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July 31, 2013

Carsten Keller wins EFRA GP in Bischofsheim

The well-known Rhein-Main-Circuit in Bischofsheim played host for the German EFRA 1/8th nitro buggy GP. The race was set as a pre-warm-up for the club and the German RC car association as the track will be the place of next year’s EFRA European Championship. Just before the meeting the track received some make-overs here and there in the form of a new pit exit and some updated curbs but overall the Rhein-Main-Circuit was well known for most of the driver that came from all over Europe including Finland, the UK, Switzerland, Austria and of course Germany. Friday was set a the practice day and most of the drivers made good use of the chance to adopt their cars, engines and tyres to the scorching hot temperatures. Saturday saw the qualifiers and at the end it was JQ Products’ own Joseph Quagraine who took TQ in front of Kyosho’s Martin Hansen who had Simon Esser (Xray) and Carsten Keller (Kyosho) in tow.

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July 31, 2013

Team Associated’s Albano Wins at Nor-Cal Champs

Team Associated's Albano Wins at Nor-Cal Champs

Nor-Cal Hobbies hosted their fifth annual Northern California Off-Road Championship in Union City, California. Nor-Cal’s best drivers battled for the chance to win the belt. The track was designed and built by Kevin Jelich, who provided a fast and technical, sugared-prepped track. The race consisted of three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, with a fourth round and triple A Mains on Sunday. Albano TQ’d overall in the 2WD Modified class with his Reedy/ProTek-powered, Centro-converted B4.2 by less than a second over A Main Hobbies driver Tyler Vik. A1 went to Vik because of a bobble out of Albano early in the race. In A2, they battled again for most of the race until a small gap was made towards the end that allowed Albano to take the win. With the overall going to A3, the pressure was on. The start was marked with the two again battling for the one spot until Albano got a good lead over the rest of the field and took the overall.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

July 31, 2013

Buechler & Tjepkema win at NCT Series Rd4

The past weekend saw round 4 of the NCT Series in Burlington, WA. With perfect weather and over 175 entries it was not a race to miss. In the 1/8th Electric Buggy class Tekin’s Jayson Tjepkema, Nate Clark, and Nick Buechler battled it out. They all ran a pace on the exact same second in Q1 with Clark taking the round. Buechler would take Q2 and Q3 to secure the pole position for Sunday. A1 would be a close battle for all 10 minutes between Clark and Buechler but Nick would take the win. A2 would go to Clark with Buechler 2nd coming down to A3 to decide the overall. After getting off to a rough start and dropping to 3rd, Buechler was able to work his way back up to the lead and pass Tjepkema to take the win by about one second securing the overall win. This weekend’s results gives Buechler the points lead in 1/8 Electric Buggy and going into round 5 in Lewiston, ID next month.

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July 31, 2013

Nitro-West-Masters mid-season report

The second half of the Nitro-West-Masters 2013 will start with round four held at the Velp track in the Netherlands this coming weekend. Located close to the German boarder the Velp track is of a challenging layout and 260 metres long. It is the fifth year of this popular championship mainly run in Western Germany and it is only the second time this nitro series is going abroad of Germany. With no official licence being needed the Nitro-West-Masters is a class for everybody and the tyres are open with additives strictly forbidden. The racing format is the same as in previous years with three seven minute heats and the three best consecutive laps to count for the qualifiers. The race format sees four direct qualifiers and the race is run in Sunday with the Saturday being the official practice day.

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July 31, 2013

JBRL Electric series Rd5 – Report

The popular JBRL Electric series visited West Coast RC Raceway for Round #5. The track layout made for some exciting racing and it was another successful event with over 200 entries. Kyosho/Pro-Line driver Cody King took the win in the 1/8th Electric Buggy class and Pro-Line team mate Nick Blais drove an awesome race to finish in 2nd and make it 1-2 for Pro-Line team drivers. The podium was rounded out by Scott Wolf. The Pro-Line Team also swept the Mod 2WD Short Course podium with Nick Blais winning the main running Pro-Line’s own Pro-2 conversion truck. The runner-up spot went to Adam Gragg with Matt Gilbert completing the podium. In Modified Truck Nolan Anderson went on to win the class with his Team Associated T4.2 with Kevin Motter and Doug Nielsen in tow.

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July 30, 2013

Adam Drake doubles at Top Notch Tour Rd1

The first stop of the Top Notch Tour took place at Thunder Alley Raceway. Sik Track Designs put in fresh layout for the event and TLR/Novarossi/Pro-Line driver Adam Drake TQ’ed both rounds of qualifying in the Pro Buggy class. Drake took the victory in the 30 minute final followed by Mark Pavidis and Colby Poh. In the Money Buggy class Drake didn’t run the qualifiers and start in the back for the 25 minute final, but quickly moved his way to the front and took the win followed by Jeremy Kortz and Colby Poh.

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July 30, 2013

Mitchell van Es wins TC Modified at Dutch nats Rd4

Round 4 of the Dutch nationals took place last weekend. The modified class saw a TQ and win by the Mi5 in the hands of Mitchell van Es. The very tight and technical track of Model Racing Midland was difficult to drive due to high asphalt temperatures. During the day the grip changed a lot due to dust from a nearby dirtbike track covering the surface but this did not keep Mitchell from winning the class in style.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

July 30, 2013

Inzeller Race of Champions 2013 – Report

The 7th annual Inzeller Race of Champions was held on the multi-surface track of the MAC Inzell in the very South of Germany. The event was also the warm-up race of this year’s 4WD German nationals in August. The 2013 edition of the IRoC saw 123 entries in four classes. Free practice on Friday went till 11 o’clock at night with a full rostrum all the time followed by the famous drivers party. The weather was perfect all weekend except of a little thunderstorm Saturday evening, that cost the usual floodlight qualifying heat. The man to beat in Buggy qualifying was Team Durango’s Hupo Hönigl who won all five 2WD qualification rounds and four out of five 4WD rounds. Team Yokomo’s Rene Trauner was the only one who was able to take one of the 4WD Buggy qualifiers from Hupo.

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