The Italian GT Championship was held at the GAE track in Ferrara with around 40 drivers attending. In the Expert class BMT driver Roberto Catanzani took TQ and went on to win the class in front of Riccardo Scanziani and Massimo Suardi. Victorious in the F1 category was polesitter and BMT driver Federico Lazzerini, Caprarulo Stefano came in second with Spataro Alessio completing the podium.
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Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake made a clean sweep at the recent JBRL Nitro Series round 6 at Thunder Alley Raceway. In the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy class Adam came in first and he also took home the win in E-Buggy after fighting all the way to the finish line with team mate Mike Truhe. Jose Alvarado (TLR) took the victories in both Sportsman Buggy and Truck.
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The fifth and final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at the Slough RC track, oldest on the calendar for the BRCA national series. A few drivers could still win the championship, and Mugen’s Lee Martin was the one driver who had it in his own hands. Regardless of any result, if he finished 5th or higher, he would win the series in 2013. The track was prepared in the weeks before the race and early on the track was dusty and loose, with contrasting smooth and bumpy sections. Due to the abnormally good summer weather in the UK, it had caused the tracks surface to be very dry and it needed a lot of water. The track had a couple of new features and corners to make it a little different from normal.
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Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield has done the double in electric buggy at the 7th running of the JConcepts Clash, the Arizona driver successfully defending his 2WD title and adding the 4WD title after winning each of the deciding third A-Mains over Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans. Having also successful defended his 2WD Short Course title after A2, the first buggy title to go to Maifield was 4WD as he took his Reedy powered B44.2 to an easy win after Evans rolled on two occasions coming on to the straight, his XXX-4 struggling in the high traction conditions at the Flowood RC Indoor Park track. The closing race of a packed race program and the blue ribbon class of the event, A3 of 2WD Buggy saw a blistering opening lap from Maifield with him getting his C4.2 passed Top Qualifier Evans’ also mid motored TLR 22 2.0. While Evans fought back, a mistake on lap 3 would ultimately end his chances allowing Maifield to post the only 15-lap run of the finals.
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Ryan Maifield and Dustin Evans took one buggy win each in the opening round of A-Mains at the JConcepts Clash in Mississippi but it was in the races they started from second on the grid after both drivers made mistakes while leading the way from their TQ starting positions. First up was 4WD Buggy in which Maifield started from the pole but clipping a pipe after 5 laps it popped a ball cup allowing Evans’ TLR to the front from where he would cruise to victory. With the marshal quickly fixing Maifield’s B44.2, he would rejoin in 6th position from where he worked his way back up the field snatching 3rd two corners from finish when Cody Hollis put his TLR in the pipe. Hollis had been involved in the battle of the race as he and young talent Damion Borkowicz fought over 2nd. A mistake by Borkowicz at the triple on the penultimate lap allowed Hollis up to second but the 13-year-old pulled off a great pass at the very same spot next time round to claim 2nd ahead of Maifield and Hollis.
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Dustin Evans is the Top Qualifier of the main class at this year’s JConcepts Clash after the Team Losi Racing driver posted a third TQ run in the fourth & final 2WD Buggy qualifier at the Mississippi event. Having set the pace in the two earlier qualifiers of the day, Evans’ only challenger for the top spot on the grid was Ryan Maifield, who topped the opening qualifier last night. A number of bad laps from the Associated driver meant Evans topped the timing monitors throughout the 5-minutes, setting the fastest time of the weekend with what he described as the ‘perfect run’.
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Ryan Maifield pipped his main rival for the JConcepts Clash title Dustin Evans by just 2/10ths of a second on the final lap of the penultimate round of 4WD Buggy qualifying at the Mississippi event. With a reseed putting the fastest 12-drivers in the top heat, the round would see the times tumble as the Associated and TLR stars posted 15-lap runs of the Flowood RC Indoor Park track. Behind the two Pros, up & coming talent Damion Borkowicz completed the Top 3 turning around his event after finding a better set-up for his Associated B44.2.
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Having failed to finish yesterday’s opening qualifier at the JConcepts Clash, Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans bounced back to take Q2 of 4WD Buggy this morning in Mississippi as Q1 pace setter Ryan Maifield failed to finish his second round, the Associated driver popping a front ball cup on his Reedy power B44.2. Evans posted a time of 14 laps in 5:05.832 to top the round from Associated’s of Jason Rouna and Brett Kingsbury.
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