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March 27, 2016

Jerome Aigoin wins French season opener

The opening round of the French 1/8th Offroad Nationals took place this weekend, once again unfortunately clashing with the Neo race. Held in the centre of the country in Limoges it was JP Sartel who would take the top qualifying spot ahead of fellow TLR driver Jerome Sartel, with Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho), Yannick Aigoin (Xray) and Rayan Medjoubi (Kyosho) completing the top 5. Rain on finals day and differing track conditions between both semis meant the semi finals would see some big names not make the main event such as Jerome Sartel and Yannick Aigoin. It was Ryan Medjoubi, with his win in the A Semi who would start the 30 minute A-main from pole position, but it was his Kyosho team mate who would take the win in what was a close race among the top 4. JP Sartel would take the runner up spot at the flag, while Medjoubi would come through to complete the top 3, just 3 seconds up on 4th place Tom Robin.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

March 26, 2016

Mibosport Cup 2015/16 – Season review

The 2015/16 Mibosport Cup held its season finishing final round last weekend with the series attracting a total of 487 drivers of which 245 attended in the off-road classes while the on-road categories drew a total of 242 entries. This season drivers from 9 countries including Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic made their way to the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice.

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March 24, 2016

Fabio Berlingieri wins at Campeonato Centro Sur

The opening round of the Campeonato Centro Sur was held in Bahia Blanka, Argentina. Lots of entries made for a competitive field and in the 1/8th Open Buggy class it was Fabio Berlingieri who took the day’s win from Maximiliano Lence in second and Nicolas Chiki Rodriguez in third.

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March 23, 2016

Boggs & Mitch win at Extreme Carpet Initiative

The Extreme Carpet Initiative was held at Extreme RC raceway in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The awesome carpet track is setup a couple of times each month for racers all over the area to have a place to race. Not changing up the layout and going with a previous layout configuration the racers saw a mix of singles, doubles, corner jumps and a wall ride as jumps/obstacles for this year’s event. The track also featured different carpet areas as the main basketball court would be covered in a gray indoor/outdoor carpet with the jumps and the landing after the jumps in different type of carpet mainly to help from damaging the basketball court underneath the race track from hard landings.

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March 23, 2016

Oliver Fischer wins Danish 1/8th off-road opener

The opening round of the Danish 1/8th off-road nationals was held in a large horse riding indoor arena and with the participation of some swift guests from abroad. The laid out track offered medium grip and a tight, flat layout. In the qualifiers Oliver Fischer (HB) and Magnus Frandsen (TLR) battled it out for the TQ spot and ultimately with two round TQs and a second place finish Oliver would take the overall TQ. After the semi finals Peter Harder (Xray) grabbed the pole position for the finals and he would also lead the field in the opening stages of the A-main but two mistakes and also problems with traffic let him drop down the order. Peter was able to recover but it wasn’t enough to challenge leader Oliver Fischer and he also had to defend himself against a storming Pelle Culmsee in the closing stages. Up front Oliver Fischer would bring home the win from Henrik Steiner while Peter Harder had to settle for third.

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March 23, 2016

Kaja Novotny doubles at Open Challenge Rd7

Round seven of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Prague and it saw Xray’s Kaja Novotny sweeping the 2WD Buggy qualifiers despite only arriving late due to attending the final round of the Mibosport Cup held the day before. Vaclav Broz and Arnold Lorenz qualified 2nd and 3rd while in 4WD Buggy Kaja TQ’ed round 1 and 2 but he had to retire in Q3 due to technical issues.

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March 23, 2016

Davide Ongaro sweeps FastRace Trophy

The recent FastRace Trophy was held at the beautiful Asti track with more than 100 entries from France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. The 2-day event saw the controlled practice and the opening qualifiers run on Saturday with qualifying resuming on Sunday. At the end of the four rounds it was Davide Ongaro to take the TQ, and in the 45 minutes final the Mugen ace also took the win over Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton ending his domain on the Asti dirt. Marco Natale rounded up the podium, also running a Kyosho.

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March 22, 2016

Kyle Francis TQs & wins at WA State Titles

The Western Australian State Titles were held over three days with Friday being controlled practice, Saturday qualifying and Sunday finals. A two hour rain delay after two rounds of qualifying saw the track conditions go from great to slippery slop and in the Nitro Truck class, after four out of five qualifiers on the Saturday, the TQ would be decided in the final qualifier. Up front the lead had already swapped several times during the race and at the beginning of the final lap Kyle Francis had the slimmest of margins, 0.001 of a second. A fast mistake free lap saw him take the win along with the TQ spot. Sunday’s 45 minute A-main then saw Kyle dominate, leading every lap of the final and in a first ran the whole race without getting marshalled once. So much was the dominance that by the 30 minute mark Kyle had lapped the entire field, including second. He went on to win by two laps with this being his second truggy win in consecutive years. Josh Pain came in second while Dale Smulders rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]