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June 10, 2014

Alex Kosciuszek wins Pro Buggy at Rumble in Rome

The 2014 Rumble in Rome set a new attendance record for their annual event with 234 entries. Drivers from Canada and all over the Northeast made the trip. In the Pro Nitro Class, Alex Kosciuszek went on to a relatively easy victory in the 45 minute A-main after Arizona based driver Billy Fischer experienced a pit lane flame out during the first pit stop. Alex was able to almost completely lap the field in the long A-main showing he’s not just an electric driver but a driver fully capable at all times.

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June 10, 2014

Nitro-West-Masters Rd2 – Report

Frank Schewiola, Thilo Toedtmann, Marco Muscara and Thorsten Lewandowski are the class winners of round two of the Nitro-West-Masters, a popular on-road racing series mainly held in Western Germany. Three weeks after the amazing season opener in Oberhausen with a series record of 67 participants, a total of 55 drivers entered the race weekend in Dueren which made it a new record for this 232 meter track near Aachen. Once again the weather was perfect but the nitro family was quite lucky that a thundery front just passed the area with no effect. Finally, as in Oberhausen, the Nitro-West-Masters experienced thrilling racing action in a friendly and fair atmosphere.

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June 10, 2014

Drake sweeps Alabama Manufacturer Shootout 5.0

The Alabama Manufacturer Shootout event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the most well-known races on the calendar during the Summer racing season. The AMS 5.0 event had a record 600 entries, race directors Jimmy Babcock and Canyon Thompson kept the program running smooth all weekend while the AMS crew built a very technical layout that held extremely well. Qualifying in the Pro classes was dominated by Adam Drake. Drake was the overall TQ in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Truck, and 1/8th Electric buggy.

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June 9, 2014

Javi Pombo wins 1/8th Buggy Euros B

The 2014 EFRA 1/8th Buggy European Championship B was run at the Circuito CARTT Fuencarral track in Madrid, Spain. Javi Pombo (Mugen) was the dominant driver all weekend and he quite easily grabbed the TQ position after the four qualifying rounds. Juanma Guillen, Agustin Illanes and Jaume Figuls completed an all-Mugen top 4 after the qualifiers. The semifinal A then again went to Javi while SWorkz’ Antonio Almeida came out successful in semifinal B but a faster time handed Javi the pole position for the 45 minute final.

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June 9, 2014

Van Staey & Ciere win at Dutch 1/8th nats Rd3

The 3rd round of the Dutch 1/8th on-road national championship took place at the RACO2000 track. In the NK class Gunther van Staey came out successful by winning the 30 minute final two laps in front of Steven Cuypers and Arie Manten who finished another two laps down. In the Nomac class Benny Ciere took the win only 1.01 second in front of 2nd placed Koen Geurds. Rene van Dijk completed the podium in 3rd position.

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June 6, 2014

Dunavölgy wins Rd2 of Hungarian 200mm champs

The 2nd round of the Hungarian nitro on-road championship was held in Pécs which is one of the oldest but still the most active RC track in the country. The track recently got a new higher rostrum for a much better view, so everybody was looking for some improvements in lap times, which finally came up to the expectations in each category. 1/10th 200mm proved to be the most exciting class of the weekend since 4 to 5 drivers where on the same pace. Qualifications were held under changing weather conditions and the 1st round of qualifying turned out to be the “rocket” round as some rain showers hit the track just before the 2nd leg. With time being too short to completely regain traction until the last round meaning only a few drivers were able to move up in the grid during the day.

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June 6, 2014

Mark Green TQ’s & wins at Wombwell

Mark Green TQ's & wins at Wombwell

Round 2 of the British national 1/10th nitro championships were held at the Wombwell Race Circuit in Yorkshire, the track is the longest one on this years race calendar and was very well prepared for the event. The entry was a little low but the racing very close. Sunday morning and the sun was shinning and after 4 rounds of qualifying 200mm Touring Car was TQ’ed by Mark Green with Alex Thurston second, in 220mm GT Adam Crossland was just beaten for TQ by Glyn Beal. Mark Green then lead the 200mm A -final from the start and won the race driving a Serpent 748 pre-production car, with Joe Kerry second. Serpent’s Glyn Beal won the 220mm GT final with the help of his mechanic form many years ago Wat Bailey. The next round of the series will be at Halifax on the weekend of the 22nd of June.

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June 4, 2014

Hagberg to bolster Xray entry at ENS Hockenheim

Having taken their first win of the Euro Nitro Series at Round 2 of the all new nitro onroad championship last month in Austria, Team Xray are to bolster their factory team line-up for Round 3 at Hockenheim in Germany in two weeks (13-15 June). Taking his RX8 to victory in the 1:8 A-Main in Aigen, Dutch ace John Ermen will be joined by Alexander Hagberg as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to also take a first 1:10th ENS victory. While Xray are one of the main sponsors of the ENS, other racing commitments have prevented Hagberg from attending since his participation in the second of last year’s ENS Pilot Races in which the Swede finished 4th.

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