January 20, 2014

Cragg doubles at Worksop Indoor Masters

Cragg doubles at Worksop Indoor Masters

Round 4 of the Schumacher sponsored 2013/14 Worksop Indoor Off Road Masters took place last weekend. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg was the driver to beat in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and at the end of the weekend he had both class wins under his belt. Joining him on the podium of the 4WD class where Team Durango’s Chris Doughty and Nathan Waters (Schumacher) while elsewhere in 2WD Craig Collinson (Team Durango) and Richard Lowe (X Factory) finished second and third respectively.

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January 19, 2014

2014 IFMAR 200mm Worlds back in Bangkok

2014 IFMAR 200mm Worlds back in Bangkok

Huge RC in Bangkok, Thailand, the track owned and run by 2002 ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya, has been confirmed as the new host for the 2014 IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Championships. IFMAR were left looking for a new host for the event after deciding in Japan last November not to travel to Argentina for the race. The event is scheduled to be run from the 7th to the 15th of November and will mean back to back 200mm World Championships in the country following the 2012 Worlds being held at RC Addict in another part of Bangkok.

Source: IFMAR [ifmar.org]


January 19, 2014

EOS win #9 for Neumann

EOS win #9 for Neumann

Despite facing by far his toughest opposition yet at a Euro Offroad Series race, Team Durango’s Joern Neumann remains unbeaten in 4WD Buggy after he secured win #9 at Round 2 of the series today in Berlin.  Taking a relatively easy win in A1, the German faced intense pressure second time round from Team Xray’s Martin Bayer but a last lap coming together allowed him to take the Leg and with it the overall win.

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January 19, 2014

Matsukura takes thrilling A3 for overall EOS victory

Matsukura takes thrilling A3 for overall EOS victory

Naoto Matsukura has taken overall victory in 2WD Buggy at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Berlin, Germany.  Only his second appearance in the series, the Team Yokomo driver took the EOS victory after a last lap mistake in A3 by Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl, the Austrian looking to have been on target for a repeat of his Polish victory.  Taking the win by less than half a second over Honigl to back up his A1 victory, the Japanese ace was joined on the podium by defending Champion Joern Neumann, winner of A2, with Honigl completing the Top 3.

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January 19, 2014

Neumann wins A2 of 2WD in Berlin

Neumann wins A2 of 2WD in Berlin

Joern Neumann has won the second leg of the 2WD Buggy A-Main at the Euro Offroad series setting the stage for a three way battle for the overall win in Berlin going into the third Main.  The Team Durango driver took the win ahead of Team C’s Hupo Honigl and Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura, benefiting from a mistake by the latter on lap 3 that dropped the A1 winner from the lead to fifth.

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January 18, 2014

Matsukura takes first A-Main at EOS

Matsukura takes first A-Main at EOS

Naoto Matsukura took a tone to tone victory in the first A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Berlin but the Japanese ace almost threw it away in what was a clearly dominant performance. Top Qualfier for the 2WD Buggy encounter, the Team Yokomo driver had a commanding lead over the No.2 starting Durango of Joern Neumann but with three laps to go he made a mistake that required marshaling. However such was his lead over the three way battle for second place that even with the loss of 4-seconds he was able to hold on to take albeit a narrow 6/10ths of a second win over Neumann with Hupo Honigl third and Lee Martin fourth.

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January 18, 2014

Matsukura is 2WD Top Qualifier at EOS

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Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura is Top Qualifier for 2WD Buggy at the Euro Offroad Series after a ‘safe run’ in the final qualifier became the second TQ run of the day for the Japanese ace. With six drivers in with a chance of claiming pole position for the second round of the championship it was all to play for in Q4 but it was Matsukura who was seeded in the second fastest heat that came out on top.  Running in the top heat Hupo Honigl would post the second fastest time ahead of Lee Martin and Joern Neumann.  Having TQ’d the opening qualifier yesterday, fourth would help defending champion Neumann to secure second on the grid in a four way tie break with Bayer getting third, Honigl fourth and Martin fifth.

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January 18, 2014

2WD quali wide open at EOS Berlin

2WD quali wide open at EOS Berlin

The honour of who will be Top Qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the second round of the Euro Offroad Series is wide open going into the final qualifier after Q2 & 3 went the respective ways of Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura and Team Xray’s Martin Bayer. Having TQ’d the opening round of qualifying yesterday, defending EOS Champion Joern Neumann had tough runs today managing only a best run of 10th fastest in Q3. EOS race winners Lee Martin and Hupo Honigl claimed second in the two qualifiers putting them both in the mix to claim the overall TQ with Tom Cockerill also in with a chance with Top 3 times in both of the 5-minute encounters.

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