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March 13, 2014

Ryan Matesa wins Mod Truck at Outback Shootout

A Main Hobbies hosted their 4th annual Outback Shootout at the Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Kyosho/Team Orion’s Ryan Matesa would make the journey from Graham, Washington to compete in what turned out to be a highly competitive event. With over 280 entries, this would be A Main Hobbies biggest event to date. The event consisted of 4 rounds of heads-up qualifying and one 8 minute final. Ryan’s RT6 was on point and he would TQ 2 rounds to take the overall one spot in Modified Truck. Ryan would walk away with the win in modified truck while lapping the field. Eddie Bernal (Team Associated) came in 2nd, Terry Wickum (Team Associated) completed the podium in 3rd.

Thanks to Joe Pillars for sending the report.

March 13, 2014

Cristian Villar wins IP Galician series Rd1

The first race of the IP Galician series took place at the Villagarcia track last weekend. Xray’s Cristian Villar took the TQ position some 9 seconds ahead of Ivan Cerdeira, Victor Remiseiro completed the top 3 after qualifying. Cristian then went on to win his semifinal too handing him the first position on the final’s starting grid only to loose the 1st place in the second lap of the main. He soon recovered, regained the lead and won the 45 minute final with 2 laps over Ivan and Manuel.

Click here to view the final result

March 12, 2014

Thornhill Racing Circuit hosts ROAR Offroad Fuel Nats

The 2014 ROAR 1/8 Offroad Fuel Nationals will be held on the weekend of the 22nd of June at the Thornhill Racing Circuit. Deep in the heart of Texas, the best that ROAR has to offer will descend onto a track designed and built by world-renowned Joey “The Dirt” Christensen to contest who will be the next U.S. national champions. Joey will also be hosting the nationals warm-up race, billed as “The Dirt Lonestar Nitro Challenge” which will be held on May 15th to 18th. Registration for the nationals is scheduled to open on ROAR’s website on March 21st, 2014. More information can be found here.

March 12, 2014

Barry Baker wins at JBRL Electric Series Rd1

Round 1 of the 2014 JBRL Electric Series visited IERC Raceway in San Bernardino, California and was greeted by a record 400+ entries. More popular than ever, the JBRL Series includes a variety of indoor and outdoor tracks across Southern California, with participation from some of the top factory drivers in the region. In 1/8 E-Buggy Reedy’s Barry Baker was pretty much the dominating factor. Starting from the pole position, Barry led wire to wire for the win in the 10-minute main event to take maximum points and another cool plaque. And in what many consider to be the premier off-road class in the series and in the U.S. as a whole, 2WD Modified, Barry Baker came back from a poor start that saw him fall as low as ninth to take the win with his Reedy-powered buggy.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

March 11, 2014

Alex Zanchettin joins EZPower

EZPower announce the signing of Italian frontrunner Alex Zanchettin to their team. The TLR team driver, winner of the 2014 Italian Job Race, will use the company’s matched LiPo batteries during his 2014 1/10th and 1/8th electric off-road campaigns.

Source: EZPower [ezpower.it]

March 11, 2014

Sinclair & Bickel win at Mafia Mayhem Race

REO Raceway in Rockport, Indiana hold the Mafia Mayhem last weekend. Track owner Jay Bickel was very pleased with the 155 entry turnout, one of the largest ever at REO. X Factory team drivers Paul Sinclair and Cody Bickel dominated most of the racing action, taking TQ and winning 4 classes. Sinclair took the TQ in 4WD and the fiercely-fought 2WD Buggy class, just one second over his teammate, and was able to cruise to a victory in both A-mains. Cody wrapped up the racing truck classes, showing an incredible pace. Particularly exciting was the Short Course A-main, which featured 5 drivers in the hunt for more than half the race until Cody was able to break away with 4 minutes to go, taking the win with his SCX-60CF.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

March 10, 2014

Tony Evdoka doubles at NCRC race

The Northern Cyprus Racing Club hold an indoor electric off-road race during the past weekend with a special guest in form of UK’s Tony Evdoka in attendance. The meeting was called the Jump Buggy Jump race and took place on a demanding carpet track with three walls of death, huge jumps and slippery wooden plates. At the end it was Tony who TQ’d both the 2WD and 4WD class and he also went on to win both classes in style. The runner-up spot in the 2WD class went to Deniz Aksüt while Umut Oztumen completed the podium. In 4WD Ilker Ercen came in 2nd and Ahmet Akber took the last remaining podium spot.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

March 9, 2014

Bayer does the double at EOS

Martin Bayer has pulled off the double at the Euro Offroad Series third round in Slovakia, the Xray driver backing up his & Team Xray’s first ever EOS win in the morning’s 2WD Main by wrapping up the overall 4WD honours early with a convincing victory in A2. With his 2WD victory somewhat unexpected, his 4WD victory has been on the cards all season and for the Czech driver this was the one he wanted most, ending Joern Neumann & Team Durango’s reign as the championship’s only 4WD winners, a record that until today stood for 9 races over 3-seasons.

Continue reading this report here or our view our full event coverage here.