Team Kyosho’s Jared Tebo has picked up where he left off in Truggy yesterday with a TQ run in the opening round of qualifying for the Buggy class at ‘The Dirt’ Nitro Challenge. The only driver to record ten laps, the US Champion also set the fastest lap but said he pushed a little too hard in the later part of the run resulting in a mistake that cost him 5 seconds on his penultimate lap.
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Jared Tebo is the Top Qualifier for the Truggy class at the ‘The Dirt’ Nitro Challenge having secured the honour by backing up his opening qualifying performance with another TQ run in the second. The US Truggy Champion once again headed a Kyosho 1-2 at the top the time sheets improving his time by 6 seconds while team-mate Cody King set a new fastest lap time of 44.399 on his way to second.
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The past weekend saw the 1st round of the 1/10th off road electric SA National Championship held at Swartkops raceway. The track is a tricky one, with a tight and technical section on the inner field. Team Durango had the most cars in the field with a total of 5 out of the A main being TD cars with another two Team Durango DEX410R in the B main. Jaco Van Eeden took overall TQ in the 4WD Modified A-Main, leading a 1-2-3 procession in qualifying for Team Durango. Positions in the final didn’t change for the top three, with Jaco taking the win ahead of Neil Wanvig and Charles Hollander.
Source: Durango [team-durango.com]
Team Associated are reporting on the Motorama event which is hosted at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and is a total of 60 acres. Motorama is an all-inclusive indoor motorsports show that includes a wide variety of events including Arenacross, Go Karting, Sprint Cars, Car Shows, Battle Bots, and Remote Control car racing. Team Associated drivers Ryan Maifield, Ryan Cavalieri, and Brent Thielke dominated the event, taking home all six major championships in the Nitro Offroad and Electric Offroad events.
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The 2nd annual Vienna Winterchamps, indoor off-road race was held over the weekend of 18-20th February at the RC-Carpetfun track in Vienna, Austria, with 2WD, 4WD and Short Course 2WD classes. Team Durango driver Jörn Neumann took the overall TQ in both 2WD and 4WD buggy classes with his DEX210 Prototype and DEX410 2010 spec buggies. Hupo Hönigl and Martin Kriel made it a 1-2-3 for Team Durango in 4WD qualifying with Hupo also placing 4th overall in 2WD qualifying after the 5-rounds. In the 3-leg finals, Jörn Neumann took all three legs of the 2WD class to show his blisteringly quick form at the moment, taking the win with Hupo Hönigl third piloting another DEX210 Prototype. In the 4WD class Jörn had taken TQ but it was his Team Durango team mate Hupo Hönigl that secured the victory with his DEX410. Jörn finished second and Rene Trauner in third gave Team Durango a clean sweep for the 4WD podium.
Some more driver news from Xray who have announced the re-signing of Jason Branham. Last year’s RC Pro Buggy National Champion had this to say about the contract renewal:
For the past 5 years RCAmerica and Xray have given me unbelievable support along with the best equipment possible in order to help me achieve great success. I have decided to re-sign with Xray/RCAmerica for 2011 and I will be working very hard to to help improve Xray’s success on the track. I would like to thank Xray and RCAmerica for all they have done for me, for allowing me to represent such a great company and I can’t wait to get started in 2011.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
We were sent an update from the Scotty Ernst run Motorama, which is taking place this weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This event has almost 500 entries in nitro off-road and 300 plus in electric off-road. Serpent chief offroad designer Billy Easton, who is making his big race debut with Novarossi engines this weekend, took the top qualifier spot in both Expert Buggy and Truggy. In the buggy class the Novarossi Plus 4 BTTS powered Cobra S811 driver TQ’d ahead of Mugen driver Travis Amezcua and Associated super star Ryan Maifield, while in Truggy Billy placed the pre production Cobra Truggy, powered by Novarossi Bonito XLBS, in front of Ryan Maifield and Losi factory racer Adam Drake. The finals are taking place today so lets see if he can carry forward that momentum and give the Serpent cars their first major US victory.
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Xray have announced the re-signing of front running US racer Josh Wheeler. Josh, who was the highest placed Xray at the World Championship in Pattaya, qualifying in 16th place, had this to say about the deal:
I look forward to another great year with Xray! I am constantly impressed by the knowledge and desire to win by everyone involved. I am privileged to be a part of their program and look forward to representing them at the races. I would like to thank the whole Hudy family for all the support and giving me a chance to race another season with Xray.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
