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November 23, 2015

Dustin Evans dominates NW Astro Invitational

Dustin Evans dominates North-West Astro Invitational

The 2015 North-West Astro Invitational was hosted by NW Hobbies in Albany, Oregon this past weekend. Run in several classes including Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy and 4WD Modified Buggy the event attracted both local talent and internationally experienced drivers. In the Invitational class, run in a Reedy format, TLR’s Dustin Evans would make a clean sweep to take the win from Tanner Day (Kyosho) and Robert Bakoczy (Schumacher). Casey Vitale (Schumacher) and Andy DiBrino (Kyosho) would round out the top 5 result.

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November 23, 2015

Hanna doubles at Thanksgiving Showdown race

Speed RC of Charlotte, NC recently held their Thanksgiving Showdown race that attracted a total of 109 entries. In the 2WD Pro Buggy class Max Flurer came out fastest after the triple qualifiers from Robert W. Meyer Jr. and Griffin Hanna. In the A-main the top 3 would put a small gap on the field and TQ Max would lead Robert and Griff around for the first few laps. The three would trade positions numerous times and while this was going on, home town young Allex Mueller caught the three and made a charge to the front. He and Griff mixed it up a few laps and after the dust settled, Griffin was able to take the checkered flag with the win. In the 4WD class Griffin Hanna took the overall TQ after the qualifiers and in the A-main he found himself in a battle with young gun Levi Jakson, but Levi had to retire early with mechanical issues and that would allow Griff to grab his second win of the weekend.

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November 23, 2015

Dutch MRC Cup Rd2 – Report

This past weekend the second round of the famous MRC Cup was held in the Netherlands. Considered the biggest indoor on-road series in the Netherlands the race attracted over 50 entries to compete in the four classes of Touring Stock 17.5, Tamiya Top Stock, Tamiya M-Chassis and Formula 21.5T. The race format was two qualifiers followed by triple finals. In the Touring Stock 17.5 class, run with Trackstar motors, some of the usual frontrunners were absent from the event and after the two qualifiers it was Rob Janssen (Team Magic) who took the TQ from Eric Bresser (Xray) in second and Jan Kraanen (Xray) in third.

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November 22, 2015

Martin wins A2 from Wollanka

Reigning Euro Offroad Series 4WD Champion Lee Martin has won A2 setting the stage for a three way shot out for the overall win at the second round of the championships in Slovakia. A chaotic start and then a mistake by the Top Qualifier at the first double would give Martn’s Yokomo the lead on the first lap followed by the fourth place starting Xray of Martin Bayer. Pursued by Bayer, Martin who be handed a huge advantage half way into the encounter when the two time winner of the event, who was coming under pressure from his recovering team-mate and A1 winner Martin Wollanka, crashed at the start/ finish line. Setting the fastest lap of the race Wollanka set about chasing down Martin but yesterday’s 2WD winner would hold on for the win with Ales Bayer completing the Top 3 ahead of older brother Martin. Dropping to last in the race World Champion Coelho would only manage to recover to finish 6th but thanks to his second in A2 he goes into the closing race of the Hudy Arena hosted event in with a chance of his first overall EOS win against Wollanka and Martin.

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November 22, 2015

Coelho give Xray home TQ at EOS Slovakia

Bruno Coelho has claimed Xray a home TQ at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia, a faster time in the fourth & final round of 4WD qualifying giving the World Champion the tie breaker over reigning EOS Champion Lee Martin. With Martin’s Yokomo having topped Q1 and 3, the pressure was on Q2 pace setter Coelho to deliver the fastest qualifying time of the event and he did albeit just by 3/10ths of a second better than Martin’s Q3 time. The final qualifier would be ‘not (the) most successful qualifier’ for Martin as an error at the corner table top would cause his bodyshell to get stuck in the spur gear requiring him to stop to have it fixed. A second P2 run from Martin Wollanka would secure the Xray driver 3rd on the grid ahead of the event’s winner for the last two season’s Martin Bayer with multiple EOS champion Joern Nuemann completing the front half of the 10 car A-Main grid.

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November 22, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch is 2015 IFMAR World Champion

With some delays, due to rain on Saturday morning the last 5 finals of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th onroad World Championships were run in the afternoon at the ZECA Elias track in Americana City SP. The final started just after 5pm with Simon Kurzbuch on pole position for Shepherd. Following a hard fought pair of Semi finals in which we lost contenders Balestri, Pietsch & Collari it would be Takaaki Shimo who would start from 2nd with fellow Japanese racer Yuya Sahashi in 3rd. Fourth on the grid was local favourite Flavio Elias starting ahead of reigning World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi in 5th, Sebastian Recio (coming from the 1/4 finals) 6th, Shinnosuke Yokoyama 7th, Henrique Winik (also from the Quarters) 8th, Robin D’Hondt 9th and Daniele Ielasi completing the grid in 10th, the only Italian in the final.

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November 22, 2015

Coehlo takes Q2 at EOS

World Champion Bruno Coelho has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Slovakia. Racing at the home of his Xray team, the Portuguese driver headed a 1-2 for the XB4 at the Hudy Arena with Martin Wollanka 2/10ths off his pace. Having TQ’d last night’s opening 4WD qualifier after wrapping up his second 2WD win of the season, Lee Martin was third fastest ahead of the events winner for the last two season’s Martin Bayer.

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November 22, 2015

The Rally Legends Lancia Delta Esso Grifone bodies

Italtrading have introduced two new 1/10th rally bodyshells out of their The Rally Legends line of scale rally cars and bodies. Available soon are the Lancia Delta S4 and Evo2 in the Esso Grifone design. The bodies come made from clear polycarbonate and they include comprehensive decal sheets as well as moulded details such as lightbars, windscreen wipers and more. The bodies fit Italtrading’s own line of The Rally Legend cars as well as many other 1/10th scale touring car chassis.

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