Last Saturday IERC Raceway hosted their Inaugural Toys for Tots race which attracted a total of 165 entries. The weather in southern CA. was cold and rainy so Team Losi Racing / Pro-Line driver Adam Drake grabbed his electric vehicles and headed indoors. Drake competed in and won the 4wd Short course class as well as the 1/8th buggy class.
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The 3rd Annual KO Propo Off Road Championship is back at West Coast Raceway from the 5th to the 6th of January. With over 200+ entries last year and names like Cavalieri, Tebo, Kinwald, Hartson, Numedahl, and many international racers in attendance it’s going to be another amazing event hosted by KO Propo and West Coast Raceway. Since the first year of existence, The KO Propo off Road Championships has had a very similar format to qualifying but when it comes to Main day they’ve incorporated a Bump Up Triple A format where you’re never, ever out of it. More information can be found here.
The fourth round of the 2012-2013 FORCE Series was held this past weekend in Tampa, Florida at Hurricane R/C Club. Competition was at an all time high for Florida’s Premiere Off-Road Series with 144 entries. Coming into the weekend the track crew at Hurricane R/C Club and the promoters of the FORCE Series had a lot of work ahead of them prepping the track from all of the rain the track received early in the week. As always the track crew did an awesome job and had the track ready for Friday’s practice.
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Round 3 of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. With the series now recognised as one of the premier Touring Car events in the UK, the meeting was fully booked well in advance of the day. This included a number of Britain’s top drivers, following on from the news that the venue would host the BRCA Winter National early next year.
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JConcepts team driver Michael Paige attended the 2012 Holiday Barn Burner hosted by RJD Hobbies in Lincoln Illinois. This Horizon Hobby sponsored event went well for Paige, TQing 2wd buggy, 4wd buggy and 2wd short course. Races started at 11am and finished up around 9pm in the evening. It was a long day, with good competition and very competitive racing. Paige went on to win 2wd buggy and 4wd buggy running JConcepts Bar Codes in Green Compound and took 2nd in 2wd short course and 2nd in 4wd short course with Green Pressure Points. Fellow Teammate Ben Ellis took 1st in 2wd short course and TLR driver Zac Rose took 1st in 4wd short course.
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LRP have announced that for the 16th running of their TCM event they have moved venue from the regular Eppelheim to Althengstett, near Stuttgart. Because of this last minute change, the date has also changed and the event will now take place from the 26th to the 28th of April. Entries will open from February 1st at 6pm CET.
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The third round of the British Indoor Winter series saw Xray UK team driver James Hart setting the fastest time in all three rounds of the Open class qualifying. In second place on the grid for the finals was HB team driver Stefan Chodzynski, third and fourth were Xray drivers Chris Neff and Alex Brocklebank, rounding out the top five was Associated team driver Ben Putt. The 13.5 class saw some very close qualifying with another Xray team driver, Zak Finlay, on pole position and like the Open class it was HB driver Dean Gibbs in second place. Schumacher driver Darren Lee came third, fourth on the grid was HB driver James Baker and rounding out the top 5 was TOP driver Chris Holmes. In the 17.5 Class it was Lee Stokes who dominated qualifying setting the fastest time in round one and three putting him in pole position for the finals. Second on the grid was Martyn Peachey having posted consistent runs, and rounding out the top in qualifying it was Richard Boult.
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The Indonesian EP Year End race was held at the Sunter International Speedway, with 70 driver competing in the 1/10 Super Stock, FWD and 1/12 pan car class. The weather was hot on Saturday, that saw four rounds of qualifying, and cloudy with rain on Sunday. In the Super Stock class, Bowie Ginting (Xray) set the quickest time to secured the TQ spot followed by Dimas Ardian (Tamiya) in second place. Indonesian RC legend, Denny Pangestu, took the third spot with his Team Associated car. The top 3 where chased by Suwardi Suliandy and Ronny Suwarto who placed their Xray and TOP cars 4th and 5th respectively. Ronny Suwarto took the TQ spot in the 1/12 pan car class while Anton Santoso secured TQ in the FD class.
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