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August 15, 2009

Marc Rheinard takes European 4wd buggy title

Current Touring car World Champion Marc Rheinard has taken his first major off road title today after winning the 4wd class in Bilbao, Spain. Making the final in the 2wd class earlier in the week, the German faired better with the Tamiya TRF511X by taking the TQ spot after winning the final 3 qualifiers to start ahead of Neil Cragg in 2nd, with Tamiya team mate Viktor Wilck starting 3rd. In the finals Marc would easily win leg 1 ahead of Wilck, who would be later DQ’d for a technical infringement and so it would be Hupo Honigl taking 2nd and Neil Cragg 3rd. Leg 2 went the way of Associated racer Cragg, who finished 4 seconds clear of team mate Lee Martin in 2nd, with Marc Rheinard in 3rd, leaving both he and Cragg on equal points going into the final leg. The 3rd leg saw Rheinard win in the fastest time of the 3 legs, ahead of Wilck in 2nd and Cragg 3rd, giving Marc the overall title, ahead of Cragg in 2nd, with Hupo Honigl backing up his 2wd title earlier in the week with 3rd overall.

Check out the full oOple report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 13, 2009

Brandon Melton wins Pro buggy class at the Carolina Nats

Over the weekend of August 7-9 JConcepts drivers Brandon Melton, Chris Pace, Barry Pettit, and Greg Smith attended the Carolina Nationals at Charlotte Motorsports Park, previously The Farm 2 and JConcepts sent us the following report. The track still remains as the same configuration from the Worlds track, however it’s ran in reverse with many changes to jumps and new additions. The new direction and facelift was a refreshing treat and many drivers commented on the track being very fun but challenging to drive. The stories of the week were the heat (near 100 degree temps all weekend) and a local charity on site called Hometown Heroes. A local Texas Roadhouse restaurant came on site and was grilling burgers, ribs, and steaks, and all sales from food went to the local charity that provides for local terminally ill kids.

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August 12, 2009

Hupo Honigl wins 2wd European title

Austrian driver Hupo Honigl has added another European title to his CV after winning the 2wd event today in Bilbao, Spain. Having qualified 2nd behind multiple British Champion Ellis Stafford, the pairing had an intense battle in the 2nd leg after a mistake in the leg 1 by the X-Factory driver gifted Honigl the round win. With the overall on the line, the race to the flag in leg 2 went down to the wire, but Hupo could hold on and take his 2nd leg win and take the European title, with Stafford eventually ending up in 2nd, while Lee Martin took the final podium spot after a win in the 3rd leg.

Check out oOple’s awesome report here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

August 12, 2009

Cody King does double at JBRL

Last weekend saw Kyosho team driver Cody King come out on top at the JBRL race at Hot Rod Hobbies raceway. Cody TQ’d the truggy class and qualified 3rd in the buggy class but managed to go on and win in both categories. In the buggy class Cody managed to fend off Associated racer Ryan Cavalieri who finished 2nd and Tamiya’s Ryan Lutz who took 3rd, while in the truggy class it was again the 2 Ryans following, this time with Lutz taking the runner up spot and Cavalieri 3rd. All Kyosho drivers were using the new rear short shock tower their Kyosho MP9 chassis’.

Source: Kyosho America [kyoshoamerica.com]

August 12, 2009

Adam Drake takes NSS Buggy title at Rd3

The 3rd round of the Novarossi Summer Series once again took place at Revelation Raceway and this event attracted 11 heats. In the buggy class Losi driver Colby Poh TQ’d the first round, but Losi/Novarossi factory driver Adam Drake was able to TQ round two and take the overall TQ for the event. In the final The Drake was able to lead from start to finish, with Colby Poh finishing second while CEN’s Andy Smolnik took third. The final round of the series takes place in three weeks time and already Adam Drake has wrapped up the buggy title with a prefect score in the first 3 rounds, with three TQ’s and three wins.

August 12, 2009

Robitronic ROC Crawler Contest

Starting on the 29th of August and running through to the 30th, Robitronic will run their first ROC Crawler Contest. Taking place at the Megadrom in Geilinkirchen, Germany it is open to Class 1.9 crawlers and the fun starts at 8.00 for free training on Saturday with 3 different sections to tackle. More information on the event can be found here.

Source: Robitronic [robitronic.com]

August 10, 2009

Styger & De Sousa win African Cup EP Off Road

The IFMAR Pre Worlds combined with the 1st African Cup EP Off Road event took place last weekend with few but very enthusiastic drivers taking part. Held over two days, the event saw 4 rounds of qualifying take place on the Saturday and 3 rounds for the finals on Sunday. The track was completed just in time for this event and so this race was the inaugural event. The 2 wheel drive class was first to start the event with average lap times of 18.10 to start with, dropping further with the TQ taken this class with 16.797, while the quickest lap going to Gary Styger was just over 15.3sec. The 4 wheel drive class followed in the order of the race event and began with 19.917 second laps with TQ being 15.919, with the quickest lap going to Guilherme De Sousa at 15.427. The finals were run over 3 legs and in the 2wd class it was Gary Styger that took the win from Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey, each driver with a leg win a piece, while in 4wd it was Guilherme De Sousa that would emerge victorious, taking a clean sweep of all legs, to take the overall win ahead of Stefan Fourie and Kenny Morey.

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August 8, 2009

Marcus Luebke wins German EP Truck Nats

Last weekend the Stock and Modified German Electric Off-Road Truck Nationals were hosted in Trier by the Team Turtles Trier club, the same club that hosted the 2008 German Electric Off-Road 4WD Nationals. Team Losi Racing’s factory driver and worlds A-finalist Marcus Luebke set the pace in the modified class and secured the pole position in the finals with five consecutive qualifying wins with his XXX-T CR Truck. The modified A-final saw a 1-2-3 line-up of Losi drivers Marcus Luebke, Kim Sitensky (2004, 2005 & 2008 German Truck Champion) and Juergen Kropp (2006 German Truck Champion & Swiss Truck Champion). The finals were run on Sunday in rainy conditions and Marcus won all three A-finals to secure his 6th German Electric Off-Road National title.

Source: Losi [losi.com]