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September 27, 2011

Riccardo Rabitti takes Italian National title

This past weekend, TLR and Horizon Hobby team driver Riccardo Rabitti wins his 3rd Italian National championship at the final round at Marigliano in Naples. Going into the final round there were five drivers in contention for the coveted Italian title. Riccardo started in the middle of the field for the 45min A-main. The Marigliano track was quite rigorous with many bumps and dusty condition. Riccardo stayed patient and drove an excellent final wining the last round and winning the Italian National Championship with his TLR 8ight 2.0 EU buggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 27, 2011

Dennenmoser & Käufler win Baden-Württemberg Cup

The ‘Baden-Württemberg Cup’ 2011 was dominated by TLR in both the buggy and truggy classes. Consisting of five rounds with two drop rounds, TLR/Horizon Hobby team driver Ralf Dennenmoser took the overall win in the truggy category whilst TLR/Horizon Hobby team driver Hannes Käufler dominated the buggy class. Ralf Dennenmoser clinched second place with his TLR 8ight 2.0 EU Buggy. Three wins for Hannes were enough to secure him the top spot after only four rounds while Ralf won the remaining two races, so together they won each round of the 2011 Cup series. Ralf was the man to beat in truggy, four wins meant he even had a win as a through-away result. To top things off, TLR drivers Pascal Sass took third overall in buggy and Andreas Ruepp second in truggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 27, 2011

Thomas Mayr takes Austrian title with Rd3 victory

The third and final leg for the Austrian Nationals in 1:8 Offroad was held last weekend at WMW Fehring track, EC-A track for 2012. The Championship standings after first 2 races meant that only 3 drivers could became Austrian champion, Dominic Bauer, Thomas Mayr and Andreas Scharinger. In Qualifying Dominic Bauer dominated winning 3 from 4 rounds giving the following qualifying result.

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September 27, 2011

Fuciños & Villalba win final round in Spain

The fourth and final round of the electric buggy Spanish Championship last weekend at the magnificent facilities of the club CAPA, near Madrid. Under great weather conditions, almost 80 drivers battled it out in both 2WD and 4WD for two days. On Saturday the 4WD event was held and it was veteran Enrique Fuciños who took his Viper powered Yokomo BMax to a close win over local hero David Bustos with Tamiya TRF502. Charismatic Raul Solano drove his Kyosho Lazer FS II to the third position.

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September 26, 2011

German 4WD off-road nationals report

The German 4WD off-road nationals took place on the weekend of the 10th and 11th of September at the demanding high-grip astroturf track of the Neuffen club near Stuttgart. 74 drivers attended and it was Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann who TQ’ed the Modified class with his DEX410 buggy after five rounds of qualifying followed by Markus Metsch (Team Durango DEX410) and Christopher Krapp (Kyosho Lazer ZX5 FS2). The finals saw Jörn pulling away in each of the three A mains securing him another national title with Markus in 2nd and Christopher in third position overall.

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September 24, 2011

Piotr Okonski takes 2wd & 4wd Polish titles

The final race of the Polish Off-Road championships took place in Tarnow recently. In the modified Electric Buggy 2WD class the championship title went to Piotr Okonski (Tamiya TRF 201) with second place going to Michal Orlowski (Tamiya TRF 201) and Lukasz Sabat in 3rd (Team Associated B4). In the modified Electric Buggy 4WD class the 2011 title again went to Piotr Okonski (Tamiya TRF 511), second place to Łukasz Sabat (Team Associated B44) and Damian Zalewski in 3rd (Tamiya TRF 511).

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September 24, 2011

Kraig Krueger wins 2wd at Udder Madness Classic

The Udder Madness Classic is the longest-running off-road race in Minnesota. This year the top racers in the region gathered at the race’s annual Starbuck location for the event. Similar to previous years, the 2WD Modified class proved to be the most competitive and largest of the classes. In round 1 of qualifying, Team Associated’s Eric Swanson put in a solid run and set the early pace for the rocket round qualifying format with his RC10B4.1. His time held until round 3 when his teammate Kraig Krueger edged him out for the top qualifying position that held through the fourth round of qualifying. At the completion of qualifying, the grid was set for the triple A Mains with the RC10B4.1’s of Kraig Krueger, Eric Swanson, and Steve Nelson sitting on the top three spots.

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September 23, 2011

Kody Numedahl wins Colorado State Gas Series

The Colorado State Gas Series is made up of five stops among the top Colorado tracks, which includes Colorado Fast Track, Dirt Works, Rat Raceway, Longmont and Thunder Valley. With National level drivers competing in the series, victory is earned, not given. Team Associated/Reedy driver Kody Numedahl drove his Reedy 121 VR-powered RC8B to the the overall series victory with consistent top finishes and smart racing. Also taking home titles with their Team Associated vehicles were Steve Folle with his RC8Be and Phil Turner with his RC8T.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]