March 11, 2013

NOOB Singapore Open Buggy 2013 Rd1 report

NOOB Singapore Open Buggy 2013 Rd1 report

The 1/10 EP Offroad season kicked off in Singapore last weekend with round 1 of the NOOB Singapore Open Buggy Series held at the RaceWorks Arena. In the 4WD class, reigning champ Mark “BC” Lim set the pace in qualifying and secured his Durango DEX410 buggy a spot at the front of the grid. Unfortunately he experienced transmission issues throughout the mains. Last year’s series runner-up Tein capitalized on this and with some great runs took the win in all 3 mains. Joakim, who has steadily been moving up the rankings in the past years finished in 2nd leaving BC to be content with a 3rd place finish.

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March 11, 2013

Aigoin and Rossetti win at French buggy nationals

Aigoin and Rossetti win at French buggy nationals

The first round of the French 1/10th electric buggy nationals took place at the Gymnase Jean Collignon in Louvres this past weekend. The race saw the attendance of the usual breed of fast French drivers such as Antoine Rossetti, Sebastian Wartelle and Vicent Heligoin. In the 4WD Open class Team Associated factory driver Yannick Aigoin, normally at home with 1/8th nitro off-road buggies, was on a mission and won its first 1/10th electric buggy race with his AE B44.2 in front of Team Durango’s Antoine Rossetti and Schumacher driver Armand Lantheaume. In 2WD Open it was 4WD runner-up Antoine who grabbed the top sport of the podium in front of Ahmed Kerfati and Ludovic Valtier. The 2WD Promo class saw the win of Vincent Le Peltier with Olivier Langlet and Jean-Luc Salmeron in tow.

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March 11, 2013

Nathan Waters wins 2WD at Worksop Players

Nathan Waters wins 2WD at Worksop Players

The final round of the Worksop Player saw Nathan Waters take the 2WD title with his Team Durango DEX210. With a close battle in both classes over the proceeding rounds of racing, it was always going to be a closely fought series. Nathan who put his DEX210 into TQ position from the first round of qualifying, and then go on to dominate the 2WD class throughout the days racing to take first overall and conclude his series campaign as Players Champion. Team Durango super racer Craig Collinson followed Nathan closely to take second overall in the series. Team Durango drivers had been forging a comprehensive collection of 4WD results during the previous rounds of this star-studded race series. The DEX410v3 vehicles of Craig Collinson and Nathan Waters had already made a big impression in previous meetings at the Worksop venue. With the closing stages of this nationally renowned series coming to an action packed conclusion, Craig Collinson was to place his DEX410v3 in fifth overall. Nathan was pipped by Neil Cragg but was again a force to be reckoned with by securing second overall in a field that was as strong as any UK based off-road line-up.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]


March 10, 2013

Neumann maintains unbeaten EOS record

Neumann maintains unbeaten EOS record

Joern Neumann has kept his reign as the only driver to win 4WD Buggy in the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series after another dominant performance in the second A-Main at Round 3 of the series secured the Team Durango driver the overall win in Leoben, Austria.  The champion of last season’s inaugural EOS and the winner of all six events that have been run since the creation of the series, today’s victory also means that the German ace has successfully defended his title with the season finale still left to run.

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March 10, 2013

Neumann wins 2WD at EOS Austria

Joern Pole

Joern Neumann has won the third round of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby in 2WD Buggy despite the impressive efforts of class novice Martin Bayer who swapped the lead of the second A-Main with the Team Durango driver in Leoben, Austria this morning.  In the end a last lap attempt by Bayer to repass the Top Qualifier and Leg 1 winner resulted in the Team Xray driver needed to be marshaled allowing Neumann to win by 3-seconds to secure his second overall win of the 2012/13 season.  Bayer, who set the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap, was able to hold on to second ahead of 1:8 Offroad rivals Robert Batlle and David Ronnefalk who managed to come through from respective 7th & 10th starting spots on the grid.

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March 9, 2013

Savoya tops Q4 but Neumann Top Qualifier

Savoya tops Q4 but Neumann Top Qualifier

Having surprised his rivals by topping the opening round of qualifying, Team Xray’s Renaud Savoya proved it was not by chance as he again put his XB4 top of the time sheets in Q4. Ending qualifying equal on points with defending Champion Joern Neumann, the French ace was denied the overall TQ on his debut in the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series due to the German having a faster combined time from his TQ runs in Q2 & 3.  For Neumann securing the Top Qualifier honours maintains his record as being the only driver to start on pole position in 4WD Buggy in the EOS since its creation.

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March 9, 2013

Savoya heads Xray 1-2 in first 4WD Qualifier

Savoya heads Xray 1-2 in first 4WD Qualifier

Making his debut in the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series at Round 3 in Leoben, Austria, Renaud Savoya made an impressive start to 4WD qualifying as he headed an Xray 1-2 from Martin Bayer in a class that is widely recognized as being the strongest class of defending champion Joern Neumann who has never been defeated in 4WD since the creation of the EOS. Neumann could only manage the 4th fastest time behind Durango team-mate Hupo Honigl who appears to be chasing a record of finishing 3rd having set the 3rd fastest time in all 2WD qualifiers and the opening A-Main earlier today.

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March 9, 2013

Neumann wins first 2WD A-Main

Neumann wins first 2WD A-Main

Starting from pole position Joern Neumann took a tone to tone win in the opening 2WD Buggy A-Main at EOS Round 3 in Austria ahead of Martin Bayer, the Czech driver mounting an early challenge on the German who at the end of 5-minutes would win by 1.7 seconds. The only two drivers to run 21-second laps in the race, Neumann and Bayer were the class of the field leaving the No.3 starting Durango of Hupo Honigl behind, the Austrian finishing in the order he started ahead of fellow countryman Peter Pinisch.

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