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May 6, 2014

Xray Challenge Grand Final – Report

The Xray Challenge Grand Final was held last weekend at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Racers from around Europe joined the race, which saw some 60 entries in the 5 different classes of 1/10 nitro, 1/8 nitro, 1/10 Touring Car Modified, 1/10 Touring Car Stock and 1/10 World GT. The racing weekend started on Friday with open practice for all drivers with the good weather allowed for running on the big outdoor track.

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May 5, 2014

Kurzbuch & Gruber win at EFRA GP Lostallo

The famous Lostallo track played host for an EFRA nitro on-road GP. Free practice got underway on Friday afternoon after rain brought the proceeding to a halt during the morning. The event saw only a small number of entries but the quality of the field was very high with drivers of the like of Simon Kurzbuch, Merlin Depta and Toni Gruber. After the qualifying rounds Mattia Pesenti (Xray) took TQ from his Xray team mate Claudio Pasquin with both scoring 15 lap runs. Simon Kurzbuch, Merlin Depta and Toni Gruber completed the top 5.

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May 5, 2014

Dakotah Phend dominates ROAR 1/8th electric nats

The 2014 ROAR 1/8th Electric Offroad Nationals took place in Houston, Texas last weekend. Team Losi Racing’s Dakotah Phend made a clean sweep in qualifying by taking TQ in all three classes – Buggy, Truggy and the supporting Pro4 4WD short course class. In 1/8th E-Buggy Jared Tebo and Drew Moller rounded out the top 3 while in E-Truggy Jared Tebo and Cody King filled the top 3 spots. In Pro4 Ryan Lutz and Adam Drake put their trucks in 2nd and 3rd position respectively.

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May 5, 2014

Korgae Scales takes WCICS World GT Championship

The 2013/14 Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series consisted of eight rounds at a variety of tracks in the provinces of Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Alberta. Now in existence for over 20 years, the series has become the premier road racing championship in North America. In the 13.5 World GT class, Reedy factory driver and reigning champion Korgae Scales sought to make it two in a row in the highly competitive class. Thanks to four wins and three TQs, Korgae collected 403 points out of a possible 404 to win his second consecutive title.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

May 3, 2014

Branson wins BRCA 1/8th IC Nats Rd2

BRCA 1/8th IC national championship Rd2 – Report

With the new season well and truly under way with a dramatic wet race at Mendip, it was now onto round 2 at the Halifax circuit in Yorkshire, the host on the 2013 European Championships. With the welcome return of Green and Branson from ENS duty, this would be a weekend which would eventually set the marker for the rest of the season. Saturday was a preparation/practice day which was well supported but with the weather being wet at the start of the day, allowed all the drivers to carefully prepare and setup their cars for a dry track in the afternoon. The pace was being set by Branson and Green with Tim Wood and King close behind with their OS and XRD engines respectively. North was struggling with gear box setup and mid corner understeer but this was soon resolved but reverting to an old 2 speed mechanism and using harder rear springs.

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May 3, 2014

2014 Arena Outdoor – Announcement

2014 Arena Outdoor - Announcement

After a break of a few years the famous Italian Arena race is back, this time going back to its roots, moving back outdoors. From the 29th to the 31st of August Arena Outdoor will be run at one of the best outdoor buggy tracks in Italy, the DirtRaceRC track of Diego Fuser. The race will be open to Nitro buggy, Nitro truggy and Brushless buggy categories with all the info about the race format, timetable and categories to be posted online very soon. Despite moving from the unique “country style” venue, the organisers are sure you will be impressed by the new location because they have a lot of surprises to make you feel home at Arena 2014. For more information you can visit www.arenarace.it to keep up to date with the latest developments.

May 2, 2014

Munday, Peeler & Selvaggi win Keilor Truck Stampede

A Truck-only race was held at the Melbourne-based Keilor track. The Keilor Truck Stampede saw 2WD and 4WD Short Course racing along Stadium Trucks with Ray Munday wrapping up the win in 2WD SCT while Ashley Peeler took the 4WD SCT class. Stadium Truck was won by Andrew Selvaggi.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 2, 2014

Maxi Vogl wins Rd1 in South Germany

Last weekend the first round of the South German Championship took place at the fast Bamberg track. Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl showed a great performance all weekend with his Velox V8 “EC” / Sonic X.21-FT combo. In qualifying he took the TQ 4,4 sec in front of Armin Baier followed by Oliver Lembeck another 0,7sec down. Due to bad weather the final was shortened to 20min. The crowd saw a clean start at the front of the grid and Maxi immediately pulled away taking control of the race. Lap by lap he increased the gap on the rest of the field and crossed the finishing line 2 laps in front of Oliver Lembeck with Armin Baier completing the podium another lap down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]