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September 21, 2015

Cody King wins at 1st annual Easy Money Race

The 1st annual Easy Money race was held at Thunder Alley RC Raceway. The 1/8th Nitro Buggy main final was a battle between Kody Neumedahl (Team Associated), Richard Saxton (Team Associated) and Cody King (Kyosho) at first. Cody chased them down and got around them but crashed and dropped back to 4th. Due to the hot weather a lot of cars had issues and after a quick pit stop to having his engine adjusted Cody was on a mission again. Richard was surprisingly tough to get around, but eventually Cody would lap the field on his way to the win. At the end results behind the leader mixed up a bit and it would be local fast guy Steve Harris (Mugen) in 2nd and Chad Panek (Tekno) in 3rd who rounded out the podium.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

September 21, 2015

Robert Batlle takes 10th Spanish National title in a row

The final round of the Spanish 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Championship was held at the multi-surface Valladolid track this past weekend. 9-time National Champion Robert Batlle (Mugen) was the pre-event favourite going into the final round as he was in the position to snatch his 10th title in this class, but it was Ricardo Monteiro (TLR) who came out fastest after the qualifiers in front of Oscar Baldo (Mugen). Robert ended the qualifiers on the third place, Bryan Baldo (Mugen) rounded out the top 4. The semi finals then saw Robert coming out fastest from Ricardo with both being the only drivers to score 36 laps runs and in the main final Robert would use all of his experience to take the day’s win and with it his 10th consecutive 1/8th Nitro Buggy title. TQ Ricardo Monteiro ended the race on the runner-up spot, Oscar Baldo rounded out the podium result in third.

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September 17, 2015

Glenn Smith teams up with TLR

Horizon Hobby UK welcome Glenn Smith as the newest edition to the TLR UK team. Recent results have seen a real turn of speed from Glenn and his sponsors now hope to see him further his development with the support and experience of his new team mates.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]

September 17, 2015

Marnix Bul takes Dutch Buggy Cup Hobby class title

The seventh round of the Dutch National Championship recently took place at the beautiful track in Hengelo. After three rounds of qualifying Marnix Bul took the TQ in the Hobby Class but he would encounter some difficulties in the semifinal when he had a flame-out at the start. Nevertheless Marnix was able to catch up quickly and bumped up to the main final coming in second after 20 minutes. Starting the main final from 5th position he climbed up the order constantly and after 25 minutes he crossed the finishing line in first position. With this result his current points in the overall ranking can’t be equalled by anyone, meaning Marnix will take the championship title at the last race.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

September 17, 2015

Munn & Wonders take NCT titles

The 2015 North-West Championship Tour (NCT) Series began earlier this year in April and just recently finished this past weekend. This 6-race series would hit some of the best outdoor tracks in the beautiful Pacific North-West. After the dust had settled, Jesse Munn would take the 4WD Modified Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy championship while Tayler Wonder grabbed the 2WD Modified Buggy title.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

September 16, 2015

Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship Rd5 – Report

The AMCA track in Apeldoorn played host to last weekend’s round 5 of the Dutch National 1/8th Nitro On-road Championships. Saturday’s practice started off dry, while on Sunday morning the qualifying rounds were run on a wet but drying track. Thankfully the last qualifying rounds were run in dry conditions and in the premier NK class it was Frank Baggen (ARC/Reds Racing) who was fastest after the qualifiers, followed by Joey Sorber (Shepherd/Maxima), Gunther van Steay (Serpent/Picco) and Martin Zevenhoven (Serpent/Picco).

Continue reading the report here

September 16, 2015

Bowie Ginting scores at Infinity Grand Prix Rd2

Round two of the Infinity Grand Prix was held at the Sunter International Speedway. In the shortened 30 minute main final Bowie Ginting instantly took the lead with Trin only 1.5 seconds behind him before the first round of fuel stops. Thanks to super fast pit work Trin was able to shorten the gap to under a second and due to the high tyre wear Bowie tried to manage the gap instead of pulling away. Around the 13 minute mark Trin made an error in the sweeper, resulting in a mechanical failure which promoted TQ holder Dimas into second place. Up from Bowie was able to cruise to the win some three laps in front of Dimas with Kenji Taira grabbing the final podium spot.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 16, 2015

Leo Arnold takes French 200mm title

The French 200mm Nitro On-road national championship recently concluded with the fifth and final round being held at the Louviers track. However the season started off in Toulouse where Quentin Leroux had secured the TQ in front of Michael Derderian and Basile Concialdi. During the race Quentin decided to change tyres while Michael stayed on a single set. After the pitstop Quentin pushed hard and was on the back of Michael some 5 minutes before the end, but he could not pass him so Michael would take the win in front of Quentin.

Continue reading the report here