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July 25, 2016

JR Mitch doubles at ROAR Region 4 Championships

Superior Hobbies Beachline Raceway was the host of this year’s ROAR Region 4 1/10th electric off-road championships. The large turnout and hot weather made for three long hot days of exciting R/C racing. Practice on Friday saw drivers from all over Florida and even a few from Georgia arrive to do battle for the coveted regional titles. Saturday started early with two hours of open practice starting at 7 am followed by three rounds of qualifying. Sunday was another early start with two hours of open practice before the start of the triple A-mains. In 2WD Mod buggy JR Mitch would start 2nd on the grid. JR put in a great run to win A1, but in A2 JR would retire early with a mechanical issue setting things up for an interesting A3. In A3 JR would capitalise on an early mistake and take over the lead, there he was able to hang on to clench the 2WD Mod title. In 4WD Mod Buggy JR Mitch would show in the mains why he was the top qualifier taking the win in A1 and A2 to take his second title of the weekend.

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July 25, 2016

Maifield doubles at ROAR 1/8 EP Off-road & SCT Nats

The 2016 ROAR 1/8 Electric Buggy/Truggy and 1/10 4×4 Modified Short Course National Championships were held this past weekend at Stateline R/C on the Michigan/Indiana border. In 1/8 E-Buggy TLR’s Ryan Maifield steered his buggy to the overall TQ in the class thanks to three round TQ’s while in 1/8 E-Truggy Ryan had to fend off attacks from TLR team mate Dakotah Phend who took Q2 but overall Ryan would take a second TQ that weekend thanks to also coming out fastest in Q4. In 1/10 4×4 Modified Short Course Ryan cemented his will to make it a triple by again taking the overall TQ and the pole position for the triple A-mains. With bad weather in the forecast for Sunday, ROAR made the decision to run the opening A-mains and some of the lower mains on Saturday which turned out to be a wise choice as indeed rain kicked in on Sunday, washing away any chances for more track time.

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July 25, 2016

Riccardo Berton successful at Novarossi Trophy

The 2016 Novarossi Trophy was held at the pista Ospy Team di Gussago track in Gussago, Brescia over the weekend with some of the fastest Italian Nitro Off-road drivers in attendance. Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton was in control of things all weekend, taking the TQ and win in the Expert Buggy class from Mugen’s Davide Ongaro. Newly crowned 1/8th European Champion, Elliott Boots (Kyosh0) had to settle for third in the 45-minute A-main. Mattia Polito and Marco Natale would round out the top 5 result.

Source: MRC [modellismorc.net]

July 21, 2016

BRCA Truggy & E-Buggy Nationals Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the BRCA Truggy and E-Buggy Series took place at a new venue for the BRCA calendar, at Pembrey Race Circuit in South Wales. The model car track is on the site of the full size racetrack and despite being a relatively new venue, offered plenty of challenges for the drivers, who in the most part really enjoyed the track and its layout. The track itself features some very hard packed sections, some loose sections and has astro turf laid over the jumps to help keep them together, but it was the morning rain that was more of a concern. The weather was doing its best to put a downer on things but the drivers remained in high spirits and were enjoying the track nonetheless.

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July 21, 2016

Ahn & Moon win at Tamiya Korea Cup

The recent Tamiya Korea Cup, held in the Kim-hae region, saw Schumacher driver Jung Hyun Ahn walking away with the win from Tae Sung Moon (Xray) in second and Chul Yung Yeon (Xray) in third. In the 4WD class it was Tae Sung Moon (Xray) who took the day’s win from Serpent driver Seung Min Kim and Xray’s Chul Yung Yeon.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 21, 2016

Sebastian Beltran wins Colombia Nationals Rd1

The first race of the Colombia National Off-road championship was held at the Bima racing track in Bogota. Sebastian Beltran (Xray/FX) took the TQ after the four rounds of qualifying only to suffer issues in the opening stages of the 30-minute A-main. Being almost four laps down Sebastian soon started to recover and in the closing stages, he was able to regain the lead to win the race while also setting a new track record. Yovanny Vergara (Xray/FX) and Pablo Mojica (Xray/FX) rounded out the podium in second and third respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 20, 2016

Joel Valander takes Finnish 1/10th 4WD off-road title

The third round of the Finnish National 1/10th Off-road Championship was held at the Oulu dirt track. Rain made for a lot of delays but ultimately the drivers would be able to race on Saturday evening and all of Sunday. In the 2WD class, Karri Salmela got the TQ in damp and difficult conditions followed by Ari-Pekka Kyykkä and Joel Valander. Karri also won first two finals with Joel Valander taking the runner-up spot from Eeli Vieno.

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July 20, 2016

Cragg & Moss win at BRCA 1/10 Off-road Nationals Rd4

Round four of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held at the Telford astro turf track last weekend. As usual the 2WD class opened the weekend with Saturday morning’s qualifying saw an early battle between Neil Cragg and Tom Yardy. Tom would TQ round 1 while Neil Cragg and Simon Moss set identical times in Q2. Q3 then had Neil coming out fastest while Tom Yardy stroke back in Q4. As both Neil and Tom scored two round TQs each the faster time would decide and ultimately it was Neil who snatched the pole position for the triple A-mains by 0.28s. Tom would line up in second from Simon Moss, Danny McGee and Lee Martin. A noticeable mention goes to Tristram Neil who made his first ever national A-main on the 8 spot.

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