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September 12, 2014

US Nitro World Cup – Announcement

The 2nd running of the US World Nitro Cup will be held December 4th to 7th at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. With last year being a great success, this year’s race has already received commitments from European drivers such as Dario Balestri, Robert Pietch, Kyle Branson and defending 1/8th Champion Alberto Picco, to be in attendance. This year’s qualifiers will be four minute runs instead of five, but the event is keeping its triple “A” main finals format. The race will take place close to all the major Florida attractions such as Disney, Epcot, MGM, Universal Studios etc. and it is open to three classes, Sedan, 1/8th Masters and 1/8th Open. Full details on the event can be downloaded here (PDF).

September 12, 2014

Daan Jacobs wins in Heemstede

The 6th and final round of the Dutch nitro on-road nationals was held at the MACH track in Heemstede. During practice it soon became clear that a lot of drivers were able to pull very fast laps, promising close racing in the qualification and the finals. On Sunday’s qualifying Daan Stuiver was the fastest driver of the National class with three consecutive laps in 48.724 seconds. Daan Jacobs followed behind with 48.777 while Julius Kolff scored a 48.823. Ricardo Hofmeijer completed the top 4 so far.

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September 12, 2014

David Ronnefalk takes Swedish Cup Series

Last weekend the fourth and final round of the Swedish Cup Series took place at the track of Borås MRK. Normally a place where rain comes into play, however this year it was not like that as the sun was out all weekend. The overall winner of the cup was going to be decided with a few guys having a shot at it. However the race was pretty much dominated by David Ronnefalk as he TQ’ed every round of qualifying and later on started from pole position into the final. The spectators then witnessed a close and fun battle between David and Kennie Ekenstierna towards the end with David coming out on top ultimately. This meant the overall cup would went to David as he won all three races he attended after missing one round due to a date clash.

Thanks to David Ronnefalk for sending the report.

September 11, 2014

Aaron Stringer doubles at debut

Over 70 drivers made their way to Maryborough, QLD for the Wide Bay Weekender Challenge. Reds Racing’s newly signed Aaron Stringer was on fire during qualifying as he TQ’ed all Buggy qualifying rounds and won three out of the four Truggy qualifiers to take the overall TQ in both classes. Unfortunately the weather moved in for the finals and while the host club tried hard to clean up the track, mother nature won and the event was called off and the results were based off qualifying handing Aaron the overall win in both Nitro Buggy and Truggy while Reds Racing teammate Shane Freiberg took the runner-up spots behind Aaron.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

September 11, 2014

Joe Bornhorst teams up with Tekno

Tekno RC announce that Joe Bornhorst will be joining their race team for the remainder of 2014 and the 2015 racing season. Joe has been making a name for himself all over the U.S. in the 1/8th off-road racing classes and will be travelling to many races representing Tekno RC in the future. Joe had this to say about the deal:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Serpent America/Desoto Racing for all of their support that they have given me over the past couple of years. With that being said, I am very excited to join the Tekno team for the 2015 season. I am confident that with the help of the entire team, we will be able to accomplish some big things over the course of the next year. I would like to thank Daniel Lewis and Matt Wolter for giving me this opportunity, along with a special thanks to teammates Jeff Beck and Sean Ramos for helping me through the process of making this switch.

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]

September 11, 2014

Shane Kelly wins at NSW State Titles

Liverpool Radio Rallycross Car Club was the venue for the 2014 New South Wales State Titles. The competition was fierce and there was a little rain every day, but this made for a black grooved track with super consistent surface and a killer layout. In the Nitro Buggy class Shane Kelly took the win from Ari Bakla and Kevin Lewis who rounded out the podium. The Nitro Truggy class again saw Shane Kelly taking the victory, this time from Chris Lander and Dragen Bjelic.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 11, 2014

Adam Drake takes Buggy class at Bring the Heat

The 2014 Bring the Heat race was held in Flowood, MS with some very fast drivers in attendance. In the Nitro Buggy class TLR’s Adam Drake took the TQ after winning all three qualifying rounds. He then went on to win the final in front of team mates Billy Fischer and Chandler Elliot. In the Truck class Adam finished 2nd after a nice fight with Cole Ogden.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

September 11, 2014

Mike Truhe wins at Midwest Nitro Series

The first ever LiveRC race which was also a stop of the Midwest Nitro Series was held at Brandon Rohde’s house where he has built a nice track in his backyard. The race had around 160 entries with a lot of the Midwest’s fastest guys in attendance. Serpent’s Mike Truhe was able to TQ in the Nitro Buggy class and he went on to convert that TQ position into to a victory with comfortable drive in the final.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]