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November 1, 2017

Cole Ogden and Mugen part ways

The Silly Season is starting to heat up and the next superstar driver to swap teams is Cole Ogden, who announced his departure from long-time sponsors Mugen on social media. Winner of countless high-class events, Cole has yet to announce his new home and in the meantime he had the following to say:

As of today, all great things must come to an end. With having such great success with Mugen cars over the past couple of years, I can’t say anything but great things about their cars, and it was awesome to be apart of their racing program. Although the last 2 years have flown by like it’s nothing, I have mutually parted ways with Mugen Seki Racing.

With that being said, I would like to thank everyone at Mugen for their support over the last 2 years. I’ve definitely had great times racing alongside some of the industries absolute best guys like Adam Drake, Ryan Maifield and Robert Battle! Such a humbling experience that I thoroughly enjoyed, and I would like to thank Kris Moore, Adam Drake and Tim Long for having me along for the ride over these last couple years! I wish them the best for the future and on to the next chapter.

November 1, 2017

Joe Pillars leaves Kyosho

Kyosho America has announced the departure of long-term US team manager, Joe Pillars. Member of the company’s US squad for more than a decade, Joe has helped the US team to achieve many national and international titles including multiple World Championships. While we still await Joe’s personal statement, Kyosho America posted the following on social media:

Joe Pillars, the Team Manager for Kyosho America’s racing efforts in the US and for the US members of the Kyosho International team, has left Kyosho. Joe has been a valued, professional and enthusiastic member of the Kyosho America team for more than a decade, helping to delivery numerous National and World Championship titles for Kyosho. It’s with humble gratitude that the Kyosho staff would like to thank Joe Pillars for his dedication and tremendous efforts on behalf of Kyosho, and wish him the best in his future endeavors.

November 1, 2017

2017 Masters of Dirt – Report

Only in its 3rd year, The Masters of Dirt hosted by Beach RC Hobbies and Raceway in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has quickly evolved into one of the best races on the east coast. With its grippy clay/dirt mixed surface, Beach RC has slowly become a racer’s favorite due to the entertaining high grip surface and unique square shape layout making for fun and interesting racing. Attracting nearly 300 entries this year, the 2017 MoD has grown each and every year as this year drew in some of the industry’s best talents to battle in three different Modified classes in order to crown one overall multi-class champion. The combined classes include the 2WD Modified class, 4WD Modified, and one of the Mod Truck classes like Mod Stadium or Mod Short Course. Each racer that entered the three classes could qualify for the MoD title, but only one would emerge MoD Champion with the best score in all three classes.

Continue reading the report here

October 31, 2017

Elliott Boots wins at Oktoberfest Race

The Romacross track in Rome, Italy played host to the Oktoberfest Race this past weekend. The event attracted Italy’s fastest off-road drivers and also guests from abroad such as Elliott Boots and Robert Batlle. A super-dry and bumpy track made for very dusty conditions but come Saturday evening the time were getting faster and at the end of qualifying it was Robert Batlle with the TQ from Marco Natale while Elliott Boots had to settle for 3rd overall after scoring one TQ run. After the semifinals it was still Robert on the top spot while Elliott had grooved in to take the P2 spot on the main final grid. At the start of the 30-minutes main final Elliott would follow Robert for a few laps, gaining in some places and losing in others. Finally Boots would close right up on Batlle and when the latter made a mistake, Elliott would take the lead and never look back. In the end Elliott was able to take the win by two laps and both Robert and Marco would suffer problems towards the end of the race, making way for Marco Ravaglia in 2nd and Dario Gabrielli 3rd.

Source: Elliott Boots [facebook.com]

October 30, 2017

Kaja Novotny doubles at Lestr Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Lestr Cup series took place last weekend in Prague. The organisers prepared tight and technical track using EOS carpet which made for good traction conditions. In the 2WD Buggy class Kaja Novotny lead Milan Mudra and Max Götzl who both had very closes finished. The 4WD qualifiers were a blueprint of the 2WD class as Kaja TQ’d all qualifiers to secure the pole position from Milan and Max.

Continue reading the report here

October 30, 2017

Zambrzycki doubles at Polish EP Off-road Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Polish Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the EOS Warsaw Expo track. Saturday’s qualifiers were lead by Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski followed by the Yokomo duo of Bartek Zambrzycki and Bartek Zalewski. The final qualifiers on Sunday, with the absence of Michal Orlowski, saw Bartek Zambrzycki taking the pole position for the A-mains and he would also sweep the finals to make the double in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy. Bartek Zalewski and Sebastian Migel (Schumacher) had nice battles for the 2 and 3 spots on the podium and ultimately they would finish in this order in both classes.

View the 4WD podium here

October 30, 2017

Pelle Culmsee takes double Danish 1/8th Off-road title

Round 6 of the Danish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was hosted by Sydvestjysk RC this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, run on Sunday, it was Pelle Culmsee with the TQ and win to further underline his domination in this class this year. Having already wrapped up the championship going into round 6, it was one for the history books and by also taking the win in the 45-minute main final he further stamped his authority. Four laps behind Pelle, Peter Harder would come in 2nd from Florian Müller 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

October 27, 2017

Tanner Stees wins at Arizona State Championships

The Arizona State Championships were held recently at Hobby Action raceway. The layout for the track was welcomed by many and a huge triple and a quad section was something different for an indoor track and a nice change of pace for indoors. The single 8-minute 4WD main on Sunday saw Xray’s Tanner Stees walking away with the win. Coming from the 2 spot on the grid, Tanner would gain the lead after a couple of laps and he was able to break away from the 2nd placed driver until Tanner had a problem with lap traffic and had to be marshalled were he fell back down to 2nd. The battle continued on once again until the leader made a mistake and Stees was able to take the lead and get a gap going until the end of the race, where he finished 1st from Team Associated’s Ashe Deering 2nd and Tekno’s Billy Fischer 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]