul Lemieux would run away with the win, allowing for a tight battle between Kody, Keven and Josh for 2nd. Paul would cruise to the win, with Kody and Keven following.
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The 2014 KL City GP Challenge was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last weekend. In the 1/8th nitro on-road class Chavit S took the pole position but in the finals it was Trin T who took the win with the KM Racing K8. In the 1/8th 200mm class Azri Amri successfully ended the qualifiers taking TQ but he had to make way in the finals for Charlee P who took the win from Azri.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
The 2014 Chi-Town Shootout in Joliet, Illinois had Team Durango’s Travis Amezcua walking away with the win in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes. Travis’ Team Durango team mate Ryan Lutz ended the race sitting in the runner-up position in both classes after the two also won the 30 minute endure race. Last but not least did Travis took the famous Dash For Cash race to end his successful weekend.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
The 2014 ROAR carpet on-road nationals took place last weekend at the HobbyTown USA Hobbyplex in Omaha, Nebraska. In the 1/12 Modified class Keven Hebert made a clean sweep by winning A1 and A2 to take the overall win early after starting from pole position. A3 then saw Dave Ehrlich coming in 1st after Josh Cyril scored a DNF. Josh came in second overall though with Dave Ehrlich completing the 1/12 Modified podium.
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The 6th round of the East Hungarian National Championship was held near Debrecen. Xray driver János Birinyi was able to win A1 and A2 coming from the second spot on the grid. Ferenc Gibala (Xray) and Tamás Ponghó (Xray) finished second and third respectively.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 2014 Winter Cup at JCP RC Raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana took place with a total of 160 entries. The race format saw four qualifiers, and triple A-mains with bump-ups. In the highly contested 2WD Modified class Kyosho’s Zach Phillips took TQ and made maximum use of the pole position by winning the first A-main with a clean run. In A2 he had a small bobble in the opening laps letting him drop to 2nd, but he was able to recover in order to take the win and therefore also the overall victory in the 2WD Mod class.
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