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November 30, 2012

Craig Collinson doubles at Chadderton

The Batley Buggy Club hosted the second round of their Chadderton winter series, held at Radclyffe Athletics Centre. With over 120 entrants, a full days’ racing was ahead of the drivers. The multi-surface track looked fantastic with a good mix of jumps, bumps, carpet and the usual cork flooring. The track was also laid out to run anti-clockwise just to mix things up a bit. As qualifying got under way it was clear to see the fast guys were all running dBoots Terrabytes tyres (A compound), as these proved to provide the most grip on the cork flooring and looked super consistent between surfaces. Just like in the first round both 2WD and 4WD classes were run on the same day, so it was all systems go for those competing in both classes. There was some great and close racing throughout the four rounds, but it was Team Durango driver Craig Collinson who was on form again, taking three out of four qualifying rounds with both his DEX410v3 and DEX210, to give him the overall TQ spot with both cars. Steve Lawson qualified second in 2WD and Conor Cocker took the second qualifier spot in 4WD, also driving a Team Durango DEX410v3.

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November 30, 2012

Darren Lord wins GCRC Raceway Series

GCRC Raceway, a purpose built indoor clay 1/10th race track in Australia would host a 13 round race series. Panther team driver Darren Lord took the series by storm in the 4WD Pro SC division. Eleven TQs and twelve 1st place finishes secured Darren the hard fought title.

Source: Panther [panthertires.com]

November 30, 2012

Chris Cristo wins Mod Truck at Gobbler Classic

Chris Cristo and John Cravotta dominated the modified truck class at the eighth running of the Gobbler Classic held by R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, MA with a total number of nearly 150 entries. Cristo drove the soon-to-be-released X Factory X–60CF to wins in both qualifiers and the A main, followed closely by John Cravotta with an original X–60.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

November 30, 2012

CRC sweep U.S Indoor Championships

The annual U.S. Indoor Championships in Cleveland is a premier road racing event for 1/12th and 1/10th pan cars and touring cars. For over 30 years, the ‘Champs’ has created many exciting finishes and fond memories. For 2012, there were big changes to the schedule and a new venue. For the first time in 25 years, racers would no longer travel to the Holiday Inn in Independence, OH, instead the new location for the race was the Holiday Inn in Strongsville, Ohio. Also new this year, no car would hit the track on Thanksgiving day, making it a shorter more affordable race.

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November 29, 2012

Maxi Vogl wins German Open Indoor Masters

Shepherd driver Maxi Vogl won the German Open Indoor Masters the second time in a row in front of his team-mate and 2012 German vice-champion Daniel Sieber. The race took place at the “Faszination Modellbau” fair in Friedrichshafen in the very South of Germany and attracted 35 drivers in the 1/8th scale class. Unfortunately the race was overshadowed by a bad accident during the main final. On Friday the track was open for free practise and both Shepherd drivers had a good pace already. The qualifying was held on Saturday and Maxi and Daniel showed a great performance. At the end it was Maxi taking the TQ less then 0,1sec in front of his fast team-mate Daniel with both drivers being the only one to reach 18 laps in qualifying securing themselves the pole-position in the semi-finals.

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November 28, 2012

Adrian Berntsen win Rd2 of Norway Indoor Nats

The 2nd round of the Norwegian national indoor series was held in Gjovik last weekend. All of the best modified drivers in Norway were attending the race which increased the level of the race and made it even tougher to make the A-main, and also making it harder to make the podium. After qualifying it was Adrian Berntsen who took the TQ spot being the only driver to make a 30 lap run. In second was Tom Erik Haaversen, while Petter Berntsen took the 3rd spot. The gap between Tom Erik and Petter was 0.142 seconds. In the first two finals it was Adrian who could take two easy wins and claimed the 1st place overall. Talented Oskar A. Fjeld drove two impressive finals battling both with Petter and Tom Erik to take the 2nd place in both of the two first finals. Petter Berntsen took 3rd in the first final, while the newly crowned 1:10 2wd buggy Norwegian Champion Niklas Bjørkå-Roos took 3rd place in the 2nd final. In the last final Adrian was having a safe lead, but after rolling on the curb in the last minute, Petter was able to overtake the lead and in the end finished right ahead of Adrian, taking an important win in the last final to take the 2nd place overall from Oskar.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 27, 2012

Martin Bayer wins Czech Winter Nationals

Last weekend the 2012 Winter 1/10 Off-Road Czech National race took place and Martin Bayer was present with his new Xray XB4. The club prepared a really nice track for this event and there was around 100 drivers attending. With virtually no practice we directly went to qualification heats. In the first qualification Bayer made an easy win but made a mistake in the second run, crashed by lapped traffic. Winning the third qualification Martin secured the overal TQ for main the final. With just some minor changes to the car in the final it was an easy win for the XB4 with 2 laps ahead of the Jiri Mara, with Kaja Novotny in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 26, 2012

Martin Lissau wins Danish Nationals Rd2

The second round of the Danish Nationals was held at LFRC, a new club in Denmark with a brand new track. Saturday practice started and the track had not so much grip at the start, but the traction was building up quickly and the lap times got better. On Sunday when the race got underway it was soon obvious that it would be a close battle between Mike Goswig and Martin Lissau. After qualification Lissau would take TQ with the only 26 laps run, about a second in front of Mike. The first two finals showed great racing between Mike and Martin and although there were a number of touches there was great sportsmanship shown. Lissau would win all three but only after some close racing with Gosvig in 2nd and and Patrick Folman 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]