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September 23, 2013

Antros Lemesianos wins Cyprian buggy champs Rd3

Last weekend the 3rd round of the Cyprian nitro buggy championship was held at the Navounita track in Pafos. Last year’s champion, Savvakis Milikouris (Xray) managed to take an easy TQ but in the final Milikouris made a mistake and his teammate Antros Lemesianos took the lead. With a perfect and error-free driving he managed to take the win in front of Sotiris Taifas (Xray) who took the second place in front of Savvakis Milikouris. The 2013 championship will be decided at the next and final round, at the moment both Savvakis Milikouris and Antros Lemesianos are leading the championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 23, 2013

Reno Savoya victorious at French buggy nats

The fifth and final round of the French nitro buggy nationals took place at the Chanu track in the north-western part of France. The track is often used by large scale buggies so it was difficult for the drivers to pull issue-free and consistent laps in the rough conditions. The final had Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin and Xray’s Reno Savoya battling for the lead. Both drivers swapped positions several times until Reno was able to open a gab on Jerome about 15 minutes into the 45 minute final. In the second half of the main Reno’s buggy suffered a flame out so he lost the lead to Jerome but with five minutes to go the Xray driver was able to reduce the gab by 12 seconds. Then disaster stoke for Kyosho driver Aigoin as 3 minutes before the end Jerome had to retire handing Reno the win in front of Lorenzo Crolla and Jerome Aigion.

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September 23, 2013

Nikola Krustev wins ARCMBG championship

Last weekend the final round of the Bulgarian 1/8th off-road championship took place. Serpent driver Nikola Krustev started the 30 minute final from second position on the grid but was able to take the lead in the first corner. From there he never looked back to take the win one lap ahead of Mario Vutow with Dimitir Karamfilov taking the final podium position another lap down. The win also handed Nikola the 2013 ARCMBG championship title.

Source: VP Pro [vp-racing.com]

September 20, 2013

Roy Gjemble sweeps Norwegian 1/10th off-road nats

The 2013 installment of the Norwegian National Championship was hosted by the Innherred Rc-Bilkubb in Levanger, Norway. The IHRC Raceway is an astroturf covered, 230 meter long high-speed but technical track that again proved to be a real challenge for both drivers and cars. The same track and club is likely to be the venue and host of the 2014 Nordic Championships as well so it was a good opportunity for the racers to get some track time. The race format saw the 2WD class raced on Saturday and 4WD on Sunday. This year, for the first time in Norwegian electric buggy history, the 4WD class winner would be awarded what is considered the highest achievement in sports in Norway, His Majesty the Kings Trophy.

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September 19, 2013

Krueger & Feneis win at Super Saturday Electric Series

The finale of the Minnesota based Super Saturday Electric Series took place at Wheel Brokers Raceway in Pine City. In the 2WD Modified class, Team Associated’s Kraig Krueger followed up his Minnesota State Championship with a series finale win. The victory helped him to secure the title and Super Saturday Series Championship in 2WD Modified. In the Truck Modified class, many drivers challenged for the win, but only Team Associated’s Neil Feneis can be called Series Champion. In the final round, it was a battle of the young guns. Team Associated’s Dan Hamann took the TQ honors, but Fenies would not be denied as he capped off his series championship with a final round win in Pine City.

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September 19, 2013

Niclas Maanson & Daniel Kobbevik join Savöx

NorthTQ from Denmark have announced that Sweden’s Niclas Maanson and Daniel Kobbevik from Norway have recently joined Savöx to run the popular servo brand in all of their cars. Currently practicing at OC/RC Raceway in Los Angeles as a preparation for their IFMAR World Championship campaign the two Team Associated drivers have successfully used the servos so far and now look forward for the World Championships that will kick off this Sunday.

Source: NorthTQ [northtq.com]

September 19, 2013

2013 North-West Championship Tour finale – Report

The 2013 North-West Championship Tour (NCT) finale was held this past weekend in Pasco, WA. This would be the 6th and final stop of this years series. Over the past 6 months, the NCT Series has hit six of the best outdoor tracks in The Great North-West. The race schedule saw controlled practice on Friday, three qualifying rounds on Saturday and lower bump-up mains and triple A-mains on Sunday. In 2WD Modified Buggy Kyosho’s Joe Pillars went on to TQ all three rounds of qualifying while Kyosho’s Austin Seim went onto take the wins in A-main number 1 and 2 to take the 2WD Modified Buggy overall win for the weekend. Pillars would finish 2nd in the first two A-mains after a great battle with Austin, and took a convincing win in the last A-main to finish 2nd overall. Roger Seim put in a strong showing during all three A-Mains and would tie for 3rd overall with AE’s Chris Nealeigh. After the tie breaker was calculated by each drivers 2 best finishes along with laps and times added together, it was Nealeigh just edging out Seim for 3rd overall.

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September 18, 2013

Agustin Cutini TQ’s and wins Argentinian Truggy Nats

Agustin Cutini TQ's and wins Argentinian Truggy Nats

Last weekend the Argentinian Truggy National Championship took place at last year’s Buggy World Championship track near Buenos Aires. Mugen driver Agustin Cutini took TQ with his Novarossi-powered truck and also went on to win the final ahead of Sebastian Recio (Mugen/Novarossi) and Nicolas Bregante (Xray/Team Orion. Agama driver Lucas Cribari and Alvaro Colombo (TLR) completed the top 5.

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