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October 2, 2013

Boy Chan wins Malaysian East Coast champs

The Malaysian East Coast championships took place in Terengganu. Xray driver Boy Chan took TQ but immediately lost his good position at the start of the 45 minute final dropping to 3rd position after a crash in the first lap. He soon recovered but 15 minutes into the final he suffered a flame out letting him drop back to 3rd place again. By the 30 minute mark Boy’s team mate Ku Chi had to retire his Xray sitting in 2nd position with a broken servo leaving Daniel Law and Boy Chan fighting for the win. 5 minutes before the end Boy was able to pass Daniel in order to take the lead and the race win.

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October 2, 2013

Reedy Race of Champions – Driver list announced

Now that the 2013 IFMAR World Championships are completed, the organisers of the annual Reedy Race of Champions announced the qualified Invitational class drivers to fight for the prestigious title. The list contains the creme de la creme of the World’s best off-road drivers such as the new World Champion Steven Hartson, past champions such as Ryan Cavalieri, European champions such as Jörn Neumann and upcoming stars like Wesley van Helmond or Oliver Scholz. Added to the mix for the 20th running of the event are icons such as Brian Kinwald, Matt Francis, Masami Hirosaka and Barry Baker. Beside the Invitational class also the Open class will be held. For more information and to make your entry for the race that will be held from January 23rd to 26th at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA visit reedyrace.com.

October 2, 2013

Archibald & Boogie win at Regional Pavement champs

At this year’s ROAR Regional Pavement championship Sweep’s Aja Archibald dominated the GT8 class and not only TQ’d every round of qualifying but also went on to win the 30 minute final to claim the Regional championship back to back with his NYS championship the month before. In 10th touring car Ray Boogie took home the winning honours after qualifying second.

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October 1, 2013

Jan Domansky wins at Czech buggy nats Rd4

While Martin Bayer was victorious in the nitro buggy class at the 4th round of the Czech 1/8th buggy nationals Jan Domansky (Serpent) took the winning honours in the E-buggy class. Karel Novotny came in second while Michal Blahovsky completed the podium. Fourth and fifth went to Radim Drda and Jiri Garba respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 1, 2013

Martin Bayer wins Czech Buggy champs Rd4

The 4th round of the Czech national buggy championship took place at the JK Cars track in Skripov. As usual during this time of the year it already was very cold in the morning with only around 0°C but the sun warmed everyone up later on. The race started directly with qualifying and it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who TQ’d all qualifying rounds securing the pole position for the semifinal that he went on to win. In the final Martin led from start to finish taking an easy win in front of Xray team mates Jiri Mara and David Kukla.

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October 1, 2013

Herfried Pucher wins Austrian 1/8th on-road nationals

The final round of the Austrian nitro on-road nationals took place at the Amstetten track. Herfried Pucher, Nejc Mihelic and Manuel Gremlica all had the chance to take the 2013 national title and during the practice sessions Pucher made his intentions clear to win his third title after taking the 1997 and 2008 championship. He was able to conserve his performance for the final where he started second and soon overtook Gremlica to take the lead and never looked back. Pucher was later able to cruise to the victory as his closest competitors ran into trouble; Gremlica’s car suffered clutch issues and Njec had a coming together with another driver resulting in an additional pit stop. At the end, Herfried won the race almost four laps ahead of Njec and Höller Helmut. The win also secured him the national title in front of Manuel Gremlica and Nejc Mihelic.

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October 1, 2013

LRP-HPI-Challenge 2013 finale – Report

LRP-HPI-Challenge 2013 finale - Report

This year’s LRP-HPI-Challenge finale took place at the challenging track of the RCCT Münden club. The 14th running of the series attracted over 1200 drivers in total in the 2012/13 season with more than 150 of them attending at the series’ finale in the Rookie, Classic, 17.5T and Stock classes. The fastest class of the LRP-HPI-Challenge is the Stock-Challenge with the cars reaching almost 60km/h using LRP’s X12 SS 10.5T motor. Local driver Kevin Blume proved to be the man of the weekend taking profit of his track knowledge. In A1, he overtook top qualifier Lars Hoppe and drove to victory. The second final already brought the decision as again, TQ Lars wasn’t able to keep it up with the pace of Kevin who celebrated an early victory in the Stock-Challenge. By winning A3, Lars Hoppe secured the second place overall ahead of Sascha Speck.

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October 1, 2013

Yatabe Arena to host 2015 Electric Buggy Worlds

The world famous Yatabe Arena will host the 2015 IFMAR Electric Buggy World Championships, returning the same venue which it hosted 18 years ago, on that occasion Matt Francis took the 2WD title for Team Associated and Mark Pavidis bringing home the honours for Yokomo. The race is scheduled to be held from September 26th to October 3rd and we hear that the Yatabe Arena will undergo some expansion work in preparation.