The opening round of the Cyprian 1/8th National Nitro Buggy Series was held at the A.G. Metal Track in Limassol under perfect weather conditions and on a challenging track. The 40 minute A-main saw the lead swapping several times and in the end Marios Christodoulou brought home the win from Nicholas Zachariades in 2nd and Simos Tikkis in 3rd.
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Tyler Jones had an impressive weekend at round 5 of the JCP Winter Electric Point Series as the you man took the TQ and win in the 2WD Modified Buggy class and would go on to also win the 4WD Buggy class after a great battle in the main.
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The Hudy Racing Arena, host of the 2015 EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships will host round 4 of the 2014/15 Slovakia Cup this coming weekend. The event is run in electric on-road and off-road classes with registration being available here while more details and rules can be found here.
Xray have announced the signing of up and coming Ruben Perez to their talented Junior Team. Ruben is a 12-year boy from Spain who has shown an exceptional talent and he will be racing all Xray off-road cars including the XB8, XB8E, XB4, and XB2. The Spaniard will be racing at the European Championships, the Spanish national series and at regional races and he had the following to say:
I am very very happy to be given this opportunity and I cannot thanks enough to Xray for their trust in me. My main goal is to continuously improve my racing experiences in order to participate at the European Championship 2016 that will be held in my home country in Spain. I will race all the main races in Spain including the National Championship series and with the Xray cars and the support I am extremely confident.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
This past weekend the Tennessee State Championship race was held at ROCCK Racing in Knoxville, TN with an amazing crowd of over 160 racers from all over the Southeast. Shay Brand TQ’d all three rounds of Pro E-Buggy to take the overall TQ. After some really close qualifying battles with Dylan Gerard in both Truggy and Buggy, Shay was able to take the final round and get the TQ in those classes as well.
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This past weekend the Robin Hood Raceway played host for the Bradby Cup, in honour of the late Derek Bradby. It was a very cool formatted race run by Paul Bradby with four rounds of qualifying and all 4 rounds counting followed by bump up finals. It’s a format Derek always wanted to try and it made for some great racing. In the 2WD class Neil Cragg (Team Associated) finished just in front of Lee Martin (Yokomo) with local hero Ben “Jemmo” Jemison (Schumacher) coming in 3rd.
Source: LMR [l-m-racing.co.uk]
The 4th round of the Hungarian National Championship was held in Budapest in several classes including Touring Car Modified and Stock, 1/10th Pan Car and 1/10th Electric Off-Road. The mix of on-road and off-road cars made for changing track conditions and in the Touring Car Modified class Bálint Rajki made the best of the situation as he won the A-mains in front of Zsolt Kálnay and Dániel Dunavölgyi.
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AMain.com’s world-famous Silver Dollar R/C Raceway will host the Second Annual SWorkz Challenge presented by JConcepts on May 29th to 31st. The race will also serve as the ROAR Nationals Warm-Up Race so you can expect to see the nation’s top nitro off-road racers as they prepare and test for the coveted nationals. The race will see Pro, Open, Electric and 40+ 1/8th scale classes with the Open class racers won’t want to miss the SWorkz Challenge sponsorship opportunity as there will be a sponsorship deal with SWorkz, JConcepts, ProTek R/C and Airtronic. Combined with a best trick contest, TQ’s “$100 Dash For Cash” for all class TQs and Chico’s finest food trucks serving tasty grub, the SWorkz Challenge is sure to be a huge event in late May. More information can be found here and here.
