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April 29, 2013

Jerome Sartel wins Rd2 in France

The 2nd round of the French 1/8th offroad Nationals took place at the weekend in Toulouse in the South of the country. Wet weather hampered qualifying on Saturday allowing only one round to be completed before the organisers put a stop to the track action. Thanks to the club working hard to prepare the track with sawdust they were able to run another round of qualifying on Sunday morning. Following the 2 rounds it was Jerome Aigoin that took the top spot after qualifying with brother Yannick in 2nd, with Jerome Sartel and young Rayan Medjobi in 4th. In the final it would be Agama driver Jerome Sartel that took the win by some 8 seconds from Kyosho driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd with Associated driver Yannick Aigoin in 3rd, the top 3 covered by less than a lap after 45 minutes racing.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

April 26, 2013

Emer Agero wins E-Buggy at Philippine Off-Road Nats

It was a nice, warm and sunny Summer day in Manila for the Philippine Off-Road Nationals in the E-Buggy Class held at the CV Off-Road Track. The early benchmark in qualifying was posted by Team-C racer Garet Santayana who was almost assured of pole position until a late charge by Team Losi Racing driver Emer Agero who snatched the TQ spot by posting some blistering final laps on his last run. The top 5 on the grid after qualifying were TQ Emer Agero (Losi), 2nd Garet Santayana (Team-C), 3rd Mike Ang (AE), 4th Ish Montilla (AE) and 5th Joseph Salcedo (Xray).

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April 25, 2013

Collin & Wallace win SORC Rd1

Last weekend saw the start of the Scottish Off Road Championship hosted by Dunfermline District Radio Car Club. Round 1 of qualifying was a bit of a wet affair with Chris Mitchell setting TQ pace in 2wd and Kenny Clark setting the fastest time in 4wd. The lap times tumbled as the track dried out through the rest of qualifying, the early pacesetter of Chris Mitchell took TQ in 2wd and Kenny Clark managed to secure overall TQ for 4wd. Chris Mitchell the 2wd pole man was unable to convert his early pace in the finals it was the Schumacher SV2 driven by James Collins that took the win of all three legs of the 2wd A finals. For the 4wd finals it was much the same story as with 2wd, polesitter Kenny Clark unable to take the win, it was the Schumacher K1 of Martin Wallace that pipped Kenny by 1 second in leg 1, leg 2 was an even closer run thing between Martin Wallace and Ross Irwin, Martin just managed over the line in front of Ross beating him by 0.23 of a second and taking the overall 4wd win.

View the final results here

April 24, 2013

Kinwald & Due win Short Course Showdown Rd3

Round 3 of the Short Course Showdown made it’s way to Trackside Hobbies located in Brookfield Wisconsin. The new track layout had been down for a week or so. The track was wet and still holding a lot of moisture due to the fact that the outside weather was cold and wet for the last few weeks. On Thursday Drivers started to arrive and get their pit spaces picked out and setting up camp for the weekend.

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April 24, 2013

Joseph Quagraine wins RedBull GP in Moscow

Last week end a RedBull GP was held at a Hobby Expo in Moscow Russia. There were over 200 entries all together in a race that covered all the electric offroad classes. This was the debut of the production JQ Electric 1:8th Buggy. There were three JQeCars at the event, and all three made the main, JQ, Dmitry Malyshko and Timo Jalas. The racetrack threw some curve balls to certain drivers with two jumps that crossed over the diagonal main straight. Tricky to jump, and marshall. In the end Joseph Quagraine would take the win ahead of Serpent driver Jörg Tiit in the 2nd with JQ driver Dmitry Malyshko completing the podium in 3rd.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

April 24, 2013

Kobbevik & Erik Mo win at JConcepts Challenge final

Mustit RC Raceway played host to the JConcepts Challenge final event last weekend and it was the biggest so far this year, and a good ending for the winter with a new record in the Short Course 4×4 class 38 cars taking part. The 4wd buggy event saw many hard fights and the fight between Lars Erik Mo and Daniel Kobbevik was tense, they were so much faster than rest off the field, switching possisions all the time. In most of the races it has been Lars Erik Mo winning A-main 1, Daniel A-main 2 and then again Lars Erik taking A-main 3. This time the same happened and final 3 was open, Daniel was actually leading until the last round. Lars Erik pushed his Kyosho all he could and was like 10cm behind all the time and it looked like this time it could be a change, but a pin from the center cvd in the B44.2 came out and 40 meters from the finish line the car stopped. So Lars Erik took the win this time also. Lars Erik has been the most winning driver in 4wd this winter.

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April 24, 2013

Fabrizio Teghesi wins Rd1 of Italian offroad Nats

The first round of the Italian 1/8th offroad nats was held Policoro in the south of Italy. After four rounds of qualifying it was Alex Zanchettin (Losi/Novarossi/PL/MLC) who was TQ followed by Marco Natale (Kyosho/Orion/AKA), Andrea Giorgetti (Mugen/RB/Proline), Fabrizio Teghesi (Kyosho/OS/AKA) and Davide Tortorici (Mugen/Novarossi/Vp-Pro). In the main final Zanchettin opened up a large gap while the fight for second place was between Fabrizio Teghesi and Davide Tortorici fighting continuously for the entire 45-minute race. Near the end of the final Zanchettin made 3 big mistakes and so in the last 3 laps it was a three way battle for the win. In the end Fabrizio Teghesi took victory by just 2 seconds from Alex Zanchettin in 2nd with Davide Tortorici completing the podium in 3rd.

Thanks to Fabrizio Teghesi for the report.

April 23, 2013

Michal Orlowski double at Polish Indoor champs

Michal Orlowski doubles at Polish Indoor Off-Road champs

Last weekend the Polish Indoor Off-Road Champioinships took place on a track designed by young Team Durango driver Michal Orlowski. The race was hosted by Polish Model Car Federation and the ATA Racing Team. Sporting a tight and challenging layout including a crossover section many drivers compared the track to the difficult layout used at Langenfeld round of the 2012/13 Euro Offroad Series. In the 2WD class the overall win went to Team Durango/Speed Passion driver Michal Orlowski who also took TQ in this class. Piotr Okonski (Tamiya/LRP) grabbed the runner-up spot with Bartek Zambrzycki (Team Durango), who came from fifth position, completing the podium. The 4WD class once again saw a dominant Michal Orlowski who finished some two laps ahead of Piotr Okonski. The podium was completed by Bartek Zambrzycki. The race marked the end of the indoor season in Poland with the outdoor season starting in May.

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