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June 17, 2014

Jesse Munn doubles at Northwest Buggy Champs

This past weekend Northwest Buggy Championships took place in Pasco, Washington. It was a 2 day event with Friday being a practice day and Saturday consisting of 3 rounds of qualifying with the qual points format, then triple A-Mains for electric and a 20 minute nitro main in the evening. While the overall turnout was a little less than expected, the quality of drivers in attendance was great and the racing intense. In 4WD Modified Buggy Jesse Munn TQ’d both of the first 2 rounds to secure the overall top qualifier position without having to run the 3rd round. In the triple A Mains Jesse went 3,1,1 to take the overall win from Mikey Hudson and John Walentia.

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June 16, 2014

Dario Balestri & Luca Radaelli win at Capricorn Trophy

The Capricorn Trophy was held in Melzo last weekend with over 60 entries in the nitro 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm class. The race was also the warm-up for the 2nd round of the Italian championships and saw Dario Balestri (Capricorn/XRD) taking the TQ from Alberto Picco (Mugen/Picco) in the 1/8th class, both being the only drivers to make 5 minute runs without refueling. In the 200mm class Dino Giacalone (Capricorn/XRD) took TQ from 2nd place driver Luca Radaelli (Xray/Novarossi) and Dario Basaglia (Capricorn/XRD). In the 40 minute final Dario conserved his performance and took a never defeated win from Alberto Picco. Elsewhere in the 200mm class Dino Giacalone lead the final for around 10 minutes until a mistake cost him the lead. Luca Radaelli took advantage of the situation and brought home the win. Massimiliano Mercanti (Serpent/TOP)completed the podium in 3rd position.

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June 16, 2014

Damien Thirion wins at French nitro on-road nats Rd3

This past weekend the 3rd round of the French nitro on-road nationals was held in Vieux-Charmont in the Northeast of France on a small and technical track. In the main Serpent driver Anthony Abisset, coming from 4th on the grid, took the lead around 10 minutes into the final while Serpent team mate Damien Thirion settled for 2nd. At the 25 minute mark Anthony struggled during a pitstop for tyres allowing Damien to take the lead which he never gave back to take the win at the 3rd round of the championship. Anthony decided to take things easy following a small mistake and to grab valuable points for the championship by coming in 2nd. Xray driver Thomas Eytard completed the podium in 3rd.

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June 16, 2014

Elliott Boots doubles at Kyosho Masters 2014

The 16th edition of the Kyosho Masters took place last weekend at the track of Sucy en Brie. Run in 4 classes of GP Buggy Elite, Expert and Ligue as well as an E-Buggy class, the race attracted some of the fastest Kyosho drivers in Europe. In the premier class of Elite Buggy Jerome Aigoin took the TQ from Elliott Boots and Linus Thern. In the 45 minute finale Elliott was able to fight back and to take the win some 11 seconds from Jerome. 3 laps down Mikael Palsson completed the podium in 3rd position. Thomas Carandi, Riccardo Berton and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai rounded out the top 6 result.

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June 16, 2014

Shin Dongcheol wins Korean Truggy championships

The 2014 Korea 1/8 GP Truggy Championship was held at the Banwol Off-road Race-Way last weekend. Serpent’s Shin Dongcheol came out successful in what was a very close race as the top 3 was only separated by a view seconds with 10 minutes to go in the race. At the end Shin was able to take control of the group and ended the race in 1st place. Bae Seongsik came in 2nd while Jeon Hanyoung completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 16, 2014

Atsushi Hara wins FEMCA championships

The 2014 FEMCA 1/8 Nitro Buggy Asian Championships took place at the 3 Stone Park track in Luala Lumpur, Malaysia. Despite some issues in qualifying SWorkz’ Atsushi Hara was the dominant driver in the sizzling hot conditions with his OS-powered prototype buggy as he shifted into second gear on the final day of qualifying, easily taking round wins to take the overall top qualifier position over fellow countryman Wataru Takeshiro (Kyosho/OS) and Australia’s Aaron Stringer (Kyosho/RB). Zac Ryan (Kyosho/OS) and Felix Tan (Prospeed/GO). In the final Atsushi stayed on top and in control of the proceedings taking the win from Wataru Takashiro while Aaron Stringer completed the podium in 3rd position.

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June 15, 2014

Pietsch claims first ENS win at Hockenheimring

Robert Pietsch claimed his first win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series, when in a somewhat reversal of the season opener he won the Hockenheimring event from Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch. Top Qualifier in Melzo but having to settle for second behind the No.2 qualifier Lamberto Collari, today starting from second the Mugen driver took a close win over Championship points leader Kurzbuch, who ran out of fuel on the last lap, with Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe completing the podium at the German track.

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June 15, 2014

Dankel takes second ENS win

Having struggled throughout qualifying Eric Dankel would pull off an impressive performance at Hockenheimring in Germany to take his second win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series Championship. Starting from 5th on the grid, the winner of the season opener in Melzo, would work his way to the front getting passed early race dominator Teemu Leino in the final 10 minutes to win the race from Ronald Volker with a late crash & resulting flame-out dropping Leino to third. For Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner, who lead for the first 10-minutes of the 45-minute encounter, a problem with his throttle servo linkage would see him retire just before the race reached 2/3 distance.

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