Following the successful running of a two race Pilot Series this year, the organisers of the Euro Nitro Series are delighted to release the calendar for a full 2014 championship. The new four round championship for 1:10 & 1:8 Onroad Nitro will begin and finish in Italy, the traditional home of nitro racing, while also taking racers to rounds in Austria and Germany.
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Shepherd announce the signing of Austrian Junior Champion Leonardo Varga for the 2014 season. The young driver will join Gerhard Kandelhart from Shepherd Austria and is set to use the Velox V10 Pro at national and international events. Leo had the following to say:
I am very excited and happy to get the chance to join Team Shepherd for the season 2014. I am going to race 1/10th scale and will attend the Florida Winter Nationals, the A-Euros and also 3 rounds of the ENS. I would like to thank all people who made this possible, especially Gerhard Kandelhart (Shepherd Austria) and Patrick Schäfer and I’m looking forward to having a great year with Team Shepherd.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The annual Fall Brawl was held at the Badlands R/C facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The event had nearly 300 entries, but mother nature wasn’t too friendly. The weather for practice on Friday was beautiful but Saturday and Sunday was a different story with rain off and on and much cooler temperatures. The Badlands crew worked on the track between the rain storms and got all the racing in, but had to shorten qualifying and main events. In the 1/8th Nitro Truck class TLR’s Adam Drake TQ’ed and won while he finished second in 1/8th Nitro Buggy behind Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz.
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The recent TamTam Grand Prix took place at the TamTam Gifu Branch race track in Japan. In the 20 minute final KM team drivers Fukuda and Shimazaki battled each other after the latter had to go all the way from the D-main into the A after a troubled qualification. In the end Shimazaki was able to build a comfortable lead and take the win in his last race of the year.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
Joseph Quagraine has taken the TQ and win at the final race of the Southern Thailand Series, which also turned out to be the final race of the JQ Asia Tour 2013. Qualifying was really close between Boi Witsarut and JQ, with Boi holding the TQ up until the final round where JQ finally had a clean run and TQed by a few seconds. Qualifying was based on the fastest time. Things got interesting for the final, as it started to rain. The final started off muddy, with some rain falling, but it stopped raining early on, and the track dried up somewhat during the race. JQ took the win from Boi in a hard fought race, which was a real test for the reliability of all the equipment.
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The 2013 Indonesia National Year End Championship took place at the Boya Racing track in Tajur, West Java. A total of 50 drivers attended this event. Due to heavy rainfall after the second qualifying round the race was shortened and at the end it was Edward Joesoef who took the TQ and win in front of Jason Ngroho and Adrian Wicaksono, who grabbed the last remaining podium spot.
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The 2013 Kyosho Buggy Classic was held this past weekend at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. This annual 1-day event was also combined with Rev’s Toys for Tots Drive that would bring in just under 100 entries. With perfect weather conditions all day, it made for a great day of racing. Two 5 minute qualifiers would be ran using the Rocket Round format. This would take each drivers single fastest run to determine the overall qualifying order. After qualifying was complete, it was Kyosho Factory Driver Cody King who would take the TQ honors by just 1-second ahead of TLR’s Adam Drake. Kyosho’s Drew Moller showed good pace in the 2nd round of qualifying to move up to 3rd overall.
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The 2013 Ecuadorian off-road championships went to Pablo Cobos (Serpent/Novarossi), who won the buggy class while his Serpent teammate Raul Gomez brought home the truggy title. Marco Grijalva secured himself the vice championship in both the buggy and truggy class while Alejandro Campana (Serpent/Novarossi) completed the podium in the buggy class. Helmut Baldus (Kyosho/Novarossi) came in 3rd in the truggy class.
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