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July 20, 2011

Tebo wins opening final in Finland

Jared Tebo has won the opening leg of the A-Main at the 2WD Electric Buggy World Championship. Starting from fourth on the grid the Kyosho driver took a convincing win over the Associated’s of Ryan Cavalieri and Top Qualifier Neil Cragg. Running only the seventh fastest lap time of the race, the American proved speed was not the key to success at the Vaasa track as he benefited from mistakes early on by Cavalieri and Maifield before pulling off a very nice pass on Cragg for the lead.

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July 20, 2011

Xray Column – From on-road to off-road

The 53rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about 1/8 scale buggy European Championship warm-up in Germany and the 1/10 scale electric touring cars European Championships warm-up in Austria.

Only a week after the off-road Euros warm-up we were back on the road to another Euros warm-up, although this time we were going back to an on-road track. For the last few years the development of our T1/T2/T3 is mainly handled by Martin. As usual we had several new parts ready for testing. With the previous experience and plenty of data recorded at our factory tracks, we were ready to test at a different track and under different conditions.

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Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 20, 2011

Cragg is 2WD Worlds Top Qualifier

2005 World Champion Neil Cragg is the Top Qualifier for this afternoon’s 2WD electric Buggy World Championhips, the British ace snatching the honours from Associated team-mate Ryan Cavalieri with a TQ run in the fifth and final round of qualifying at Vaasa this morning.

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July 20, 2011

Adam Drake sweeps at Bring the Heat

Adam Drake has won both the 1/8 scale nitro Buggy and Truggy class at the Bring the Heat event at the Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Mississippi. TLR’s Mark Pavidis took TQ in both classes but only managed to finish second behind team mate Drake. Third on the podium was in Expert Buggy was TLR’s Josh Glancy who left Alan Burton (Agama) and Ronda Drake (Mugen) behind. In Expert Truggy that certain Mrs. Drake finished forth with Denver Houghton (TLR) in fifth position.

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July 20, 2011

Yannic Prümper joins Thunder Power RC

Known throughout Europe as one of the rising stars of touring car racing, 17 year old Yannic Prümper will join 3-time World Champion Marc Rheinard, Viktor Wilck and Thomas Pumpler to represent Team Thunder Power RC. Yannic is relatively new to the top level racing circuit with only a couple years of racing under his belt, this rookie has made all the Pros take notice. Yannic recently raced in the Euro Touring Series (ETS) which finished the sixth round of competition in Andernach, Germany. His skills were well matched to compete among the Pros, as Yannic finished in 3rd place overall for both the race event and ETS series points. Yannic finished just behind fellow TPRC team driver Marc Rheinard and his Yokomo team mate Ronald Volker. “Thunder Power RC will bring a new dimension to my competition level performance. I am looking forward to using the Z3R brushless motors and LiPo batteries.” states Yannic Prumper. “I am excited to be a part of the Thunder Power RC team.”

Source: Thunder Power RC [thunderpowerrc.com]

July 19, 2011

Tebo bounces back in Q4

After under par performances in the second and third round of heats Kyosho’s Jared Tebo bounced back to take his second TQ run of the day with a new outright fastest run in the penultimate qualifier. The American was one of three drivers to record a 13-lap run in the final qualifier of the day topping Team Associated’s Neil Cragg by 7/10th with Ryan Maifield third fastest a further 1.6 seconds adrift.

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July 19, 2011

Cavalieri heads Associated 1-2-3 in Q2

Ryan Cavalieri headed a 1-2-3 for the factory Associated team as he TQ’d the second qualifer at the Worlds from Ryan Maifield and Neil Cragg as Q1 Top Qualifier Jared Tebo managed only 8th. Topping the round by a healthy 3 seconds, Cavalieri said he managed to save a few moments and overall it was a pretty clean run. With the sun now shining over Vaasa, the American felt the track was the best its been so far and the extra grip made it a lot more fun to drive.

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July 19, 2011

Tebo TQs opening qualifier in Finland

Team Kyosho’s Jared Tebo has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying for the 2WD Electric Buggy World Championships taking Q1 by over a second from the Associated’s of Ryan Cavalieri and Ryan Maifield with the Losi of Dakotah Phend making it an all American Top 4.

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