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January 28, 2020

Juan Aguirre wins at Nitro Electric On-road Series Rd1

The Barceloneta RC Complex of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico held the opening round of their Nitro Electric On-road Series last weekend with nearly 60 entries. In the 1/10th 200mm class it was Juan Chalas with the overall TQ from Franco Machado in 2nd. The 25-minute A-main event however brought a totally different result with 5th place qualifier, Juan Aguirre taking the win some seven laps in front of 6th place qualifier, Ivan Garcia while 3rd place qualifier, Alex Fagundo came in 3rd overall, some 40 seconds behind Ivan.

Source: Wallace Motorsports [wallacemotorsports.net]

January 28, 2020

Brown & Schreven win at NW Model Hobby Expo

The 2020 Northwest Model Hobby Expo Off-Road Carpet Championship was held at Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe, Washington last weekend, drawing nearly 250 entries for the various Modified and Stock electric off-road classes offered. In the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class it was TLR driver, Mikey Brown with the overall TQ from Brady Janson in 2nd and Team Associated’s Jonathan Cantrell in 3rd. Mike would only finish in 5th place in A1, however he would make up for it in A2 and A3 to bring home the overall from Brady in 2nd. A1 winner, Jonathan would have to settle for 3rd overall in the tie-breaker with Brady.

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January 28, 2020

Frederik Brolos Mikkelsen wins at DASU Champs Rd2

Round 2 of the Danish DASU Electric On-road Championship was hosted by the Brondby Racing Club last weekend. The race was held in Stock Touring, Formula and GT12 classes and in Touring Super Stock it was Awesomatix driver, Frederik Brolos Mikkelsen with the overall TQ and win from the Xray duo of Patrick Danielsen in 2nd and Patrick Folman in 3rd.

Image: Claus Ryeskov

January 28, 2020

Akio Sobue wins at 2020 Mountain Cup

The 2020 Mountain Cup was held at the RC Paradise asphalt indoor track in Nagoya, Japan this past weekend. The race attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers and it was Infinity’s Akio Sobue with the overall win in the Touring Car Modified class from Masami Hirosaka (Yokomo) in 2nd. Xray’s Takuma Sasaki came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Source: KO Propo [kopropo.com]

January 27, 2020

Adam Drake sweeps Grassroots Racing Series opener

Thunder Alley Raceway of Beaumont, California played host to round 1 of the Grassroots Racing Series this past weekend. The event draw nearly 180 entries and in Open Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the overall TQ and win. TLR’s Cole Jenson came in 2nd in the 15-minute A-main event, some two laps down as HB Racing’s Marcus Garret ended the day on the 3 spot, 5.7 seconds behind Cole. Over in Open E-Buggy it was again Adam with the overall TQ and win as Cole Jenson and Mitchell Taylor came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Image: Adam Drake

January 27, 2020

Neil Cragg doubles at Schumacher Off-Road Masters Rd5

This past weekend was the fifth round of the very popular Worksop Series, there was once again a great entry of drivers in the main classes of 2WD and 4WD buggies, then some 2WD stadium trucks and vintage buggies also. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The control tyre in the buggy classes is the Schumacher Yellow Honeycomb, this works superbly well at Worksop. Qualifying in 2WD saw a dominating performance by Neil Cragg, taking TQ in 3 out of the 4 rounds to take pole position from Richard Lowe and Tommy Hall. In 4WD it was a similar story with Neil Cragg taking TQ, ahead of Greg Williams and Tommy Hall, who lined up second and third respectively. The 2WD stadium truck class saw Joe Cockill take pole ahead of Abe Lyons and Alex Callan. The Vintage classes had Rob Fox leading the way in 4WD and Steven Pierce in 2WD.

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January 27, 2020

Maifield claims 2nd Reedy Race title

Ryan Maifield has claimed the Reedy Offroad Race of Champions title for a second time, the Yokomo driver becoming the 7th driver in the famed race’s history to become a multiple champion. While Maifield would set out his stall early in the event and leading the points at the end of each day, the 26th running of the event would go down to the 12th & final round of racing with Spencer Rivkin in with a stab at his first win. Needing to win the final round to keep the pressure on Maifield to perform, the World Champion was held at bay by CJ Jelin meaning Maifield’s final result didn’t matter but after a 5-year wait he wanted to regain his title in true champion style clocking up win No.6 of the weekend. Coming away with his best Reedy Race finish, Rivkin would end the event 4-points down on Maifield with the podium completed by Ryan Cavalieri who wrapped up the 2020 event with a win in the 36th & final heads up race. Maifield’s closest challenger at the completion of 4WD, former champion Dakotah Phend would claim fourth ahead of Broc Champlin, the teenager putting in some very strong showings against the establishment. For last year’s champion Jared Tebo, what had the potential to be a good day didn’t turn out that way and he dropped to 7th behind Ty Tessmann in the final standings having started the day in a fighting second.

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January 27, 2020

Salmela & Lehto win at FinTrack Tour Rd2

Round 2 of the 2020 FinTrack Tour was hosted by the Kypak club in Kuusankoski this past weekend, attracting 75 entries from Finland and Russia. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Karri Salmela (Awesomatix) with a near clean sweep in the qualifiers as Pekko Iivonen came in 2nd, winning a single qualifying round. The finals then saw Karri continue to dominate, taking all three A-mains for the overall from Awesomatix pilot Georgy Chmigal in 2nd. Schumacher driver Pekko Iivonen would round out the top 3 as Leevi Martikainen and Teemu Saarinen came in 4th and 5th respectively.

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