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October 14, 2019

International Offroad Carpet Championship – Report

The 2019 International Offroad Carpet Championship was held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. The event took place back-to-back with the International Indoor Championships the week before and adding some nice obstacles converted the indoor on-road track into a challenging off-road circuit. At this year’s IOCC, it seemed to be Broc Champlin’s weekend with his 4WD car throwing down some of the only 18-lap runs of the event. In the A1 of 4WD Mod Buggy, Broc would finish a full lap ahead of his brother Blake to take the first win. It wouldn’t be so easy in the second main. As the two were slicing and dicing through traffic, Blake had to the goods to make the pass on his brother if only his brother left an opening. Excellent defensive driving would earn Broc a second win and over all win.

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October 14, 2019

Jackson Brunson wins at Force Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Force Series Fall Session was held at Mills Pond Raceway was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this past weekend. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was Team Associated’s Lee Setser with the overall TQ from TLR’s JR Mitch on P2 after the qualifiers. In the 25-minute A-main event it was Team Associated’s Jackson Brunson with the overall win some 6.4 seconds in front of Lee was JR had to settle for 3rd another 3.9 seconds behind.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 14, 2019

Winter is Coming 2019 – Announcement

The Dutch Mach-One Helmond club will hold their season closing Winter is Coming race on the 26th and 27th of October at their astro turf track in Helmond, The Netherlands. The fifth running of the event will be held in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th E-Buggy classes and more information can be found on the club’s social media page here.

October 14, 2019

Indonesia Buggy Nationals finale – Report

The final round of the Indonesia Buggy Nationals was held at the C-Netic RC Track in Surabaya, East Java last weekend. A total of 46 drivers from Jakarta, Medan, Padang, Batam, Banjarmasin, Pontianak, Makasar as well as local racers attended this event whose schedule saw six rounds of 10-minute qualifying followed by bump-up finals. After the six rounds of qualifying it was Jason Nugroho (HB Racing/Ninja) with the overall TQ honours, unfortunately in the A-main final he suffered from two flame-outs because of flywheel problems and finished in 2nd place. Up front it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Ninja) who would walk away with the win as Rama Tribudiman (Kyosho/O.S.) came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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October 10, 2019

Schumacher welcome back Tom Cockerill

Schumacher Racing welcome back Tom Cockerill to their race team. Tom is well known inside and outside Schumacher Racing, as a previous employee, BRCA UK Champion with Schumacher cars and Worlds and Euros A-finalist. Tom will compete at major UK races and also make international appearances from time to time and he had the following to say:

I’d like to thank Robin, Muz, and Trish for the opportunity to return home to Schumacher for the 2020 season and beyond. I’m looking forward to working with the team from the other side of the fence, and helping improve the team and products where I can.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

October 10, 2019

Transylvania Off-Road Cup finale – Report

The fifth racing season of the Transylvania Off-Road Cup TOC concluded recently with the final round being held at the dusty Piccolo Dallas Tg-Lapus dirt track. Five classes were run including 13.5 Stock Buggy, Short Course 2WD, Short Course 4WD, Nitro and Junior classes. Drivers from all over Romania took part at the final round of what is considered to be the biggest event for off-road racing in Romania. After an intense round of qualifying in Buggy 13.5T Stock, the first three positions were occupied by Team Associated drivers with Jakab Laszlo taking the TQ from Gheteu Ciprian, and Valentin Lupoaie. Ultimately Jakab Laszlo would also bring hime the win.

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October 9, 2019

Austrian 1/10th Off-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The 5th and final round of the Austrian 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at the SMRC Simmering track in Vienna. The weather was again not on the racers’ side on Saturday, so the organisers decided to race on Sunday only. Despite the temperatures being on the cold side the track dried up during the day. The first three qualifiers were still held in wet and very slippery conditions, but the 4th round was already dry and traction went from 0 to 100. In 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy it was Xray’s Hupo Hönigl with the overall TQs and wins.

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October 9, 2019

Sorjonen, Dortmund & Cathey win at NCT Rd6

The 6th and final round of the Northwest Championship Tour was held recently, attracting over 300 entries for the 1/8th and 1/10th scale off-road classes. The event was affected by the weather a bit but overall the track was raceable and thus the organisers went ahead with the program. In the 1/8th E-Truggy class it was Rob Sorjonen with the overall TQ and he also took the win ahead of Lee Hackney and Cole Chura.

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