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December 5, 2013

Javi Pombo takes Madrid regional championship

Javi Pombo (Mugen) has won the last round of the Madrid regional championship held last weekend. Javi competed and won against Spanish aces like Dani Vega, Alberto García or Daniel Pariente and the victory also handed him the overall title and marks the culmination of a season that started up in Montpellier where he supremely run the final, and ended up with this regional victory and 6th overall at the Spanish National Championship.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

December 5, 2013

Maifield doubles at Arizona State championship

Maifield Wins Final Arizona State Championship at Hobbytown/SRS!

In what was the final Arizona State Championship at the Scottsdale location of Hobbytown/SRS, Team Associated/Reedy driver Ryan Maifield once again stamped his legacy on the event by claiming the top two titles in the state. With 28 years of heritage, the “States” have always been a staple of racing in Arizona and Ryan has been a part of the event since he was six years old, some 21 years ago. With a unique one-day event for each electric and gas, Maifield took the TQ and win of 2WD Modified Buggy on Saturday with his Centro-converted B4.2. Facing ever-changing track conditions, Maifield won A1 and A2 convincingly ahead of Billy Fischer and Tommy Hinz.

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December 5, 2013

South Norwegian Winter cup Rd1 – Report

The South Norwegian Winter cup kicked of in Kvinesdal, Norway and was held at the athletic hall in Kvinesdal allowing for a huge track. 55 drivers attended the race that had the best two qualifiers counted followed by triple A-mains. In the modified class Oskar Fjeld, driving a Yokomo BD7 set the pace in the first qualifier. The time would prove to hold for TQ. In the second qualifier the round had a battle between Xray driver Rune Svestøl and Øyvind Stusdal, in the end Øyvind took the win and the second spot on the grid two tenths in front of Rune. On the fourth spot sat modified debutant and youngster Tobias Sanden.

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December 4, 2013

Chris Cristo wins 2WD SC at Gobbler race

For the past eight years R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, Massachusetts has hosted the Gobbler race, and the ninth annual event took place last weekend. X Factory team manager Chris Cristo TQed 2WD Short Course and took a wire-to-wire win in the 8 minute A main. John Cravotta qualified his X Factory truck third and finished second, putting the X-Team 1-2 on the podium.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

December 4, 2013

Wayne Joelson wins SA 1/8th national title

The 4th and final round of the South African nitro on-road nationals took place at the TRAP racing facility just outside the capital city of Tshwane. Nearly 60 drivers from around South Africa attended the event for both 1/10th touring and 1/8th scale. Having already won the championship after 3 rounds the top qualifier in the 1/8th class was current SA champion Wayne Joelson (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) followed closely by Dawie vd Merwe (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) and Imtiaz Salie (Mugen Seiki/Max). The final then was won by Imtiaz Salie who took his first 1/8th scale victory and secured the vice championship.

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December 4, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins at Portugal Off Road Series

A round of the Portugal Off Road Series was run at the RC Indoor Oeste track and in the 4WD buggy class it was Xray’s Bruno Coelho who dominated the field in qualifying. Due to the very technical layout of the track the finals were very demanding for all, but Bruno transformed his TQ spot into an overall win with Nuno Rebelo following him in 2nd place. Rodrigo Luis completed the top 3 while Nuno Roque and Tiago Vieira came in 4th and 5th respectively.

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December 4, 2013

South Swedish Cup Rd3 – Report

The third round of the South Swedish Cup for electric touring cars was held in Alvesta by the Wäxjö MS on a fairly technical track The schedule saw three rounds of qualifying and local driver Markus Hellquist dominated the modified class, not giving the others a real chance to challenge for the TQ spot. The battle was then on for the runner up spot between Jonas Andersson and Daniel Carlsson and with a great 2nd run from Jonas he managed to secure the second place on the starting grid ahead of Daniel Carlsson. The 4th to 6th place drivers also had were only separated by a second meaning the race would see some nice fights in the finals.

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December 4, 2013

Månsson doubles at Associated X-Mas Challenge

The Associated X-Mas Challenge took place last weekend in Linköping, Sweden. The event saw 74 entries in the short course modified, 1/16 buggy, modified buggy 2WD and modified buggy 4WD classes. Team Associated’s Niclas Månsson took the pole position in 2WD and 4WD buggy and later went on to win both classes. In 2WD Mikael Johansson came in 2nd and with Andreas Edwinsson (Kyosho) taking 3rd place. The 4WD class had Michael Kronoström (Team Associated) taking the runner-ip spot, Felix Sandberg (Kyosho) completed the podium in 3rd position.

Source: MustitRC [mustit.no]