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January 25, 2017

Aaron Stringer doubles at Pine Hills race

The recent Pine Hills race saw Mugen’s Aaron Stringer walking away with a double win in the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes. Aaron would grab the top qualifying honours in Buggy while Mitch McCallum (Kyosho) went fastest after the qualifiers in Truck. The Buggy final then saw Aaron bringing home the win from Mitch McCallum and Alex Bernadzik (Team Associated) in second and third respectively. In Truggy it was again Aaron who walked away with the hardware while Caleb Noble (Mugen) and Mitch McCallum (Mugen) had to settle for second and third.

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January 25, 2017

Xray welcome Armand Lantheaume

Xray have announce the signing of former French National Champion, Armand Lantheaume to their team for the 2017 season. Armand will race the XB2 and XB4 platforms at national and international level events and the 3-times national vice-Champion had the following to say:

After extensive testing of all Xray cars last year I was just amazed by the performance and quality of the cars and I am really happy that I was given the opportunity to be part of the Xray team for 2017. I will attend all the major French races and will do my best both in racing as well helping all Xray customers. Big thanks to Xray for the trust in me and I cannot wait to hit the track.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 25, 2017

Alex Zanchettin successful at Enjoy Drive race

This past weekend the Enjoy Drive race was held in Rome, Italy and it was newly signed Tekno driver Alex Zanchettin who took the winning honours in the Electric Buggy class with his TMG-powered buggy. Patrick Pistolesi (Mugen/TMG) would come in second.

Source: Tommygarage [tommygarage.eu]

January 24, 2017

Lutz, Bornhorst & Drake win at Southern Indoor Champs

The 2017 Southern Indoor Championships were held in Alabama. The weekend started off a bit crazy with a tornado hitting the area on Saturday which caused a 4-hour delay but with running the electric program with available sunlight and after the power was restored qualifying was finished up around 1am Sunday morning. The layout for this year’s SIC offered some big air and some fast air sections and the surface was a little on the looser side. In Nitro Buggy Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz would take the TQ after a battle with Tekno teammate Joe Bornhorst who would start second into the main. Nitro Truggy also saw the Lutz-Bornhorst duo up front while E-Buggy was TQ’d by Mugen’s Adam Drake from Lutz and Bornhorst.

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January 24, 2017

Burak Kilic doubles at OWL Messe Cup

The OWL Messe Cup was held in Bad Salzuflen, Germany over the weekend. Organised by the MCC Silixen club and held as part of a hobby fair the event attracted some of the fastest drivers from Germany to compete in several electric off-road classes. In the premier 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Agama’s Burak Kilic that came out fastest after the triple 10-minute A-mains. Coming from the 2 spot on the grid the young man at first suffered from missing Friday’s practice sessions due to school duties but he made up for it in the mains, taking the overall win from Thunder Tiger driver and 2016 Messe Cup winner, Marvin Fritschler, and Burak’s brother Berkan Kilic (Agama).

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January 24, 2017

Deniz & Yazıcı win at Jump Buggy Jump race

The Jump Buggy Jump race was recently held in Nicosia, Cyprus and it attracted a good amount of drivers including guests from Turkey. In the 4WD Buggy class it was Niyazi Deniz who came out fastest after the A-mains from Ahmet Akber in second and Umut Türkay in third. In 2WD Murat Yazıcı took the day’s win from Alain Sarafyan and Umut Öztümen in second and third respectively.

View the 2WD podium here

January 23, 2017

Hot Race Tyres sign Jeremy Harris

Hot Race welcomes 2014 ROAR Stock Buggy U.S. National Champion and multi-time Region 4 champion, Jeremy Harris to its factory race team. Jeremy will be a key part of the brand’s 2017 1/10th off road tyre launch program and will also be promoting the Hot Race 1/8th off road tyre line.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

January 23, 2017

Cavalieri claims fourth Reedy Race win

Ryan Cavalieri has claimed a fourth Reedy Race of Champions title, the Team Associated driver winning the title showdown between himself and his great rival Ryan Maifield. With the pair separated by a single point, Maifield having the advantage going into the 12th and final round of heads up racing, and the two Ryans lining up in the same race that would close the 23rd running of the legendary race the stage set for the ultimate showdown at the OCRC Raceway hosted event. With Cavalieri on pole and Maifield lining up directly behind him, the script was perfect but while Maifield would set chase on Cavalieri getting by the No. 2 starting Spencer Rivkin, the fairytale Yokomo debut was not to be. Struggling to keep up with Cavalieri, something obviously wrong with his car, Maifield would eventually go out with a front shock failure ending his quest for a second Reedy Race title. With his only threat gone, Cavalieri could cruise to his 6th win of the event to win by a single point, yet another Reedy Race title. While it was the seasoned package that won, the podium indicated an exciting season lies ahead as another of the new team debutants Ty Tessmann secured 3rd for Xray.

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