The TLR Cup West was held this past weekend at MHOR R/C Raceway in Aurora, Colorado. A track that broke up in the middle of qualifying made for some old school off-road racing and when the dust had settled it was TLR’s Dakotah Phend who walked away with the wins in 2WD Mod Buggy and 4WD Mod Buggy as the Team Associated duo of Dustin Evans and Zeke Ballinger would round out the top 3 podium results in both classes.
The New South Wales Off-road State Championships were held recently and it was Aden Young who took the overall TQ after the four 2WD Stock Buggy qualifiers. In the opening A-main Aden would have a great race and finished 1st only to suffer from a bad start in A2 as he clipped a pipe. But keeping his head down Aden was able to recover and ultimately he would come out on top in the second main too to grab the NSW 2WD Stock Junior championship title. With another win in A3 he would round out a perfect 2WD portion of the event, scoring seven 1st place finished in seven races that day.
Coming from Maclan Racing is the new MRR Team Edition V2 brushless motor. The newly-developed power plant was designed with the latest stock racing rules in mind and it features an all-new design stator, sensor unit, motor case, and realigned rotor and sensor position for maximum performance. The motor will become available in 13.5T, 17.5T and 21.5T variants, it weighs in at a lightweight 150g, is 100-percent hand-built and will hit stores in late September.
The 3rd annual JConcepts Turf Nationals was held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut this past weekend. The event is ever gaining traction – literally, and within just two short years has evolved into the nation’s biggest race on astro with entries now nearing 300. Without a doubt, the North Eastern drivers have embraced astro racing with both arms wide open and with it, has created the first of the “Astro Classics” type races here in the United States.
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The final round of the French 1/10th Electric Off-road Championship was held in Grenoble over the weekend. The full astro turf track had a fast and flowing layout but the weather would be difficult. Ultimately it was Xray’s Armand Lantheaume with the win in the 4WD class from TLR’s Renaud Savoya while Mathieu Briere (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
RC Guacu track of Sao Paulo played host to the Brazilian 1/8th Off-road Nationals with the 4-day event having over 100 entries. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in all four rounds of qualifying for nitro buggy and nitro truck. Adam then went on to win both the 30-minutes semi final and also the 60-minutes nitro buggy main final and he would also come out on top of the 20-minute truck semi and 40-minute main to round out a perfect weekend. However, as Adam was a guest driver and the Brazilian championship standard does not allow a foreign driver to win, Drake wasn’t rewarded with the respective titles and it was Marco Roseria Amaral (TLR) who took the 2017 championship titles in both the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Round 6 of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the Dielsdorf dirt track. One of the last real dirt tracks of the country with a challenging layout, technical sections and also lots of elevation changes the track offered a level playing field for all competitors. Unfortunately bad weather on Saturday meant all qualifiers and mains had to take place on Sunday and in the Stadium Truck class it was Philip Jeisy (Xray) with the TQ and a sixth win in a row, meaning he would take the Swiss national champion title with one round to spare. Behind him, Jan Dissler (Team Associated) would come in 2nd from Martin Weidmann (Xray) 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Central Valley R/C in Madera, California played host to round 6 of the Jimmy Babcock Racing League Nitro Series this past weekend. In the Expert Buggy class it was Kyosho’s Anthony Westergaard with the TQ after the two qualifiers with Cody King (HB Racing) coming in 2nd, tie on points with Anthony but with the slower tie-breaker time. In the following 15-minutes A-main it was again Anthony with the fastest run and he took the win some six seconds in front of Austin Blair (SWorkz) on the runner-up spot while AJ Schumacher (Team Associated), who qualified 7th, grabbed the final possum spot as Cody King had to settle for 6th overall.
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