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October 28, 2015

Tyler Vik wins at 4th Annual Octoberfest

Phillip Atondo held the Fourth Annual Octoberfest last weekend at Central Valley Raceway in Madera, California. The race brings out the fastest drivers from Northern California and it was Jacob Haas (TLR) who TQ’ed the event, but Tyler Vik (Xray) would take the lead on the first lap of the A-main as he continued on for the win, finishing a lap and a half ahead of a great battle for the final podium spots. While running in second, Cooter Kenney (Mugen) would have a flameout and end up sixth. Jonathan Hernandez (TLR) ended up second, just slightly ahead of Curtis Door (Muen) and Austin Blair (SWorkz).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 28, 2015

Adam Drake sweeps Pro-Line Shootout

Indy R/C World in Garland, Texas played host to the inaugural Pro-Line Shootout. The event had 200 entries and in the premier Nitro Buggy class Adam Drake would take the TQ and later on also the win in the 45 minute main final. Adam also TQ’d and won in the Nitro Truggy class and he would round out a perfect weekend by taking the overall win in the 1/8th E-Buggy class and the electric and nitro Dash for Cash races. Elsewhere Mark Morrow TQ’d and won the 40+ Nitro Buggy class while Matthew Brown TQ’d and won the Open Truck category.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]

October 27, 2015

Robin Frischkopf wins Swiss E-Buggy Championship

The maiden season of the Swiss 1/8th E-Buggy Championship concluded with race three and four held at the Luetisburg astro turf track in Eastern Switzerland. The weekend started out cold and with light rain on Saturday and in the qualifiers Kevin Zwahlen (HB) and Romeo Grass (Xray) set the pace with Robin Frischkopf (Xray) rounding out the top 3 result. The A-main on Saturday then saw Robin fighting for the win although he lacked traction as he was using Minipin tyres, knowing a Spiral tread would be faster. After a couple of position changes Robin was able to take the win some two seconds in front of Kevin Zwahlen.

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October 27, 2015

Ari Heinonen wins at Winter Jumps Series Rd1

Helsinki’s PKSRCA club recently hosted round one of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series. With a record 100+ entries field the series started into the new season and in Sunday’s 4WD race it was newly signed Xray driver Joel Valander who took the pole position for the A-mains with the only 20 lap runs in the qualifiers. The first two A-mains then were very hard for the pole sitter as front tyre problems meant he could not hold Ari Heinonen (Team Durango) behind. With wins in A1 and A2 Ari thus secured the overall win while Joel would take the final A-main to secure the runner-up spot from Markku Honkanen (Team Durango).

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October 26, 2015

Aaron Stringer wraps up QLD Inter Club Series

The SE QLD Inter Club Series concluded with the sixth and final round held at Meakin Park in Brisbane. In total over 300 drivers attended the series that was held over a six month period, visiting three clubs twice each over the event. Aaron Stringer was leading the series and he only needed to make the A-Main and finish in the top 5 to wrap up the title. Qualifying for the pre-event favourite did not go to plan at all and saw him finish in 30th place. Starting 9th in the C-final Aaron would move his way up through the lower finals and ultimately ended on the 11 spot for the A-final in which he had a blinder of a start and was up to around 6th place after lap 1. The job got much tougher after that and took another 10 minutes or so to round up the next five places. After that it was a battle between Aaron and Darren Perry. Aaron managed to reduce the lead down to under two seconds with about two minutes to go, but it wasn’t to be and Darren took the win with Aaron in second. The runner-up spot was then enough for Aaron to grab the overall title from Darren Perry in second and Sam Perry in third.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

October 26, 2015

Tessmann & Cavalieri win at 1st annual SikCross

The first annual SikCross was held this past weekend at Pro-line’s test facility in Banning, California. Levi Jackson was promising to bring supercross to RC with a brand new event, totally different than any other format in RC. Practice, seeding, qualifying was supercross style with side by side, heads up racing and at the end it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who would come out successful in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class from Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Kyosho’s Cody King.

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October 24, 2015

EOS announces cost reduction tyre ruling

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After a hugely successful opening round to Season #5 of the Euro Offroad Series at the famous full size Nurburgring race track in Germany, the championship is pleased to officially announce two changes in relation to the handout Schumacher tyres. Coming into effect for Round 2, which takes place at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia next month (20-22 Nov), drivers will be limited to two sets of preglued tyres per class.

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October 22, 2015

McIntosh & Cruz take ROAR Region 4 titles

The Region 4 ROAR Regionals were held at Sundancers RC park in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Great weather greeted the racers for a weekend full of racing. It began with Friday practice, qualifiers on Saturday using qual points and the main events on Sunday. Brett Kingsbury had the TQ in Nitro Buggy however Jason Ruona was starting in P2, and was going to apply pressure from the tone. As the two raced away in the early laps, Ruona moved into the lead and controlled the pace. As first pit stops cycled through, Kingsbury and Ruona had a comfortable lead and were working through some traffic taking the lead depending on mistakes. Kingsbury had to take an extended pit for repairs giving Ruona a huge lead. As time was winding down, an unfortunate flame out during the 2nd to last fuel stint took Ruona out of the lead but a quick restart would still get him out in second where he would stay till the end behind winner Leon McIntosh.

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