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January 17, 2018

Mason Fuller wins at Tekno Winter Series Rd3

The third round of the Tekno Winter Series was held at the Hobbyplex raceway in Omaha, Nebraska. This would be a one day event with open practice Friday afternoon. Tekno RC’s Seth VanDalen TQ’d the Nitro Buggy class, however in the 30-minute main final it was Mason Fuller (TLR) who would bring home the win some three laps in front of Seth VanDalen while Xray’s Dan Williams, who bumped up from the B-main, snatched the final podium spot another lap down.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 17, 2018

Ruddog Cup Rd2 – Report

The Indoor Arena Kostendorf near Salzburg in Austria played host to round 2 of the Ruddog Cup last weekend. The event was held in several electric off-road and on-road classes and in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes it was Stefan Pfeifhofer who brought home the silverware.

Continue reading the report here

January 17, 2018

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the Worksop Series, there was a great entry once again which saw 15 heats of drivers, this was across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and a vintage buggy class. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Qualifying in 2WD was very close between three drivers, Eugene Galley, James Helliwell and Mitchell Fiddling. However it was Schumacher’s Mitchell Fiddling who took TQ to line up on pole. In 4WD it was James Helliwell who would TQ three out of the four rounds to line up on pole. In the Vintage class it was Mark Hazelden who would line up on pole.

View the final results here

January 17, 2018

Tamiya Hotshot & Avante chrome-plated body shells

Made for the Japanese market only, yet very cool are these chrome-plated limited edition Tamiya Hotshot and Avante body shells. They are of the same shape as the standard bodies but come pre-painted in chrome red (Hotshot) and chrome blue (Avante) to make Tamiya’s popular vintage 4WD buggies stand out on the track or the shelf. The shells also include the respective rear wings as well as the standard decal sheets.

Image: Mokei Kagaku

January 17, 2018

Jörg Tiit wins at Christmas Cup 2018

The sixth annual Christmas Cup was held in Kiev, Ukraine last weekend on a temporary carpet track at the Karavan Megastores, one of the largest shopping centers of the city. Close to 100 entries foe the two main and two support classes made for competitive racing. The 1/10 2WD Modified Buggy class opened the event. On the challenging but very flowing track, four rounds of qualifiers were held with SWorkz’s Jörg Miikael Tiit taking the Top Qualifier spot, followed by the Team Associated duo of Maryan Beresh and Dmitro Chub.

Continue reading the report here

January 17, 2018

Pavidis family rolling on Pro-Line rubber

Pro-Line have announced the signing of Mark and Ryan Pavidis to their factory team. The name Pavidis and Pro-Line are synonymous with a long history of winning titles. Mark has won three World Titles spread across 1/8 buggy, 1/10 4WD off-road, 1/10 nitro touring car as well as numerous national championships while being hooked up by Pro-Line. Mark was introduced to the hobby with his father in the mid 1980’s and now Mark is sharing his racing craft with his son Ryan who is already giving the competition fits. For the 2018 racing season, the father and son combo are choosing Pro-Line to continue their winning ways.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 16, 2018

Daniel Blalock wins at Top Notch Tour

A round of the US Top Notch Tour was held at Revelation Raceway recently and it was Daniel Blalock (Xray) with the win in the Intermediate Nitro Buggy class. David Carrasco Jr. (HB Racing) came in 2nd from 3rd placed TLR driver David Delgado.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 16, 2018

Martin Bayer dominates XRS Slovakia Rd4

Round four of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday followed by the qualifiers and finals on Saturday. In the 2WD Buggy class Adam Izsay took a popular TQ from Max Gotzl 2nd and Martin Bayer 3rd. In the opening A-main Adam and Max were able to quickly pull away after Martin had some bad luck. Despite his best tries, Max was not able to challenge Adam as Gotzl made a small mistake which cost him the win.

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