The Muchmore Volante Cup was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong with around 80 drivers in attendance. In the Touring Car Modified class Stick King (Awesomatix) took the TQ but in the A-main it was Hay (Xray) who came out successful in front of Simon Yeung (Schumacher) and Rocky Wong (Yokomo). Stick King fall back to 4th place while Nuno (Xray) rounded out the top 5 result.
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The German Open Indoor Masters was held as part of the Faszination Modellbau fair in Friedrichshafen in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th Nitro On-road and Electric On-road Bikes. In the 1/10th 200mm class Melvin Diekmann took the TQ from Tom Krägefski in 2nd and Traugott Schär in 3rd spot. In the final it was Thilo Tödtmann who came out successful from TQ Melvin Diekmann in 2nd and Marco Kaufmann who rounded out the podium in 3rd and who also scored the fastest lap of the racec in his first ever nitro event.
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After the great success of this year’s pilot race the HotRace Cup will come back even bigger in 2015. Taking place on the weekend of the 26th of July the 2015 race will be hosted by the Riccione Road Race track located only 500 metres away from the famous Riccione seafront, offering many opportunities to have fun, relax and enjoy a weekend in Italy. The event will again be accompanied by a beach party and also see the introduction of the all-new S-Hot Race and a Formula class. More details and a dedicated website will follow soon.
The New Zealand South Island Championship has recently been dominated by Mark Bidlake and Lee Thomas who brought home the wins against the region’s fastest drivers. Lee was really happy to take first place overall and a convincing TQ in 2WD Buggy. He then went on to also TQ and win 4WD Buggy for a double victory. Mark Bidlake then raced to a solid victory in 1/8th E-Buggy, having only raced his buggy only a handful of times before the event.
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The 7th and final round of the Southern California based JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California. The season end race also decided on the overall series titles with the 1/8th Expert Nitro Truggy class being won by Adam Drake who left Cody King and Drew Moller behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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The 2nd Annual CML Halloween Masters was hosted at the BCL indoor track at Louvre, Paris this past weekend. With over 220 entries across 6 different classes CML are proud to announce it was a huge success and will become a regular feature on the 1/10th off-road calendar. In the premier 2WD Modified class it was Craig Drescher who surprised the field and hit the ground running with a flourish. His Reedy-powered B5M topped practice, every qualifying round and all 3 mains. It was a flash back of the 90’s for Drescher who was in superb form. Even Drescher said he was “astounded” to be so competitive after 13 months off the sticks. The final then saw Craig continuing to excel with his 3-gear transmission equipped mid motor AE buggy as he left Nicolas Risser (Team C) and Elliott Boots (Kyosho) behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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The final round of 2014 Speed King Tour was held at the Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in the Gunma prefecture. In the Touring Car Modified class, TRF young gun Akio Sobue lead the championship going into the final round from last year’s Speed King Yugo Nagashima. After three rounds of qualifying Akio took the overall TQ from VBC driver Yugo who scored a round TQ but missed the pole position.
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The Race for the VETTS was hosted by the T&T Speedway indoor facility in Shreveport, LA with the event attracting drivers from the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana region. With 23 entries the 2WD Modified Buggy was the largest class in the field of almost 80 total entries. Qualifying was based on your one fastest of three runs. Eric Hodge TQ’d 2WD Mod Buggy, being the only buggy driver to put in a 20 lap run. The 8 minute, 10 car A-final was pretty stacked with names like Larry Pryor and Mugen Seiki driver Drew Spurgeon. Overall the main was pretty uneventful and “a racers dream” for Eric as he put in a near flawless run to take an unchallenged tone to tone victory.
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