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April 1, 2014

Elliott Boots wins at KMRC championship Rd1

Last weekend saw the first round of the KMRC championship and while the Kent Club was awarded a round of the BRCA National Championships this year the race attracted a lot of drivers in preparation for the National later in July. The qualifying rounds 2 and 3 went to Kyosho’s Elliott Boots who was the only driver to be able to get into the 10 laps. The final was to be over 20 minutes and would be a good race as the track was very tight and small. Elliott made a good start and was able to get away but being the nature of the track it made for very close racing so he was swapping the lead with Lee Martin and Darren Bloomfield, but after the last fuel stop Elliott was able to make the break and get a good lead from Lee Martin and then was able to settle down to come home in first place.

Source: Elliott Boots [elliott-boots.com]

April 1, 2014

Phend & Richards win at TLR Shootout

Dirt Burners Hobbies and Raceway in Livonia, Michigan hosted the TLR Shootout with over 200 entries. The TQ in the 4WD Modified class went to TLR’s Dakotah Phend which TLR teammate JP Richard lining up in 2nd. In the 7 minute A-main JP put some series pressure on Dakotah in the opening stages but a servo issue made his car hard to drive so Dakotah was able to secure the win. JP came in 2nd followed by Al Horne (Team Associated), Dustin Richards (Team Associated) and Luke Richards (Kyosho) who completed the top 5 result.

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April 1, 2014

Helge Johannessen wins 1:12th at Norwegian series Rd5

The final round of the Norwegian electric on-road series was held in Gjøvik with a good turnout as it was the last race of the season. The race format saw three rounds of qualifying with the best to count, followed by triple A-mains. In qualifying Helge Johannessen set the TQ time in the second round while Lars Haugen and Øyvind Stusdal were to decide who would start second on the grid for the finals in the last remaining qualifier. Both started off following each other closely and changed positions multiple times and at one point Øyvind had a incident with a slower car and would later have to retire handing Lars the 2nd spot on the grid thanks to a secure run.

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April 1, 2014

Karasavvidis wins at King Of The Track race

The first King Of The Track race 2014 took place at the RC On Road Track in Thessaloniki, Greece. Serpent’s Christodoulos Karasavvidis brought home the win with his Serpent 747 in front of Dimitris Nisiotis (Mugen) and Makis Charitidis (Edam).

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 1, 2014

Cristian Villar wins Galician champs Rd1 & 2

The first two rounds of this year’s Galician Championships where a back-to-back affair with the first round taking place at the Boiro track. The weekend started on a smooth and slippery track but as the race progressed the surfaces got a lot bumpier. Cristian Villar took the TQ spot for the semifinals and he was also able to win his semi in front of Xray teammate Jorge Santin while Manuel Perez (Xray) took the second semi. In the final Cristian was able to build a comfortable gap allowing him to cruise to the win in round 1 of the championship. Jose Porto Andion finished second, Victor Remiseriro Moure completed the podium.

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April 1, 2014

Ryan Lutz wins Pro E-Buggy at PNB

The 7th annual Psycho Nitro Blast saw Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz walking away with the win in the Pro E-Buggy class after taking all three qualifying rounds, handing him the pole position for the triple A-mains. After some eventful finals Ryan was able to take the win from TLR’s Adam Drake with Joe Bornhorst grabbing the final podium spot in 3rd.

Source: Team Durango [teamdurango.com]

March 31, 2014

Peter Harder wins Danish nationals Rd1

The first round of the Danish nitro off-road nationals took place on a purpose-built track in an indoor horse training arena. The qualifying saw Oliver Fisher being the dominant driver so he quite easily took TQ but Peter Harder was in pursuit and was able to take the lead in the main final only on the second lap. Peter then started to build quite gap on the second place driver and he was close to lapping Oilver halfway through the final. But then Peter started to struggle due to an erratic behaving car allowing Oliver to close up. With around 5 minutes to go Oliver was on Peter’s tail and then things got even worse for the Xray driver as a tyre started to come off but at the end Harder was able to maintain a 0.8s gap handing him the win in front of Oliver Fisher and Jan D. Hansen.

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March 31, 2014

Chris Banham wins 2014 North Island Champs

The New Zealand 2014 North Island Champs took place at the Taranaki Radio Control club. In the Nitro Buggy class Chris Banham managed to TQ 5 out of 6 qualifiers to take the overall TQ and also in the Nitro Truggy class he pretty much dominated the qualifiers by taking 3 round wins which in turn also gave him the overall TQ for the finals. Following the semifinals Chris than would also take the pole positions for the finals of both classes.

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