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November 28, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins Madeira Cup Rd1

The first Madeira Cup was held at the Madeira Island Off Road track. With most of the participants being on-road racers Xray’s Bruno Coelho, who was invited to assist with car and engine set-up, had loads of work to do. After Saturday’s practice rounds the track was pretty beat-up but the conditions where the same for everyone and it was no surprise that Bruno Coelho took TQ after the qualifiers as he was the most experienced buggy racers on the track. Right from the start of the 45 minute final Bruno took off and never looked back taking the race win one lap ahead of Joao Figueiredo with Vitor Sousa completing the podium in 3rd position.

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November 27, 2013

John Agus wins Jakarta regional buggy champs Rd6

The 6th and final round of the Jakarta regional buggy championship was held last Sunday at the Boya Racing Track in Tajur, West Java. A total of 40 racers attended the event which featured three rounds of 10 minute qualifying with the 2 best rounds to count and 4 groups of finals with 5 drivers bumping up. Jason Nugroh (Xray) coming from 4th place on the grid got a good start and lead the first 15 minutes of the race when he suffered a flame-out after flipping the car. This handed John Angus (Kyosho) room to breathe and to the win while Jason was able to move his way up again ending in second place. Adrian Wicaksono (Kyosho) completed the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 27, 2013

Atsushi Hara victorious at JQ Asia Tour Event

Atsushi Hara victorious at JQ Asia Tour

The JQ Asia Tour Event, part of the Ratchaburi Offroad Championship, took place last weekend at the Ratchaburi track in Thailand. Two-time World Champion Atsushi Hara, who was driving a JQ Products buggy at this race, took TQ just in front of Joseph Quagraine. In the 45 minute final Hara opened a 2-lap gap on JQ taking a comfortable win in front of his teammate. Agama driver Witsarut R. completed the podium a lap further back.

Source: JQ Products [jqproducts.com]

November 27, 2013

Mibosport Cup 2013/14 Rd2 – Report

After a one month break the second round of the Mibosport Cup 2013/14 was held in Hrotovice last weekend. A total of 128 drivers signed up for the event with 70 drivers attending in the on-road and 58 in the off-road classes. The touring car modified class was quite a balanced affair. Kuba Šimurda (Xray) took TQ with Radek Flek (Yokomo) sitting only 6/10th behind him. Young Polish driver, Michal Orlowski (Team Durango) came in third. All of the three A-finals then had exactly the same scenario, Kuba Šimurda had brilliant starts and was facing the pressure of Radek Flek and Michal Orlowski in every leg. In the end, he was only controlling his rivals behind him and won all three A-finals. Radek Flek scored two second places handing him the overall second place followed by Michal Orlowski.

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November 27, 2013

Tresrey Off-Road Race Rd13 – Report

Round 13 of the Tresrey Off-Raod Race was held last weekend at the Twin Ring Honguu in Toyokawa-city, Japan. The track recently received a new astro turf surface and the event marked the first Tresrey race on the newly re-made track. 49 drivers attended in the 2WD class with 39 participants in 4WD. Tresrey driver Kenji Tsuruta (Team Durango) won the 4WD class with Akihiro Kubota in second and Katsuya Hori in third place. In the 2WD class it was Hidetoshi Matsuda (TLR22) who won the race, Kouji Uchiyama came in second place and Hideyuki Iwase completed the podium in third.

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November 26, 2013

Eric Albano doubles at Turkey Dash

A Main Hobbies recently hosted its 2013 Turkey Dash at their indoor track, Outback Raceway in Chico, California. With over 120 entries from across Northern California, the race held out a promise of great racing in all classes. Qualifying started a little differently this year with three rocket-round, heads-up qualifiers. Team Associated’s Eric Albano and Brian Strange both showed their speed, going 1 and 2 into the mains. Strange took the TQ in 4WD Modified and Albano took the TQ in 2WD Modified.

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November 26, 2013

2013 Serpent Korea Race – Report

The third Serpent Korea Race took place at the Hitec Raceway last weekend with many South Korean drivers participated in the two electric and two nitro classes. In 1/8th on-road it was Choi Naksung who took TQ and then went on to win the race in front of Park Yonghun and Choi Sungwon. The 200mm nitro touring class saw Kim Kiyeol taking TQ and the 3rd place in the race while Ku Kibon and Park Kijung finished in 1st and 2nd position respectively. In the Touring Car Modified class pole-setter Kim Sungmin came in 2nd, Kim Dongnyuk took the win with Mun Kimun completing the podium. Last but not least comes the 13.5T Stock class that had TQ Jeong Gugil coming in 1st followed by Kim Wongyung and Ryu Jaeho.

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November 26, 2013

Jerome Sartel wins 2013 Merlin Race

The Merlin Race 2013 took place at the Cartt track in Madrid, host of the 2014 Euros B. Over 135 drivers attended the race that also marked the track reopening and that was one of the biggest races in Spain in the recent years. After qualifying Miguel Matias (TLR) took TQ and in the finals the fight was on between Miguel, Jerome Sartel, Ricardo Monteiro and Daniel Vega until the very last laps. At the end Jerome Sartel (Agama) came in first some 16 seconds in front of Miguel Matias who was hardly chased by Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) who finished less that half a second behind Matias. Daniel Vega (Agama) completed the top 4 only another four seconds behind Ricardo.

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