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November 19, 2015

Rivals seek to deny Xray home EOS win

The Euro Offroad Series takes competitors to Slovakia this weekend (20-22 November) with the Hudy Racing Arena playing host to the second round of Season #5, the venue having hosted the championship’s final & deciding round last season. After a double win at the 2015/16 season opener at the Nurburgring in Germany in September, it is reigning 2 and 4WD Champion Lee Martin who heads the entry but the Yokomo driver is fully expectant of a tough weekend at what is the home track of Xray and their new 4WD World Champion Bruno Coelho. For the past two season Xray’s Martin Bayer, who has been responsible for both the development of the XB2 and XB4, has enjoyed EOS victories at the Hudy Arena, doing the double in Season #3 and winning 4WD last time round.

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November 19, 2015

Kyle McBride takes double Australian 1/10th titles

The recent 1/10th EP Australian Nationals were hosted by Chargers RC race club and in the 2WD Buggy class Kyle McBride managed to TQ all four rounds of qualifying. Once finals came around, Kyle dominated A1 and A2 to take the 2WD National championship early. 4WD was up the next day and the drivers were only allowed one practice round in the morning and then they went straight into the same qualifying and finals setup. The track had really come up to a very high traction, even more so than in 2WD. Kyle again managed to take the overall TQ, having won three out of the four qualifiers. In the finals McBride would continue to dominate by taking the win in A1 and A2 to grab his second title of the weekend.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 18, 2015

Travis Amescua TQs & wins at 2015 NEiC race

Maximus Raceway in York, Maine held the 2015 North East Indoor Championship race over the weekend. The event attracted more than 140 entries and Travis Amescua (Team Durango) would TQ and win both the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified classes in stile. In the 2WD class Matt Olsen (Team Associated) came in second, coming from the 3 spot on the grid while runner-up after the qualifiers, Alex Miller (Team Associated), ended the 5 minute A-main in third. In the 4WD class Matt Olsen (HB) would defend his runner-up spot while Alex Miller (Team Associated) was able to grab the final podium spot, coming from 4th after the qualifiers.

View the 4WD podium here

November 18, 2015

Rivkin sweeps Arizona State Off-road Champs

The 30th Annual Arizona State Championships were held at SRS Raceway located in Phoenix. With high grip and a fast layout, the event challenged even the most seasoned racers. In 2WD Modified Buggy, Spencer Rivkin was hooked up all weekend, TQ-ing the class and scoring the overall win after taking A1 and A3 victories to clinch the title. In the Modified Truck class it was all Rivkin once again. The newly crowned IFMAR 2WD Buggy World Champion rocked to a TQ run during qualifying and proceeded to dominate in the A-mains by winning A1 and A2 easily.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 18, 2015

Tyler Jones doubles at OHKY Rd2

Round two of the OHKY Off-road series took place at SRI Raceway in Kentucky. The round drew in 179 entries for the one day race with some of the best regional racers in attendance. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Tyler Jones took a late overall TQ from JP Richards. In 2WD Modified Truck Tyler made a clean sweep by winning all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ with the only 16 lap run. In the Buggy A-main Tyler then led wire to wire putting the entire field at least one or more laps down. The second place went to Nick Richards with Dylan Gerard in third. In the Truck main the tone went off and Tyler checked out just like he did in 2WD Mod. The young man did have an issue towards the end as the rear camber block cracked around the ball stud and the left rear was rolling over bad through the corners but he dialed it back and still brought home the win from Josh McDonald and Jeff Sumner.

View the Modified Truck podium here

November 17, 2015

Adam Drake dominated 2015 JBRL Nitro Series

The JBRL Nitro Series recently completed its 9th season, visiting eight tracks this year. Mugen Seiki’s Adam Drake was the man to beat in the Nitro and Electric Pro classes as he made the triple by winning both the Pro Nitro Buggy and Pro Nitro Truggy as well as the 1/8th E-Buggy categories. Runner up in the Nitro Buggy class was Cody King (Kyosho), Steve Harris (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result. In the Truggy class it was again Cody King who came in second while Aaron Gomez completed the podium result. Finally in the 1/8th E-Buggy class Adam was sidelined by Mugen teammate Steve Harris and Tekno RC driver Anthony Westergaard.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

November 16, 2015

Lutz & Cavalieri win at Pro-Line Gas Champs

This past weekend the Pro-Line Gas Champs where held at Dialed RC Raceway in Victorville, CA. The unique double A-main format was cut short by rain after the first round of mains and it was Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz who doubled up on wins taking both the Pro Nitro Buggy and Pro E-Buggy finals. In the Nitro category Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) would finish on the runner-up spot while Mugen’s Adam Drake rounded out the podium result. In the E-Buggy class Ryan’s Tekno teammate Joe Bornhorst came in second from Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated). Finally in the Pro Nitro Truggy class Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) took the day’s win from the Tekno duo of Lutz and Bornhorst.

View the other podiums here

November 16, 2015

Robert Batlle takes World Indoor Buggy Cup title

Robert Battle takes World Indoor Buggy Cup title

The 2015 World Indoor Buggy Cup was held this past weekend at the Padova Indoor Buggy Race track in Italy. Considered the unofficial 1/8th indoor World Championship the event attracted a nice collection of national and international drivers. In the premier 1/8th Pro Nitro class TLR’s Alex Zanchettin would start from the pole position into the 60 minute A-main after Marco Baruffolo (TLR) took the TQ after the qualifiers. Alex though would encounter problems during the final which resulted in a dead last 14th overall position in the main while up front the race was on between Robert Batlle (Mugen), Marco Baruffalo, Darren Bloomfield (Agama) and Ryan Maifield, all finishing on the same lap after the hour long race. Ultimately Robert brought home the title from Marco with Darren rounding out the podium result and Ryan being the best of the rest.

Image: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]