The monthly CRO club race in Sintra, Portugal was run on the club’s tight and technical carpet track. Rodrigo Luís (Xray) took the win in the 20-cars field from Miguel Mathias (TLR) and Tiago Vieira (Xray). Joao Ramos and Hugo Miguel completed the top 5 result.
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The 2013 Indonesia National Year End Championship took place at the Boya Racing track in Tajur, West Java. A total of 50 drivers attended this event. Due to heavy rainfall after the second qualifying round the race was shortened and at the end it was Edward Joesoef who took the TQ and win in front of Jason Ngroho and Adrian Wicaksono, who grabbed the last remaining podium spot.
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The 2013 Kyosho Buggy Classic was held this past weekend at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. This annual 1-day event was also combined with Rev’s Toys for Tots Drive that would bring in just under 100 entries. With perfect weather conditions all day, it made for a great day of racing. Two 5 minute qualifiers would be ran using the Rocket Round format. This would take each drivers single fastest run to determine the overall qualifying order. After qualifying was complete, it was Kyosho Factory Driver Cody King who would take the TQ honors by just 1-second ahead of TLR’s Adam Drake. Kyosho’s Drew Moller showed good pace in the 2nd round of qualifying to move up to 3rd overall.
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The 2013 Ecuadorian off-road championships went to Pablo Cobos (Serpent/Novarossi), who won the buggy class while his Serpent teammate Raul Gomez brought home the truggy title. Marco Grijalva secured himself the vice championship in both the buggy and truggy class while Alejandro Campana (Serpent/Novarossi) completed the podium in the buggy class. Helmut Baldus (Kyosho/Novarossi) came in 3rd in the truggy class.
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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]
