Following on from his win in round 3, Cody King and his Sirio powered Kyosho STRR have won yet another round of the hotly contested JBRL series in Southern California. Cody grabbed the TQ and won the A main final from Losi racer Adam Drake in 2nd and Tyler Vik in 3rd and now moves into the outright points lead in the Truggy class. Cody also led the Buggy A final, but a mechanical issue late in the main knocked him back to third.
The 4th round of the UK Truggy Pro Nationals took place at NORC Raceway near Durham in the North of England last weekend. Qualifying saw Losi racer Darren Bloomfield take the TQ spot ahead of Jamie Booth, Ed Kerry, Mike Cradock and Sambuca Taylor, these drivers being the only ones to achieve 8 laps. In the main final Cradock got shunted on the first lap, which knocked him down the running order, allowing Bloomfield to get his head down and open up a lap on the rest of the field by the time he came into the pits on lap 27, but unfortunately mechanical problems on the rear of his car meant he required more time in the pits and this allowed Booth to take over that the front. On lap 37 it looked like Booth had the race in the bag but suddenly mechnical failure had Jamie’s car limping and despite keeping the car going Ed Kerry could take over at the front and go on to win, while behind it was Ralls and a recovering Cradock, who sniffing a podium, pushed to catch the limping Booth and 2 laps from the end of the race the pair got passed and took 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: UK Truggy Pro [uktruggypro.com]
We received a brief report from HongNor regarding their recent victory in the Alicante Championships in Spain. Taking place this past weekend, the finals were won by Dani Abenza, driving the HongNor X1X-CR Team version. Dani drove the perfect final to finish 1 lap up on Kyosho racer Juanan in 2nd and Toni Alcala in 3rd, racing the Losi 8ight.
Source: HongNor [hongnor.com.tw]
Adam Drake was in touch to tell us about round 4 of the JBRL Nitro Series that took place last weekend at the Sun Valley Speedway. With nearly 200 entries it was Clint Wachter that took the TQ in Pro Buggy for Losi, using the Losi XBT red compound tire, in front of team mates Mike Truhe and Adam Drake, while 1/8th Expert Buggy saw again a Losi on top, this time driven by Mike Friery. In the main final, and with a change to the Losi red Eclipse tire, it was Adam Drake that took the win in the Pro class from team mate Mike Truhe to complete a Losi 8ight 1-2, while there was more success in the Expert class as young Kyle Johnson took the number 1 spot.
Our friends at oOple are reporting that Neil Cragg took a hard fought win in the 4WD event at the 2008 EFRA European Championships with the new Yokomo B-Max to back up his win in 2wd a few days earlier. Neil didn’t have everything his own way in qualifying – laying in third position overnight. As mentioned in the oOple race report though, the last two qualifiers can change everything and Neils Yokomo was dialled in the last two qualifiers – taking both rounds to give him overall TQ. Neil won the first two legs of the A and sat out the third to allow the other drivers to battle for second. Hupo Honigl took the third in an amazing race with Lee Martin right behind all the way – giving him second overall, with Lee Martin third.
Read the full report here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
Ultimate Racing is pleased to announce that after talking with the French UR distributor Aigoin Racing and testing some UR products during the week in Greece, the 2008 European Champion Renaud Savoya has officially joined the UR team. With this new addition to the pretty established UR team, it now consists of most of Europe’s top drivers like Robert Batlle, Yannick Aigoin, Fabio Boero, Davide Tortorici, Miguel Matias, Graham Alsop, David Crompton, Christoffer Svensson, Julien Lattanzio, Fabrizio Teghesi among others who are already using the high performance UR products.
Source: Ultimate Racing [ultimateracing.es]
Our mates at oOple, who are present at this weeks 1/10th EP Buggy European Championships, are reporting that defending champion Neil Cragg got off to a good start in the 2wd class, being quickest in practice and going on to win all five qualifying rounds to take an easy pole for the final. Over the three final legs Neil fought a hard battle with Paul Bradby for the title, a Nail biting fight on the last leg between these two saw Neil take the title, Paul Bradby second and Hupo Honigl third.
Read the full oOple Euros report here.
Source: oOple [oople.com]
We received a report from Simon Reeves on the Belgium GP for 1/10th electric off road, which is always held the first weekend of July each year. Willy and Lilian who run the meeting always manage to run a relaxed fun meeting which for most is one of the best meetings of the year. This year saw more new additions to the track with a new wall of death and a new triple/double combination in the centre of the track. The 2wd event held on the Saturday was a mixture of sunshine and rain which on the MBV track proves a major challenge as the slightest of rain can make a massive difference to grip levels but we were lucky with 4wd & Truck to have sunshine all day with the odd cloud but most importantly dry all day.
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