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June 12, 2013

Truhe & Drake win at JBRL Rd3

For the third round of the JBRL Nitro Series Jimmy Babcock and the gang loaded up their equipment and headed to Revelation Raceway in Ontario, California. The Revelation Raceway has always been one of the most well know tracks in the area with the largest club race attendances. The track is home to many of the best nitro drivers in the area and people such as TLR’s and Pro-Line’s Mike True and Adam Drake can be found here club racing almost weekly when they are not traveling the world racing their cars. In the Expert Buggy Class Pro-Line’s Mike Truhe took the win with Pro-Line team mate Sean Gaffney taking the third spot on the box. Second place went to Agama’s Andrew Smolnik. In the Expert E Buggy Class Mike True did it again followed by TLR team mate Adam Drake. Wrapping up the third big class of the day was Adam Drake who took the top spot on the box in Expert Truggy followed by Drew Moller and Andrew Smolnik.

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June 12, 2013

Otto Ausfelt wins 4WD buggy at Nordic Champs

Otto Ausfelt wins at Nordic Champs

The Nordic championship for 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggies was held under the best possible weather conditions and saw TLR’s Otto Ausfelt setting the fastest practice times in the 4WD class. In the qualifiers though Xray’s Kennie Ekenstierna was able to win three out of the four rounds and he therefore took TQ after some close battles with Otto. The finals again had some close racing to offer with Kennie winning the first A final some seven seconds clear of Otto Ausfelt. The second A final went to Christoffer Svensson who came in third in A1. He had Kennie and Otto in tow. This meant the final A main would be the decider of the day as Christoffer, Kennie and Otto all had the chance to climb on the highest step on the podium and at the end Otto was able to take home the win ahead of Kennie and Christoffer. With both Otto and Kennie having one win each and second best for both was a second place it came down to looking at who had the quickest win heat – which was Otto handing him the overall in win the 4WD class.

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June 12, 2013

Austria crucial to Tamiya’s ETS title hopes

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series reaches a crucial stage this weekend (June 14-16) in terms of the title chase between Yokomo and Tamiya as Traiskirchen in Austria hosts the penultimate round of the World famous electric touring car championship. While defending champion Ronald Volker leads the current Ride Modified standings from Yokomo team-mate Yannic Prumper, a recent upsurge in the performance from the Tamiya Racing Factory team that yielded victories at the last two rounds has put their two drivers back into contention for the prestigious crown. However the pressure is on Marc Rheinard and Viktor Wilck to continue that form this weekend if they want to go to the season finale at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia in July with a chance of the title.

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June 11, 2013

2013 Much More Masters – Report

The 2013 MuchMore Masters was run over three days at the SMA club in NSW. Once again SMA presented an awesome track that seems to be getting better and better every time. Open practice of the Stock class on Friday started slow, with rain the night before creating a cold low grip surface. The early runs were spent tuning the motor and ESC for the upcoming power battle in 17.5 boosted that would follow, the cooler temps allowing everyone to push the motors hard. In the afternoon the track warmed up and the grip came up with it. The teams spent quite a bit of time testing out different ideas for preparation with the new MuchMore Rush tyres that we would be using for the event. These tyres were new for Australia and were under a lot of pressure to do well.

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June 11, 2013

Tim Altmann wins RC LeMans Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the RC LeMans Series took place at the AMC Hamm track in Germany. After a rainy Spring in Germany and to the surprise of all 28 Pro10 driver the sun came out and greeted all contenders with wonderful racing weather. After the qualifiers Sven Stoffels took TQ closely followed by Tobias Weist who was able to set a new track record with 15.4s but he ran out of battery at the end of his run. The third position went to Rene Fischer and the top 4 was completed by Tim Altmann. And it was that certain Tim who was able to win the finals from 4th position leaving Rene Fischer and Sven Stoffels in second and third position. The win in the B final went to Peter Plümacher with Ullrich Steinkau taking the C final. The fastest youngsters was Alexander Steinkau in 12th Position.

Thanks to Frank Büsener for sending the report.

June 10, 2013

Renaud Savoya doubles at French buggy nats Rd4

The MCCD Dammartin club was the host of the 4th round of the French electric off-road nationals. The race saw 110 entries and was run on a high grip track near Paris. In 2WD Xray’s Renaud Savoya qualified in the top position chased by Team Associated’s Yannick Aigoin and Stéphane Deroch. In the 4WD class it was again Renaud who took the overall TQ but he was chased by his team mate Lorenzo Crolla, who TQ’d the final qualifier, and Rayan Medjoubi. Come Sunday the race had to be cancelled due to excessive rain meaning the qualifying results were taken as final results handing Renaud the win in both classes.

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June 9, 2013

Ty Tessmann double at 1/10th Pre Worlds

The 1/10th Offroad Pre Worlds was run this week at the Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California. Crazy heat and sugared track conditions meant the drivers had a lot to contend with throughout the event. Having found the track to be very low on traction on the first day of practice, the decision was made to coat the surface with sugar, something that is regularly done at the Cactus Classic event each year. It helps race traction and minimizes the work needing to be done to maintain it, however some teams were against its application. The negative however is that it is very hard on tires as well as parts and has so much traction that drivers in 2wd mostly need to switch to mid motor cars. With all that said the conditions were consistent from the 2nd practice day through to the finals. Qualifying would see reigning World Champion Ryan Cavalieri take the top spot in 2wd ahead of reigning 1/8th National Champion Ty Tessmann in 2nd and former World Champion Neil Cragg in 3rd. In the 4wd class Ty would take the top spot ahead of Cactus Classic Champion Ryan Maifield in 2nd and Associated team mate Cavalieri in 3rd.

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June 6, 2013

Ar Bee wins at 2013 PMTC race

The PMTC 2013 electric on-road race was held in Shenzhen, China over the course of three days in F1, TC 13.5T and TC Modified classes and saw the attendance of more than 100 driver from China and Hong Kong. Hong Kong Yokomo’s Jacky took TQ in the modified class with a Yokomo BD7 but at the end of the finals it was Spec-R’s Ar Bee won the class with the Spec-R R1. Second place went to HoFai running a Serpent S411 with Patrick taking the last remaining podium spot with a Yokomo BD7.

Source: Spec-R [spec-r.com]