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September 28, 2011

European Offroad Series announced

After much planning we are pleased to announce the dates for the much anticipated 2011/12 Euro Offroad Series. Scotty Ernst and Uwe Rheinard, the organizers behind the very successful Euro Touring Series ‘ETS’, have taken their format and formula and will be bringing it to the exciting world of Offroad. The four round EOS will kick off in the UK at Ardent Raceway on November 4-6 2011, the premier indoor facility in the UK and the perfect place for the EOS to get underway.

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September 28, 2011

Ty Tessmann dominates 2011 Gas Champs

This past weekend marked the 3rd annual Gas Championships held at Thunder Alley RC Raceway. This year the Gas Champs attracted top drivers from around the world for some intense competition! 172 drivers battled it out in the heads up double A-Main racing format and it was Pro-Line team driver Ty Tessmann who brought home the win in both Expert A-Main events!

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September 27, 2011

Amezcua wins BL class at 2011 Gas Champs

Travis Amezcua from Mugen Seiki, Reedy, AKA, LRP, HandleIT Hobbies and Airtronics took home the victory this past weekend in the 1/8 electric class at the 2011 Thunder Alley Gas Champs with his MBX6 ECO. With the new LRP iX8 and the Dynamic 8 LRP motor, Travis put the new combo to work and the system ran flawlessly all weekend long offering the right amount of power for the very technical track layout that Thunder Alley had to offer. With the 11 minute plus mains the Reedy 5500 4S provided plenty of runtime for the event with room to spare and all this power was put to the ground with AKA rubber. Travis would start from the number one spot for both main events and would take victory in both mains to clam the 2011 electric 1/8 title over Ryan Lutz in 2nd and Ryan Cavalieri in 3rd.

September 27, 2011

Riccardo Rabitti takes Italian National title

This past weekend, TLR and Horizon Hobby team driver Riccardo Rabitti wins his 3rd Italian National championship at the final round at Marigliano in Naples. Going into the final round there were five drivers in contention for the coveted Italian title. Riccardo started in the middle of the field for the 45min A-main. The Marigliano track was quite rigorous with many bumps and dusty condition. Riccardo stayed patient and drove an excellent final wining the last round and winning the Italian National Championship with his TLR 8ight 2.0 EU buggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 27, 2011

Dennenmoser & Käufler win Baden-Württemberg Cup

The ‘Baden-Württemberg Cup’ 2011 was dominated by TLR in both the buggy and truggy classes. Consisting of five rounds with two drop rounds, TLR/Horizon Hobby team driver Ralf Dennenmoser took the overall win in the truggy category whilst TLR/Horizon Hobby team driver Hannes Käufler dominated the buggy class. Ralf Dennenmoser clinched second place with his TLR 8ight 2.0 EU Buggy. Three wins for Hannes were enough to secure him the top spot after only four rounds while Ralf won the remaining two races, so together they won each round of the 2011 Cup series. Ralf was the man to beat in truggy, four wins meant he even had a win as a through-away result. To top things off, TLR drivers Pascal Sass took third overall in buggy and Andreas Ruepp second in truggy.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 27, 2011

Thomas Mayr takes Austrian title with Rd3 victory

The third and final leg for the Austrian Nationals in 1:8 Offroad was held last weekend at WMW Fehring track, EC-A track for 2012. The Championship standings after first 2 races meant that only 3 drivers could became Austrian champion, Dominic Bauer, Thomas Mayr and Andreas Scharinger. In Qualifying Dominic Bauer dominated winning 3 from 4 rounds giving the following qualifying result.

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September 27, 2011

Fuciños & Villalba win final round in Spain

The fourth and final round of the electric buggy Spanish Championship last weekend at the magnificent facilities of the club CAPA, near Madrid. Under great weather conditions, almost 80 drivers battled it out in both 2WD and 4WD for two days. On Saturday the 4WD event was held and it was veteran Enrique Fuciños who took his Viper powered Yokomo BMax to a close win over local hero David Bustos with Tamiya TRF502. Charismatic Raul Solano drove his Kyosho Lazer FS II to the third position.

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September 26, 2011

German 4WD off-road nationals report

The German 4WD off-road nationals took place on the weekend of the 10th and 11th of September at the demanding high-grip astroturf track of the Neuffen club near Stuttgart. 74 drivers attended and it was Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann who TQ’ed the Modified class with his DEX410 buggy after five rounds of qualifying followed by Markus Metsch (Team Durango DEX410) and Christopher Krapp (Kyosho Lazer ZX5 FS2). The finals saw Jörn pulling away in each of the three A mains securing him another national title with Markus in 2nd and Christopher in third position overall.

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