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June 2, 2014

Darren Bloomfield wins UK Truggy nationals Rd3

Round 3 of the 2014 BRCA Truggy series was held at the Wakefield track in the North of England. After taking a convincing TQ with his Bullitt-powered Agama A8T, Darren Bloomfield would go on to dominate the main final to take his second victory in the series, with team mate Jon Hazlewood taking victory at round 2. The E-buggy class would see an exciting duel between Darren Bloomfield and Elliott Boots for the TQ spot, with Elliott just edging it despite Darren having the fastest individual time en route to a round TQ. The main final would see a great drive from Tony Truman who had had a terrible qualifying leaving him having to come through the B final. Tony drove his way through the pack to take an excellent 2nd overall behind Elliott. Darren had an issue that sidelined him at around half distance. Callum Niblett completed the podium with a fine 3rd place as he continues his recent upturn in form.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

June 2, 2014

Ty Tessmann wins Invitational class at The Dual

Last weekend’s The Dual race was a 2-day Reedy Race style format that saw racing action at two different tracks with combined points from 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes. Day 1 was run at Pro-Line’s test track while for day 2 racers travelled to Thunder Alley Raceway. Some big names of the industry attended the Invitational class including Ty Tessman, Jared Tebo, Cody King, Ryan Cavalieri, and Ryan Maifield just to name a few. Day 1 had Ty Tessmann sweeping the overall standings by scoring two round wins and a second place in the Buggy class. Carson Wernimont also took two rounds but only 4th place in race 3 having him sit in 2nd place. Jared Tebo completed the Buggy top 3 tie on points with Kyosho team mate Cody King.

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June 2, 2014

Shinnosuke Yokoyama takes Japanese 1/8th nationals

The Japanese 1/8th on-road national championship was run at the Hokusei Circuit in the Mie prefecture, central Japan. A total of 52 drivers attended including three guest drivers from Thailand. Despite being located near a mountain area the weather was good all weekend allowing for 6 dry qualifying rounds to be run. Reigning world champion, Tadahiko Sahashi (Serpent) took TQ with young Shinnosuke Yokoyama (Mugen) taking 2nd. Defending champion, Takaaki Shimo put his Mugen in 3rd after qualifying.

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June 2, 2014

David Ronnefalk wins at Kyosho International Meeting

The Polisportiva di Campogalliano club in Italy hosted this year’s Kyosho International Meeting that saw the attendance of Kyosho’s Yuichi Kanai, Fabrizio Teghesi or David Ronnefalk. In the F1 Expert class it was David Ronnefalk who took the win in the 45 minute final one lap ahead of Fabrizio Teghesi in 2nd and Marco Natale, who finished another lap down in 3rd. Federico Ruggeri and Yuichi Kanai completed the top 5 result in 4th and 5th respectively.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

June 2, 2014

Martin Bayer wins 1/8th buggy in Senden

A round of the South German Bayern Cup 2014 took place at the MRC Senden club with some international drivers like Martin Bayer, David Kukla or Patrick Hofer in attendance. In the 30 minute final it was that certain Martin Bayer (Xray) who was in control of things by taking the fastest lap and the race win a lap in front of Patrick Hofer. Patrick secured a very close 2nd place from Hannes Käufler (TLR) who finished 0.2 seconds down on the Swiss Team Associated driver in 3rd.

Image: Martin Bayer

June 1, 2014

Anthony Abisset wins European 1/8th ‘B’ title

Anthony Abisset wins European 1/8th 'B' title

The EC-B this year for 1/8th took place at the well-known Lamberto Collaro Raceway in Bologna with 71 Drivers making the trip to this event. The practice days in the beginning of the week were interrupted by showers and also for the Qualifying days some rain was expected. At the end they were lucky and it was possible to run 5 dry Qualifiers and all the finals on Saturday.

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May 30, 2014

International 1/8 Buggy Race – Announcement

The International 1/8 Buggy Race will be held on the 15th of June at the off-road track Zeleni dol in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. The race will be held in 1/8th buggy electric and 1/8th buggy nitro classes and sign up for the event plus additional information can be found here.

May 30, 2014

Abramic takes Slovenian Off-Road Nats Rd1

After the first race of the season was canceled due to a very poor weather forecast, the Slovenian 2014 nationals finally got underway on a very dusty track located near Logatec. The biggest winner of the weekend was Andrej Abramic, who took first places in both the electric and nitro 1/8th classes. In E-buggy the 2nd place belonged to Gasper Simc while Adraz Stefe completed the podium. In the 1/8 nitro buggy Erik Klanjscek took the runner up spot, Jan Vrhovec came in 3rd place to round out the top3. The next race of the championship will take place on the 29th of June in Benedikt near Maribor.

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