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December 1, 2017

Yokomo sign JP Richards

Yokomo have announced another big signing this year to the Yokomo USA race team with JP Richards. Over the past couple years, JP has put together an impressive racing resume, driving for Team Durango and TLR, that would be hard to match. JP has dominated the racing scene in the Midwest, while also making the highly contested 2WD Modified Buggy A-main events at the past two ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals. JP will make his official Yokomo debut with the World Championship Winning YZ-2 DTM 2WD buggy and YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy next week at the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National series finale at Speed RC in North Carolina.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

November 30, 2017

Jarno Pijpers joins SWorkz

SWorkz have announced the signing of Dutch frontrunner, Jarno Pijpers to their team. Jarno will be running the company’s 1/8th and 1/10th scale kits in the 2018 season and he has the following to say about the deal:

The past years were some really good ones I was able to take the Dutch championship. I am really impressed by the SWorkz cars and the support of the team. In the winter I drive 2wd and 4wd 1:10. 1:8 nitro is the main class, I will drive the E-Buggy too in the Dutch championship. Specials thanks to Max Sonnleitner, MW RC Cars and SWorkz Europe.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

November 29, 2017

Polish Electric Off-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Polish Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Warsaw Comic Con and Ptak Expo in front of thousands of spectators. While 2WD Buggy class was pretty much controlled from the very beginning until the very end by Yokomo driver Bartek Zambrzycki, 4WD appeared to be an open battle between three drivers: Bartek Zambrzycki (Yokomo), Sebastian Migal (Xray), and Bartek Zalewski (Xray). Lap times were close together and the qualifying results only varied by seconds. However, it is Bartek Zambrzycki again who took TQ and top podium position after the deciding third A-main. The runner-up spot in both classes went to Sebastian Migal from Bartek Zalewski who rounded out the podium results.

View the 4WD drivers here

November 29, 2017

Pablo Fernández & Rubén Rodríguez win at EL1TE Race

The newly refurbished indoor track of Team Astur RC played host to the EL1TE Race 2017 recently. The race, held in Gijón, in the north of Spain, saw an attendance of 60 drivers coming from all parts of northern Spain keen to race their 1/10th 2WD Buggies and Short Course trucks. Most drivers took the opportunity to practice on Saturday morning in order to adapt their rides to the grippy and bumpy astro surface until the seeding heats started early in the afternoon. In the 2WD buggy class, it was Pablo Fernández Rodríguez (Team Associated) who set the fastest three consecutive laps followed by David Bárcena (Xray) and Vari García (Xray), ahead of a pack of drivers where laptimes were incredibly close. Qualifying would be no different as Pablo managed to set an incredible pace –being the only driver to go around the track 12 times in all the five qualifying sessions and coming ahead in four out of five qualifying heats with only David Bárcena (Xray) managing to win only one heat and setting the fastest lap as Vari García took the 3rd position.

Continue reading the report here

November 28, 2017

Milan Mudra doubles at Lestr Cup Rd2

The city of Prague in the Czech Republic played host to round 2 of the Lestr Cup this past weekend. Xray’s Milan Mudra was in control of things in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes as he took the overall TQ in both categories. With flawless runs in the 2WD finals he also secured the overall win from Marcel Dostal 2nd and Vaclav Broz 3rd (all Xray). Over in 4WD, where Milan won two of the three A-main legs, he left behind Jiri Dvorak in 2nd and Jindrich Jirak (all Xray) who rounded out the podium result.

View the 4WD podium here

November 28, 2017

Kohta Akimoto wins at Stock Combat Rd2

The second round of the Japanese Stock Combat was held at the RC Maniax Arena in Osaka this past weekend. 87 entries made for some competitive racing and in Invitational 2WD Stock Buggy it was Kyosho’s Kohta Akimoto with win from Kyosho teammate Yusuke Sugiura 2nd. In 3rd Hiroshi Nishio (Yokomo) would round out the podium.

Image: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

November 28, 2017

Nicolas Floudas sweeps Astro Buggy Challenge

The Astro Buggy Challenge took place recently at the RC Brushless Park track in Greece. In the 2WD A-main the racing was intense, finding Nicolas Floudas 1st after driving his Team Associated to the top of the podium. Coming in 2nd was Dimitris Foteinos with his Kyosho and Sakis Papacharisis, after another great performance, claimed the 3rd spot on the podium with his Yokomo. Behind them Elias Routsolias (Kyosho) and Nikos Micahlodimitrakis (Yokomo) battled for the best-of-the rest positions with the newcomers to the class Nikos Kostroglou and Nicolas Karavanas as well as Dimitris Tatsakis and Kostas Bougalis all delivering good performances.

Continue reading the report here

November 28, 2017

Nico Schmid wins 2WD class at MRTO Challenge

Last weekend’s MRTO Challenge in Altnau, Switzerland saw Nico Schmid walking away with the win in the 2WD Buggy class. Nico would lead an Xray 1-2-3 as his brother, Florian Schmid and Philip Jeisy rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]