Last weekend Batley Buggy Club hosted the 3rd round of the North East Outdoor Regional series. The weather in the UK has been terrible of late, with severe rain effecting most places. The week leading up to the meeting was no different and it looked as though it was going to be another wet meeting!

Practice
On the day of the meeting to our surprise the rain had stopped and even a little sunshine was beginning to appear. The track at Batley is multisurface with a combination of grass, astro and concrete. In the morning the track was still wet for practice and people were trying all sorts of tyres to see which worked best, in case the track didnt dry out, or it started to rain again. I went out in practice with my DEX210 and knew straight away that i was in for a good day, as my car was dialled!

Qualifying
By the time qualifying started the track had just about dried out which made choosing the right tyres less of an issue. After not been able to capitalise on my TQ spot at a previous round in the series, i was determined to take the TQ spot and go for the win! My car was even more dialled in qualifying than it was in practice, and i was able to take all four rounds of qualifying to put my DEX210 pole in the A-Main. Steve Lawson was 2nd and James Mcfadyen took the 3rd spot.

Final
In the final i got off to a really good start and held onto 1st position going into the first corner. I was then able to get into my groove and try to settle myself into the race. Steve Lawson was in 2nd pushing hard and trying to apply the pressure. After a few minutes i was able to settle down and just drove the track instead of worrying about what was going on behind. This proved to the right thing to do as i started to edge away from the chasing pack. I had an error free race with my DEX210 in the final and crossed the line to take a comfortable win, nearly quarter of a lap ahead of 2nd place Steve Lawson. Arslan Butt had a good race and moved up from his qualifying position of 4th to take 3rd place in the final.

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On April 13th, Rishpon club in Israel had the second 2WD race of the series. The weather was perfect with a sunny sky and about 23deg. In the first round of qualifying it was Amit Bublil who set the time to beat, driving his Orion powered Team Durango DEX210.

On the second round, young guns Boris Melnik(17) driving an Orion powered DEX210 and Omer Assayag(15) showed they can set the bar even higher. Round three of qualifying saw Omer as TQ with Amit in second and Boris in third.

First leg of Final ended with Guy Rinkevich on top with Boris in second and Amit in third.

Second leg was won by Boris with Asaf in second. Guy and Amit battled all the way for third place while switching a lot during the race and on the final corner Amit managed to find the opportunity and still third place from Guy.

Third and final leg was owned by Omer who got away from all the other racers and finished first. Guy and Amit found themselves again battling all the way for second place and Amit was the one finishing in second with Guy in third.

Final results were:
Boris Melnik – Durango/Orion/JConcepts
Guy Rinkevich – TLR/Novak/JConcepts
Amit Bublil – Durango/Orion/JConcepts

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Gilles Bennardo reports on the third round of the French 10th off road nationals – where Team Durango took an impressive 1-2-3 finish in the 4WD final.

With Alex BEAUQIER as new Team mate, Team Durango France made a complete domination on the 3rd French National

We where very sad to learn that David “Peace” had a bad knee accident, but his “Xtrem Team” has worked very hard to prepare and organize this important race.  XtremRace is a dirt track that was created by David and his crew.

Once again the car was amazing, great grip easy on the jump and reaaaallllly fast. We had prepared some setups to compare our different driving styles and we had a intense work to make our car perfect handling.

Qualifying :
Under a strong sunny day and 30°C we started the race with a great track, the jump where well designed. The straight became really bumpy and tricky on some parts. lots of cars finished in the barriers! From the first run, Armand was faster than all of us but it is DUFAU-CAZENAVE Alexis who took the best over all in the first round.

Second Qualifier saw Armand take the lead, Alexis was second, Gilles third and Alex took 4th position. 4 DEX 410 V3 in the 4 first places This position didn’t change until the final…

Finals :
The weather was still sunny but cooler than saturday. Armand Lantheaume managed to win the two first round and finishes once again 1^st.  The second leg was not a good one for Gilles and Alex managed to get the second place.  The third and final leg of the A final started with a small mistake from Alexis – Gilles took the lead and won, putting him 2nd over all.
With 7 cars in the main, and the first three places – Team Durango had a great week end in Vic La Gardiole!

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Team Durango Romania made a total domination last weekend at FxRacing Championship Round 2, taking 1st place at Buggy 2WD with DEX210, 1st place and 3rd place at Buggy 4WD with DEX410V3 and 2nd and 3rd at Pro Short Course class with DESC410R.

9 racers for Durango made a very good race in this championship in the first two rounds, and overall Team Durango Romania is currently on first place at all racing classes.

Team Durango Romania would like to thank again officialy our racers that prove Team Durango is serious about racing : Catalin Matei, Dinu Tuns, Valeanu Adrian, Cosmin Bunea, Deusan Cristian, Fernea Catalin, Stoiciu Andrei, Pugna Ioan, Cozma Andrei.

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The automodelli.it Italian Championship took place on the 22nd April 2012 in Castiraga Vidardo, at the ‘PIG Arena’ indoor dirt track with a total of 61 drivers present.

Davide Carbone took the TQ and Win with his DEX210 – along with setting the fastest lap of all competitors!  Giuseppe Fermi finished second overall with another Team Durango DEX210 – and a total of 4 DEX210’s sat in the top 10.  Congratulations to our Italian drivers who showed the DEX210 to be the best 2WD out there.

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