The 3rd round of the Dutch Truggy Cup was held at the astro turf track in Appingedam in the Netherlands. Kurt van Vlemen took the TQ honours and raced to the victory in the 30 minute final. Nathan Lejuez finished 2nd, only 4 seconds down on Kurt, while Bjorn Nagels completed the podium in 3rd place.
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The 2014 Rumble in Rome set a new attendance record for their annual event with 234 entries. Drivers from Canada and all over the Northeast made the trip. In the Pro Nitro Class, Alex Kosciuszek went on to a relatively easy victory in the 45 minute A-main after Arizona based driver Billy Fischer experienced a pit lane flame out during the first pit stop. Alex was able to almost completely lap the field in the long A-main showing he’s not just an electric driver but a driver fully capable at all times.
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The 4th annual Mid Summer Shootout was run at Coyote Hobbies in Victorville CA with about 180 entries. During qualifying in Mod Buggy, it was a battle between Jake Mayo, Rudy Rico, and Jeff Guest for the TQ. Jeff grabbed the TQ in round one and Jake went on to TQ the final two rounds of qualifying. So starting off the triple A-Mains it was Jake taking the TQ, while Jeff Guest was second and Rudy Rico was sitting in third.
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The Alabama Manufacturer Shootout event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the most well-known races on the calendar during the Summer racing season. The AMS 5.0 event had a record 600 entries, race directors Jimmy Babcock and Canyon Thompson kept the program running smooth all weekend while the AMS crew built a very technical layout that held extremely well. Qualifying in the Pro classes was dominated by Adam Drake. Drake was the overall TQ in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Truck, and 1/8th Electric buggy.
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The 2014 EFRA 1/8th Buggy European Championship B was run at the Circuito CARTT Fuencarral track in Madrid, Spain. Javi Pombo (Mugen) was the dominant driver all weekend and he quite easily grabbed the TQ position after the four qualifying rounds. Juanma Guillen, Agustin Illanes and Jaume Figuls completed an all-Mugen top 4 after the qualifiers. The semifinal A then again went to Javi while SWorkz’ Antonio Almeida came out successful in semifinal B but a faster time handed Javi the pole position for the 45 minute final.
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The Nordic 1/10th electric off-road Championships and EFRA 2014 Euros warm-up race took place last weekend in Trelleborg, Sweden. The event took place on a purpose-built clay track housed in an icehockey stadium. The US-style layout and slippery surface called for rear motor buggies in the 2WD class and a smooth throttle finger. In said 2WD class Yokomo’s Lee Martin took the win from his Yokomo teammate Robert Batlle while Oskar Levin (Team C) completed the podium in 3rd which also handed him the Nordic Champs title.
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The 3rd round of the BRCA Truggy and E8 nationals was run in Wakefield, North Yorkshire last weekend. The all dirt track is also playing host for the Nitro national championship round 3, so it was also a good time to be getting practice and test tyres in readiness for that Championship round. In E8, 1/8th Electric Buggy, Kyosho’s Elliott Boots was able to TQ 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying which would give him the overall TQ and pole position for the main A-final later in the day in which he was able to make a clean break at the start of the race. He then started to give himself a good lead over Darren Bloomfield, who was chasing hard but after a few minutes into the race Elliott was able to pull a comfortable lead and was able to manage his final, which he would then win after nearly lapping the whole field. With 3 wins from 3 rounds for the series and only 2 more rounds left to go Elliott has also taken the national series adding another British championship crown to his CV.
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In contrast to the tight boards style track of Round 4 held at the fahr(T)raum Museum in Mattsee, Austria, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series travels for the first time to Luxembourg this weekend (6-8th June) to what is rated by many drivers as one of the greatest outdoor tracks in Europe – Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. The penultimate round of the championship, the event marks the return of former champion Jilles Groskamp, the reigning World Champion having some great memories of the track as it was where the Tamiya Racing Factory driver won his first major title back in 2009. Another significant name on the 240 plus entry list is that of r/c racing legend David Spashett who despite many years of being involved in the championship as a sponsor will make his first race outing. Amassing an impressive 4 World Championship titles and 13 European crowns, Spashett will go up against the biggest current day names of the sport including Groskamp having entered the Ride Modified class in which he will be driving an ARC R10.
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