Having crowned Ryan Cavalieri as the new 2WD electric Buggy World Champion on Wednesday attention now turns to 4WD in Finland today with a day of practice on the Vaasa track which has had the layout changed from that used in the first half of the week.
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Ricardo Nogueira and Bruno Coelho won the recent fourth round of the Portuguese on-road nationals in 1/8 scale and 1/10 scale 200mm respectively. Bruno TQ’ed both classes but it was Ricardo Nogueira (Serpent/Novarossi) who won 1/8 scale after Mugen driver Bruno hit engine problems with 10 minutes to go. This helped Ricardo Costa (Mugen Seiki/Novarossi) to claim the second place with Coelho in third place.
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The 4th round of the Hungarian off-road Championships took place in Bokor last weekend at great weather conditions. The track raced on is about 370m long and made from a mix of soil and sand with many different artificial surfaces like carpet, stones and more at different places. The track owners, the Szebelledi family, did a great job again to make it a superb event. In the Buggy class it was Cseko Gergely who grabbed the TQ by winning 4 out of the 6 qualification rounds. All the usual frontrunners bumped up into the main from the semis except young Palla Balazs who forced to retire. The main final started without Bruzsa Richard who looked to be the main contender for the win showing great pace in the semi but was hit by throttle servo problems during the 3min warm-up and had to retire. After the start Gergely opened the gap ahead of the trio of Gabnai Gergo, Toth Bence and Szebelledi Laszlo. Laszlo looked to be the fastest among them but an inconsistent engine and several cut-offs prevented him to finish any of the top places. Gabnai Gergo and Toth Bence continued to battle with mainly Gergo being in front. However at the closing stage of the race Bence remained in front of Gergo and finished 2nd.
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The 4th round of the Hungarian off-road Championships took place in Bokor last weekend. Beside the usual 1/8 scale Buggy and Truggy classes also a 1/10 scale Short Course truck class was run which was won by Daniel Varga (HongNor) in front of Tamas Gyurics (Traxxas) and Gyorgy Fally (Traxxas).
Short Course results
1. Varga Daniel – HongNor SCRT10/Castle/Pro-Line
2. Gyurics Tamas – Traxxas Slash/Velineon/Pro-Line
3. Fally Gyorgy – Traxxas Slash/Velineon/Pro-Line
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Ryan Cavalieri is the new 2WD Electric Buggy World Champion after seeing off intense pressure from his Associated team-mate Ryan Maifield in a very close third A-Main to claim his first IFMAR 2WD title. A past winner of the sports greatest accolade in 4WD, Cavalieri said afterwards that the race was probably their best ever battle and on crossing the finish line his first thoughts were that he couldn’t believe he had managed to hold off his great rival.
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Ryan Cavalieri has won the second A-Main of the IFMAR 2WD Electric Buggy World Championship meaning the 2011 World Champion will be decided in the third and final race of the day here in Vaasa, Finland. The former 4WD World Champion took the win ahead of Associated team-mate Ryan Maifield after getting by Top Qualifier Neil Cragg who made a mistake over the big double.
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Jared Tebo has won the opening leg of the A-Main at the 2WD Electric Buggy World Championship. Starting from fourth on the grid the Kyosho driver took a convincing win over the Associated’s of Ryan Cavalieri and Top Qualifier Neil Cragg. Running only the seventh fastest lap time of the race, the American proved speed was not the key to success at the Vaasa track as he benefited from mistakes early on by Cavalieri and Maifield before pulling off a very nice pass on Cragg for the lead.
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2005 World Champion Neil Cragg is the Top Qualifier for this afternoon’s 2WD electric Buggy World Championhips, the British ace snatching the honours from Associated team-mate Ryan Cavalieri with a TQ run in the fifth and final round of qualifying at Vaasa this morning.
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