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February 12, 2019

Albertoni & Easter win at Propo Off-Road Champs

The Track Hobby Shop and Raceway of Gaithersburg, Maryland hosted the East Coast KO Propo Off-Road Championship last weekend. In the premier 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Enzo Albertoni (Kyosho) with the overall TQ and he also went on to win the 6-minute A-main from Nathan Easter (Team Associated), who ended the race some 5.7s behind. Yokomo’s Jay Drakeford would come in 3rd, a lap down. In the 2WD 17.5T Buggy class Nathan Easter (Team Associated) took the TQ and he would lead the 6-minute main from tone to tone, taking a dominating win some two laps in front of Yokomo’s Kenny Kong as Team Associated’s Mike Sunderland completed the top 3 result in 3rd.

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February 12, 2019

Collin Weatherholt doubles at Winter Series Rd3

The third round of the Winter Series was held at The Ohio RC Factory track in Jeffersonville, Ohio this past weekend. The event attracted nearly 110 entries for the 1/8th off-road and 1/10th SCT classes and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Collin Weatherholt with the TQ and also the win in the 20-minute A-main, leaving behind Brandon Hogan in 2nd by a 12-seconds margin. Scott Kuchler would round out the podium a lap down.

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February 12, 2019

Dustin Evans sweeps Rumble in the Rockies

The annual Rumble in the Rockies race was held at MHOR RC Raceway in Aurora, Colorado this past weekend. The race attracted some of the region’s fastest electric off-road racers and in the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod classes it was Team Associated’s Dustin Evans who would lead the way, taking the TQs and wins in both categories. The 2WD Mod podium saw Xray’s Zac Gastelum finishing in 2nd and TLR’s Tyler Whitt coming in 3rd while Zeke Ballinger (TLR) and Andrew Kurtchi (TLR) completed the 4WD Mod Buggy top 3.

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February 12, 2019

Basile Concialdi wins at Brieuc Indoor Grand Prix

Last weekend’s Saint Brieuc International Indoor Grand Prix not only was held in 1/8th scale but also a 1/10th 200mm class. The special conditions of an indoor nitro track required some unusual adjustments and it was Shepherd’s Basile Concialdi who quickly found a good setup to win the opening qualifier ahead of Kévin Rasquin who came back to win Q2. Basile got it all together to win the the third and final round, improving Kevin’s time by over two seconds. In the half-hour long final Basile, despite the ever increasingly difficult track conditions, pulled a gap and took a strong win in front of Capricorn’s Thomas Guillon and Xray’s Anthony Stephan who completed the podium.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

February 11, 2019

Felix Law TQs & wins at FSEARA Rd3

The 3rd round of the FSEARA on-road series made its way to Nugget’s Ranch Raceway in Arcadia, Florida. The 1/8th and 1/10th scale track is a permanent facility that provided some amazing speeds and close racing. The second biggest class this weekend was Expert Mod Touring and once again had some close racing throughout qualifying. Felix Law (Serpent) and Dave Vera traded TQs every round, but it was Felix who put down a blistering run in the 3rd and final round for the overall TQ. Team Associated’s Paul Wynn put together his best run in the third round to edge out Dave for 2nd overall. The 6-minute main would see a dominated performance by Felix as he would lead tone to tone with a flawless drive. Dave showed great pace, but had to show some patients behind Paul for the first few laps before getting around him and going on to a comfortable 2nd overall. Paul sitting about three seconds back in 3rd had an unexpected traction roll at the end of the straight with one lap to go giving up the position to Monti Panzia (Awesomatix) for 3rd overall.

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February 11, 2019

Dave Johnson sweeps Snowbird Nationals

The 2019 Snowbird Nationals was held in Orlando, Florida recently. In USGT 21.5, Dave Johnson would set the early pace and go on to reset TQ in every round and he also came out on top in the single 5-minute A-main and in front of Chris Vogan 2nd and Jared Mowery 3rd. In Touring Stock Can-Am, it would be Johnson again setting the pace and claiming the TQ in Q4. In the main final, Dave brought home a narrow win, only some 0.18s in front of Eric Anderson. Sal Amato came in 3rd a lap down.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

February 11, 2019

Winter Jumps Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series was held at the Äänekoski indoor track located near Jyväskylä. The permanent indoor track features a full-size off-road track and an even bigger on-road track with the slippery surface making for a narrow driving line. Saturday was 2WD day and straight from the start it was evident that the fight for the win was on between three drivers: Joona Haatanen, Pekko Iivonen and local rising star Jamiel Gabrielsson. With Joona having problems in the first qualifying it was Jamiel who started with a TQ with Pekko and Lauri Ruotsalainen in 2nd and 3rd respectively. From the second round Joona took charge of the qualifying, winning the next three rounds to claim the overall TQ in front of Jamiel in 2nd, Pekko in 3rd, Konsta Saarinen in 4th, Lauri in 5th and Mikko Luopajärvi in 6th.

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February 11, 2019

Maximum points haul for Coelho at ETS Daun

Having opened his title defence with a 6th place in Austria, Bruno Coelho made amends for the disappointing result by taking maximum championship points this weekend from the second round of the Euro Touring Series in Daun, Germany. Winner of the same event last year, the Xray driver again secured the overall TQ and despite the best efforts of a very on form Freddy Sudhoff wrapped up the overall win in A2. Sudhoff would secure 2nd overall with the win in A3 ahead of Christopher Krapp who avoided a first lap pile up – 2nd place promoting the Yokomo driver to fourth overall. The incident was triggered by Ronald Volker making contact with Alexander Hagberg and with them crossing the loop to 7th and 9th respectively it was Volker who completed the podium with his 3rd and 4th from the first two Mains. Coming into the weekend as the championship points leader, the 3rd place is enough for Volker to retain that lead – the advantage still 3-points but now over Coelho.

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