Revelation Raceway held the fourth round of the Team Losi Winter series. Coming into the final round of the four race series, TLR’s Tyler Brown was in control of the overall standings and wrapped up the last race with a solid 2nd place finish with his Novarossi powered TLR 3.0 buggy.
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Xray announce that young talented driver Kennie Ekenstierna teams up with Xray for the 2014 season. The Nordic vice-champion and top Swedish off-road driver will run the full line of Xray 1/8th and 1/10th scale off-road cars. Kennie will primarily focus on the 1/10 off-road European Championship that will be held in Sweden, as well as all Nordic and Swedish races and has to say the following about the deal:
I have been racing Xray XB4 and XB4 2WD as a private driver since last year, and I am very impressed with their performance and reliability which allowed me to attain 2nd place at the Nordic Championship last year as well as getting to onto the podium many times at various races in both classes. It was not a hard decision for me to change also my 1/8 buggy to an Xray. I am very honored to be given the opportunity to work directly with the Xray world racing team and I am super excited to work with drivers the likes of Savoya, Bayer, and Matias. I know I will learn so much from them and will improve my racing skills. I want to give my thanks to Minicars for their support, and my thanks and appreciation to Xray for their trust in me.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the 2014 JBRL Nitro Series got underway at the Thunder Alley RC Raceway last weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class TLR’s Adam Drake and Kyosho’s Kyle McBride and Cody King all looked fast in qualifying and this would also proof in the 15 minute main where Adam and Cody battled the entire final. With about 4 minutes left Cody made the final pass to take the lead and with a gap of about a second he was able to beat Adam Drake who had to settle for 2nd place. Kyosho’s Kyle McBride, who is preparing for the Silver State race, completed the podium in 3rd.
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The 2014 Pro-Line LoneStar Challenge will take place from the 15th to 18th of May at the Thornhill Racing Circuit. The race doubles as the warm-up for this year’s ROAR Gas Nationals and is also the third stop of the 2014 USPro Cup tour and already attracted all of the industry’s big names. The event will see Pro, Open and Sportsman classes for Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy as well as 40+ Nitro Buggy, Truggy and E-Buggy and also Pro and Sport Pro4 SC classes. Full details on the event are available here and registration for the race can be made using PayPal (thedirtracing@aol.com – include your entry info in the “Note” field).
MRRC Raceway, a new club in Long Island, NY, will hold their season opener this weekend. The race will see 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Truggy as well as E-Buggy and E-Truggy classes along 4WD Pro4 SC, run on a new track built by The Dirt’s Joey Christensen. More information can be found here.
After a month-long break the final round of the Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup took place at the Hudy Racing Arena last weekend. Again all seven categories including Touring Car and Buggy classes where run. As usual the meeting started on Friday with free practice while the qualifiers and finals where run on Saturday. The off-road race took place on the same track as the EOS round two weeks before and had Martin Bayer walking away with the win in the 2WD class. Martin and Juraj Hudy completed the podium for an Xray XB4 2WD 1-2-3.
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Last weekend’s Psycho Nitro Blast saw Adam Drake (TLR/Novarossi) walking away with the win in the Pro Truck class. Drake came in 1st after the 45 minute final on the huge and very demanding indoor track in front of Cody King (Kyosho/reds) and Carson Wernimont (Mugen/O.S.) who all finished on the same lap.
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The first ever ACRP club trophy was run at the historic Trofa track in the North of Portugal. The race format was quite a special one as the qualifying seeded the drivers into different final heats that are all run over 30 minutes with the fastest overall time declaring the winner. Tiago Aguiar TQ’ed the race but due to massive rain he opted not to race his final, handing Nuno Rebelo the overall win. Jose Leitao finished with the second fastest time while Ruben Simoes completed the podium in third place.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
