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June 4, 2014

Matias wins 3rd round of Portuguese buggy nats

Last weekend the 3rd round of Portuguese national 1/8th off-road championships took place at the 2010 EFRA European Championship track in Guarda. This track is well known for being very hard and demanding not only for the drivers but especially for the cars, tyres, and engines. In the final Xray’s Miguel Matias came out successful in front of his team mates Nuno Rebelo and Bruno Coelho. Joao Lopes and Tiago Aguiar completed the top 5 result.

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June 4, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup 2014 Rd3 – Report

The 3rd round of the Belgian SCT Cup was hosted by the Belgium Power Team based in Merchtem. The club is a regular host of the Cup and always good for a great time. This year the track had been changed to a more technical layout with a pretty challenging and big off-camber turn. Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) kept the momentum of his overall win in previous race and took the first Pro2 qualifier with a 3 seconds margin on Nicolas Evens (TLR). Julian André in 3rd is struggled with his car on the astroturf surface. The second leg saw Nicolas posting the fastest time ahead of Philippe and Edouard-Benoît Michez (Team Associated). Philippe then went on to take the final leg to take the overall TQ spot, ahead of Nicolas and Julian.

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June 4, 2014

Adam Drake doubles at the Tale of Two Cities race

Last weekend was the Tale of Two Cities race at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse in El Paso, Texas. The event kicked off with practice on Friday and racing took place Saturday. TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’d both in the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy class. In the 30 minute Nitro final Drake got a clean start and was able to lead start to finish while he also came out successful in the E-Buggy class.

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June 3, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins at Austrian Buggy nationals Rd1

This past weekend the first round of the Austrian nitro off-road nationals took place. Martin Wollanka was able to TQ the meeting by scoring the only 8 lap qualifying runs. The Xray driver started to struggle in the 1/2 final when the track conditions changed from low to high grip so he ultimately started from 3rd position into the final but some quick wrenching during the break before the main allowed him to up his pace and to end a fight with Dominic Bauer successfully. At the end of the 45 minute final Martin won with a 20 second marking in front of Dominic Bauer and Rene Kargl.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 3, 2014

Hupo Hönigl sweeps Austrian EP off-road nats Rd2

Hupo Hönigl sweeps Austrian electric off-road nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Austrian 1/10th electric off-road nationals saw Team C’s Hupo Hönigl walking away with the TQ and win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Run at the TSA Krieglach track, Hupo took quite easy wins in A1 and A2 of the 2WD class allowing him to sit out A3. Philip Stocker finished 2nd, Martin Kreil completed the podium in 3rd. The 4WD class had again Hupo taking wins in A1 and A2 although he had quite a competition in the form of Team Associated’s Stefan Pfeifhofer in A2. Stefan then went on to take the overall runner-up spot from team mate Peter Pinisch by winning A3.

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June 3, 2014

Tom Cockerill wins at TORCH round of BRCA nats

This weekend the BRCA 10th Off-Road National series visited TORCH club in Titchfield, the deep South of England. A new venue to the 6 round national series for this year, having previously hosted an end of season final. The club had done a good job of laying a fairly open, race-able track, with plenty of features to keep drivers busy, but nothing too difficult that it was make or break for any level of driver. The national format sees just 2 rounds of 3 minute practice runs before drivers in to 4 rounds of qualifying and then finals, with just the A main having 3 legs to battle it out, 2WD on the Saturday and 4WD on the Sunday.

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June 3, 2014

Mike Garrison wins at 2014 Spring Shootout

This past weekend hosted the 2014 Fastlane Raceway Spring Shootout in Blue Springs, Missouri. In the largest class of the weekend 1/8 Expert E-Buggy Team Losi Racing’s Mike Garrison found himself in a three-way battle for the lead. He worked his way to the front battling for the lead with Xray team driver Spencer Wall. Mike the led majority of the race until Wall made a surprise last lap pass heading into a big double section. Garrison retaliated with an over-the-top big air pass with less than a few corners to go, capturing the overall Expert E-Buggy class win.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

June 2, 2014

Darren Bloomfield wins UK Truggy nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the 2014 BRCA Truggy series was held at the Wakefield track in the North of England. After taking a convincing TQ with his Bullitt-powered Agama A8T, Darren Bloomfield would go on to dominate the main final to take his second victory in the series, with team mate Jon Hazlewood taking victory at round 2. The E-buggy class would see an exciting duel between Darren Bloomfield and Elliott Boots for the TQ spot, with Elliott just edging it despite Darren having the fastest individual time en route to a round TQ. The main final would see a great drive from Tony Truman who had had a terrible qualifying leaving him having to come through the B final. Tony drove his way through the pack to take an excellent 2nd overall behind Elliott. Darren had an issue that sidelined him at around half distance. Callum Niblett completed the podium with a fine 3rd place as he continues his recent upturn in form.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]