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January 29, 2011

JConcepts Indoor National Series – Announcement

For 2011, JConcepts, together with Team Associated and the participating race tracks, have organized a first of its kind, true Indoor National Series. Scheduled as a 4 race series across the United States, drivers now have the opportunity to showcase their abilities on a national and regional level. Jason Ruona, president of JConcepts along with Team Associated race team manager Brent Thielke have made the commitment and are attending each race in support of this new series. Team Associated / JConcepts drivers, Ryan Maifield, Steven Hartson and Tanner Denney highlight just a small portion of the attending drivers traveling from across the United States to compete at select events. Commitments from many other drivers are coming in on a daily basis. Race 1 (February 5-6, 2011) is coming up quickly and there are already a number of surprises shaping up. Brent Thielke is tentatively scheduled to debut the Team Associated SC10 4×4 truck at race 1. Jason Ruona will be on hand releasing the new JConcepts Bar Codes V2 and Rips tires to the public for the first-time.

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January 29, 2011

The Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

The organisers of next month’s Dirt Nitro Challenge in Arizona were in touch to firstly introduce us to the new Dirt girl (above) and secondly to tell us that entries are still open for this awesome annual event. Taking place at the Nitro Pit facility in Witmann, AZ, the event attracts the best offroad drivers in the World and this year will be no exception. This 2011 event is open to both gas & electric buggy as well as truggy and short course classes with the event starting on Wednesday the 23rd of February for practice and running through to Sunday the 27th for the buggy mains. For more information on the event and details on how to enter you can view the event flyer here (PDF).

January 28, 2011

Martin Hudy wins Indoor EC Warmup

The warm-up for the upcoming indoor EC was held on January 22/23 in Hrotovice, Czech Republic and Martin Hudy produced this report. The warm-up race was organized together with a club race so along with the expected Modified class, there were also Stock and Hobby classes. The race was attended by drivers from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. The race started on Saturday with controlled practice and with one round of qualifiers in the evening. There were 3 rounds of qualifiers held on Sunday and 3 rounds of finals. Team Xray was present at the race to help and support all Xray drivers. The team was represented by Martin and Juraj Hudy, Zdenko Kunak, Zdenek Hamak, and David Ehrbar.

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January 26, 2011

Kody Numedhal wins Field of Dreams Classic

This past weekend JConcepts team driver Kody Numedhal attended the 3rd annual Field of Dreams Classic in Garden City, Kansas. Many of the top drivers from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas were in attendance for this great event. In qualifying Kody was able to put his Associated cars equipped with JConcepts Bar Code tires on the pole for both 2wd Modified, and 4wd Modified buggy. As the mains rolled around Kody knew that he had the cars to beat in both classes. In 4wd buggy, Kody dominated the event with wins in both A1 and A2. In 2wd buggy the event win would come down to the third A main, but once again Numedhal would find himself on top of the podium. Congratulations to Kody on taking home the wins in both 2wd Modified and 4wd Modified buggy at the 3rd annual Field of Dreams Classic.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 26, 2011

Brian Kinwald takes KBRL SC Triple Crown

This year the KBRL held the Short Course Triple Crown series. The three race series brought the best racing talent the state had to offer. Heading into the final race of the Triple Crown series the title was still up for grabs between three JConcepts Team Drivers, Brian Kinwald, Jake Thayer and Billy Fischer. The man with the best finish was going to be taking home the big check.

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January 25, 2011

Derek Guidry wins January Jam

The first city-owned indoor offroad race track in the USA held its first annual January Jam race. The Flowood R/C Indoor Park has been open since the first of December. You won’t find a finer facility anywhere. Bubba Barham, President of Trackseekers R/C Club, reports that they had 85 entries with 120 vehicles. They ran ten classes. The race started at 10 a.m. and ended at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Bubba said they took a vote after two qualifiers to see if they wanted to run the third qualifier and the majority wanted to stay and run it. “It exceeded any and all our expectations.” Drivers came from Dallas, Atlanta, with many from Lousisiana. Derek Guidry, racing a Team Associated RC8B and RC8T, Top Qualified in both Expert Buggy and Truggy and won first place in both. He had some serious competition with Jason Wendling, Denver Houghton, Reggie Tongue, Brady Walton, and John Tabony chasing him.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

January 24, 2011

Maifield wins Pro buggy at CRCRC Midwest Champs

An amazing 2 weeks of action in Ohio ends with Ryan Maifield and JConcepts on top in the 1/8th buggy pro class taking the first big win in 2011. Ryan was a thrilling driver all weekend in the buggy class by first taking the TQ and then going on to win the 45-minute A-final against some the world’s finest drivers including Jesse Robbers, reigning IFMAR World Champion Cody King and Billy Easton. JConcepts Hybrids in green compound along with the Punisher body made the punishing easier as Ryan and his Associated RC8B made quick work of the fast, technical CRCRC layout with the fastest overall time during qualifying. In the 1/8th truck class, Ryan had to settle for 2nd place, 3.8 seconds behind eventual winner Jessie Robbers who drove a fantastic race. Pit strategy and traffic became a factor as Ryan battled hard for the entire 45 minutes with his RC8T-CE truck equipped with Punisher body and JConcepts Sevens tires.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 24, 2011

Andy Moore wins BRCA Winter Nationals

The permanent indoor carpet track at Ardent Raceway was the venue for the BRCA Winter National meeting, qualifying was by FTD with the top thirty two qualifiers going on to race a Reedy style Race of Champions with all drivers using 10.5 pro stock motors. Drivers not making the cut would contest the clubman title. The majority of the top UK national drivers were booked in and full quotas of 102 drivers were led away by current UK national champion Chris Grainger.

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