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October 10, 2017

Ogden & Drake win at JBRL Nitro Series Rd7

Last weekend Palm Desert Raceway hosted round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series on a fresh layout that was put in the week before by Joey Christensen from The Dirt. The turnout was 130 entries and Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truck, and Electric Buggy. However it was Cole Ogden with the win in the Nitro Buggy class while Drake was able to bring home the wins in Nitro Truck and E-Buggy. Elsewhere Robert Wickham won the 40+ Buggy class and Daniel Harms won Sportsman Truck.

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October 4, 2017

Orlowski double at Worksop Series Rd1

The first round of the Worksop Series took place this past weekend, there was a huge entry of 151 drivers across the 3 classes, 2wd, 4wd and a vintage buggy class. Round by round qualifying was the racing format, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. For this event Michal Orlowski was in attendance for Schumacher and was on superb form with his Cougar KC and CAT K2, he managed to TQ both 2wd and 4wd classes.

View the final results here

October 4, 2017

Czech national series Rd5 & Rd6 – Report

The final two rounds of Czech national series took place last weekend. Two races in two days on one track was a real challenge for both drivers and their cars. For Round 5 of the series, 1/8E buggy qualifications was quite a close affair between Martin Bayer, Max Gotzl and Kaja Novotny with each driver taking a TQ run each, with Martin eventually taking the overall TQ. In 1/8IC, Martin TQed round 1, but then Kaja managed to take round 2 and 3 for the overall TQ.

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October 3, 2017

Ryan Cavalieri wins Australian Team Associated Champs

Ryan Cavalieri has taken out both the 2wd and 4wd open classes at the inaugural Team Associated championships in Glen Innes against a host of Australia’s top races. The 4 time world champion headlined a 95 strong entry list who travelled to the event situated in regional NSW Australia. Where the club had prepared a fast and challenging layout for their first major event.

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September 27, 2017

Savoya wins Rd5 to take French Title

Last weekend the TSAR held the fifth and final round of the French National Elite. A fantastic track and a wonderful event, in qualifying Reno Savoya battled with Tom Robin but in the end Reno took 4 out of the 5 rounds compared to 1 for Tom. The overall title was to be decided in this last final between Reno, Jerome and Yannick Aigoin. Rayan Medjoubi took the early lead, but following some issues Reno was able to take over the lead where he would stay to the end as Yannick Aigoin took 2nd in front of Eliot Marcon. Savoya’s win, a fifth podium finish from 5 races for the TLR/RC Concepts driver saw him clinch the overall championship for the second time in a row.

Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]

September 25, 2017

Paparegas Tasos takes Rd3 in Greece

The 3rd round of the Greek 1/8 nitro buggy Nationals was held at the Hobbytech track Serres. Paparegas Tasos with his Xray/FX combination won again after a very good performance in qualification that allowed him to start from the first position following tough competition with Terzis. The battle for the lead in the 45 minute final was between Tasos and Alex Anapoliotakis. Despite Tasos having some electronic issues from the 22nd minute he still managed to take the finish flag a lap ahead of 2nd place Anapoloitakis.

View the final results here

September 23, 2017

Southern Rallycross Series finale – Report

The last round of the Southern Rallycross Series took place at Herts Nitro Model Club in Ware Hertfordshire, 30 minutes outside of London. This round would see a fully subscribe round with almost 100 racers, showing how strong regional racing is in the UK for club and pro racers. The race would also be a challenging format as bad weather was on the forecast from 17:30 so speed would be order of the day. Qualifying in Nitro Buggy went to Jamie Clancy, Truggy went to Jon Hazlewood and E-Buggy to George Miller.

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September 22, 2017

Mitchell & Huzel win at PRCP Summer Showdown Series

The PRCP Summer Showdown Series saw Torian Mitchell walking away with the win in the Nitro Buggy class. Jordan Huzel had a good second qualifier and took TQ however at the start of the main final he was rear-ended and pushed off the track. Coming back from 4th place he worked his way back up to overall 2nd while Keith Schroeder ended the day in 3rd overall.

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