The 2014 ROAR paved on-road nationals were held last weekend at the Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida, home of this year’s IFMAR electric on-road World Championships. In the Touring Car Modified class it was Rick Hohwart who took the overall TQ from JJ Wang and Andrew Hardman. TC 13.5T non-timing had Scotty Gray securing the TQ spot from Josh Cyrul and Kyle Bergstrom.
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The 3rd round of the Monsters of the Midwest Summer Series was held at the Stateline RC track in Fremont, IN. The 1/8th Nitro Buggy class saw a clean TLR podium sweep with Dakotah Phend taking the win from Tyler Jones and Collin Weatherholt.
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The 2014 Surf City Classic took place this past weekend at OC R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. The turnout was great with the pits completely full right from the start of the first practice on. Big names in attendance included current World Champions Jared Tebo Steven Hartson, along with Ryan Cavalieri, Ryan Maifield, Dustin Evans, Cody Turner, Tanner Denney, Spencer Rivkin, Brent Thielke, and Frank Root.
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The Xray Adriatic Challenge was held in Tolmin, Slovenia under changing weather conditions with divers from Italy, France, Croatia, Romania and Slovenia. The event started with free practice on Saturday but a light rain shower in the late afternoon brought things to a halt earlier than expected. On Sunday the race started off with electric class qualifying in 1/10th TC Modified and Stock. In the Touring Car finals Matej Miklavec took the win in the Modified class followed by Goran Vignevic and Mattia Greco. The 13.5T Stock class had Jan Popic dominating the finals. He was followed by Stanislav Kokol and Adolfo Ferraioli.
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For the 5th round of the Dutch 1/10th nitro on-road nationals the whole entourage moved to the MRG Genk track in Belgium. It was the first time the Dutch nationals raced on this track and most drivers soon found a good rhythm. In qualification Ricardo Hofmeijer clocked the fastest time with 51.6 seconds for three consecutive laps, handing him the TQ spot for the main final. Behind him both Pedro Rombouts and Daan Stuiver managed to get 51.7 seconds, placing them 2nd and 3rd on the grid respectively. In 4th Roy Bakker took the last direct spot to the main final by achieving a time of 51.8 seconds.
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This past weekend was the 4th round of the Galician regional championship at the new track of Carballo. Cristian Villar was able to win two qualifying rounds on a rain affected Sunday and he looked like he would control the A-main but a mistake cost him about 15 seconds and put him dead last in the final. Thanks to a good pace and swift pitstops Cristian though was able to regain the lead and to end the race on a controlled pace. Behind him Alberto Neira and Javier Fernández finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Round number 4 of the Central division Portuguese 1/8th off-road regionals was held at the Ortigosa track in very hot weather conditions. The A-main final saw Marco Neves walking away with the win from Luis Simoes and Nuno Almeida. Rolando Caseiro and Abell Carrolo completed the top 5 result.
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This past weekend round 4 of the NCT series in Burlington, WA was held with just over 200 entries and awesome weather, it was a great weekend for racing. Tekin factory driver Nick Buechler managed to take the overall TQ and a few hard fought A-main wins to secure the number 1 position in the 1/8 E-buggy class. Nick, who is leading the series going into Rd5, was joined on the podium by Tekin teammates Jesse Munn and Anthony Honstain. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class the win went to Jesse Munn with Mike Hudson and Nick Buechler completing the top 3 result.
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