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March 31, 2015

Derek Stephansen takes NCRL Race Series Rd1

Round 1 of the Northern California Racing League was held at LSR Speedway in Sacramento with over 150 entries and racers from all around Northern California and Nevada attending. 2WD Modified Buggy was up first – a Reedy Race format meant you had to be fast and consistent to win. A1 would have Derek Stephansen lined up outside teammate Justin Moon. The two would get a clean start and begin gapping the field. Moon would bobble on the center triple giving Stephansen room to breath and take the win. A2 would have Derek lined up in P9 and get wrapped up in a crash early on. Half a lap down to the leader he would put his head down and run them down but run out of time taking 2nd. A3 starting mid pack Derek would set back and watch Strange and Cortez battle out each other for the lead which allowed Derek to pick them both off taking the win. Going into A4 three drivers could be the possible overall winner: Cavalier, Bernal, and Stephansen. Once again starting mid pack Stephansen would get a great start working up to 2nd quickly. The leader would make a mistake giving Derek the lead and would not relinquish it to take the overall class win and set the fastest time of the day in 2WD Mod buggy.

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March 31, 2015

Stoltz sweeps Buggy classes at Turnpike Tussle Series

Kickin’ Dirt Raceway in Somerset, PA was the location for the Turnpike Tussle series, held on three weekends throughout February and March. The series brought in drivers from all parts of the region along with an interesting concept for R/C racing: single day races with extremely limited practice time and a fresh track layout for each event with no “drop races”. Consistent top performances would be the key to success in the series that drew over 105 entries on average per event. Matt Stoltz was able to take the points championships in both Modified 2WD Buggy and in Modified 4WD buggy. With podium finishes in all three rounds including a TQ and win in round 3, Matt was able to secure the championship in the Modified 2WD class and in Modified 4WD, Matt was able to take 2 out of 3 wins.

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March 31, 2015

Water & Jones win at Silverstone Winter Series

Nathan Waters has won the very competitive 2WD Silverstone Winter Series against some of the best off-road drivers in Britain. The event took place over 6 rounds on an indoor high-grip astroturf track and attracted 136 entries. In the final round Nathan set a convincing TQ, but the race win went to Lloyd Storey, with 2nd Iain Mellish, and 3rd Dave Poulter, all driving Schumacher buggies. This result meant that Lloyd secured 2nd in the championship and Dave Poulter 3rd. The under 13 Junior class was won by Lewis Jones (Schumacher), with 2nd Ben Pugh (Kyosho), and 3rd Harry Weedon (Schumacher).

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March 31, 2015

Paul Sinclair doubles at Tennessee Winter Champs

The Tennessee Winter Championship race was help this past weekend at Thunder R/C in Nashville. Robert Dirla has held the Winter Championship race for several years now, and a tight challenging layout awaited over 120 entries at this first weekend of spring event. Instead of trophies, Dirla awarded half the entry fees for each class split among the top three finishers and the dash for cash was on. In the 2WD Modified class Paul Sinclair TQ’d all four qualifiers and he then went on to win the 6 minute A-main in convincing fashion.

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March 31, 2015

Insane Carpet Fighter 1/10th SC tyres & foam inserts

Insane-RC Carpet Fighter 1/10th SC tyres & foam inserts

Russian company Insane-RC introduce the new Carpet Fighter 1/10th scale short course truck tyres and a line of foam inserts. Starting with the tyre, it is developed for high-grip indoor carpet racing and it sports specially designed inner ribs for improved carcass stiffness which makes for much better stability especially in high-speed corners as the ribs minimise the gab between the tyre and the wheel. The tyres are made in Russia from 100 percent natural rubber which is meant to stay consistent even in freezing weather conditions which can be important when racing on outdoor carpet or astroturf tracks. Also new are foam inserts for all Carpet Fighter tyres. Available in three different hardness of standard, hard and super hard the cut inserts are ideal for carpet racing.

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March 31, 2015

Simon Reeves wins BRCA E-buggy Nats opener

Deerdale played host to round 1 of the BRCA E-buggy national championship with a great turnout of drivers. However the weather did its best to ruin the event with strong winds and constant rain. The club did a great job of running through qualifying under the adverse weather conditions which would see Tony Truman’s Agama take pole followed by the Herts RC Models Mugen of Simon Reeves with Lewis Beach’s SWorkz rounding out the top 3. The A-final would be run in much drier but windy conditions and saw Simon Reeves leap to the front as Tony had an unfortunate issue, Simon would lead the race for the majority with Matt Lewis taking the lead at the half way stage but an unfortunate error with his TLR would see him drop back to 2nd. Simon went on to take the win being the only driver to make it through to 20 laps with Matt Lewis 2nd and Tony Truman recovering from a very bad start to 3rd.

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March 30, 2015

2nd Annual Jamie Rogers Memorial Race – Report

Flowood R/C Indoor Park hosted the second Annual Jamie Rogers Memorial Race this past weekend. The layout designed by Marc Beck provided some very interesting and intense racing. The “whoop” section was a challenge for everyone at some point and became a great equalizer. 10 classes with 150 entries raced for 1st thru 5th and TQ and in the Expert Nitro Buggy class Cole Ogden TQ’d but finished 2nd behind Blake Boggs. Drew Surgeon took 3rd, Kevin McCoy 4th and Blake Jefferson 5th.

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March 30, 2015

Steven Weiss teams up with ARC

German front-runner Steven Weiss has joined ARC for the 2015 season. Having only re-joined Xray last year the multi-time EFRA Euros finalist now made a move to ARC to race the company’s R10 touring car. Steven had the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to join the ARC Team with their R10 touring car. I would like to thanks Jones Chu and Henrik Heitsch for giving me this opportunity. ARC is a young company who start with their first touring car in 2012 and they improve all their products all the time. I’m already excited to work together with the entire team to improve their car and all products even more. Now I am looking forward on some great times with the team.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]