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June 18, 2007

Stefan Petrich wins Rd3 Truggy.nl Cup

Last Sunday saw the 3rd round of the Dutch Truggy.nl Cup held on the Mach One circuit in Helmond and saw 39 racers in attendance. After qualifying it was local racer Paul Geelen who emerged as the top-qualifier and he was joined by 2nd direct qualifier Stefan Petrich while the numbers 3 to 22 were placed in semi finals to determine the next 8 starting spots in the main final. In the main final it was a close battle for the top position and in the end of the 24 minute final the top racers, Stefan Petrich from Germany and local racer Mark van Waayenburg finished within seconds of each other with Stefan taking the win from Mark in 2nd with 3rd position falling to Paco Raap.

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June 17, 2007

Elliot Boots wins Kyosho Masters

British racer Elliot Boots has beaten all in the Elite Buggy class to win the 2007 Kyosho Masters in France this weekend. The young driver lined up 2nd on the grid, with only current World Champion Mark Pavidis ahead of him after a very quick semi run, but in the 45 minute race, after Pavidis ran into some trouble, it was left to Boots to take over at the front and win the race by 2 laps ahead of Karl Jackson with French racer Stéphane Deroch in 3rd. In the Truggy class it was Mark Pavidis that took win ahead of Portugese racer Miguel Matias in a very tight battle that saw the pairing seperated by less than 2 seconds at the end of the 20 minute race, Yuichi Kanai came home in 3rd.

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June 17, 2007

2007 Kyosho Masters – More Videos

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In addition to the videos we showed you yesterday RC Mag have been busy making more great videos, this time from the qualifying runs of Yuichi Kanai, Daniel Reckward and Tony Cazin. The runs are all from buggy qualifying and can be watched in the embedded player above with the other videos below.

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June 16, 2007

Fabio Boero TQ’s Offroad Meeting

Fabio Boero TQ's Offroad Meeting

While all the top Kyosho racers from around the world are in France for the Kyosho Masters, it seems most of the other top racers are in Italy for the annual Offroad meeting. Held at the Monsummano Terme track, which we showed you videos from yesterday, this event has attracted a lot of international racers such as Adam Drake, Joseph Quagraine, Joern Neumann, Jerome Sartel and the Associated team of Maifield and Saxton were to come also. Qualifying in the buggy class saw Mugen racer Fabio Boero take the top qualifying spot ahead of Kyosho pairing of Samu Lenzi and Raul Peris in 2nd and 3rd respectively, while Losi top man Adam Drake placed 4th.

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June 16, 2007

Jerome Aigoin TQ’s Kyosho Masters

Aigoin TQ's Kyosho Masters

Jerome Aigoin was the man to beat during qualifying for this weekends Kyosho Masters, the French EFRA GP winner managed to be fastest in both the Elite buggy and truggy classes. In the Elite buggy class, World Champion Mark Pavidis claimed the 2nd fastest time ahead of Yuichi Kanai in 3rd with UK racer Elliot Boots in 4th. In the truggy class it was the same drivers in the top 3 with Kanai in 2nd, Pavidis in 3rd while 4th spot was taken by Pro Line Challenge winner Linus Thern. The expert buggy class was TQ’d by Greek racer Giannis Papanikolaou while the League class saw French racer Paul Vairon take the top qualifying spot.

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June 16, 2007

2007 Kyosho Masters – Videos

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As you are hopefully aware, this weekend sees the 2007 Kyosho Masters held near Paris in France, and as with all Masters racers there is a large entry of quality racers. Once more our partners RC Mag have got us covered, not only with their photo coverage, but also they have made these great videos of some truggy track action that includes World Champion Mark Pavidis, French GP winner Jerome Aigoin and Mike Cradock. You can watch them in the embedded player above with the other 2 videos below.

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June 15, 2007

Bertin to debut .21 CRF at Kyosho Masters

This weekend sees all the top Kyosho buggy racers from all around the World converge at the RC94 track near Paris for the 2007 Kyosho Masters. Our partners RC Mag are there all weekend covering the event and already they have spotted some points of interest including new parts for the Inferno buggy, that include the big bore shocks that have been seen before, but more interestingly the new .21 CRF buggy motor has been spotted in the Kyosho of Adrien Bertin. We have heard that Adrien will race the engine this weekend after some positive initial tests earlier in the week proved that it was ready for its debut.

UPDATE: Added lots more engine pictures.

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June 13, 2007

Bury Metro Nationals report by oOple

The third round of the BRCA electric buggy nationals were held last weekend multi surface Bury Metro track in the mid west of England. The weather for the weekend was for rain but that rain never turned up and instead the capacity crowd were treated to some scorching sun. The 2wd class was completely dominated by World Champion Neil Cragg who took the TQ and easily won the race with his Associated B4 while in 4wd it was Losi racer Darren Bloomfield that took the TQ and the event win.

Read the full report race here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]