At this year’s ROAR Regional Pavement championship Sweep’s Aja Archibald dominated the GT8 class and not only TQ’d every round of qualifying but also went on to win the 30 minute final to claim the Regional championship back to back with his NYS championship the month before. In 10th touring car Ray Boogie took home the winning honours after qualifying second.
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The 4th round of the Czech national buggy championship took place at the JK Cars track in Skripov. As usual during this time of the year it already was very cold in the morning with only around 0°C but the sun warmed everyone up later on. The race started directly with qualifying and it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who TQ’d all qualifying rounds securing the pole position for the semifinal that he went on to win. In the final Martin led from start to finish taking an easy win in front of Xray team mates Jiri Mara and David Kukla.
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The final round of the Austrian nitro on-road nationals took place at the Amstetten track. Herfried Pucher, Nejc Mihelic and Manuel Gremlica all had the chance to take the 2013 national title and during the practice sessions Pucher made his intentions clear to win his third title after taking the 1997 and 2008 championship. He was able to conserve his performance for the final where he started second and soon overtook Gremlica to take the lead and never looked back. Pucher was later able to cruise to the victory as his closest competitors ran into trouble; Gremlica’s car suffered clutch issues and Njec had a coming together with another driver resulting in an additional pit stop. At the end, Herfried won the race almost four laps ahead of Njec and Höller Helmut. The win also secured him the national title in front of Manuel Gremlica and Nejc Mihelic.
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The 8th and final round of the Hungarian On-Road Championships was held at the Hungaroring. The organising club did a perfect job and even sugar-watered the track to make for perfect grip conditions and virtually no dust to right from the start. The track was run in clockwise direction this time meaning right-handed mechanics had to practice refuelling a bit. As for the results, in the 1/10th 200mm Stock class Sági Tamás took home the win in order to grab the runner-up spot in the 2013 national championship. Varsányi Péter, who already won this year’s championship by taking the penultimate round some weeks ago, came in fifth place. Sági Tamás then went on to win the 1/8 class, securing him the runner-up spot and vice championship in the 8th class also.
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Xray’s Martin Wollanka had a very successful campaign in this year’s Austrian 1/8th nitro buggy championship and ended the season in first place after winning three out of the four rounds. Dominic Bauer and Thomas Mayer ended tie on points with the better end for Dominic who secured the runner-up spot. In fourth place overall sits Rene Kargl in front of Jürgen Trieb.
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The 2013 Gas Championships were held this past weekend at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, CA. The weather was perfect and Levi Jackson built another great layout with Jimmy Babcock making the race director keeping the sold out program running smooth. The Gas Champs is a unique race that runs a heads up racing format for both qualifying and the finals. Each driver had 1 round of practice on Saturday morning, followed by three rounds of qualifying and double A Mains on Sunday. Team Losi Racing and Pro-Line were two of the major event sponsors. In the 1/8th Expert Buggy and Expert truck class TLR’s Adam Drake had a great weekend TQ-ing both classes and also winning them both later on.
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The Novarossi Trophy was held at the famous Fiorano track with 94 drivers participating in the 1/8 and 1/10 class. In 1/8 the pole position went to Lamberto Collari (Capricorn/Novarossi) followed by Dario Balestri (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Andrea Lorenzi in third place. The 1/10 class pole position was captured by David Loppini (KM/Novarossi) who had Christian Costanzo (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Dario Basaglia (Capricorn/IDM) in tow.
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The EFRA Nitro On-Road 40+ European Championship took place at the famous La Turbie track in Monaco with its fast and flowing layout and the challenging bumps in the Parabolica corner. The practice sessions of the 1/10th 200mm class had Germany’s Hartmut Rose, Daniel Grosso (Monaco), Alexander Naumov (Russia) and Bernd Hasselbring (Germany) pulling the fastest laps and it was obvious that these drivers would be hot candidates to battle for the 40+ title. Come qualifying things looked a bit different as one or the other driver struggled to convert a single fast lap into consistent 5 minute runs.
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