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August 8, 2007

Chinese National Junior Championship

Last weekend saw one of Chinas biggest annual races, the National Junior Championships, run at the B.M.W. track 200 kilometres from Hong Kong. Thousands of students had attended the local qualifying races hoping to claim a place at the main race but only 12 teams managed to make it to the Championships. In the 1/8th scale buggy class it was 15 year old LInJunBin, who was driving a Team Losi 8ight, that took the win having started in 10th spot. Starting near the rear of the field he had to push and after 3 laps he was up into 2nd place and a few minutes later, when the current leader HongNanfang broke his car and retired, LInJunBin could take the lead and go on to win the race.

Source: RC Fans [rcfans.com]

August 7, 2007

Neil Cragg wins UK RallyX Rd4

Last weekend at Pendle, under favourable weather conditions, saw the running of the re-scheduled round 4 of the BRCA 1/8 off road series. Qualifying saw HoBao driver David Crompton take a comfortable pole position ahead of recently crowned European 2wd electric buggy Champion Neil Cragg, racing the Team Associated RC8, in 2nd. The main final saw David take an early lead from Simon Willets after Neil made a small error which dropped him behind Simon. At about the 5 minute mark Neil managed to get past Simon and then set about trying to catch David. Over the next 10 minutes or so Neil chased very hard and managed to get the gap down to about 2 seconds when David had a throttle servo failure. A very unfortunate end to what was shaping up to be a tremendous battle. After David’s retirement Neil dropped into a cruise mode as he had about a 30 second lead which he maintained to the flag to take his the 3rd win of the season ahead of the Kyosho pairing of Karl Jackson and Elliot Boots in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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August 5, 2007

Joseph Quagraine wins Nordic Champs

Neo Buggy reports – JQ has taken victory at the Nordics – a well deserved victory; now 4 Nordic wins to his name! The start was pretty messy, Robert assumed the lead after Christoffer got taken out, and then fought a bit with Joe, who after a while dropped back. Christoffer was now last and pushing his way up. By about 10mins it was clear that Robert was really flying, his car looked real good, JQ was fighting with other drivers, while Robert was able to build a lead. Christoffer was now fighting his way up and fast, using an aggressive fuel strategy he was able to fight back. By about the 20-25min mark Robban’s lead was down and JQ was really looking strong, Robban had a few bad laps including one notable moment where a marshall literally held his car for 5secs and let about 4 drivers past giving him massive traffic. JQ capitalised and thru fuel stops began to build a serious lead. Robban fell back, and was caught and passed by Christoffer. By about 35mins, Joe was still pushing, having lapped everyone but Chris in 2nd, Linus was also pretty close to Robban in 4th & 3rd… In the end, Joseph took a great victory, followed by Christoffer close to/or a lap down, then Robban.

View the results here.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

August 5, 2007

Joseph Quagraine joins Werks Racing

Neo Buggy are reporting that Finland’s Joseph Quagraine has signed with Werks Racing to run their “Race Blend” fuel during the 2007, 2008 racing season. Joseph with his recent excellent race results at the Euro’s joins HoBao Cup winner Ari Heinonen as the second Finnish based driver to join the Werks Racing team. This represents the first of several upcoming announcements as Werks Racing embarks on an aggressive growth plan in the European market.

Source: Neo Buggy [neo-buggy.net]

August 5, 2007

Logan Bruecher – Interview

Logan Bruecher - Interview

Our partners down under, Rube Dude, have done an interview with one of Australia top young off road racers, Logan Bruecher. This very talented young driver has just won the first round of the innaugural WA Challenge Cup Series in Geraldton and he did it in a very strong and convincing manner battling it out with Haley and Weise who really put on some incredible pace.

Read the complete interview here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

August 1, 2007

Bruecher & Taylor win WA Challenge Cup Rd1

Bruecher wins WA Challenge Cup Rd1

Our partners Rube Dude have a report from the first round of the WA Challenge Cup that was held last weekend in Geraldton, Western Australia. The event was open to both buggy and truggy classes and in the buggy class it was a win for HongNor racer Logan Bruecher who tore it up on the track to win by 2 laps ahead of Ian Haley racing the OCM, while 3rd spot went to Darren Wiese, who had lead the race for some time but dropped back later in the race. In the truggy class it was a win for 13 year old Josh Taylor who came home 2 laps ahead of runner up John Grupillo in 2nd and Jack Tompsett, a further 2 laps back, in 3rd.

Read the full report here.

Source: Rube Dude [rubeduderc.com]

August 1, 2007

Announcement – 2008 Neo Race

Announcement - 2008 Neo Race

Our partners Neo Buggy have announced that they will once more run their popular Neo indoor race, which for this year will be called the Neo08, replacing the previous Neo Invitational name. Run in association with DXR and at the same great venue as the 2006 running of the event, the Harper Adams College, Newport, Shropshire UK, the 2008 event will be run over 4 days from the 21st – 24th of March.

The 3rd edition of the Neo Race returns to the Harper Adams indoor venue for Easter 2008. After the very successful 2006 race, DXR and Neo-Buggy will once again join together to organise and run Neo08. The DXR team are known for their excellent events run at the Harper Adams venue, and pairing with Neo-Buggy we hope that this race will be the best yet. The event will be a 4 day race, using IFMAR adapted rules; 10min heats for practice and qualifying and standard Christmas tree finals. Entry limit is set at 210 drivers.

More information to come at the official site Neo08.net

July 31, 2007

RC Pro East Series Rd2 – Race Report

RC Pro East Series Rd2

CEN team driver Gene ‘The Machine’ Hickersen has been in touch and provided us with a report from the 2nd round of the RC Pro East series which was held last weekend at Lake Park in Tampa, Florida.

Drivers came down to sunny FL from as far as North Carolina to compete for the East Coat RC Pro Championship. There was around 145 entries even with a 60% chance of rain. Friday was open practice on the fast and technical layout. JR Mitch was spotted driving his Team Associated RC8 for the 1st time since the ROAR Nationals last month. I drove really bad at the Nationals, as 63rd was by far the worst I have ever done at a National race in my 21 year racing career, so I was thinking about making changes to my car to find some extra speed to get back on pace.

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