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July 7, 2016

Mugen Challenge 2016 – Announcement

LCRC Raceway in Oakland Mill, Pennsylvania will play host to the 2016 Mugen Challenge from August 19th to 21st. The event will see the usual mix of Expert, Intermediate and Novice classes in both electric and nitro, plus 4WD Mod SCT and SCT Lites racing. Additionally Mugen Seiki’s Adam Drake will be holding a clinic with one-on-one car setup. More information about the race is available here and interested drivers can register online for the Mugen clinic here.

July 6, 2016

Bernabe Top Seed as pace proves genuine

Having surprised the entire paddock at RC Redovan when he was fastest in the opening timed practice, Daniel Bernabe quashed all question marks over his time by again topping the second & final practice at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships. Improving on his earlier 3-consecutive laps by 1-second, the SOAR driver again topped the times in Spain from defending Champion Elliott Boots, the Kyosho driver also bettering his CP1 time by 8/10ths. Pretty much a repeat of CP1, David Ronnefalk would again post the third fastest time, the HB Racing driver finding a similar improvement in time to Boots. Behind the former champion, Mugen’s Bryan Baldo will be seeded 4th for qualifying at his home race with Xray’s Martin Wollanka improving from 12th after the first practice to get P5 just ahead of Robert Batlle.

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July 6, 2016

Patrick Hofer wins Swiss 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd5

The fifth round of the Swiss 1/8th Buggy Nationals was held at the ORCM club in Montagny. The weather conditions were pretty challenging with heavy rain on Saturday and burning sun on Sunday, meaning the track surface would break up, revealing loads of stones on the racing line which made car setup pretty difficult. The A-main event was highlighted by the engine flame-outs of various drivers and with about 10 minutes to go, the race for the win was a 2-horse battle between Patrick Hofer and Joachim Kallen. Both raced nose to tail with Joachim in front, fending off all attacks by Patrick. Then, in the last corner of the final lap, Joachim’s engine stalled “LeMans 2016 style”, handing Patrick the win in an exciting final.

Source: Team Associated Switzerland [facebook.com]

July 6, 2016

Surprise as Bernabe tops Boots in 1st controlled practice

Surprise as Bernabe tops boot in 1st controlled practice

There were a few surprised faces at the end of the first round of controlled practice at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in Spain as the name Daniel Bernabe appeared at the top of the timing screen ahead of reigning champion Elliott Boots. A former European Semi Finalist, Bernabe would take his SOAR to the fastest 3-consecutive laps in the first of the two seeding rounds by just 6/100th of a second from yesterday’s free practice pace setter. Behind them 3/10th back, David Ronnefalk would complete the Top 3, the Warm-up Race winner finally showing some strong form around the massive RC Redovan track as he posted the fastest lap with a time of 52.654.

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July 6, 2016

Ping, Law & Yeung take 2016 Chinese Offroad titles

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Following the conclusion of the onroad section of the Chinese Nationals, the attention then moved to the action taking place on the offroad track at the ARC International Raceway in Xiamen. With the weather calling for extreme heat and humidity, unlike during the onroad action there was no rain allowing the race to be run without interruption. After 2 days of intense competition, we had 4 new National champions crowned.

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July 6, 2016

Velder wins at Benelux Buggy & Truggy Masters Rd4

Round four of the Benelux Buggy and Truggy Masters was held at the astro track in Appingedam in the north of the Netherlands. Due to a rainy week before the race, the track was in pretty beat up condition as it was dirty, slippery and soaked, meaning on Saturday only limited practice was possible. But come Sunday morning the track conditions were ok to race and the opening qualifier was held in slippery but dry conditions. Unfortunately after heat 1 it started raining again, making the remainder of the day the wheeled equivalent of boat racing. The TQ in the worse conditions was taken by Jarno Pijpers ahead of Jordy Velder and Bart Mullink.

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July 5, 2016

Boots controls tempo on Day 1 of Euros

Defending Champion Elliot Boots controlled the tempo on the opening day of the 1:8 Offroad European Championship in Spain, the Kyosho driver fastest at the end of the day’s four rounds of free practice. Posting the fastest time in FP3, Boots would end the day 1.2-seconds faster than Robert Batlle who despite windy conditions posted his best 3-laps of the day in the final practice. Similar to Boots, Darren Bloomfield would fail to improve on his FP3 time dropping a place to end the day 3rd quickest. Having opened the day with the fastest time but unable to improve in the next two, Bryan Baldo would post the second fastest time of FP4 behind Batlle which would leave the race host 4th fastest. Bryan’s younger brother would also end the day strongly with his best run promoting him to P6 behind Warm-up Race winner David Ronnefalk.

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July 5, 2016

Boots gets faster, Ongaro best Top 10 improver

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Elliott Boots continued to set the pace at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship in Spain, the reigning champion improving on his 3-consecutive lap time in FP3. Having lead the way after the first two rounds of free practice by half a second, Boots extended that advantage to 1.5 seconds, this time over fellow British driver Darren Bloomfield. Bloomfield improved two positions with his FP3 time demoting Robert Batlle, who failed to improve, back to third. The best place driver to move into the top 10 with his FP3, reigning Junior Champion David Ongaro would post the fourth fastest time demoting FP1 pace setter Bryan Baldo back to fifth, while also enjoying a strong improvement David Ronnefalk completed the Top 7.

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