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September 7, 2012

Burch & Starkey win at Great Lake Challenge

The 14th annual Great Lake Challenge was held at the newly paved Woodville Mall track in Toledo Ohio. The qualifications were set to start on Friday with two round and three more rounds on Saturday, with the single best round counting overall. The GLC track is always a little tough on mileage and this year was no exception with the new pavement and high traction. Team Xray was well represented with drivers from all over the US to support one of the best races in the country.

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September 6, 2012

Jörn Neumann wins German Nitro Buggy nats

Jörn Neumann attended the 2nd and final round of the 1/8 Buggy German Nationals last weekend. The race was held at the MAC Brombachsee Club located in Pleinfeld, Germany. It was another great turnout with just over 100 drivers. The track this time around was a mixture of astroturf, a stone part and plastic mats. It rained most of the day Thursday before the event and the track was very slippery for the first practice run. It got better each round and the lap times dropped. After a few minor set up changes, Jörn was ready to hit the track. On Saturday there were 4 rounds of qualifying and he was able to qualify 2nd overall and was able to set the fastest time in Q3.

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September 6, 2012

Adam Drake double at Sidewinder Nitro Explosion

The 9th Sidewinder Nitro Explosion took place at the ARC Raceway in Temecula, California. Taking the top grid position in the expert nitro truck, expert nitro buggy, and expert electric buggy class was TLR driver Adam Drake. He was able to TQ eight out of nine rounds of qualifying. Only Ryan Maifield was able to to grab one round in nitro buggy class over Drake. The 45 minutes truck final was a battle between Drake, Cavalieri, and Maifield. Cavalieri lead most of the race, but Drake took over the lead with four minutes to go. Shortly after Cavalieri had problems and Drake cruised to victory with Josh Wheeler in second and Carson Wernimont in third position.

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September 5, 2012

TLR take 1-2 at Portuguese Off-Road Nationals

The last round of the 2012 Portuguese off-road nationals took place at the Torres Vedras track near Lisbon. The Portuguese Championship was on the line for four drivers including Team Losi Racing’s Miguel Matias and Ricardo Monteiro. Miguel TQ’ed the weekend and went on to win the race and take his 12th national class title. Ricardo Monteiro finished 2nd as the vice-Champion.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 4, 2012

Dutch nitro on-road nationals Rd6 – Report

The 6th and final round of the Dutch 1/8th nitro on-road nationals was held at the small and tricky track of the MBC de Sluis in Gouda. A total of 45 drivers attended and together with the sunny weather this made for a fantastic final of the 2012 season. In the NK class the battle for the Dutch championship was between the two Xray drivers John Ermen and RickV with the latter having a small points advantage. During qualifying Jon showed a fantastic pace and took TQ with RickV only making the 4th fastest time. Belgium drivers Robin d’Hondt and Steven Cuypers took second and third on the grid and it looked like John would be unbeatable this weekend. But at the start of the main final John made a mistake putting him back in 10th place while Robin taking the lead closely followed by Steven and Rick. During the tire change Rick lost some time and fell back having to battle with John for the 3rd place while Steven and Robin were battling for the win. At the end Steven won the race just 0.8 seconds ahead of Robin giving RickV the national championship title.

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September 4, 2012

Eric Dankel wins German 200mm nitro champs

Last weekend the German 1/10th 200mm nitro championship was held at the legendary track in Munster. The weather forecast promised rain for the practise days but dry weather for Saturday and Sunday. The Qualification started on Saturday morning, with the best round out of five counting. The whole weekend saw a close battle between Dirk Wischnewski and Eric Dankel, but Eric was slightly faster than Dirk and could secure the TQ spot in front of him. Just like the current EFRA rules there was no direct qualifying for the top 4 spots, and everybody had to go through the 30 minutes semi finals. The A final started after a small break and Dirk was leading the field followed by Eric and Toni Gruber. For the whole run Dirk and Eric battled for the lead with the better end for Eric who could profit from a couple of smaller mistakes from Dirk. At the end the two were only separated by 13 seconds with a strong Dominic Greiner finishing in 3rd position.

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September 3, 2012

Adrian Berntsen wins Norwegian champs

The 2012 Norwegian 1/8th on-road championship was hosted by OMK at the beautiful Hvervenbukta facility in Oslo. The race was held as a one day event only saw ten drivers attending. The schedule saw one round of controlled practice followed by three rounds of qualifying and a 45 minutes final. In practice it was Frode Rasch-Olsen who set the fastest laptime with a 12.432, followed by my Stig Berntsen (12.505), Adrian Berntsen (12.506) and Lars Haugen (12.624). As the qualification started Adrian upped his pace and even though he had a mistake that cost him 13 seconds on the last lap, he still set TQ in the first round with 34 laps in front of Stig Berntsen with 32 laps and Frode Rasch-Olsen with 32 laps.

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September 2, 2012

DJ Apolaro wins GLC Race

DJ Apolaro took his Novarossi powered and Matrix shoe’d Capricorn C02 to a TQ and win at the GLC Race in Ohio. Due to the high grip conditions DJ and his team mate Kenny Ives went for an aggressive tire change strategy and pushed the entire race with a qualifying setup. The polesetter was able to lead from the start and to make a little gap on Ralph with a larger gap on the rest of the field. After the first stop, Ralph went into problems allowing DJ to breath a little. Just after half way through the final the Capricorn pilot made his tire change and was able to extend the lead to more than two laps by the end.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]