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December 11, 2013

Robert Batlle wins at Guadalcacin indoor race

Last weekend saw the running of the Guadalcacin electric buggy indoor race in Spain. Current 1/8th IFMAR Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle attended along other top Spanish drivers like Alex Daras, Hector Albarracín or Zacarías Villalba. In 2WD Robert (Y0komo) took the win in front of Zacarías (Team C) and Alex (Yokomo) while Kiko while Kiko Navarro and David Bustos filled the remaining podium spots in 4WD for a Yokomo 1-2-3.

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December 11, 2013

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd3 – Report

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd3

The Hudy Racing Arena hosted the third round of the Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup. As usual practice started Friday afternoon and went on till midnight to allow plenty of track time to get the cars dialled in for the high grip surface. Again the 17.5T Stock touring car class attracted the most drivers and it was David Nemcek who took the win from Michal Vitamvas and Ales Pelikan, who completed the podium in third place. Pavel Martinec and Martin Zvara came in fourth and fifth respectively. David then went on to win the Modified touring car class also. This time ahead of Jiri Vysin and Tomas Liptak. Jiri Janousek and Juraj Hudy completed the top 5 result.

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December 10, 2013

Mikael Johansson joins Xray

Xray have announced that the young talented European Junior Champion Mikael Johansson has joined the Xray team. The former Kyosho driver is 1/10 2WD & 4WD European Junior Champion as well multiple Swedish cup winner and has finished on the podium at various Nordic Championships. Mikael will race all the off-road classes with the XB8, XB4, XB4 2WD, XB9E & XT9. He had this to say:

I am so happy that I got this possibility to work with a great company like Xray and to work with superstars like Bayer and Savoya. Xray has a strong team both in Sweden and around the world and I am very glad to be part of it and I am looking forward this new challenge. Thanks to Henrik Gustafsson, Mario & Martin Hudy and of course my dad for letting me to have this opportunity, I will do all my best.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 10, 2013

Bayer & Mára win Czech national championship

Last weekend the final round of the Czech national 1/10 electric off-road championship was held at an indoor track in Bilovec. In 4WD Martin Bayer, coming from second on the grid, won in front of Ales, Jiri Mara took the 3rd place. The win secured Martin the overall title in the 4WD class, Jiri Mara ended the season in 2nd place followed by David Kukla.

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December 10, 2013

Vogt doubles at Team Orion Offroad Islikon Masters

The second Team Orion Offroad Islikon Masters took place last weekend in Islikon, Switzerland. The event saw 104 entries in six different classes. Team Durango Switzerland Driver Patrick Vogt took the pole position in 2WD and second position in 4WD buggy and later went on to win both classes. In 2WD Fabian Luca Widmer (Yokomo) came in 2nd and with Sven Zünd (Kyosho) taking 3rd place. In 4WD class Sven Zünd (Kyosho) came in 2nd and Milan Steiner (Team Durango) completed the podium in 3rd position.

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December 10, 2013

JC Super Cup Championship Series Rd3 – Report

Florida’s top racers celebrated Thanksgiving weekend at Jeff’s RC Studio in Fort Myers for stop number 3 of JConcepts’ Super Cup Fall Session. Jeff, Sam and crew worked long and hard to prepare for the record setting entries that began to arrive early Friday morning. With a recent move and expansion, the outdoor off-road track was still in its infancy having been built only a month earlier. The layout was perfect along with the preparation of the track surface, it was set to groove in for maximum traction. Mother Nature kept all racers on their toes throughout the day as a heavy cloud cover kept the sun at bay until almost 11 AM. The sun was working its magic drying the track surface and it was showing on the lap times as they rapidly dropped. Unfortunately a heavy mist moved into the area for about an hour and made this very interesting for all the racers. It made for some of the best, closest racing yet.

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December 9, 2013

Pro-Line EP Masters Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Pro-Line Winter Masters at Storm Valley again attracted a good amount of UK racers. In 4WD 4WD Mitch took top honours for round one, just missing the fabled 19 lapper by 12 hundredths of a second, with Craig appearing in the top three in second place with Glen Howard taking the last top three place just a second ahead of his brother Graham. Round two once again saw Mitch in pole but with a new name in the frame for second in the shape of Ryan Lawrence, just half a second ahead of Craig. Round three and Mitch continued his domination with a 19 lapper, a Howard brother in second, this time the Graham flavour, and Craig once again third. Final round and Graham broke Mitchell’s strangle hold on top spot to take the honours in this round with Mitch second and Craig being pushed out of the top three by Ryan.

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December 9, 2013

Hara wins Pattaya Buggy Party race

The Pattaya Buggy Party race took place last weekend and the event was just another Asian meeting to be dominated by Atsushi Hara, this time running SWorkz’ forthcoming S350 Evo buggy. After taking TQ the Japanese ace, who appears to attend each race with a different brand of vehicle, went on to win the 50 minute final by one lap ahead of Meen Vejrak. Joseph Quagraine completed the podium while Carlee Phutiyothin completed the top 4 result.

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