Yusuke Sugiura sweeps Japan All Star race

The 2014 edition of the annual Japan All Star EP off-road race took place at the RC Park Gojo circuit in Gojo, Nara, Japan. The event brought many sponsored drivers from Kyosho, Tamiya, Yokomo and MuchMore and is an opportunity for racers to compete and interact with the top Japanese racers from around the country. The indoor facility is famous for its great track conditions and fun layouts with the owner being an experienced motocross track builder, who has worked with Richard Winkler of Dirt Wurx. To keep the surface in a high grip condition, water was provided by pipes buried under the track.

Kyosho’s Yusuke Sugiura was the 4WD top qualifier running his ZX-6 prototype. In A1, Kyosho’s Sugiura and Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura led the race at the beginning, however Kyosho’s Kohta Akimoto ran consistently faster and passed them to take the win. In A2 Sugiura and Matsukura would lead the race again. Once the 3-time world champion Matsukura took the lead, he left the others behind and took the win. As this race was a 2 main format, with no throwout, the results would then see Yusuke Sugiura in first followed by Kohta Akimoto and Juliya Kajiwara making the Kyosho ZX-6 the dominating car.

Kyosho’s young star and current national champion Sugiura was also took the 2WD TQ honours. In A1, the tight battles and back and forth racing would continue, and in the end, the former national champion Akimoto would take the win. In A2, Sugiura would lead the race from Matsukura but Sugiura would crash on the final lap handing the win to Matsukura. The final result had Yusuke Sugiura taking the win from Kohta Akimoto and Naoto Matsukura.

In the 2WD Stock class, Yuno, driving a Yokomo B-MAX 2, would take the win for his first time.

Source: RC Park Gojo