Fresh from winning the B-Main in nitro Truggy to book himself a spot in the 45 Main, Team Losi Racing’s Billy Fischer bagged the first Pro class win of the 14th running of the world famous Dirt Nitro Challenge taking the victory in the 1:8 eBuggy A-Main from Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and Kyosho’s Elliot Boots.
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Jared Tebo is the Top Qualifier for the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Kyosho driver putting the honour beyond the reach of his rivals with one round to go after he backed up his Q1 run by again topping the time sheets at the famous Arizona event. Have just seen off his team-mate Elliot Boots by less than a second in Q1, birthday boy Tebo posted a much more convincing Q2 taking the round by over 6 seconds from Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield and A-Main Hobbies’ Dylan Rodriguez putting in yet another impressive performance this weekend to complete the Top 3.
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2011 Dirt Nitro Challenge Champion Jared Tebo got his 26th birthday off to the perfect start as he headed a Kyosho 1-2 from Elliott Boots in the opening round of qualifying for the 14th running of the world famous Arizona event. Running earlier than Boots in the round Tebo had to watch an impressive run from US debutant Boots, the World Championship Top Qualifier just 8/100ths shy of the TQ at the end of the 7-minute run with the pair the only drivers to record 12 laps. Just missing out on joining them on 12-laps, Team Xray’s Renaud Savoya completed the Top 3.
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Adam Drake is the Top Qualifier for Truggy at the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Team Losi Racing driver wrapping up the honour early by backing up his opening qualifying run at the Fear Farm with another TQ run in Q2, this time ahead of Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and his TLR team-mate Mike Truhe.
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Adam Drake set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the World famous Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Team Losi Racing driver taking the first of 3 scheduled qualifiers by 3.7 seconds from defending Champion Ty Tessmann and Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz, the Top 3 being the only drivers to complete 12 laps of Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen’s track creation for this the 14th running of the famous track builder’s signature event. Having suffered hail & snow during yesterday’s practice day which meant drivers got just a single practice run on the track, today’s weather in Phoenix, Arizona, was much more favorable with a 2 hour delay to the start of proceedings enough to dry the track off enough to get the event underway. Eventually starting at 10am such is the size of the entry including an increased number of European’s, today’s action at the Fear Farm is not set to be completed until the early hours of Friday morning.
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Team Yokomo Spain have announced the signing of 2012 1/8th off-road champion Robert Battle. The current World Champion, two times European Champion and seven-times consecutive Spanish Champion will run the Yokomo B-Max2 and B-Max4 in 2013. The Spanish driver also announced that he will be using LRP batteries, motors and speed controllers in his rides. This is what Robert had to say about the deal:
I’m really happy to become part of Team Yokomo, they are a great family and there are a lot of well-known drivers in, one of those obviously Masami-San, the RC legend. It will be a long-term learning process due to it is a completely new class for me, I don’t want to put any goal on myself at the moment, I just want to drive and get used to this class mainly on 2WD. I’m looking forward to start racing on international events. Thank you so much to everyone, all my sponsors, specially Team Yokomo to believe in me.
Source: Team Yokomo Spain [hrcspain.com]
This past weekend was the Presidents Day Money Race at EN Hobbies. The race brought in 100 entries with drivers from all over the midwest. The race saw three rocket rounds of qualifying and single A mains. TLR team member JP Richards put on a great show at the Presidents Day Race and won 2WD Modified ahead of Dustin Richards and Luke Richards. JP also was successful in the Pro-2 class with his Team Losi Racing 22 SCT.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
Raduga RC Raceway and Rotor Club have been in touch to announce the first international RC Off-road Event in Russia, called ‘Russian Extreme Race’, which will take place in the heart of the European part of Russia from June 21-23, 2013. The race will be run on a nicely located dirt track and is open to both 1/8th gas and Electric and will be run according to EFRA rules. More details can be found here.
