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June 2, 2012

David Bustos wins Spanish 4WD championship

The one and only round of the Spanish 4WD electric buggy nationals was hosted by the Club Automodelismo de Parla some 20 minutes from the centre of Madrid. The two day event started with practice on Saturday and ended with the finals on Sunday. Compared to recent years where the 4WD class struggled to attract the same amount of drivers as 2WD, this year saw a record attendance for the class. In practice one driver stood out from the rest, local hero David Bustos. Sunday was all about sunny skies and high temperatures. Bustos (Tamiya TRF502/Hobbywing) dominated the race at his home track taking three out of five qualifiers and the first two A-finals. Second place went to last year’s 4WD champion Enrique Fuciños (Schumacher CAT SX3/Speed Passion) with Zacarias Villalba (Ansmann X4/Viper R/C) taking the third place on the podium.

Many thanks to Zacarias Villalba for sending the report.

June 1, 2012

Rheinard tops practice at Dutch ETS

Winner of last year’s Dutch ETS round, Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard has topped practice at the fifth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series putting him top seed for tomorrow’s four rounds of qualifying ahead of Yokomo’s Ronald Volker and Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp. Finishing up Day 1 of the event later than originally scheduled due to rain delays at the Apeldoorn track in the morning, Rheinard was for once pleased with the performance of his Speed Passion powered TRF417X.

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June 1, 2012

Gabriel Galeano wins Opening Big Air Race 2012

Team Mugen Racing and Pro-Line Driver Gabriel “Gabe” Galeano headed north to RCNYC, Bronx, NYC for the Opening Big Air Race 2012. The crew did an excellent job with the fresh layout for the event. Gabe was running the Tazer M3 tire during the race in his Mugen MBX6 M-Spec Eco and Mugen MBX6T M-Spec Eco, and the Sniper SC M4 in his Mugen SC-Pro 4. Gabriel did a good qualifying job, going 2nd in E-Buggy, 2nd in 4wd SCT MOD and 3rd in E-Truggy. For the A-mains Gabriel took all three of the first place trophies, finishing 1st in E-Buggy, 1st in E-Truggy and 1st in 4wd SCT Mod.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

June 1, 2012

Keisuke Fukuda wins Japanese nats

Keisuke Fukuda has won the recent 1/8th on-road nationals in Japan. TQ went to Tadahiko Sahashi (Serpent/Picco) in front of Yuya Sahashi (Serpent/Xceed) and Shoki Takahata (Kyosho/OS). In the finals it was the former World Champion Keisuke (Mugen/Picco) who could make use of all of his experience to beat Takaaki Shimo (Kyosho/OS) in second and TQ Tadahiko Sahashi in third position.

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June 1, 2012

Paul Wynn wins 2012 Sunshine State Classic

Paul Wynn has won the 2012 Sunshine State Classic at the Shiverville Raceway that has quickly become a second home to the Florida racers. The track crew did an amazing job preparing the surface which provided the racers with great traction throughout the day. JConcepts/Team Associated driver Paul Wynn took full advantage of the track conditions and set the TQ pace in both 2WD SCT mod and 2WD mod buggy classes with his JConcepts equipped SC10FT and B4.1 Worlds kits. Unfortunately tropical storm Beryl made an early appearance at the end of qualifying and washed out the mains, giving Paul the top podium spots in both classes.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

June 1, 2012

Frank Azzopardi wins Malta/Sicily champs

The Malta/Sicily championships took place at the Arena dell Etna track, with Nong Nor team driver Frank Azzopardi dominating the event by taking TQ and the first place in the A final on the loose and dusty track. The Hong Nor Sabre X3 driver won some three laps ahead of Lawrence Mangion in second and Dillon Cassar in third position.

Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]

May 31, 2012

Henrik Steiner wins German Nationals qualifier

The 3rd round of the Northern Germany nitro off-road championship took place in Wolfsburg with 58 racers in attendance. Henrik Steiner racing with a Sonic V.21B 3.5cc engine took the fourth place after qualifying and stated from second place in the semi final in which he secured the pole position for the 30 minutes final. After a turbulent start Henrik could increase the gap on the field lap by lap. At the end of the race he was nearly one lap in front of the rest of the field and crossed the finishing line in first position.

Source: Sonic [sonic-engines.com]

May 31, 2012

Cortez & Gaio win Madeira regionals Rd3

The third round of the Madeira Island nitro and electric on-road regionals was held at the Cancela track. In the 200mm 1/10 scale nitro class Luis Cortez (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) took TQ with former national champion Luis Angelo (Serpent/Novarossi) in third and André Gonçalves (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) in third place. Luis was able to open a gap within the first 10 minutes of the race that he was able to keep until the end of the main final securing him the win with Luis Miguel Angelo in second and Paulo Rodrigues (Xray/Novarossi) in third place.

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