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June 8, 2011

Yuichi Kanai wins Team C Buggy Cup

The Team C Buggy Cup was hosted by TZ Racing Track Beijing this past weekend and attracted more than 70 drivers from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China including Japanese former World Champion Yuichi Kanai. It was Kanai who TQ’d and won the one hour A-main, leading from the first lap. The 2nd spot went to Lam with his TP powered Durango, with Li in 3rd with his GO powered MBX6. In the electric buggy class, Team C driver Tommy took an easy win with his T8E in the 8 minutes final.

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June 7, 2011

Video – ROAR Offroad Nats A-main highlights

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIAn7Nq1F1w[/youtube]

Videos of both A-mains from last weekend’s ROAR fuel offroad 8th scale Nationals, held at Thunder Alley, are now online. Showing the highlights from each race, the truggy main is embedded above, with the buggy main below. You can view the rest of our in-depth coverage, along with large photo gallery, photo booth and more videos on our event page here.

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June 7, 2011

Oscar Cabezas dominates Rd2 in Spain

The second round for Spanish 1/8th Onroad took place last weekend at Almussafes, Valencia. Oscar Cabezas with his Vox engine powered Motonica, fueled by Merlin Pro-Racing fuel, took all 4 qualifiers giving no option to his rivals. The main final saw Óscar Cabezas maintain his first position at the start followed closely by Nacho López who had a different fuel strategy. However right after the tire stop, Nacho had a mechanical trouble and could not fight for the victory. Oscar would take the win by 5 laps ahead of Victor González in 2nd and Sergio Montesinos 3rd.

Source: Merlin [merlinfuel.com]

June 7, 2011

Haikal & Mizan win Malaysian Nats Rd2

The 2nd round of Malaysia National Championship series was hosted by RCAC at the Titiwangsa R/C track in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. As the track was a little bit wet in the morning the conditions were not easy for the contenders. The races started with the qualifying of the 1/8th scale category. At his 1/8th scale debut race Haikal immediately piloted his Shepherd V8 ‘11 to the provisional TQ spot in the first round of qualifying. The combo of his out of the box Shepherd car with default factory settings and Shepherd tires work flawlessly on the damp but drying track. Despite the best effort by the other drivers during the 2nd and 3rd rounds of qualifying the he kept his TQ position for the 45 minute final.

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June 7, 2011

Rick V makes it 3 from 3 in Dutch Nationals

Last weekend was the third round of the Dutch 1/8 nationals held on the very small and tricky track of MBC de Sluis in Gouda. With a whole week of very good weather sadly enough Sunday started with rain. In the third round of qualifications the track was almost dry so the race director declared the last 2 heats dry which did not count. In the NK all drivers had a “wet” qualification time so everyone made it into the finals. On pole it was Rick V who decided to drive his old MRX-4X and was forced by rules to drive with it the whole day, he was followed by Arie Manten, John Ermen and Gunther v. Staey.

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June 6, 2011

Hupo Honigl wins Euros Warmup in Pau

The 2011 10th off road European Championships is being held in Pao, Southern France at the ‘Mini Racing Club Palois’ track. This years ‘Euros warmup’ even, a chance for competitors to gain some experience before the main event, coincided with the 4th round of the 2011 French National series as both events ran together in Pao last weekend. Hupo Honigl and Martin Kriel made the trip over together but had to miss most of Fridays open practice due to their travel arrangements – and this being first time out for Kriel with the prototype 2WD DEX210, it was a steep learning curve. Hupo Honigl however quickly established his dominance in 2WD with the prototype DEX210 2WD buggy, taking every single qualifier and A finals for the win.

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June 6, 2011

Cavalieri is ROAR Buggy Champion

Team Associated completed the double today at the 2011 ROAR 1:8 Offroad Nationals with Ryan Cavalieri winning the Buggy main ahead of team-mate Ryan Maifield who earlier in the day lifted the Truggy crown at Thunder Alley. What started out as a thrilling battle which produced many lead changes, in the end Cavalieri took any easy win as Top Qualifier Jared Tebo hit trouble and Maifield suffered a flame out.

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June 6, 2011

Maifield wins ROAR Truggy Nationals

Ryan Maifield is the 2011 ROAR Truggy Champion after taking his Associated RC8T to a convincing victory over outgoing champion & Top Qualifier Jared Tebo with Hot Bodies’ Jesse Robbers completing the podium at Thunder Alley in Southern California.

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