February 27, 2012

‘Badboy’ Kortz wins Brushless Buggy

New Agama team signing Jeremy Kortz has won the 1:8 Brushless Buggy title at the Dirt Nitro Challenge taking the final by a comfortable 12-seconds over Top Qualifier Adam Drake and Team Durango’s Billy Fischer.  Starting from 8th on the grid, the former World finalist and US Champion took advantage of mistakes by his rivals to make his way to the front . Seeing off a challenge from Team Durango young gun Carson Wernimont, whose buggy shutdown in the last minute of the race, the man with the badboy image was able to cruise to take a maiden victory for Agama and his new electric sponsors Tekin and Thunder Power.

The opening lap of the 10-minute encounter saw the No.2 Hot Bodies of Tyler Vik find a way past Drake’s TLR 8ight but the San Francisco driver got out of shape coming onto the straight and ended up on his roof.  Slow marshalling ended his challenge for victory, working his way back up the order his race was also to come to an end when his battery became unplugged.  Vik’s Hot Bodies team-mate also took a turn at leading the race but in the end missed out on a podium finish following a mistake on the last lap.

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October 14, 2011

First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

Making his first appearance at the Arena Offroad Meeting TLR’s Darren Bloomfield has notched up the first title of the weekend at the Italian event with a dominant performance in the Brushless Buggy class.  Topping three of the five 7-minute qualifiers earlier in the day the British ace secured TQ honours ahead of fellow countryman Simon Willets and his Mugen and Italian Xray driver Valerio Bellano.

First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

With the finals decided over three 10-minute legs the rest of the field were no match for Bloomfield and his LRP powered 8ight E.  Winning the opening leg from Willets by almost 13 seconds he secured the title previously held by team-mate Riccardo Rabitti, who is this year just focusing on nitro buggy, with a second win over the Mugen driver in Leg 2.  Despite sewing up the overall win Bloomfield ran the third leg which he duly went on to complete the perfect result. Having a poor third leg Willets took second with Bellano completing the podium.

The provisional overnight Top Qualifier in the premiere nitro Buggy class with one round of Buggy qualifying still to run, Bloomfield will be hoping to continue his form through the rest of the weekend at the Cowboy’s Guest Ranch in Voghera.

Brushless Buggy Overall Result
1. Darren Bloomfield – Losi/LRP – 2 pts
2. Simon Willets – Mugen/Orion – 4
3. Valerio Bellano – Xray/Mamba – 6
4. Walter Floris – Losi/Mamba – 8
5. Stefano Cantoni – Kyosho/Orion – 9
6. Stefano Rabitti – Losi/LRP – 9
7. Federico Sala – Losi/LRP – 10
8. Luca Passarini – Mugen/Hobbywing – 13
9. Alex Zanchettin – Hot Bodies/Tekin – 15

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