The first round of the hotly contested Silverstone Winter Series took place at the Silverstone Model Car Club. In the 2WD class Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took TQ and went on to win the A final with Kevin Lee and Nathan Waters completing the podium. Callum Niblett came in fourth with Tom Yardy and David Burton in tow.
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Argentina will not be hosting next year’s 1:10 200mm Nitro Touring Car World Championship. The decision was made this morning at the IFMAR AGM which is taking place at the 1:8 Onroad World Championships in Japan. With only a single application from a track not too far from venue of last year’s troubled 1:8 Offroad World Championship, the Pros & Cons of hosting the race near Buenos Aires were discussed with it decided that in the best interest of the class the race be relocated. With no FAMAR representative traveling to Japan to attend the AGM it was voted that the WC would be awarded to FEMCA. Hosts of last year’s Worlds in Thailand, where Meen Vejrak claimed the title, FEMCA accepted and will now start to gather applications from the 15 countries which they represent. 1:10 Nitro Touring Car is at a critical point with numbers struggling and moving the race should be viewed positively by the small number of manufacturers still supporting the class.
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For 2013 the ROAR Region 4 Off-Road Championships were held just outside of Orlando in Sanford, FL, at the popular Holeshot Raceway. Kris James and company put in the effort to ensure a great event with a technical inspection duo, constant track maintenance and race announcing courtesy of Lance MacDonald. The stage was set for a relatively serious event while roughly 160 entries filled the facility and parking lot for the once a year Florida showdown. Qualifying started briskly on Saturday morning with the 1st of 3 qualifiers to determine positioning for the main events. JR Mitch and Billy Easton were some of the fastest drivers during the first round of qualifying in the 2WD modified class and rose to the top each round showing consistency.
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The RB/Xray Cup took place at the SAMC club in La Motte Servolex in France. 65 drivers attended in 1/8 Buggy Open and Promo as well as 1/8 E-buggy. Friday allowed for a lot of track time but come Saturday the heaven opened its gates ruining most of the day. Fortunately the club was well prepared offering good lighting to continue running in the evening. The qualifiers and finals were run on Sunday in an electric race format with 6 minute qualification runs and three 10 minute finals. The short runs made for lots of action on the track and especially the Open class saw hard battles between Miguel Matias, Marco Baruffolo and Lorenzo Crolla. At the end the three came in in the aforementioned order handing Matias the Open class win. In Promo Tanguy Vandre took the winning honours in front of David Restani and Joel Santos. The E-buggy class saw Yannick Brozzini taking the win with Corentin Precoma and Youssef Lesbir in tow.
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The French Cup for 1/10th off-road buggies took place in Nantes this past weekend. Xray driver Armand Lantheaume dominated the race by first taking TQ in the 4WD class in front of Stéphane Deroch (Xray) and Florent Jadot (Xray). He then also went on to win the A final, again with Stéphane and Florent in tow who completed the podium.
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The 2013 Southern Nationals and R/C Expo took place at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, LA. The event was a huge success with over 300 entries. Three rounds of qualifying were run on Saturday, followed by lower nitro mains and the first round of electric mains. The remaining two rounds of electric mains and upper nitro mains were run on Sunday. Adam Drake had a mechanical issue in the first round of nitro buggy, but TQ’ed round two and three to take the top qualifying honours in 1/8th nitro buggy. At the start of the 45 minute nitro buggy final, Drake was hit and sent to the rear of the field but he was able to quickly move his way back to the front and had a good battle with Taylor Peterson and Ryan Lutz before taking control of the race and settling into a comfortable lead. Drake took the victory followed by Lutz and Peterson.
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Thunder Alley R/C Raceway and the Pro-Line Test Track play host for The Dual, a unique 2-day event on the weekend of the 27th of October. Run in 1/8th Nitro Sportsman, Intermediate and Expert, 1/8th Open E-buggy and invitational Buggy and Truggy classes the race schedule sees three races at Thunder Alley Raceway on Saturday and three on the Pro-Line track on Sunday, with one throw out at each venue counting the best four to award the winners on Sunday evening. Race director is none less than Jimmy Babcock. More information and the registration can be found here.
The fourth and final instalment of the 2013 Victorian Drivers Series was held at the regional club of Wodonga, 3 hours North of Melbourne. The small but dedicated track crew put together a track that was truly worthy of the term off-road. The sugar free blue groove track provided close and fast racing that left the drivers and spectators with smiles ear to ear. 4WD Open was well suited to the fast and open track. Qualifying was a clean sweep of B44.2’s with Glen Bonetti at TQ, Paris in 2nd and Andrew Selvaggi in 3rd. Glen was able to take both A1 and A2 to take home the win followed by Andrew in 2nd and Leigh Cheeseman finishing 3rd.
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