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November 3, 2014

Mibosport Cup 2014/15 Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Mibosport Cup took place this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The event saw a massive turn out on drivers from six different countries including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland and Estonia. A total of 91 drivers attended the on-road classes with 34 drivers in Touring Car Modified, 38 in Stock LRP, 9 in Formula and 11 drivers in the 1/12th scale class. The off-road classes attracted a total of 82 drivers with 42 drivers participating in 2WD Buggy and 40 drivers in 4WD Buggy.

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November 3, 2014

Ryan Lutz leaves Team Durango

US front runner, Ryan Lutz has announced that he is to leave chassis sponsor Team Durango, despite famously announcing a 10-year contract with the brand back in 2011. In the four years since, while being very competitive, Team Durango had changed ownership which also led to a change in Ryan’s contract. While evaluation his package for the next part of his racing career, Ryan came to the conclusion that he had to move on in order to have the best possible support package on his side. Ryan didn’t give any details about where he is headed next.

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November 3, 2014

Martin Bayer doubles at Mibosport Cup Rd1

The first round of the Mibosport Cup was held last weekend with around 190 entries in several electric on-road and off-road classes. In the 2WD and 4WD electric off-road category it was Martin Bayer who took the pole positions for the finals. For the finals Martin was able to conserve his performance to take the overall win from Ronald Völker in 2nd and Kaja Novotny in 3rd in the 2WD class. In 4WD Martin again came out successful, this time with Kaja Novotny in 2nd and Bartek Zambrzycki in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 3, 2014

Elliott Boots wins 4WD Buggy at CML Masters

The CML Off Road Masters were held in France this past weekend and in the 4WD Buggy class it was Kyosho’s Elliott Boots who took the win from Xray driver Lorenzo Crolla and Team C’s Nicolas Risser. French front runner Yannick Aigoin came in 4th while UK’s Ben Jemison rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Elliott Boots [elliott-boots.com]

November 3, 2014

EFRA releases 2015 race calendar

EFRA released 2015 race calendar

Following last weekend’s EFRA AGM, the European governing body have announced the (provisional) dates for next year’s European Championships. A busy Summer season starts with 2 ‘B’ championships, while next year the 200mm nitro on-road class sees a combined A and B championship being run in Turkey. The 2 40+ titles round out the season along with the usual ‘A’ titles that are up for grabs in the Summer. New is a dedicated European Championship for the growing 1/8th E-buggy class that will be held in August at the Austrian Fehring track. Beside the introduction of the 1/8th E-buggy class, EFRA will also try and establish the 1/8th nitro GT class with the governing body trying to evaluate a sensible set of rules based on existing GT/Rally rules. Several classes also saw clarifications on existing rules with the electric classes are not allowed to run “hybrid” motors built from the parts of different manufacturers anymore. The 1/12th scale Stock class will run 13.5T motors in the future and 1/8th nitro buggies will have to use 16 percent nitro fuel from 2016 on. Full AGM details can be found here.

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October 31, 2014

Oscar Baldo wins at Levante regional champs Rd1

The first round of the Levante regional championship was held in Alicante, Spain with more than 60 drivers in attendance. The A-main saw Xray’s Ignacio Candel chase Mugen driver Oscar Baldo hard for the whole race but at the end Oscar took the win with Ignacio in 2nd. Jose Tomar Escudero (Bergonzoni) rounded out the podium in 3rd place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 30, 2014

Slovakia Cup Rd1 – Report

The 1st round of this Winter’s Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Run in the six classes of Touring Car Modified and Stock, Formula, Pan Car as well as 2WD and 4WD Buggy the race attracted a good turnout of racers. In the Touring Car Modified class Martin Hudy soon set the benchmark with David Nemcek and local driver Tomas Liptak battling for 2nd and 3rd spot in qualifying. The triple finals were then again dominated by Martin with David coming in 2nd and Tomas rounding out the podium in 3rd.

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October 30, 2014

Chris Jarosz doubles at Winter Takes All

Traction Hobbies of Reno, NV hosted the second annual Winter Takes All race. Three rounds of qualifying were run on Saturday, rocket-round style, with Triple-A mains run on Sunday with eight drivers qualifying directly to the main and two bumping from lower mains. Drivers flocked from all over the Northern California/Nevada area to see who would take the overall win along with the cash purse put up by Traction Hobbies owner Justin Clark. Qualifying went perfect for Chris Jarosz, who took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Modified classes, setting the fastest times in round 2 of qualifying on the indoor clay track. A1’s of both classes would be wire-to-wire victories for Jarosz. A2 of 2WD would be another victory for Jarosz to take the overall title. A2 of 4WD proved to be more difficult for Jarosz. An early mistake put him down to the third spot, and it was an intense battle before he would come out on top, giving Jarosz his second victory of the weekend.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]