With the ROAR Nats this weekend, it’s time to Vote who you think will take home the coveted title.
Will the reigning ROAR nitro buggy champion, Team Associated driver Spencer Rivkin take a surprise back to back win, or will Ryan Maifield maintain his amazing year and avenge his 2nd place finish by 7/10ths to Spencer from 2016 ? Is Ty Tessmann fully up to speed with his XRAY, or maybe Dakotah Phend looking to win on his home track. Vote Now!
We’re almost halfway into the year (how did that happen?!) and it’s time for an inspired one-off Half-term/Year Scorecard since we don’t really agree with the ranking lists either 😉
Hit up the link below to see who makes our ‘Top o’ the class’
David Ronnefalk shares his story from the opening two rounds of qualifying at the Philippine Masters event this weekend. See YouTube
Finland’s most famous export (after Kimi) has been busy on the keyboard during and after last weekend’s Dirt Nitro Challenge, most recently sharing his thoughts on a track some top pros called the hardest they’ve raced on.
There was a lot of crying and complaining about the track at DNC. A lot of tears were shed, a lot of feelings were hurt, a tremendous amount of arms were smashed, believe me.
I have given the organisers a hard time for the fact that they forgot to organise. I still haven’t seen results from the race. I probably never will. But The Dirt crew have one thing going for them. The track.
I feel like there were a few years where Joey got a bit lazy with the track. You arrived and thought, “that’s it, really?”. However, the last couple of years, the tracks have been really good, and specially this one.
Chassis: Mugen Seiki MBX7TR
Engine: REDS R7 Evoke v3.0
Tyres: JConcepts
Fuel: Flashpoint R/C
Radio & Servos: Sanwa M12S radio, MKS servos
Event: 2017 Dirt Nitro Challenge, USA
Chassis: TLR 8IGHT 4.0
Engine: Reds Worlds Edition 2016
Fuel: VP Powermaster fuel
Tyres: AKA
Radio & Servos: Spektrum, Hitec HSB-9380TH
Body & Wing: Stock TLR
Event: 2017 Dirt Nitro Challenge, USA
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Oh those Arizona sunsets… how we long for you.
Once more the season cycle gets underway with our first flyaway race, the annual Dirt Nitro Challenge (or DNC) held at the Fear Farm RC Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona USA. NeoBuggy will be present at the event with live coverage and reports from Thursday directly with 1/8 Truck qualifying.
Here’s a little reminder of what’s to come later this week, tune in to Neo to see how all the winter silly season swaps pan out with the likes of Ty Tessmann entering his first ‘big race’ under the XRAY banner, Ryan Maifield now in post TLR-Exile with Mugen Seiki, World Champion David Ronnefalk and defending Champion Ryan Cavalieri both now wheeling JConcepts rubber and the return of Robert Batlle to the DNC after missing the event for many years. It’s gonna be good!
“If you ain’t first, you’re last!”
Ty Tessmann’s winter-switch from HB Racing to XRAY was probably the biggest news over the off-season, at times even unseating Donald Trump from the headlines. We sit down with the Canadian star to talk about his biggest career change to date.
Let’s start with the elephant in the room Ty, you have left a winning team, having personally finished on the podium at each of the last 3 Worlds with HB, talk us through the hottest news story this winter!
We have been with HB for 12 years and developed a lot of platforms with them in that time, we have had many successes with them. I won’t say that we felt that we were getting into a rut, but we just felt that we needed a change and new challenges, we wish the best for everyone at HB Racing. We are excited for what the future holds and we are committed to taking Xray to the top.
