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March 19, 2015

Euro Contest 2015 – Announcement

Bittydesign officially announce the 2015 Euro Contest, held at the Barco-Off racetrack in Italy from June 5th to 7th. Situated around an hour’s drive from the Bologna airport the track offers a unique “US style” layout that will receive some big changes for the 2015 race. Entries for the 3-day event are limited to 192 drivers with Friday seeing free practice, qualifying on Saturday and the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) followed by the Superpole and Finals on Sunday. The race is held in Nitro Pro and Open Buggy classes as well as an 1/8th E-Buggy category. More information and registration is available here.

March 18, 2015

Tasos Paparegas wins at Greek offroad season opener

The Greek nitro off-road season opening race was held in Athens on a newly refurbished track and under perfect weather conditions. The TQ after the qualifiers went to Tasos Paparegas in front of Kodouzoglou and Zagorisos.

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March 17, 2015

Lorenzo Crolla continues with FX

FX have announced the contract renewal with young and talented Lorenzo Crolla for the 2015 season. The French front runner will use the FX engines during his off-road campaign that will include the EFRA Euros, the French nationals, the NEO Race and more. Lorenzo had the following to say:

I have raced the FX engines during the entire 2014 season and being satisfied with the performance and reliability there is no other consideration than to continue with FX for 2015 as well. I will race all the major nitro off-road races in France as well international races including European Championship, EFRA GPs and NEO race. I am looking forward the 2015 season with my FX engine.

Source: FX [fx-engines.com]

March 17, 2015

Abernethy & Whelan win at Navan Winter Series

The Navan Winter Series attracted drivers from all over Ireland and it finished up at the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Jason Noonan took 3rd, Jakub Wawrzacz 2nd and Barkley Abernethy took the overall win for an all-Agama podium lock-out while in E-Buggy Agama driver Colin Whelan grabbed the overall win.

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March 17, 2015

Billy Fischer teams up with Tekno RC

With industry veteran Billy Fischer Tekno RC announce the latest addition to their team. Billy is well known around the world for his speed, setup knowledge, and willingness to help others off the track. He is already up to speed and will debut his new ride at the upcoming Silver State Nitro Challenge. Billy had this to say:

I’m really excited to join the Tekno team! I’d like to thank Daniel Lewis and Matt Wolter for the opportunity, and Casey Peck for initiating this relationship. The product quality is amazing and the performance has been great right from the start. I really look forward to working with such an awesome group of people and can’t wait for the first race!

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]

March 16, 2015

JQ wins at Silver State warm-up race

Last weekend the Silver State warm-up race was held in Las Vegas. Local track record holder Kyle Johnson TQ’d over JQ Racing’s Joseph Quagraine after two rounds of qualifying. The A-main was 25 minutes long, and after a fun race on a true offroad track, bumpy and difficult, JQ took the win with former World Champion Greg Degani (JQ Racing) finishing 2nd at one of his first outings after coming out of retirement. Track owner Chris Tocco got 3rd with his Kyosho to complete the podium.

Source: JQ Racing [jq-products.com]

March 16, 2015

Cactus Classic sees 4 different winners in Mod classes

The 2015 edition of the prestigious Cactus Classic was held this past weekend at SRS Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. The five 1/10th Modified classes saw four different winners with Ty Tessmann coming out successful in the 2WD Modified Buggy class racing a prototype HB 2WD buggy. Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri came in 2nd while Yokomo’s Lee Martin rounded out the podium.

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March 16, 2015

Mibosport Cup 2014/2015 Rd5 – Report

Round 5 and the grand finale of the 2014/15 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend with a total of 180 entries that split into 83 on-road and 97 off-road entries. The premier Touring Car Modified class saw a fight between Kuba Šimurda and Jiří Vyšín with the two also dominating the previous round 4. In qualifying Kuba took the TQ ahead of Jiří with Mario Sowka sitting in 3rd spot. In the first two A-mains, Kuba Šimurda and Jiří Vyšín both scored a win with Mario being the only driver who could catch up with the two front runners. Kuba was then leading A-main 3 and did not allow Jiří to overtake him so Kuba took the overall win with Jiří Vyšín coming in 2nd ahead of Mario Sowka.

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