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May 23, 2016

Canas takes surprise win at Spanish Buggy Nationals Rd2

Round two of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held in El Alamo, Madrid over the weekend. Mugen’s up and coming Juan Carlos Canas would take a popular overall TQ from team mate Bryan Baldo and SWorkz’ Albert Garcia. Multi-time national champion, Robert Batlle (Mugen) had to settle for fourth but he put things straight for the A-main when he placed his Ultimate-powered buggy on the pole position in front of Oscar Baldo, Juan Carlos and Bryan Baldo. The 45 minute main final held some nice battles for the front runner and the mid-pack and with pole position holder Robert running into trouble at some point it was Juan Carlos who took maximum profit of the situation, taking a great win over Robert Batlle with Bryan Baldo rounding out the podium result.

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May 23, 2016

Neil Cragg successful at BRCA Nitro Buggy Nats Rd2

Round two of the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held at Kent this past weekend. Qualifying on Saturday was dominated by Elliot Boots and his reds powered Kyosho. This being one of Elliot’s home tracks before his most recent move to Italy and you could see he felt at home straight away. The main event saw a great 3-way battle out front between Elliot Boots, Neil Cragg (Team Associated/LRP) and Jack Embling (Kyosho/Reds Racing), lasting nearly the full 45 minutes. Elliot would lead for the first part but a few mistakes would allow Neil through. Neil managed to hold the lead with Elliot in second swapping fast laps all the way until an issue would see Elliot have to make his way into the pits. This allowed Neil to hold the lead, promoted Jack up to 2nd and long time 4th place man Lee Martin (Mugen/RC Concepts) to snatch 3rd.

Source: BRCA [brca.org] | Image: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

May 23, 2016

Cole Ogden triples at 2016 Summer Shootout

The 2016 Summer Shootout was held in Lake City, Florida this past weekend. Mugen’s Cole Ogden would TQ and win Pro Nitro Buggy and he ended tie on points with John Michael Mcginty in E-Buggy but in the end a better tie-breaker handed Cole his second title of the weekend. To finish off a successful day Cole then also won the Dash for Cash. Being the Pro Nitro Buggy TQ he had to start dead last from the 10th spot but he was able to work his way up for another win.

Image: Cole Ogden

May 20, 2016

Hartson & Root win at JConcepts Stock Nationals

The 5th annual JConcepts Stock Nationals were once again hosted by the world famous OCRC Raceway. This unique race brings Stock and Modified racers from all over the country to compete against one another in the hottest segment of RC racing, Stock 17.5. This race offers a spot for everyone with 11 different classes covering all skill levels and vehicles, each one requiring a 17.5 stock motor (blinky mode). This year’s pre entries were limited to 200, which sold out in 5 hours, and then classes were filled in from there for a total of 250+ entries. With 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday, one final round and mains on Sunday, there was plenty of track time for everyone. After four rounds of IFMAR qualifying, the top eight drivers made the A-Main in each category to be joined by two bump-ups from the lower finals. The A-Mains ran for ten minutes, with 7-minute B-Mains and 6-minute lower mains.

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May 20, 2016

Hupo Hönigl doubles at Austrian EP Buggy Nats Rd2

Round two of the Austrian Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the GMAC Litschau track in the very North of the country. The weather forecast wasn’t very promising with rain and low temperatures predicted but at the end the race would be completed without any delays although wind and cold temperatures made things pretty unpleasant. In the 2WD Buggy class Xray’s Hupo Hönigl made a clean sweep by taking the TQ and win from Marcel Rekettye (Yokomo) and Schumacher’s Peter Pinisch.

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May 19, 2016

JR Mitch doubles at 4th annual JConcepts Judge race

The 4th annual JConcepts Judge race was hosted by GSHobby in the small town of Barling, Arkansas, just south-east of Fort Smith. The hobby shop has a club racing scene at the smaller indoor track which has collected a good number of local racers from around the general area. The JConcepts Judge brought all those racers back with a mix of people from out of town. In 2WD Mod Buggy the battle was between JR Mitch, Michael Twilling, Trevor Nault, Todd Sieler, and Bobby Woods. That’s how they qualified for the three A-mains on Sunday. A1 and A2 were taken by JR Mitch, leaving the battle for second between Michael Twilling and Bobby Woods. At the 3rd A main, it was Michael getting the edge over Bobby for the second overall position.

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May 18, 2016

Truck win for Adam Drake at JBRL Nitro Series Rd2

The second round of the JBRL Nitro Series was held this past weekend at Thunder Alley Raceway. Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Expert Nitro Buggy and Expert Nitro Truck and in the Truck final, Drake was challenged early by Dayton Brown. As the race progress Drake pulled away from the field and won the final by nearly one lap on Eddie Laret in second and Tyler Brown in third.

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May 18, 2016

Alexander Landen dominates Swedish National Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Swedish National Cup was held at the Boras MRK track in Viskafors in pretty cold weather conditions. Alexander Landen (Xray) would take the overall TQ in the 2WD class, run on Saturday, with two round TQs and a second place. In the finals the track started to develop a lot of pot holes and small bumps, making things not easy for the drivers. Alexander made the best out of the conditions and with good driving and a bit of luck the young man was able to bring home the win in A1 and A2 despite some serious pressure of Niclas Mansson (Team Associated) who had to settle for second. Marcus Lind (Yokomo) would round out the 2WD podium.

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