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March 20, 2014

Mikael Johansson joins ORCA

Mikael Johansson joins Orca

Team ORCA announced the signing of European Junior Champion Mikael Johansson to their team. Mikael is a 1/10 2WD and 4WD European Off-Road Junior Champion as well multiple Swedish cup winner and has finished on the podium at various Nordic Championships. Mikael will race all important off-road classes with the ORCA electronics and has this to say about the deal:

I am very happy to be a part of team ORCA and their development of great products. I really feel trust in my ORCA electronics and I know that this can help me to get the results that I want. Thank you for this opportunity and special thanks to Joey of ORCA and Henrik Gustafsson of Minicars Hobby Distribution AB, the new Swedish ORCA distributor.

Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]

March 19, 2014

Brand & Moon win at Tennessee State Championship

ROCCK Raceway located in Knoxville, TN hosted the Tennessee State Championship bringing in over 150 entries from Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and other surrounding states. JConcept’s Shay Brand was able to TQ in Pro eBuggy with his Mugen MBX7-Eco. In Pro Buggy Shay was able to finish up qualifying 2nd overall, behind Cole Ogden, running his MBX7. Mark Moon was able to TQ in the Open 2WD Short Course class and later took his TQ spot to victory. In Pro eBuggy Shay Brand converted his TQ position into a win while finishing 2nd in Pro Buggy.

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March 19, 2014

Matias & Coelho win at Portuguese off-road nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the Portuguese 1/10th electric off-road nationals took place at the GodinTT race track with 18 entries in 2WD and 27 in the 4WD class. The track proofed to be very challenging with its high grip astroturf surface and loads of bumps. In the 2WD class Miguel Matias pretty much dominated the competition and he took quite an easy win as he did in round 1. Nuno Roque and Arnaldo Guedes completed the top 3 result.

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March 18, 2014

Jerome Sartel wins at RCMag Brushless Tour Rd1

The first round of the French 1/8th electric off-road championships, called the RC Mag Brushless Tour, took place last weekend at the multi-surface track of Sucy-en-Brie. Of the 150 drivers 124 attended in the E-buggy class forcing the organisers to run 14 car heats in order to finish the qualifiers and finals in time. Agama’s Jerome Sartel was the man to beat in the buggy and truggy classes as the took the TQ in the 6 minute qualifiers and while he won four out of the four finals in the truggy class, the buggy race was a bit more exciting as he battled with Renaud Monin and Stephane Deroch for the win. At the end Jerome came in 1st in the second and fourth leg handing him the win in front of Renaud and Stephane. In the truggy class Philippe Schlafmunter and Antonio Carvalho completed the podium. The 1/10th short course class had Stephane Deroch taking the win from Samy Fevre and Julien Offenburger. The next round will take place in Montpellier on the weekend of the 13th of April.

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March 18, 2014

John Michael doubles at March Madness race

The March Madness race at The RC Pit saw John Michael taking the win in Pro Buggy following an exciting first part of the race. While being in front he got hung up on a pipe where there was no marshal which allowed the 2nd and 3rd driver to catch up and John fell back to 2nd place. 4 laps later John regained the lead and he was able to take the win. Griffin Hanna finished 2nd. In E-buggy John Michael followed closely to the leader Griffin Hanna for the first 4 minutes of the race. Once the leader made a mistake John Michael got past and stretched out his lead over the next 6 minutes to take the win.

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March 18, 2014

Darren Bloomfield wins at BRCA Truggy nats Rd1

The 1st round of the BRCA National Truggy Championships was held at Herts over the weekend. With the UK once again experiencing clear, sunny weather the competitors for the opening round of the Truggy and E-Buggy Nationals were in for a treat with the track having been rolled and prepared since the previous weekend. In Truggy qualifying Darren Bloomfield spent the time adjusting his car after the previous event in the US where servo issues had prevented a good result, but here he was thankfully able to concentrate on improving the set up and improving his lap times. He would eventually end up qualifying in 2nd place on the grid behind Mugen’s Jack Embling and in a good place to challenge for the main final. Darren’s Agama teammates Ollie Currie and Jon Hazlewood started directly behind Bloomfield in 3rd and 4th respectively on the grid.

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March 17, 2014

Elliott Boots takes BRCA E-Buggy nationals Rd1

The first round of the BRCA Truggy and E-Buggy nationals took place at the Herts Nitro Model Club last weekend. In the E-Buggy class Lee Martin (Mugen) took the TQ from Elliott Boots (Kyosho). Jack Embling (Mugen) came in third while Simon Willetts (Mugen) and Simon Reeves (TLR) completed the top 5. In the A-final Elliott passed Lee after he had a coming together with another driver in the first few laps. Elliott then kept his cool and drove his own race and won by about 10 seconds having to drive smoothly to get to the end due to the long A-main and worrying about battery capacity. Lee Martin came in second, Jack Embling finished third some 20 seconds down.

Source: Elliott Boots [elliott-boots.com]

March 17, 2014

Maifield pulls off 4 in a row at Cactus Classic

Ryan Maifield has pulled off a fourth consecutive 4WD Buggy title at the Pro-Line Cactus Classic, taking second in the deciding third A-Main behind Top Qualifier Joern Neumann securing him the overall win at SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, Arizona. Finishing third in A3, having run ahead of Maifield for 5-laps, HB’s Ty Tessmann claimed the overall runner-up spot with newly crowned 2WD Buggy Champion Dakotah Phend completing the podium on the event’s final visit to the popular location which since 1993 has been home to America’s longest running offroad race.

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