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April 9, 2013

Robert Batlle wins Spanish 1/8th season opener

The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th National series took place last weekend in Lebrija Jose Maria RC track in the very south west of the country near Seville. Robert Batlle would take 3 of the 4 rounds of qualifying to start the semi on pole position with Oscar Baldo taking the 4th and final round and line up on pole for the second semi. With the Semis over, and Daniel Vega and Borja Hernandez out, the World Champion would lead away from pole and easily take the win by nearly 3 laps from Ignacio Candel in 2nd with Oscar Baldo completing the podium in 3rd.

View a video of the A-main here

April 8, 2013

Mark Lim double at NOOB series Rd2

Last weekend under sunny skies in Singapore, racers gathered for Round 2 of the NOOB Singapore Open Buggy Series held at RaceWorks Arena. This round saw the racers running on a freshly resurfaced track with a challenging new technical layout that would test everyone’s skills. In the 4WD class, Mark “BC” Lim set a blistering pace in his Durango DEX410v3 buggy to TQ the class ahead of Jericho and Png. However in leg 1 of the finals an early mistake by BC resulted in a popped turnbuckle which effectively took him out of the run. Tein, the winner of Round 1, drove a clean race to win Leg 1 after starting from 5th on the grid. Bouncing back from the poor performance in Leg 1, BC took take Leg 2 and 3 to emerge overall champion with Tein in 2nd spot and Jericho in 3rd.

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April 8, 2013

Boots & Hazlewood win EP Buggy & Truggy nats Rd1

HNMC hosted the first round of this years truggy and 1/8th EP buggy national championships with a healthy 96 drivers entered. The club had again made some improvements for this year new warm up benches shielded undercover pit area, and a new compressor for car cleaning. The Herts track team did an outstanding job to great the track in the condition for this event hats off to all that helped and Westmill Farm team. Qualifying in Truggy was dominated by TLR’s Darren Bloomfield wile it was all Kyosho’s Elliott Boots in EP Buggy. Elliott would go on to win all three legs in EP buggy with Karl Jackson taking 2nd and Simon Willetts 3rd. The truggy win would go to Agama’s Jon Hazlewood, following an early retirement by Bloomfield, with Jack Embling 2nd and Tommy Chung 3rd.

View the truggy podium here

April 7, 2013

Nitro Northern Regional series 2013 – Announcement

Nitro Northern Regional series 2013 - Announcement

The NRS team got in contact to announce the Nitro Northern Regional series 2013. the NRS13 will run over 6 rounds (4 to count) at some of the best off-road tracks in the North or England beginning on the NNRC track on the 28th of April and ending at Storm Valley on the 6th October. Entries are now open for the first round and you can find more information here.

View the calendar listing here

April 6, 2013

Sanford & Mitchell take Top Notch Series titles

The 2013 Top Notch Series just finished up this past weekend. The series would hit 7 different tracks over the past couple months to test Southern California’s best drivers. The championship for each class would be decided by using each drivers 4 best finishes out of 7. Kyosho Team Drivers Lucas Sanford and Josh Mitchell would attend each round of this series and together take home 4 Modified Championships. Lucas Sanford would go onto win the 2wd Modified Buggy and 1/8 Electric Buggy Championships, while Josh Mitchell would win the 4wd Modified Buggy and Modified Truck Championships.

View final standings here

April 4, 2013

Shortcourse Showdown Tour Rd2 – Report

The second stop of the 2013 Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour took place at one of New England’s finest indoor racing facilities, the one and only R/C Excitement. Just under 200 entries consisting of some of the nation’s best short course racers gathered in the small town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts for some BIG time racing. Local racers including TLR’s Anthony Mazzara and Toddie Anderson set to do battle against “the travellers” consisting of TLR’s Matt Chambers, Team Associated’s Brian Kinwald, JConcept’s Dave Duncan, AKA’s Greg Hodapp, LiveRC’s Mike Garrison, and many others.

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April 4, 2013

Tasos Paparegas wins Greek 1/8 buggy nats Rd1

The first round of Greek nationals took place at FRT dirt track in Athens, Greece. Drivers from all over the country came to start the 2013 Championship season. Friday and Saturday saw the practice runs with the qualifying starting early on Sunday. Xray driver Tasos Paparegas took the TQ honours followed by Makropoulos and Papanikolaou. Tasos was able to conserve his performance in the 45 minutes long final finishing two seconds ahead of Papanikolaou with taking the third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 4, 2013

Zdenko Kunak wins Czech Winter Champs

The Winter Czech National Championship was held in Rtyne v Podkrkonosi 150km North of Prague. The race format saw controlled practice on Friday, qualification on Saturday and finals on Sunday. Around 100 drivers attended in the several classes including touring car modified, 17.5T zero boost stock, GT, formula and hobby. 17 drivers in stock and 34 touring modified mixed up with some of the top Czech drivers makiing for close and competitive racing. In modified Zdenko Kunak started strong during the controlled practice and he also was on the top of the field in the stock class but he experienced pressure by Marek Cerny. Zdenko though struggled with setup as the hand out tyres been too old delivering virtually zero traction and side bite. After a slow start Zdenko was able to win the important last qualifying races taking TQ in both the stock and modified class. In the finals the race was still on between Zdenko and Marek and at the end it was Zdenko who took the modified class with Marek being successful in stock.

Source: Yokomo Europe [teamyokomo.eu]