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August 27, 2015

Adam Drake wins at 2015 Mugen Challenge

The 2015 Mugen Challenge was hosted by LCRC Raceway in PA. The event had nearly 300 entries which was the largest turnout for the Mugen Challenge. Mugen Seiki’s Team Manager Tim Long and Adam Drake arrive a day early to put on a free driver clinic for the racers. Tim and Adam answered questions and spent time with each of the drivers discussing racing and looking over their vehicles. In the 1/8th Nitro Truck class Mugen’s Barry Pettit was the top qualifier. In the final Pettit, Bornhorst, Dickerson, and Drake all took turns leading the race. By the half way point of the 45-minute main Adam Drake settled into a comfortable lead followed by Barry Pettit, and young Mugen driver Ethan Mackanick making it a sweep of the podium for Mugen Seiki Racing.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]

August 26, 2015

2015 JConcepts Bash 4.0 – Announcement

JConcepts in conjunction with NewRed Hobbies brings the Bash 4.0. The event which draws entries from a multitude of genres is a one-of-kind R/C showcase. The Ocala, Florida, based facility offers an indoor off-road race track, outdoor scaling/trailing course and Chicago style monster truck racing circuit and each will be specifically built for the 4th edition of the unique event. The Saturday portion of the event takes place on the indoor race track and consists of 1/10th off-road racing with a host of classes made popular on the Super Cup Championship Series while on the Chicago Style monster truck course, R/C monster trucks will race side-by-side showing off a unique but popular form of racing in a scale-like fashion. Sunday is reserved for the Tuff Truck Competition which takes place on the custom Trailing Challenge course, mud pit and sled pulling courses which are setup around the NewRed Hobbies complex. Entered drivers will compete in 4 separately scored events to determine the overall Tuff Truck Champion. 2.2″ and 1.9 and 1.5″ classes will be available to appeal to an array of drivers looking to enter their rigs into competition. More information can be found here and registration is open for Saturday here and for Sunday here.

August 26, 2015

Jake Mayo & Rudy Rico win at JBRL Electric Series Rd6

Round six of the 2015 Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series as held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, CA this past weekend. As usual the event attracted a nice mix of nationally experienced driver and local talent and in the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy Jake Mayo took the day’s win from David Jenson in second and Carlos Quilez in third.

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August 25, 2015

Ben Panic wins at Lap Paradise League Rd5

The fifth and final round of the Lap Paradise League was run over the weekend. With four rounds of qualifying based on the points system Ben Panic (Kyosho/O.S.) and BH Gan (Kyosho/RB) split the honours with two TQ each, and it would be BH to take the TQ with the faster time. In the final it was a battle of the two Kyosho drivers again. Ben led lap one with David Aw (Hong Nor/Hope) and BH close behind. The track was in perfect condition, grooved and super fast for the final. The top guys pulled away from the field. Ben had a nice gap mid way through the race and built on it putting a lap on the field by the end of the 60-minute main. BH would finish a solid second and David Aw finished on the podium for his birthday weekend A good away to finish the race for the track owner and birthday boy.

Thanks to Ben Panic for the report.

August 25, 2015

2015 Kyosho Masters USA – Announcement

The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA will be back at R/C Tracks of Las Vegas in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada on November 6th to 8th. The event will see 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy racing with world-class drivers such as 2015 European Champion Elliott Boots, 2010 World Champion Cody King, 2010 World and National Champion Jared Tebo as well as Kyosho legend Yuichi Kanai in attendance to name just a few. For more information about the Kyosho-only event as well as pre-registration please contact Joe Pillars at joepillars@hotmail.com.

August 25, 2015

Cavalieri wins at 6th Annual North-West Invitational

The 6th Annual North-West Invitational was held this past weekend at Dave’s R/C Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon, the home track of Team Orion USA team manager Joe Pillars. JP first started this annual event in 2010 and every year has gained more momentum by attracting top level drivers. Fresh off his ROAR Modified National Sweep a few weeks ago, Ryan Cavalieri would once again make the trip up to the beautiful Pacific North-West to compete at this great event. The highly contested Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy class would have its largest entry count in the history of the event with 28 drivers competing. Seven rounds of completely random heads-up racing would be ran in four heats of seven drivers. Then the final round would resort the drivers based on there five best finishes to group the heats with the fastest drivers all racing each other in the last race of the day.

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August 24, 2015

Marcin Maliński wins at Polish 1/8th buggy race

A recent 1/8th Buggy race held in Nowa Gadaka near Lodz saw Serpent racer Marcin Maliński taking the win in the main final with his O.S. powered ride. Fellow racers Igor Goderski (Serpent/O.S.) and Borys Nitschke (Serpent/Novarossi) came in second and third respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 24, 2015

Itävuori & Salmela win 40+ Electric Buggy Worlds

This past weekend the first ever unofficial 40+ 1/10th Electric Off-road World Championships were held in Vaasa, Finland. Run at the same track that hosted the 2011 IFMAR World Championships the event attracted a good amount of drivers. Finnish racer Jari Itävuori made a clean sweep in the 4WD qualifiers to take the overall TQ by winning all four qualifying rounds. Sami Salmela started from second on the grid and Peter Ylikorpi came in third. The opening 4WD A-main then had Itävuori scoring the win with Salmela second and Ylikorpi third.

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