The 1/8th Buggy EFRA European B Championship warm-up was run last weekend on the CARTT track in Madrid, Spain. Javi Pombo (Mugen/Ultimate) came out first followed by Mugen teammate Borja Hernandez and Kyosho driver Alvaro Mardones.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net]
The first round of the Swedish 1/8th off-road cup was run in Skövde this past weekend. Due to constant rain during the week the track was flooded when the drivers arrived on Friday evening and the organisers quickly tried to dry the track on Saturday morning, but come the first practice round it was still very wet and only a few drivers opted to run on the saw dust covered track. When the second round started things became better and most of the drivers tried to get some laps in before the qualifying.
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Pro-Line Racing announces the return of the The Dual race for the weekend of the 1st of June. The Dual is a unique race that sees two days of racing on two entirely different tracks – the Pro-Line test track on the 31st of May and Thunder Alley Raceway on the 1st of June. Run in several nitro buggy, an open electric buggy and invite nitro buggy and truggy classes, the race will see Jimmy Babock as the announcer, a raffle for the racers, a Monster Energy trophy girl for the looks and many more. Additional information about the race can be found here.
A qualifying round for the German 1/8th Nitro Buggy nationals was held at the Oberhausen track last weekend. Team Durango driver Jörn Neumann (Team Durango/FX) showed great speed with the new DNX8 prototype right from the first practice run. Jörn was able to TQ and win the 30 minute final by over a lap from 2nd placed Daniel Reckward (RB/RB) and 3rd placed Marcel Guske (LRP/LRP).
Thanks to Jörn Neumann for sending the report.
Round 3 of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series was run at Rainman’s Hobbies in Bakersfield, California. While Kevin Motter and Matthew Pages came out successful in the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes, Cody Turner took the win in Pro2 Short Course followed by Kevin Motter and Nicholas Blais in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Pro4 SC went to Rudy Rico who left Ryan Dunford and David Jenson behind while the 2WD Modified Truck win went to Jake Mayo. Matt Gilbert and Wayne Wyrick completed the top 3 result. In 1/8th E-Buggy Ryan Dunford ended the day on top with Rudy Rico and Nicholas Blais grabbing the two remaining podium spots. More results can be found on the official JBRL website by clicking here.
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The 2nd round of the Benelux Truggy nationals was held on the astroturf track of Helmond. 35 racers from the Netherlands and Belgium attended the event that was won by Belgium driver Kurt van Vlemen (Serpent). Jarno Pijper (Xray) and Jordy Velder (Kyosho) completed the top 3 result. The national series resumes on the 25th of May in Appingedam.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The 2nd annual Asia Contest was run at the former IFMAR World Championship track in Pataya and saw SWorkz’ Atsushi Hara taking the win from Wataru Takashiro (Kyosho) and Paphon C (Mugen). Witsatut R (Agama) and Meen V (Mugen) completed the top 5 result.
Source: Asia Contest [theasiacontest.com]
The 2014 JBRL Electric Series round 3 hosted by Rainman’s Hobby & Raceway located in Bakersfield, CA took place last weekend and with 270 entries, breaking another record for the most entries in Bakersfield. Kevin Motter takes the win in 2WD Modified Buggy with his Team Associated B5M and put down some incredible laps taking the TQ spot and a dominate win in the A Main. Elsewhere in the 4WD class Matthew Pages drove his TLR 22-4 to victory. The 2014 JBRL Electric Series will resume on May 17th at OCRC.
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