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July 6, 2011

Jörn Neumann wins 4wd at Belgium GP

The annual Belgium GP for 10th scale buggies took place this past weekend at the Kampenhout track that has played host to the event since its origins in 1989. Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann took the opening round of 4WD qualifying and looked good throughout the day to sit second on the grid for the 3-leg A final. After missing out on the TQ, Jörn was determined not to lose out in the finals and was driving his DEX410 with a mix of agression and precise control in his chase for the #1 spot. In both final legs 1 & 2 Jörn looked the fastest driver and proved it as he pushed past the reigning European Champion Lee Martin to take the lead and despite pressure he was uncatchable on his way to the two leg wins and overall victory with one final still left to run.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

July 6, 2011

Adam Drake wins scorching JBRL Rd4

Last Saturday was round four on Southern California’s JBRL Nitro Series, sponsored by TLR, held at Palm Desert Raceway. The event turnout was light with around 100 entries due to the Holiday weekend and the extreme temperatures of 118 degrees with a track temp of 166 degrees. In qualifying it was Team Losi Racing / Novarossi driver Adam Drake who set the pace in both of the expert 1/8th classes, the extreme temperatures making chassis and engine tuning difficult for most of the racers. At the start of the truck main Drake began to pull away and at the end of the 25 minute main Drake took the win followed by Brad Wintermantle in 2nd, who was also driving a TLR 8ight T 2.0, with Jessie Robinson in 3rd for Mugen.

Continue reading the report here

July 6, 2011

Frank Root double at West Coast Rd7

TLR and Losi’s Frank Root, Matt Schreffler, Drew Moller, Trevor Adamo and Colby Poh raced the 7th Round of the West Coast Championship Series this past weekend at WCRC Raceway. In 2wd Buggy, the TLR crew put on a clinic with 22’s in the top 5 spots on the grid led by Trevor Adamo’s TQ. The main would be all 22’s again with Trevor leading the field off from pole, with Drew Moller in the 2 and Frank Root in the 3. Frank made a move to the 2 spot, then got by Trevor for the lead when Trevor had a bobble in the woops section. A daring attempt by Trevor to quickly regain the lead would not work out and drop him from 2nd to 4th where he would finish. Up front, Frank would put in clean laps and take the win ahead of Drew Moller and a hard charging Matt Schreffler giving TLR a clean sweep of the podium! Pro2 (Modified SC) was all Frank Root. Frank’s Losi XXX-SCT with the TLR Tuned Kit was on point in qualifying taking an easy TQ. The single 5-minute main started with Frank pulling out to an early lead, and he would nearly lap the field by the end of the race taking a dominant win and his second of the day.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

July 5, 2011

Fernandez & Reguera win EP Offroad Rd3 in Spain

The last weekend of June, in northern Spain, saw the 3rd round of the Spanish Electric offroad Championships held on the very technical Rueda Loca Arena. The track was featured many bumps and 180° curves with extreme grip which stayed the same for the entire weekend. The 4WD class was run on Saturday with 2wd on Sunday. The provisional 4wd champion, Miguel Fernandez had a tough battle with Enrique Fuciños, with Fuciños winning the first final before Fernandez came back in A2 and A3 to take the win. In 2WD, the locals were very strong, placing 5 drivers in the Final A. The race was won by Jonathan Reguera, with Enrique Fuciños in 2nd and Miguel Fernandez in 3rd.

View the results and 2wd A-main videos here

July 3, 2011

Aigoin winner of Astra Nitro Cross as finals get rained off

Team Losi Racing’s Yannick Aigoin is the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross Champion after heavy rain forced the cancellation of the Semi finals at the annual Czech Republic event and the outcome of yesterday’s dry qualifications was used to determine the result of the fifth running of the 3-day international race. The former European Champion dominated all six rounds of qualifying to claim TQ honours ahead of Losi/nVision team-mate, and last year’s champion, Martin Bayer and this is how they line up on the podium where they were joined by new Xray signing Ales Bayer who qualified third.

View our complete event coverage here.

July 2, 2011

Aigoin is Astra Nitro Cross Top Qualifier

Yannick Aigoin pulled off a clean sweep of Day 2 of the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross as he put his Losi 8ight at the top of the time sheets in all six rounds of qualifying. Having wrapped up the overall TQ honours for the Czech event in the fourth round of heats, watched on by Losi president Bill Jeric, the French star did not let off and completed the perfect day for TLR with Martin Bayer completing a 1-2 for the team.

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July 2, 2011

Aigoin tops opening Qualifier in Czech Republic

Yannick Aigoin has set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the Astra Nitro Cross in the Czech Republic, the TLR driver topping the time sheets ahead of Xray pairing Ales Bayer and Jiri Mara. Defending champion Martin Bayer failed to start his heat after the screw on his steering servo horn came out during the warm-up laps.

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July 1, 2011

Aigoin tops opening day at Astra Nitro Cross

TLR’s Yannick Aigoin has topped the opening day’s action at the 2011 Astra Nitro Cross in the Czech Republic after setting the fastest time in the fourth and final round of practice to get the better of early pace setter and team-mate Martin Bayer. The final practice run saw few drivers improve with the only other front runner to make an improvement being Xray’s Jiri Mara who ended the day with the sixth best time.

View our complete event coverage here