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October 16, 2011

Amit Bublil wins Israeli League Rd1

This weekend the first round of the Israeli League for 1/10 scale electric 2WD buggies and trucks was held on a dirt track near Tel Aviv. Amit Bublin was able to win both the buggy and truck class with his Team Associated cars. Runner up in buggy was Lior Maimon followed by Asaf Gurevich in third and Arie Itskovich in fourth position. The second place in the truck category went to Asaf Gurevich with Lior Maimon in third and Menashe Micheli in fourth position.

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October 15, 2011

Aigoin successfully defends Arena Truggy title

TLR are on target for a repeat clean sweep of the Arena Offroad Meeting with Yannick Aigoin successfully defending his truggy title at the indoor Rodeo ring in Voghera, Italy, this evening. Starting from pole, the Top Qualifier won the 45-minute encounter by a lap from Italian TLR driver Walter Floris who in the opening laps of the race managed to find a way passed the French driver.

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October 15, 2011

Rabitti takes Q4, Bloomfield Top Qualifier at Arena

TLR completed a clean sweep of buggy qualifying this morning with Riccardo Rabitti taking the fourth and final round of heats ahead of team-mates Darren Bloomfield, who set the pace in Q2 & 3, and Yannick Aigoin who TQ’d yesterday’s opening qualifier. Overall Bloomfield secures his second honour of being the Top Qualifier having dominated yesterday’s Brushless Buggy action.

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October 15, 2011

First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

Making his first appearance at the Arena Offroad Meeting TLR’s Darren Bloomfield has notched up the first title of the weekend at the Italian event with a dominant performance in the Brushless Buggy class. Topping three of the five 7-minute qualifiers ealier in the day the British ace secured TQ honours ahead of fellow countryman Simon Willets and his Mugen and Italian Xray driver Valerio Bellano.

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October 14, 2011

Bloomfield holds overnight TQ in Italy

TLR driver Darren Bloomfield holds the overnight Buggy Top Qualifier honour at the Arena Offroad Meeting in Voghera, Italy, after securing his second TQ run of the day in the third of the four scheduled qualifiers with team-mate Yannick Aigoin the only one capable of denying him in tomorrow morning’s final round of heats.

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October 14, 2011

Defending champion Aigoin tops opening Arena qualifier

Having taken a year out so as to avoid a clash with last November’s 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Thailand, Italy’s leading international offroad event is back and has taken over from the cowboys again with defending champion Yannick Aigoin opening qualifying with TQ runs in both Buggy and Truggy. The third running of the Offroad Meeting at the Arena Rodeo ring, which is situated 1- hours drive south of Milan, the two biggest changes to the indoor event are the weather and new title sponsorship from Sweep tyres.

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October 13, 2011

North East Super Series Rd4 report

The fourth and final round of the North East Super Series took place at the Barnstormers RC Raceway in Chester, New York. In 1/8 Nitro Buggy Jamie Grayek was able to take TQ honours and secure overall Win in Points Series with Jimmyjames taking a 2nd and Jeff Legassy rounding out the top 3. With the main race set to be 30 minutes it would prove to be a battle with multiple lead changes. Problems for Grayek early in the race would allow Serpent’s Stephen Plackis to lead out followed by Jay Bless of RC-NYC, Kyosho’s Jimmyjames and Serpent’s Jay Livingstone. Around the 5 minutes mark a wheel to wheel battle would brew between Plackis and Bless with Jimmyjames and Livingstone in tow. Plackis and Bless would swap the lead multiple times with Jimmyjames still running in 3rd and Livingstone running 4Th. Around the 15 minute mark car contact between the leaders would slow them down allowing Jimmyjames to take the lead. He would lead out with heavy pressure from Bless and Plackis but would not look back and was able to take the Win with Bless, Plackis and Livingstone in tow.

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October 12, 2011

Entry to open for DHI Cup 2012

The organizers of the 2012 DHI Cup have been in touch to tell us that entry for next January’s event starts this Thursday at 20:00 o’clock CET on MyRCM. Many of today’s top drivers have won this race as one of their first big victories on the international scene. Starting with Andreas Myrberg in 2001, to Jilles Groskamp and Juho Levanen. Current world champion Marc Rheinard, European champion Ronald Völker and former World Champion Atsushi Hara, to mention just a few, are some of the great drivers that have participated and won in the past. This year DHI-CUP has renewed itself with an offroad track alongside the traditional onroad track, so now offroad drivers can join be part of this great event.