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April 28, 2014

Cuypers, Zick and Rausch win at West Open Rd2

The 2nd round of the Western German nitro championships took place in Bad Breisig near the Rhine river. Rain hampered the racing action during the qualifying heats but when the weather turned to the better in the afternoon, the race wins went to Mugen racers Steven Cuypers in 1/8 class 1 and Reinhard Zick in 1/8 class 2 as well as to Shepherd rookie Bernd Rausch in 1/10 scale. A total of 62 entries signed in for the race organised by the MCC Rhein-Ahr club, but only 42 racers attended on the wet track on Sunday morning.

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April 28, 2014

Singapore RCMC GP Serie Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Singapore RCMC GP Series was held at last weekend with the racers arriving to a wet track in the morning after overnight rain. Thanks to the hard work by some of the drivers, 3 rounds of qualifying got soon underway. In the 1/8th class, Nelson Lee led the way in the first 2 rounds but a fast run by Nicholas Lee in the last qualifier meant that Nelson would start from 2nd in the final. Alvin Ng had a very strong qualifying as well managing to line up 3rd on the grid.

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April 28, 2014

Nick Chong wins at Malaysian on-road GP series Rd2

For round 2 of the Malaysian National GP on-road series, the drivers travelled up North to Dungun, a sunny resort town. The track is considerably smaller compared to other Malaysian tracks but always makes for challenging races and it has plenty of traction but heavy tyre wear to offer. In 1/8th scale Team Serpent driver, Nick Chong took advantage of the cooler conditions in the morning to set the fastest lap time of 15.7 sec, which eventually saw him take the TQ position in the first qualifier as the track got slower throughout the day. Nick was the only driver to score a 19 lap run at 5.09, whilst Kenny Ow, last year’s top qualifier, settled for an 18 lap run in 5.04.

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April 28, 2014

Robert Battle takes Spanish buggy nats Rd1

The 1st round of the Spanish nitro off-road nationals took place at the challenging Antas track. In qualifying, to the surprise of many, multi-national champion, Robert Battle (Mugen/Novarossi) only placed himself in 2nd position as Neo14 Junior champion, Oscar Baldo (Mugen/Novarossi), took the overall TQ. Oscar then also went on to win the semi A while Robert successfully ended the semi B but but with a slower time, handing Oscar the pole position for the final.

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April 28, 2014

Renaud Savoya wins at French Buggy nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the French 1/8th off-road nationals was held in Toulouse in very rainy conditions. The race marked the last chance for many drivers to qualify for the World Championships and in the final the race was on between Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) who took TQ, his brother Yannick (Team Associated) and Renaud Savoya (Xray). At the end it was Renaud who came in first after a long battle with Yannick and Jerome. Yannick grabbed the runner-up spot some 18 second behind the Xray drivers while Jerome completed the podium in 3rd. Jerome Sartel and Edouardo Hugon completed the top 5 result.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

April 27, 2014

IFMAR announce 200mm Nitro Worlds control tyre

The 2014 1/10th IC Track World Championships will be run on Matrix rubber, IFMAR announced. With three other company in the mix but only one supplier being granted the delivery, Matrix has been chosen as the control tyre for the event that will take place from the 7th to 15th of November at Huge RC Project in Bangkok, Thailand.

April 24, 2014

PA Tri-County Summer Sizzler – Announcement

The Tri-County Summer Sizzler off-road series will take place during June and August at Trains and Lanes Hobbies, Mushroom Bowl RC, and Hobbyhut Raceway who are all working together to provide racers with a local 3-race off-road series. Each individual race will have door prizes, provided by race series sponsors, raffled off to entered racers with cash awards will be presented at the last race. The series sees Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy classes along 4WD SC, 2WD SC Modified and 2WD SC Young Guns. The series kicks off on the 7th of June at the Mushroom Bowl Speedway in Kennet Square, PA. More information about the series along with the other race dates can be found here and here.

April 23, 2014

Malin Karlsen joins Team Xray

Xray announce that young up and coming off-road talent Malin Karlsen has joined their junior team. Malin is an 8 year old girl from Norway who has shown an exceptional talent. Malin will be racing all Xray off-road buggies in her upcoming campaign that will include the EFRA 1/10th Buggy Euros, the 1/8th and 1/10th Nordic Champs as well as the Swedish Nationals and Cup Series.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]