TLR/Pro-Line driver Brian McDuffie has won the 2WD Modified Buggy class at the Race for the Cure race at the IERC Raceway in San Bernadino, California. Coming from 5th position on the grid Brian took the lead in the second lap of the 6 minute A-main and never looked back. Robert Walker (TLR) and Brent Bisbee (TLR) completed the podium in second and third place respectively.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
The 6th round of the Czech 1/8th buggy nationals took place in Dolni Bukovsko. Although missing one round of the championship Xray’s Martin Bayer had good chances to win the overall championship on home soil after wrapping up this year’s German championship. The practice rounds had to be cancelled due to a water soaked track so everyone had to jump directly into qualifying and at the end it was Martin Bayer who took the overall TQ. At the start of the final Martin went out in front but soon got hit by backmarkers which cost him around half a lap and he was down to third position. He then soon recovered and was able to take the lead again. At he end he not only took the win in front of Xray teammates David Kukla and Jiří Mára but also the overall 2013 championship title.
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The 5th round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy championship was held at the Boya Racing Track in Tajur, Indonesia. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifying rounds with the best two to count. Malik Hakinen (Kyosho/Novarossi) took TQ but at the end of the 45 minute final it was Kyosho/Novarossi driver Adrian W who took the winning honours in front of Malik Hakinen and Yusuf Chopin (HongNor/Novarossi).
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The third round of the Red Carpet on-road series was held by the Red Carpet Hobbyshop in Semarang, Thailand. The series is run in a Super Stock 10.5T class and saw the attendance of 21 drivers. Because of rain the organisers had to cancel the third and final round of the mains handing the win to Serpent driver Iwahara after two A-finals in front of Andre Frandong (Spec-R) and Jon Ambar (Hot Bodies). Donie W (Serpent) rounded out the top 4.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Last weekend the Spanish 1/8th Truggy nationals tool place. After not being able to participate in the practice rounds Serpent’s Alberto Garcia made the maximum out of the limited track time and TQ’d qualifying round 1 and 3 to take the overall TQ for the 60 minute final. In the first part of the A-main Alberto was in a hard battle with Javier Pombo but a mistake of the Mugen driver made way for Alberto who was then able to cruise to the overall victory. The runner-up spot went to Javier (Mugen) with Daniel Vega (Agama) completing the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Spanish 2WD Electric Buggy nationals took place at the RC Hobby Garden track in Sant Cugat. Qualifying on the challenging clay track saw Robert Battle taking the TQ honours from Juanma Lerma who TQ’s two of the five rounds. Carlos Pineda was in third position after the qualifiers and one of the few drivers who could really challenge Robert and Juanma. In the finals Robert made a clean sweep by winning A-final 1 and 2 handing him the 2013 2WD Buggy title early. Juanma Lerma only came in fifth position in A1 but recovered in A2 and A3 taking the runner-up spot in front of Carlos Pineda who completed the podium.
Image: RC Hobby Garden
The first round of the hotly contested Silverstone Winter Series took place at the Silverstone Model Car Club. In the 2WD class Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took TQ and went on to win the A final with Kevin Lee and Nathan Waters completing the podium. Callum Niblett came in fourth with Tom Yardy and David Burton in tow.
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For 2013 the ROAR Region 4 Off-Road Championships were held just outside of Orlando in Sanford, FL, at the popular Holeshot Raceway. Kris James and company put in the effort to ensure a great event with a technical inspection duo, constant track maintenance and race announcing courtesy of Lance MacDonald. The stage was set for a relatively serious event while roughly 160 entries filled the facility and parking lot for the once a year Florida showdown. Qualifying started briskly on Saturday morning with the 1st of 3 qualifiers to determine positioning for the main events. JR Mitch and Billy Easton were some of the fastest drivers during the first round of qualifying in the 2WD modified class and rose to the top each round showing consistency.
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