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August 20, 2018

Neumann crowned German 1/10 4WD & Truck champ

This past weekend the 2018 German 1/10th 4WD and Racing Truck Nationals were held at the Arena33 astroturf outdoor track in Andernach. In the 4WD Modified class it was Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann who took the 2018 4WD Modified title by sweeping the class, taking the top qualifying honours and also bringing home the wins in all three A-mains. Yokomo’s Luca Rau came in 2nd from Marcel Schneider (HB Racing) in 3rd. In the Racing Truck class it was again Jörn with the TQ and win as Jens Becker and veteran racer, Guido Kraft, completed the top 3 results.

Image: Jörn Neumann

August 20, 2018

Darren Boyle takes double UK Short Course titles

Round 6 of the UK Short Course Nationals was hosted by the A1 Racing Club near Grantham this past weekend. The final round of the championship saw Darren Boyle managing to take the TQ and the win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. This capped a great season for him, sealing both the 2WD and 4WD National Championships.

Source: X-Factory UK [xfactoryrc.co.uk]

August 20, 2018

Neil Cragg takes double BRCA Buggy titles

The sixth and final round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held at the Boughton track this past weekend. In the 2WD class Team Associated’s Neil Cragg secured his 22nd national championship title by bringing home the win from Yokomo’s Lee Martin 2nd and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski 3rd. Overall in the Championship Lee Martin and Tom Yardy would round out the top 3 results. Over in the 4WD class, run on Sunday, it was Lee Martin with the win from Michal Orlowski 2nd and Neil Cragg in 3rd. The final podium spot however was enough for Neil to bring home national championship number 23 as Lee Martin and Tom Cockerill came in 2nd and 3rd overall.

Image: RacewayOne

August 20, 2018

Jack Embling crowned BRCA Nitro Truggy champ

Round 5 of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at the Slough track over the weekend. SWorkz’s Jack Embling brought home the win in the 30-minute Nitro Truggy A-main final to take this year’s overall title from Agama’s Jon Hazlewood on the runner-up spot. Team Associated’s Matt Lewis would round out the overall top 3.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

August 15, 2018

Neil Cragg powered by Piranha Racing Fuel

Nemo Racing and Piranha Racing Fuels have announced that National, European and World Champion driver Neil Cragg joined their team. The Team Associated factory driver has chosen their 25% fully synthetic blend to power his nitro fleet. Nemo Racing and Piranha Racing Fuels are looking forward to work with Neil for the remainder of this season and beyond.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

August 14, 2018

Rinderknecht wins closest 3-way finish in VRC history

The recent round 2 of the VRC 2018 Season 2 Nitro Buggies Series, run at the at the 2012 Psycho Nitro Blast track, saw the closest 3-way finish ever recorded in VRC history. Tom Rinderknecht (USA) came out on top just 0.031 seconds ahead of Marshal Kirkholm (USA), and 0.071 seconds ahead of Robert Hillman from Sweden. Hillman led most of the race but was passed in the final stretch from the Works wall to the finish line. View all the action from this exciting final here.

Source: VRC [vrcworld.com]

August 14, 2018

Adam Drake trifecta at JBRL Nitro Series Rd5

Round 5 of the 2018 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Empire RC in Brentwood, California this past weekend. The event had a great turnout with 160 entries and Mugen’s Adam Drake was in control all day as he took the overall TQs in Nitro Buggy, Electric Buggy and Open Truggy. Drake then also went on to sweep the A-mains as in Expert Buggy Adam would take the win with a lap margin over Team Associated’s Kyle Layton in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo rounded out the top 3.

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August 14, 2018

Daniel Kobbevik sweeps Norwegian Buggy Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Norwegian Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the SAS Club’s Racingland track in Midgard near Sandefjord. The up and coming club in the land of the Vikings offered a rough and challenging dirt track and although the weather forecast didn’t look too promising it would stay dry all the time. In 2WD, Xray driver Daniel Kobbevik was over 2.2 sec faster on his best lap, and he would be the only driver to score a 9-laps run in the qualifiers. The track was bumpy, slippery and challenging, so it was a great challenge for all drivers. The wind made also some of the jumps pretty difficult to handle. After the qualification was done, Daniel had TQ´d all rounds with the 2nd place going to Thorbjørn Døhler with his Xray while Øystein Døhler put his Team Associated in 3rd.

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