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July 16, 2014

Rudy Rico doubles at JBRL Electric Series Rd6

The 6th round of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series took place at Pegasus Hobbies Raceway in Montclair, California. Over 180 total entries signalled that good competition was in attendance. In the Pro4 short course class Rudy Rico took the win from David Jenson and Chris Blais. The result was the same in the 1/8th electric buggy class. Rudy excelled and took the victory, this time from Carlos Arredondo, lapping 3rd placed Ryan Dunford in the process.

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July 15, 2014

Clarification on fuel supply for 1/8th Buggy Worlds

In the wake of the forthcoming 2014 IFMAR 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Championships in Italy speculations about the availability of nitro fuel for the event arose among the participants. Due to new European Community regulations kicking in at the beginning of September and some strict Italian regulations related to it, the organisers where forced to look after official fuel suppliers that are now found in the form of Tornado, Runnertime, Merlin Fuel and Maxima. This will ensure every driver is able to choose between these four fuel brands, the European governing body EFRA announced.

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July 15, 2014

Marios Christodoulou takes RCE championship Rd3

The 3rd round of this year’s RCE championship was halt at the Dirt Paradise track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Run in very hot weather conditions the day’s win went to Marios Christodoulou, who also posted the fastest laps of the day. Nicholas Zachariades in 2nd and Andreas Thrasyvoulou in 3rd completed the podium while George Eleftheriou and Savvas Savva rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 14, 2014

Perfect TLR debut for Maifield

Ryan Maifield completed the perfect debut with Team Losi Racing as he took all three of his new TLR cars to victory at the JConcepts Indoor Summer Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Having dominated the same event last year with Team Associated, the Arizona ace’s much anticipated first outing with his new team again produced an all concequering performance. Top Qualifier for each of his A-Mains, in the series’ two big classes, 2wD & 4WD buggy, he would wrap things up early repeating his A1 performances in A2 to claim overall victory. Also debuting TLR’s new 22 SCT 2.0 at the A-Main Hobbies owned track he made it a hat trick as he took the win of that class’ single A-Main.

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July 14, 2014

Stu Wood wins 2WD class at 2014 oOoos

The final round of the 2014 oOple series was held at the Southport club in the UK. Stu Wood took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and came out successful in 4WD final while scoring a 2nd place in 2WD behind Chris Evison. The result handed him the overall championship title in 2WD in front of Ben Jemison and James Helliwell. In 4WD Ben Jemison took the overall title from Stuart Wood and Gregg Williams.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 14, 2014

Joseph Quagraine TQs and wins Finnish nationals Rd2

The 2nd Round of the Finnish 1/8th off-road national championship series was held last weekend in Turku. Joseph Quagrain (JQ/Reds) managed to TQ and win the event, and is now leading the series, after 2 races in the 4 race series. Ari Heinonen (Kyosho/Alpha) finished 2nd, and Tomi Salonen (Mugen/O.S.) 3rd, matching their current positions in the series.

Source: JQ Racing [jqracing.com]

July 14, 2014

Ty Tessmann doubles at Quebec Classic race

The Quebec Classic race was held at the Circuit RC International in St. Etienne, Quebec this past weekend. The race saw the attendance of some of the fastest 1/8th off-road drivers around, like Hot Bodies’ Ty Tessman, Xray’s Reno Savoya or TLR’s Adam Drake. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Canada’s Ty Tessmann who came out successful in front of Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Renaud Savoya (Xray). In the Nitro Truggy class it was again Ty who excelled on home soil and who came out successful, this time in front of Adam Drake (TLR) and Mugen’s Derek Sousa.

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July 14, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the 2014 Belgian SCT Cup was organised by the new A.R.T. Sprimont club and held at the former RCEL track. The layout was unchanged from last year and the track is considered to be one of the best in the country, with elevation changes and high speed chicanes on a surface offering many different grip levels along the day. In the absence of current Pro2 ranking leader, Philippe Hautecoeur, France was represented by two newcomers, Laurent and Emilie Halluin (Team Associated). Laurent made an excellent start by setting TQ times in the first two qualification rounds while running in the slower heat. Nicolas Evens (TLR) won the third round to make it second on the grid, followed by Julian André (Team Associated). 1/10 4WD Belgian national champion Jean-Yves Konings completes the top 4.

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