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April 8, 2013

Mark Lim double at NOOB series Rd2

Last weekend under sunny skies in Singapore, racers gathered for Round 2 of the NOOB Singapore Open Buggy Series held at RaceWorks Arena. This round saw the racers running on a freshly resurfaced track with a challenging new technical layout that would test everyone’s skills. In the 4WD class, Mark “BC” Lim set a blistering pace in his Durango DEX410v3 buggy to TQ the class ahead of Jericho and Png. However in leg 1 of the finals an early mistake by BC resulted in a popped turnbuckle which effectively took him out of the run. Tein, the winner of Round 1, drove a clean race to win Leg 1 after starting from 5th on the grid. Bouncing back from the poor performance in Leg 1, BC took take Leg 2 and 3 to emerge overall champion with Tein in 2nd spot and Jericho in 3rd.

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April 8, 2013

Boots & Hazlewood win EP Buggy & Truggy nats Rd1

HNMC hosted the first round of this years truggy and 1/8th EP buggy national championships with a healthy 96 drivers entered. The club had again made some improvements for this year new warm up benches shielded undercover pit area, and a new compressor for car cleaning. The Herts track team did an outstanding job to great the track in the condition for this event hats off to all that helped and Westmill Farm team. Qualifying in Truggy was dominated by TLR’s Darren Bloomfield wile it was all Kyosho’s Elliott Boots in EP Buggy. Elliott would go on to win all three legs in EP buggy with Karl Jackson taking 2nd and Simon Willetts 3rd. The truggy win would go to Agama’s Jon Hazlewood, following an early retirement by Bloomfield, with Jack Embling 2nd and Tommy Chung 3rd.

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April 6, 2013

Piotr Okonski joins LRP International team

LRP have announced that top Polish racer Piotr Okonski has joined their international race team. The 6-time Polish National Champion will run the complete line of LRP electronics including the Flow Works Team ESC, X20 Motors and Competition line of batteries in both his onroad an offroad cars. Piotr will compete this season in the National series as well as the majority of the ETS series and other major races.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

April 6, 2013

Sanford & Mitchell take Top Notch Series titles

The 2013 Top Notch Series just finished up this past weekend. The series would hit 7 different tracks over the past couple months to test Southern California’s best drivers. The championship for each class would be decided by using each drivers 4 best finishes out of 7. Kyosho Team Drivers Lucas Sanford and Josh Mitchell would attend each round of this series and together take home 4 Modified Championships. Lucas Sanford would go onto win the 2wd Modified Buggy and 1/8 Electric Buggy Championships, while Josh Mitchell would win the 4wd Modified Buggy and Modified Truck Championships.

View final standings here

April 5, 2013

Keven Hébert signs Associated/Reedy extension

Team Associated and Reedy are very happy to announce that Keven Hébert has signed a multi-year contract extension and will continue to race Team Associated’s TC6.1 Worlds, 12R5.2, and 10R5.1. Keven will now be using Reedy Sonic Mach 2 motors in all his vehicles and will continue using Reedy LiPo batteries and LRP Flow Works Team ESCs. Reedy department manager Rick Hohwart was happy to hear the news of the extension, saying, “Keven is one of the fastest drivers in the world and his input is highly valuable when it comes to developing new products. Not only is a he a great racer, but he is always willing to help fellow racers with questions and feedback regarding setups, gearing, etc.” Keven was excited about the signing, saying,

I am looking forward to continuing my racing career with AE/Reedy and working closely with the R&D department in the development of new and exciting products. I appreciate the opportunity and look forward to the remainder of 2013 and beyond.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

April 4, 2013

Shortcourse Showdown Tour Rd2 – Report

The second stop of the 2013 Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour took place at one of New England’s finest indoor racing facilities, the one and only R/C Excitement. Just under 200 entries consisting of some of the nation’s best short course racers gathered in the small town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts for some BIG time racing. Local racers including TLR’s Anthony Mazzara and Toddie Anderson set to do battle against “the travellers” consisting of TLR’s Matt Chambers, Team Associated’s Brian Kinwald, JConcept’s Dave Duncan, AKA’s Greg Hodapp, LiveRC’s Mike Garrison, and many others.

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April 4, 2013

Zdenko Kunak wins Czech Winter Champs

The Winter Czech National Championship was held in Rtyne v Podkrkonosi 150km North of Prague. The race format saw controlled practice on Friday, qualification on Saturday and finals on Sunday. Around 100 drivers attended in the several classes including touring car modified, 17.5T zero boost stock, GT, formula and hobby. 17 drivers in stock and 34 touring modified mixed up with some of the top Czech drivers makiing for close and competitive racing. In modified Zdenko Kunak started strong during the controlled practice and he also was on the top of the field in the stock class but he experienced pressure by Marek Cerny. Zdenko though struggled with setup as the hand out tyres been too old delivering virtually zero traction and side bite. After a slow start Zdenko was able to win the important last qualifying races taking TQ in both the stock and modified class. In the finals the race was still on between Zdenko and Marek and at the end it was Zdenko who took the modified class with Marek being successful in stock.

Source: Yokomo Europe [teamyokomo.eu]

April 4, 2013

2014 Snowbird Nationals – Announcement

The 20th annual Snowbird Nationals will be taking place January 28th to February 2nd, 2014, in Orlando, Florida. Complete hotel details will be posted soon. Last year was the largest turnout in several years so mark your calendars and plan your trip. More information can be found here.