The eleventh annual Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at Heritage RC Park in Chula Vista, CA. Team Associated driver, Ryan Cavalieri, had an exceptional weekend with a TQ and win in the E-buggy class outperforming Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) in 2nd and Chad Panek (Tekno RC) in 3rd spot.
Image: Jimmy Babcock
This weekend was the Futaba Electric Challenge hosted by Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. This very unique event which competes on both indoor and outdoor surfaces across two days of racing to crown an overall champion. The first day of competition started on Leisure Hours’ flowing, high-grip indoor track. In 2WD, Chad Due was able to TQ two of the three rounds of qualifying to start first on the grid in the main, followed by Ryan Lutz (Team Durango) and fellow Team Associated teammate Corey Liebherr. In the main, the first few laps were very clean and then a mistake by Ryan and Corey gave room for Mason Perillo (Team Associated). At the end Chad was able to cruise to the finish with Mason taking 2nd and Ryan 3rd.
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The 2014 Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at the Heritage R/C Park in Chula Vista, CA. The annual event promoted and directed by Jimmy Babcock continually brings out the best drivers from Southern California. Qualifying started with the awaited Ryan and Ryan show with TLR’s Ryan Maifield taking round 1 of the 1/8th Pro buggy class with Ryan Cavalieri piloting the new AE prototype to 2nd in the round. Truggy qualifying in round 1 also went the way of Maifield taking the 0 qual point for the round and holding an early edge in both competitive classes. The detailed track built by Don Vinkemulder had that distinctive California flow incorporating rollers, floating jump sections and elevation changes. With a slightly watered surface, tire wear was nonexistent during qualifying with only dry sections really forming toward the end of un-watered races.
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Schumacher welcome Richard “Tricky” Taylor to their off road team. Richard’s long and successful career in 1/10th off road includes four BRCA National Championship titles, twice EFRA Euros podium finisher, and an IFMAR Worlds A-final. In recent years Richard has been running 1/8th off-road, where he has achieved A-final positions at the Neo buggy race and several British nationals. Now, concentrating on 1/10th again, with his new CAT K1 Aero and Cougar KF cars, Richard will be a top contender at the popular Chadderton indoor series this winter and BRCA Nationals in 2015.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
During last weekend’s final round of the Portuguese 1/8th scale Nitro Buggy national championship in Ortigosa Serpent’s Carlos Duraes (Serpent) took the win, but the race was also on for the overall championship between Bruno Coelho and his Xray team mate Miguel Matias. In the 45 minute final Bruno and Miguel started from 3rd and 4th respectively and in the beginning stages Miguel quickly moved into the lead, constantly opening a gap on Bruno. In order to save tyres and to keep the car in one piece Miguel started to drive very conservatively, eventually falling back to 3rd place only 2 seconds behind 2nd placed Ricardo Monteiro (TLR). Bruno ended 2 laps down in 4th place and this meant Miguel and Bruno would be tie on points with the better end for Bruno as Miguel had a DNF to count that handed Bruno Coelho the 2014 national championship title.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Though cloudy skies covered the outdoor 2014 Danish Championship finale, but it did not rain on Jesper Rasmussen’s parade. He successfully drove his Team Associated buggy to the series win in the 2WD Buggy class, winning the A-main on the Astroturf track with his Reedy-equipped RC10B5M. If that wasn’t enough, he also piloted his Reedy-equipped B44.2 Factory Team buggy to championship in 4WD Buggy.
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Last weekend’s Portuguese 1/8th buggy nationals saw Serpent’s Carlos Duraes take the win, having earlier taking the top qualifying spot, in front of TLR driver Ricardo Monteiro. Xray’s Miguel Matias finished 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The German 1/10th 2WD buggy nationals took place in Gemünden on an all-astroturf track. Changing weather conditions over the weekend made things tricky for the drivers and mixed-up the field in the qualifiers but after winning the recent 4WD Buggy and Short Course Truck nationals Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann was on a mission again in the dry 2WD Modified Buggy finals to take the national title early after winning the first and second A-final. Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp came in 2nd while Team Associated driver Patrick Hofer completed the top 3 result.
Image: Jörn Neumann
