February 25, 2015

Mike Garrison wins at 2015 On The Rug race

Mike Garrison wins at 2015 On The Rug race

The 2015 Race On The Rug event hosted by the RC Complex in Bolivar, Missouri. The facility recently decided to remove their dirt offroad track, and replace it with a European style carpet offroad track. Winter weather and icy roads unfortunately struck the area leading up to the race. The Mod 4WD Buggy class was a bit light in attendance, but still offered some close racing and blistering fast speeds for the spectators to enjoy. Mike Garrison managed to capture TQ in qualifying with the only 18-lap run in the class. As the A-Final got underway, it was a back and forth battle in the early laps between Garrison and Dave Ferrell. After a slight mistake by Ferrell following close in 2nd, Garrison was able to stretch out his lead and cruise to victory.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

February 25, 2015

Wells & Munday take out Tasmanian Titles

Wells & Munday take out Tasmanian Titles

The 2015 1/10th Offroad Tasmanian Titles were held at the Goodwood RC Club in Hobart, Tasmania. The small but enthusiastic Goodwood club had prepared a fun and challenging layout for the racers and mother nature provided its own challenge with a searing Summer sun and temperatures in the mid 30s all weekend. Several racers flew in from the Australian mainland for the race including Ray Munday, Ash Peeler, Mark Rogers and Cameron Zammit, all looking to take the challenge up to local hero Sam Wells in the Modified classes. AKA Rebars were chosen as the control tyre for the grooved dirt surface. In addition to the normal classes, this was the first running of the newly sanctioned “Junior” class for under 16’s with 2WD 17.5T buggies.

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February 25, 2015

Nicolas Risser wins at RCmag Brushless Tour Rd1

Nicolas Risser wins at RCmag Brushless Tour Rd1

The first round of the RCmag Brushless Tour was held at the Black Country Arena in Charleroi. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Nicolas Risser who came out successful in front of Thomas Musso and Lorenzo Crolla, who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 24, 2015

Alejandro Daras wins Moro Race

Alejandro Daras wins Moro Race

Last weekend the Moro Race was held at the Moro race track in Sant Joan, Spain. Following a 2nd place in the qualifiers Alejandro Daras took the pole position for the main final. With consistent driving and a bit of luck Alejandro was able to retain his position to cross the finish line as the leader in front of Andres Marcelino and Alejandro Gual who rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 24, 2015

Steven Hartson continues with LRP

Steven Hartson continues with LRP

LRP have announced the contract renewal with 2013 IFMAR 4WD Offroad World Champion Steven Hartson. The Team Associated driver will continue to use LRP’s full line of electronics including brushless motors, speed controller, batteries, chargers and accessories as well as LRP’s nitro off-road engines for his 1/8th offroad excursions. Steven has the following to say about the deal:

I’ve trusted LRP equipment for 8 years now and I’m very happy to be continuing with LRP in 2015. LRP products have provided me awesome power throughout my career and I know there is more “Blue is Better” technology coming soon, starting with an entirely new battery line in April 2015. I look forward to using this new technology to defend my 4WD IFMAR World Championship at Yatabe Arena in Japan this year.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

February 24, 2015

Bradley Baird joins Alphaform Reds JQRacing team

Bradley Baird joins Alphaform Reds JQRacing team

Alphaform Reds JQRacing have announced the signing of Bradley Baird to their factory team. “THE Flying Irishman” has been in the JQRacing team for some years and he now secured a full factory deal to run Reds Racing engines, LRP electronics, AKA tyres, Savöx servos, GHEA Accessories and Maugrafix stickers in the year to come.

Source: JQRacing [jqracing.com]

February 23, 2015

Maifield wins exciting DNC Buggy final

Maifield wins exciting DNC Buggy final

Ryan Maifield has won the big one at this year’s 16th running of the Dirt Nitro Challenge.  The TLR driver would claim his 2nd buggy title at the Fear Farm but more significantly his first big nitro win for his new manufacturer when on the penultimate lap of the exciting 45-minute A-Main he got ahead of former team-mate Ryan Cavalieri.  A race that saw four different leaders, Maifield went to the front ahead of defending champion Ty Tessmann 4-minutes in until a mistake at the 10-minute mark would drop him to third.  His challenge then looked to be over as he fell further down the order to sixth.  A driver famed for his late charges, the Arizona ace never gave up and as a gusting wind added to the challenges of the tough track conditions in the closing stages, Maifield was there to capitalise to take his second major title of the new season having last month claimed his first ever Reedy Race of Champions win.  Unfortunately for the stars of last night’s epic Truggy final Tessmann and new champion David Ronnefalk their races would hit trouble.  Holding a comfortable lead with just 8-minutes to go Tessmann would suffer a problem with his battery connector and losing over a minute in the pits fixing it the World Champion would be leaving with no titles this year finishing up 7th overall.  Trying to recover from a frantic start, Ronnefalk would twice run out of fuel after communication issues with his pit crew.  With Maifield and Cavalieri  separated by just 0.684, joining them on the podium would be the other of America’s offroad establishment trio Jared Tebo.  Leading a total of close on 1/3 of the race, Dakotah Phend would just miss out the podium by half a second, the wind being the downfall to the 18-year-old’s quest for a first DNC title.

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