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December 9, 2013

Völker wins, Rheinard second at Charity Race

The annual Charity Race took place at RC Landia in Scandiano, Italy with around 120 drivers attending in various on-road classes including touring car modified and stock, 1/12th and F1. In the modified touring car class Ronald Völker (Yokomo) took TQ in front of Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) and Alexander Hagberg (Xray). Martin Hudy would put his Xray fourth on the grid, with Marco Kaufmann (Xray) claiming fifth position after the qualifiers. In the finals Ronald Völker made a clean sweep in leg 1 and 2 taking the overall win early. Marc came in second after winning A-main number 3 after Ronald made a rare mistake on the first lap dropping the Yokomo driver to 3rd place. Ronald was not able to get past Alex so he had to settle for 3rd place in the final while Alex’s 2nd place handed the Xray driver the last remaining podium spot.

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December 9, 2013

Hara wins Pattaya Buggy Party race

The Pattaya Buggy Party race took place last weekend and the event was just another Asian meeting to be dominated by Atsushi Hara, this time running SWorkz’ forthcoming S350 Evo buggy. After taking TQ the Japanese ace, who appears to attend each race with a different brand of vehicle, went on to win the 50 minute final by one lap ahead of Meen Vejrak. Joseph Quagraine completed the podium while Carlee Phutiyothin completed the top 4 result.

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December 9, 2013

Mizan & Anthony Wee win at Malaysian Novarossi Cup

This year’s Malaysian Novarossi Cup attracted around 70 racers to compete in the 1/8 and 1/10 200mm on-road classes. The track was closed prior to the event to make for fair conditions for every participant with official practice starting on Thursday. Sunday’s finals saw Mizan taking the win in the 200mm class with Amirul Shafiq and Ben completing the podium.

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December 9, 2013

János Birinyi wins East Hungarian champs Rd3

The 3rd round of the East Hungarian national championship was held near Debrecen. Xray driver János Birinyi took TQ in the 13.5T class on the large high grip carpet track and in the finals János scored two wire-to-wire wins handing him the day’s win with one leg to go. Ferenc Gibala (Xray) and Tamás Ponghó (Xray) finished second and third respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 9, 2013

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at French charity race

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at French Charity Racce

The Charity Race for the Téléthon took place at a small club in Avesne-sur-helpe in the North of the France with around 100 drivers attending. Xray’s Lorenzo Crolla took TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class after controlling the proceedings in qualifying, although this was the first 2WD race on carpet for the young man. The finals then saw Lorenzo being in control of things again, easily taking A1 and A2 for an early win in the 2WD class. Julien Parnot and Ludovic Valtier came in second and third while Remy Barbillon completed the top 4.

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December 9, 2013

Sterling takes 2WD Mod title at Victorian State Champs

The 2013 Victorian State Titles for EP 1/10 off-road started with controlled practice on Friday and culminated in the finals run on Sunday. In the first 2WD modified A-main TQ Matt made a mistake in the second lap allowing Ben and Ash to get by. Both drivers then battled for entire leg swapping positions several times and at the end it was Ben who passed Ash at the triple handing him the leg 1 win although his contender tried another move on the Kyosho driver. A-main number 2 had Matt taking the win while elsewhere Ben got hit multiple times only allowing him to finish 7th in the run.

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December 9, 2013

Steve Boice wins at Cleveland Indoor Champs

Team SpeedMerchand driver Steven Boice took the win in the World GT class at the 34th running of the Cleveland Indoor Championships. After a mixed qualifying Steve made the most out of his 6th place on the starting grid, taking second place after only a couple of laps. He then started to chase the leader and ultimately took the first position with around a minute to go. The 2nd place car then made a run at Steve but ended up taking himself out of contention. After that, Steve put it on cruise control and finished with a straight-a-way lead over 2nd place.

Source: SpeedMerchant [teamspeedmerchant.com]

December 8, 2013

Oskar Levin takes 2wd at VBC Cup Rd2

The second round of the VBC Swedish Indoor Cup took place at the Klippan RCK track. In the competitive 2wd class it was round 1 winner Oskar Levin that was on top of his game and took the top qualification spot with his Team C car. In the finals Oskar would convert that pace into the win in front of TLR driver Otto Ausfelt in 2nd place while Erik Månsson completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: RC Hobbysyd Racing [rchobbysydracing.se]