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July 9, 2014

Markus Hellquist wins in Oslo

The combined 3rd round of the Swedish Cup and Norwegian national championship was held by the Oslo Modellbilklubb. The event was run in the four classes of 1/8th track, 1/10th 200mm nitro touring, and both modified and stock electric on-road. The weather was very uncertain, but in the end the event was run in dry weather conditions, despite some rain during Saturday night. After 4 rounds of 5 minute qualifying in the nitro classes, Lars Haugen managed to get the TQ spot in 1/8th track, followed by Bengt Andersson in 2nd and Christofer Hedlund in 3rd.

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July 9, 2014

Silvio Hächler wins at Swiss 1/8 on-road champs Rd4

The 4th round of the Swiss 1/8th on–road championship was held at the Sebastian Buemi track of the Mini Racing Cars Aigle & Lausanne club. After qualifying, Simon Kurzbuch (Shepherd/Novarossi) took the TQ from by Mattia Pesenti (Xray/Picco) and Luca Martinelli (Mugen/OS).

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July 8, 2014

Ryan Maifield teams up with Team Losi Racing

Ryan Maifield team up with Team Losi Racing

After much speculation about his post-AE future, Ryan Maifield has officially joined forces with Team Losi Racing. The multiple ROAR national champion will work closely with the TLR R&D team on the further development of the Team Losi Racing electric and nitro off-road car platforms including the 22, Ten and 8ight cars. Ryan will be making his Team Losi Racing debut at race 3 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series this weekend at Outback Raceway in Chico, CA.

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July 8, 2014

Martin Wollanka wins Austrian 1/8th off-road champs

The 3rd round of the Austrian 1/8th off-road championship was held in Waidhofen. Martin Wollanka took TQ and also the pole position after the semifinals. In the main Martin was on a mission again, taking the win 3 laps ahead of Maximilian Hauenschild. Werner Spannbruckner completed the top 3 result.

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July 8, 2014

Burak Kilic takes German Truggy nationals

The German 1/8th Nitro and Electric Truggy nationals was held last weekend. In the nitro class young TLR driver Burak Kilic took the win in the 40 minute final while Max Heydenreich came in 2nd some 2 laps down. Marcel Paul completed the podium in 3rd position.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

July 8, 2014

Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals Rd4 – Report

Dutch 1/8th on-road nationals Rd4 - Report

This past weekend the 4th round of the Dutch 1/8th scale nationals was hosted by the friendly people of the Model Auto Race Genk club in Belgium. The weekend was characterised by the weather. Saturday’s practice was pretty much washed away by the rain with only two dry hours at the very end of the practice. Sunday started dry, but after the 3 qualifying rounds it started to rain again.

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July 8, 2014

Derderian & Campourcy win at French 1/10th nats Rd4

The 4th round of the French 200mm nitro on-road championship was held at the Lentilly track near Lyon. In the National class, it was Maxime Legay who took the TQ position in front of Philippe Martineau and Stephane Campourcy while in the Elite class, Leo Arnold had a tremendous third qualifying round to take the overall TQ. Basile Concialdi came in 2nd and Quentin Leroux held the 3rd spot.

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July 8, 2014

Andreas Georgiou takes RCE champs Rd2

The 2nd round of the RCE Championship was held at the Dirt Paradise off-road track in Nicosia, Cyprus. Despite hot weather conditions many drivers attended and finally it was former champion Andreas Georgiou who took the TQ for the A-final. The championship leader also went on to win the main in front of Andreas Thrasyvoulou in 2nd and Nicholas Zachariades in 3rd. Marios Christodoulou completed the top 4 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]