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April 22, 2014

Adrian W wins at Malaysia National League Rd2

The 2nd round of the Malaysia National League was held with around 100 entries from Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and even Switzerland. After four rounds of qualifying Jason Nugroho (Xray) TQ’d in the Pro Buggy class but he lost his luck in the final where a couple of flameouts let him drop in the ranking. At the end he managed to grab the final podium spot behind race winner Adrian W (Kyosho) and runner-up Stanley W (Kyosho).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 18, 2014

Jörn Neumann sweeps Petit RC Race

The 8th Annual Petit Race was held this past weekend in Dortmund, Germany. This race was part of the largest Toy Fair in Europe with over 88,000 consumers passing by over 5 days. This years track layout was very flowing and contained many difficult jump sections. Drivers from Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Poland made the trip for this great event.

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April 17, 2014

Blake Boggs triples at Jamie Rogers Memorial Race

This past weekend the first annual Jamie Rogers Memorial race was held in Flowood, Mississippi. Jamie passed away in January due to a fatal heart attack while attending Flowood’s “January Jam” race. Around 150 racers from the surrounding states joined together to remember a fallen hero in the RC community. Bubba Barham, race director, did a great job for Jamie’s son Ty and his Mother, Melissa. FRC had many sponsors donating product to be raffled off to raise money for Ty and his family, with close to $4,000 raised.

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April 17, 2014

Hupo Hönigl doubles at Grand Prix of Russia

The Grand Prix of Russia 2014 was held at the huge Crocus Expo Facility in Moscow with almost 250 entries. The very well organised event was part of a huge hobby show and attracted thousands of hobbyists and spectators. The track was a typical European carpet track with wooden jumps and obstacles and due to the amount of drivers each class only had one 2 minute practise run, making it difficult for drivers to adapt to the track. In 1/8th E-Buggy and 2WD Modified Buggy Team C’s Hupo Hönigl was to take TQ and win beating Shin Adachi (Yokomo) and Jörg Tiit (Serpent) in 2WD while in E-Buggy Dmitry Malyshko took the runner-up spot. Elsewhere in 4WD Modified Buggy Shin came in 1st followed by Hupo and Jörg.

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April 16, 2014

Robert Batlle joins Xpert RC

Xpert RC announce the signing of reigning 1/8th Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle to their Factory team. The multiple Spanish champion will use XpertRC’s line of competition servos in his 1/10th electric buggy and 1/8th nitro buggies during this year’s campaign.

Source: Xpert RC [xpert-rc.com]

April 15, 2014

Yardy & Cragg win at BRCA 1/10th nats Rd1

Round 1 of the 2014 1/10th BRCA National Series ran under warm and sunny skies near Birmingham at the Kidderminster venue. The popular astroturf track saw Reedy/Team Associated factory driver Tom Yardy being the man to beat in the 2WD Modified Buggy class. Tom’s pole position start gave him the advantage he needed to hold off teammate Neil Cragg and always-fast Lee Martin for the overall win. Cragg came back with a vengeance on Sunday to dominate the first two legs of the 4WD Modified Buggy A Main and take the win while Yardy just missed the podium with a respectable fourth-place finish.

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April 15, 2014

Steven Hartson renews with LRP

LRP announce the contract extension with reigning 1/10 4WD Electric Off-Road World Champion Steven Hartson. After winning the 2013 Worlds using LRP’s Flow speed controller, Vector X20 brushless motors and LRP charging technology, Steven will now also relie on the company’s LiPo Competition Car Line batteries and Blue Factor accessories. This is what Steven has to say about the deal:

I’ve chosen to re-sign with LRP because of all the success I’ve had with their electronics. I believe that LRP is always improving to make the best products in the world.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

April 14, 2014

RB Challenge Norway Rd1 – Report

The first race of the six round RB Challenge in Norway was run with 62 drivers attending. The series is run on RB tyres and sees the nine fastest drivers from qualifying proceeding to the final with two drivers from the B-final as bump-ups. The TQ went to Bjorn Ivar Haug (Xray) and once the 40 minute final took off it was clear that the race was on between Bjorn Ivar and Team Associated driver Daniel Kobbevik with both drivers quickly pulling away from the field. 10 minutes into the race and Bjorn made a small mistake allowing Daniel to pass but Bjorn Ivar fought back eventually taking the lead again. Later on Daniel ran into trouble which resulted in three extra pit stops allowing Bjorn to cruise to the win. Daniel Kobbevik finally managed to grab the runner-up spot, Rune Karlsen (Xray) completed the podium.

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