The Hobbywing Asia Open took place in Guangzhou, China and in the Modified class it was Fai Ho (Serpent) who won on front of Andy Moore (Hot Bodies) and Atsushi Hara, who was driving a VBC chassis at this event. Due to massive rain the organisers had to cancel the finals and used the three qualifying rounds to determine the winner.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The CARTT Christmas Cup was held at the Fuencarral track in Madrid, Spain. 102 drivers filled the only class at this event, 1/8th off-road buggy. In the 30 minute final, run in dry and slippery conditions, SWorkz’ Alberto Garcia came in 1 lap ahead of Daniel Pariente, followed by Oscar Navarro, who completed the podium another lap down. Chema Casado Gil and Janma Guileen came in 4th and 5th respectively.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
The final round of the Greek electric off-road championship took place at the Pachi astroturf track. In the 4WD buggy class Tasos Paparegas took TQ in front of Papanikolaou and Amaksas. In the finals Tasos made a clean sweep by winning all three legs leaving Papanikolaou in second place. Tasos’s brother completed the podium in third position.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 4th round of the Lestr Cup took place in Dubec last weekend. In 4WD SC Team Durango driver Kaja Novotny went home with the class win in front of Michal Strnad and Jakub Vondracek. In 2WD Kaja was able to conserve his form, taking the second win of the day with Jiri Mara and Marcel Dostal in tow. Jiri then took the highly contested 4WD class win in front of Kaja Novotny and Jan Domansky who completed the podium.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
Ryan Maifield wrapped everything up early at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series taking place at the Hobby Plex track in Omaha, Nebraska, this afternoon as he backed up his clean sweep in A1 to claim the overall win in 2WD & 4WD Buggy and 2WD Short Course. Coming into the event already confirmed as the champion of both buggy classes the win in Short Course added that title to his 2013 haul while the 4WD Buggy win completes the perfect season with five wins from the five events that make up the popular series.
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The Nitro Onroad Christmas Race 2013 took place at the Extreme Speed Alley raceway. The race saw the running of a 1/8 nitro, 200mm nitro and 1/8 GT class and in 1/8th it was Ricky Tangan (Serpent/Novarossi) who took the winning honours, despite a late show-up for qualifying, in front of Serpent/Novarossi teammates Denis Lucindo and Clemen Pancho. In the 200mm touring class veteran off-road racer Jordan Go (Serpent/Novarossi) took the win after a very strong and consistent race from Joseph Evaristo (Serpent/Novarossi) and Edgar Ngo (Serpent/Novarossi). 1/8 GT was won by Edgar Ngo (Serpent/Novarossi) in front of Garet Santayana (Team C/NH) with another veteran, Leo Virtucio (Serpent/Novarossi) who was racing for the first time at the ESA track, taking the final podium spot.
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Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield completed a clean sweep in the opening round of Mains at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals, winning A1 in all three classes he is contesting at the Omaha, Nebraska event. First up for the Arizona ace was 4WD Buggy in which the Top Qualifier took the win over TLR’s JR Mitch, but only after his team-mate made a mistake on lap 8 rolling at the end of the straight and braking a front arm. There was little time to think about the win as up immediately after was the one class for which the overall title is still to be decided 2WD Short Course. Again starting from the pole, Maifield lead this entertaining encounter from start to finish seeing off very close attention from title rivals Harston and TLR’s Dustin Evans. Evans, who didn’t start the 4WD Main after stripping a spur gear in the warm-up, would finish second with Hartson claiming third from 5th on the gird.
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TLR driver Taylor Larsen has secured the overall TQ honours for the blue ribboned 2WD Buggy class at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals taking place in Omaha, Nebraska. Getting the day off to a dream start by topping the opening round of qualifying for the event’s biggest class, with 71 entries, the 15-year-old will start the triple A-Mains ahead of factory Associated duo of Steven Hartson and Ryan Maifield.
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