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May 8, 2017

Patrick Hofer double TQs & wins Swiss Buggy Nats Rd1

Round one of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road national championship was held at the Islikon track over the weekend. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer was in control of things all weekend long, taking double TQs and wins in the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified Buggy classes. In the 2WD Modified category, Nico Schmid (Xray) and Philipp Huber (Team Durango) would round out the top 3 result while the 4WD Modified podium was completed by the Xray duo of Nico and Florian Schmid.

View the 4WD podium here

May 8, 2017

Neil Cragg TQs & wins at BRCA Nitro Buggy Nats Rd2

The second round of the BRCA Nitro Buggy National Championship was held in Kent. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg was the man to beat all weekend, taking the TQ after the qualifiers and bringing home the win with a massive 39 seconds margin from Kyosho’s Elliott Boots in 2nd. Infinity’s Lee Martin would round out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

May 8, 2017

Ryan Maifield wins at RC Maniax club race

For the final stop on a week long promotion and racing tour through Japan, Ryan Maifield headed to Osaka to attend RC Maniax Arena’s monthly club race. Featuring a hard-packed clay surface and a challenging layout, the dirt track was something Ryan felt at home on and so he picked up a win in 2WD and 4WD to close out the trip that started off with a double win at the Golden Week Championships.

View the 4WD podium here

May 8, 2017

Dani Choi & Jeff Joo win at Korea TLR Masters

This past weekend the 2017 Korea TLR Masters for 1/8th Nitro Buggies and Trucks was held at the Unique Circuit in Busan, Korea. Over 100 entries made for good competition and in the end Dani Choi (Kyosho) would take the win in the Nitro Buggy class while Jeff Joo (TLR) took the overall victory in the Nitro Truggy A-main. Finally in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jeff Joo who tool the win from Jeongbin Han 2nd and Gapdong Lee 3rd.

View the Truggy podium here

May 8, 2017

Rene Kargl wins Austrian E-Buggy Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend and it was Rene Kargl (SWorkz, Hobbywing, Pro-Line) who walked away with the win. Winner of round 1 of the nitro off-road nationals, Jürgen Trieb (SWorkz, Nosram, TPRO) came in 2nd while Andreas Mayr (Mugen, Tekin, Pro-Line) would round out the podium in 3rd.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

May 8, 2017

Dominic Bauer joins Picco

Austrian Picco distributors MW RC Cars have announced the addition of multiple Austrian national champion, Dominic Bauer to their team. Dominic will use the Italian engines in his 1/8th nitro off-road campaign and he has the following to say:

Reliability and Power and driveability, made my decision easy, to trust in Picco engines.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

May 5, 2017

Ray Munday doubles at Victorian Drivers Series Rd2

Round 2 of the Victorian Drivers Series saw over 100 entries race at the Knox club in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The club had recently laid down a new clay surface – which received over 80mm of rain just before the event. Thanks to hard work from the club, the track was fantastic for the event, providing a low-wear, consistent race surface akin to an indoor track. The Modified 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes were dominated by Team Associated/Reedy drivers, with factory driver Ray Munday taking TQ and winning all three mains of each class for a perfect score for the weekend. Andrew Selvaggi (Team Associated/Hobbywing) and Matt Kellett (Team Associated/Reedy) were close behind for a Team Associated podium sweep in both 2WD and 4WD Modified. The Modified Truck class was taken out by 12-year-old gun Jordan Isergin.

View the 4WD podium here

May 4, 2017

Ryan Maifield doubles at Golden Week off-road race

The Golden Week Off-road Championship, one of the longest running events in Japan, took place at the Yatabe Arena with Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield attending as a special guest. Ultimately Ryan would sweep the race, taking the wins in both the 2WD and 4WD classes from the Kyosho duo of Yusuke Sugiura in 2nd and Juriya Kajiwara 3rd in 2WD while the 4WD podium was rounded out by Yokomo’s Kaito Kodera and Kai Kikuchi.

View the 2WD and 4WD podiums here