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April 26, 2012

Drake wins 1/8th BL at 2012 Silver State

TLR, Pro-Line and Tekin driver Adam Drake took TQ and 1st in the Expert 1/8 Electric Buggy class at the Silver State Nitro Challenge in Boulder City, NV. The 10 minute final saw an amazing battle between Drake, Kortz, Moller, Lutz, and Wernimont. In the final Drake and Kortz exchanged the lead multiple times in the closing laps, but Kortz made a mistake on the final lap that allowed Wernimont to take second place. Drake came home with the victory followed by Wernimont and Kortz in third.

Many thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

April 25, 2012

Cavalieri & Tebo win 2012 Silver State

The 2012 Silver State Nitro Challenge was once again held just 30 minutes outside of Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada in Boulder City. This years event was held April 19th-22nd with scortching temperatures in the upper 90’s even reaching to the 100’s throughout the week. Team Orion would be very well represented at this years Silver State with Jared Tebo just coming off his big Neo12 win, current ROAR Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, and Current Buggy World Champion Cody King.

Continue reading the report here

April 25, 2012

Minnesota Off-Road Series Rd1 report

JConcepts dominated this weekend at the first round of the Minnesota Off-Road Series at the Motodome in Staples, MN. With temps in the 30′s all day during qualifying and 40′s during the mains, the JConcepts tires proved they were the best choice given they set the TQ in 4 Classes and 8 podium positions from 3 drivers. Kendall Welch set TQ and finished 1st in 1/8th Scale Pro-Nitro Buggy running a TLR 8B 2.0 with Green Hybrids, & 2nd in Pro-Nitro Truggy running his 8T 2.0 on Green Hybrids on Elevated Wheels. Josh Ford won and TQ’d the 1/8th Scale Electric class running a Mugen / Techno MBX6 on Green Hybrids and a Punisher Body, 2nd in Pro Nitro Buggy with a Punisher Body and Green Hybrids on his MBX6 Buggy, 3rd in Pro Truggy running Green Hybrids on his MBX6T and set TQ with a 4th place finish on his Mugen Eco-ST with a Illuzion Hi-Flow Body and Green Subcultures.

Continue reading the report here

April 23, 2012

Heremans wins Benelux Championships Rd2

The second round of the Benelux Championship was at Kampanhout Belgium last weekend where Bruno ‘Elvo’ Heremans won in convincing style with his X-6 Squared with X-Factory cars occupying the top four spots on the grid. Elvo won qualifiers 1 and 3, taking third in #2 when rain drenched the track in the last minute of his TQ run, that secured pole position for the Belgian driver. All weekend the weather was variable, with rain off and on. Heremans said, “My set-up worked well in the wet, the dry, and everything in between, and it was dead neutral and very fast. A-1 was dry-ish. I was on dry tires and drove off. I did the same in A-2 and sat out the last one.” John Debacquer qualified and finished second with his X – 6 Squared, winning A-3 after some exciting racing with Nicolas Risser’s SV2. John beat Nick in A-1 by just 0.4 seconds.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

April 22, 2012

Neumann pulls off clean sweep in 4WD Buggy

As predicted following the trouncing of his rivals in yesterday’s 4WD Buggy qualifying, Joern Neumann has won 4WD buggy at the finale of the inaugural Euro Offroad Series completing a clean sweep of the championship with three TQ starts and three wins from the three races. Starting the German event from pole, Neumann was in a completely different league winning the first A-Main from Team Losi Racing’s Mike Truhe by a massive 16-seconds and Leg 2 by 11-seconds from Team Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper.

View our complete event coverage here.

April 22, 2012

Neumann is 2WD EOS Champion

Joern Neumann is the 2WD Buggy Champion of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby after a faultless drive in the third A-Main secured the Team Durango driver the overall win in Germany and with it a second buggy title for the German ace ahead of US Champion Dustin Evans and European Champion Lee Martin.

View our complete event coverage here.

April 22, 2012

Rheinard wins opening 2WD A-Main in Dortmund

The surprise of qualifying, putting his Tamiya second on the grid of world class offroad drivers, World Touring Car Champion Marc Rheinard has won the opening leg of the 2WD Buggy A-Main at the finale of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series in Dortmund, Germany. The German driver was handed the lead of the race on the first run through the double double after Top Qualifier & title hopeful Joern Neumann flipped his Durango off the second double luckily landing on his wheels but dropping him to third behind Team Losi Racing’s Darren Bloomfield. A second mistake by Neumann and then an incident first with Dustin Evans and later with Lee Martin, the other two title protagonists, allowed Rheinard to eventually cross the line 2,5 seconds clear of Evans with Bloomfield taking third just in front of Neumann.

View our complete event coverage here.

April 21, 2012

2012 IFMAR World Championships update

The organizers of the 2012 IFMAR 1/8th scale offroad World championship have gotten in touch with us, finally breaking their silence on the event to confirm the location and the running of a warmup race for the event. The event itself will be run on an all new track is located on Highway Richieri in Club Aeromodelista Jorge Newbery, 7 minutes from Ezeiza Interncional Aiport and 15 minutes from downtown Buenos Aires (Capital Federal). In front lies an international resort that is accessed from the track by footbridge. The track will get its first race at the AAPARTT Cup which will be held from the 26th to the 30th of September, 2 months before the December date for the actual Worlds. The event has also got its own official website which hasn’t got any information yet but can be found here.

View images of the track site here