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November 3, 2015

VBC Invitational Sweden – Report

The 2015 VBC Invitational race was held at the Hobbyexpo in Stockholm, Sweden this past weekend. The track was tight and very technical, so mistakes would cost a lot and the race was held in a Reedy-style format, meaning no qualifiers but all finals for the 30 racers from Finland, Sweden and Norway. Handout slick tyres and a mandatory tyre sauce made for equal conditions for everyone and the race started out on Saturday with five rounds of 4WD racing of which four counted towards the overall result. At the end Karri Salmela from Finland, Oskar Levin from Sweden and Daniel Kobbevik from Norway all scored a maximum of 40 points.

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November 3, 2015

Aaron Stringer takes New Zealand Buggy title

Christchurch recently played host for the recent New Zealand Buggy and Truggy National Championships. On Wednesday the track was very wet but the rain did manage to abate overnight and allowed some controlled practice until mid afternoon on Thursday when the skies opened up again and practice was done for the day. Friday there was to be four rounds of qualifying with the best two to count. It was clear from practice their were some fast local guys and a handful of fast Aussies had made the trip over. Friday dawned bright and sunny but very cold. The track was changing at an amazing rate making tire selection critical. After 3 rounds on Friday Aaron Stringer had two TQs for each class which gave him the overall TQ for both classes.

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November 3, 2015

Hara teams up with Carisma for one race deal

Atsushi Hara teams up with Carisma – For once

Carisma Racing have announced that multiple World and National Champion Atsushi Hara will be piloting the company’s all-new 4XS 1/10th off-road buggy at the forthcoming final round of the Hong Kong 1/10th Off-road Championships in November. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Atsushi leaving his former off-road sponsors SWorkz and it is understood to be a single outing for the Asian company.

Read the announcement here

November 3, 2015

2015/16 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The popular 2015/16 Mibosport Cup kicked off this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The weekend started out pretty untraditionally with practice all Friday on both the on-road and off-road track. The event saw a new record entry with a total of 254 drivers attending, of which 120 competed in the on-road classes. These divided into 42 Touring Car Modified drivers, 38 Stock LRP drivers, 21 Formula and 19 1/12th scale participants. A total of 134 drivers participated in the off-road classes with 73 drivers attending in 2WD Buggy and 61 drivers attending in 4WD Buggy. The Touring Modified class, which was run on the famous ETS carpet, was dominated by Ronald Völker. Ronald won all qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Patrick Gollner and Martin Hudy.

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November 3, 2015

Ashlee Owen wins at NW Nitro Winter Series Rd2

Blackpool and North West nitro recently hosted the second round of their Winter Series. Due to some rain on the Saturday the track started out muddy and this resulted in a slighter lower turnout than normal but all those that braved it however were rewarded with an awesome track after round 1. In the Nitro Buggy final Ashlee Owen came out successful, although he suffered from a broken rear hub bearing in the closing stages. James Hargreaves came in second, Allan Ward rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 3, 2015

Milan Mudra joins Xray Junior team

Xray have announced the addition of young Czech off-road driver Milan Mudra to their Junior team. Milan is a very talented driver who so far has won a number of titles including the national 1/8th electric Junior Championship. Milan will participate in all major regional and national events as well as some selected international races such as the EOS and he has the following to say:

I want to thanks to Xray for their trust in me and I will do my best to represent the team in the best possible way. Since I have started to race RC cars when I was 10 years it was our Czech driver Martin Bayer who was the iconic racer to me and it was my biggest motivation to work as hard and as professionally as him and dreamed to be part of the Xray factory team. Now the dream came true and I am really thankful for it.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 2, 2015

Renaud Savoya dominates Speed One Race

The Speed One Race 2015 was held this past weekend at the C-Netic track in Indonesia. The event attracted both local talent as well as internationally experienced drivers such as Renaud Savoya, Zac Ryan, Ben Panic and Yuichi Kanai. And it would then be HB’s Renaud Savoya who would dominate the event by taking the TQ, the pole position for the A-main and also the win in the 60 minute final encounter while scoring the fastest lap in the progress. Kyosho’s Zac Ryan would end the main one lap down on Renaud while Adrian W. (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result another lap down.

View the final result here

November 2, 2015

Wesley van Helmond wins at MIO Championship Rd1

The opening round of the International Indoor Off-road Cup held at the Dutch Model Indoor Oss track attracted some 100 drivers to compete in several electric off-road classes. In the 2WD Buggy category Bart Mullink came out fastest after the qualifiers in front of Wesley van Helmond, Tom Maquel and Olvier Speith. After having tyre problems in A1 Wesley van Helmond (TLR) stroke back in A2 and he would ultimately take the overall win from Oliver Speith (Schumcher) in second and Tom Maquel (Team C) in third place.

Image: Wesley van Helmond