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March 27, 2019

Winter Jumps Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Winter Jumps Series was held at the permanent indoor track in Vaasa. The 2011 IFMAR Worlds organisation team did a great job running the event that was held on a tile track and using control Schumacher Mini Pin tyres. Saturday was 2WD day and right from the get go it was Jamiel Gabrielsson and Lauri Ruotsalainen who were showing the best pace and after four rounds of qualifying both Jamiel and Lauri had two TQ rounds but Jamiel was handed the overall TQ by the tie-breaker. Behind the two, local driver Oskari Mäki lined up 3rd, Arttu Syrjänen 4th, Jarno Siltanen 5th, Max Söderlund 6th, Jani Mäkinen 7th, Pekko Iivonen 8th, Markku Honkanen 9th and Jarno Pottonen 10th.

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March 27, 2019

Maifield doubles at inaugural JConcepts NCTS

Last weekend the inaugural JConcepts NCTS kicked off at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Testing the waters a few years back, JConcepts launched the JConcepts Turf Nationals in Enfield, CT and the growth and interest has been well received as entries now hover around 350. Last year, JC joined up with Northwest Hobbies in Albany, OR and created the NW Carpet Nationals, which also saw a lot of positive feedback. After a few emails and phone calls with a couple of different tracks, the JConcepts NCTS was born and the United States’ first-ever national carpet and turf series was created.

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March 27, 2019

Kyle Turner doubles at St. Patrick’s Day Hangover Race

Empire RC Raceway of Brentwood, California recently held their St. Patrick’s Day Hangover Race and it was Kyle Turner with a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. In the 30-minute Pro Buggy main Kyle managed to clinch the win over TQ Mason Eppley after a back and forth battle throughout the 30-minute main. Chet Miller would round out the top 3 results. Mason then top qualified in the E-Buggy class and ended up winning in the end. Zach Sievert and Andrew Herring came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the E-Buggy podium here

March 27, 2019

Ioannidis Dimitris wins XRS Greece Rd3

Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Greece Off-road was held at the Fanatix Racing Track near Athens last weekend. Ioannidis Dimitris (Xray) would take the overall TQ in the sole 2WD Modified Buggy class following wins in Q1 and Q3, setting his best time with a 9-seconds margin on his best run. With clean wins in the opening two A-mains Ioannidis then also secured himself the overall win with one round to spare. In A3 the young man would win again, however he had to defend himself from Manolis Kalantzakis (Xray) with whom he had a close and clean run. Team Associated driver Dimitris Kouretas would round out the top 3 after the finals.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 27, 2019

Marcel Schneider sweeps NRW Off-road Cup opener

The opening round of the popular NRW Off-road Cup was held at the Racing Aren Limburg recently. After the three qualifiers and in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes it was Marcel Schneider who would hold the upper hand, TQ-ing both classes. In the finals it was again an all-Marcel show and with victories in both categories he made a clean sweep to round out a perfect weekend.

View the final results here

March 18, 2019

Yoshii double at Northwest Stock Championships

The 2nd Annual Northwest Stock Championships were held this past weekend at PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon. This is the home track of our Muchmore USA Team Manager Joe Pillars, who also helped put on this event for the second straight year with track owner Kevin Focht. After nearly doubling the total race entries from just one year ago, the stage was set for a great day of racing. In the Pro 17.5 2wd Stock Buggy class, Pillars took the TQ’s in Rounds #1 & 2 with his Muchmore powered Yokomo while team mate Harley Yoshii then went onto reset the overall TQ in Round to start on the pole for the triple A-Mains.

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March 18, 2019

XRS Challenge Offroad Germany – Report

This past Weekend the Final Round of the HK Cup, this time combined with a XRS Challenge, took place in Hurtgenwald in the West of Germany. With over 60 entries the day started early at 8.30 with 3 rounds of qualifications followed by 3 finals. Xray´s Jens Becker TQ’d the 2WD Modified class and also took the overall win followed by Yannik Holzknecht and Nikolas Schmitz.

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March 18, 2019

Nugroho wins the 2019 Batam Challenge

The 2019 Batam Challenge was held this past weekend at Banana RC Track in Batam island, Indonesia. Batam island is located about 60 minutes by ferry from Singapore and the race attracted drivers from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Jakarta, Medan, Banjarmasin, Padang, Pontianak as well as local drivers arrived. The race format consisted of 5 rounds of 10 minutes qualifications with the 3 best to count. After 5 qualification rounds Xray driver Jason Mugroho took the TQ honours and started from the pole position in the main final. With a good start Nugroho could maintain his lead during the 60 minute race and win from Adrian Wicaksono and John Agus.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]