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April 20, 2013

JConcepts Spring Indoor Nats underway in Dallas

Round 2 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series got underway in Dallas, Texas, today with drivers taking advantage of a day of open practice at Mike’s Hobby Shop which plays host to the ‘Spring Indoor Nationals’ for a second year at its impressive and extremely large facility. With entries up on last year, the event has also attracted a much more competitive field setting the stage for an exciting weekend of racing which is set to get underway properly tomorrow with the first of three rounds of qualifying.

View our complete event coverage here.

April 18, 2013

2013 JConcepts Clash – Announcement

For 2013 the JConcepts Clash returns Indoors to the Flowood Indoor R/C park in Flowood, Mississippi, on the weekend of September 6-8, 2013. A large building and track operated by super promoter Bubba Barham equals big-time Clash action. The 7th annual event will take place on a newly built indoor race course at the Flowood R/C park and will be specifically built for this annual event. Racers such as Ryan Maifield, Ryan Cavalieri, Jared Tebo, Dustin Evans, Lee Martin, JR Mitch, Steven Hartson, Tanner Denney, Brent Thielke, Jorn Neumann, Hupo Honigl, Barry Pettit, Billy Easton, Ryan Eckert, Jason Ruona and Paul Wynn have always made racing fast and exciting at the Clash throughout the years. For the 7th annual event, it’s indoors and the competition should be more fierce than ever. Find more information on the event’s site by clicking here.

April 18, 2013

Baker & Olson win at JBRL Rd2

San Diego RC Raceway played host to the JBRL Round 2 this past weekend. A brand new track layout was put in and made the race an even playing field for all and Tekno RC made their presence known. In the 1/8 buggy class, the Tekno RC EB48 swept the podium and 4th place. Barry Baker finished 1st, followed by Pres Ilog in 2nd, Josh Bertrand in 3rd, and Chad Panek in 4th. In the Pro4 Short Course class Tekno RC again dominated the podium. Matthew Olson from MIP running Tekno RC driveshafts came in 1st place followed by Tekno RC’s Barry Baker and Chad Panek to round out the top 3 spots. Rudy Rico and his SCT410 would finish in 5th place. There were more SCT410’s in the top 5 and in the A Main than any other truck.

View the Pro4 podium here

April 18, 2013

Win for Bloomfield at BRCA 2wd Nats Rd1

Vampire Racing’s Darren Bloomfield was on fire at the recent first round of the 2013 BRCA electric off-road nationals. He TQ’d the rain affected 2WD race on Saturday with his Vampire Racing-powered TLR 22 buggy. Darren was able to take a clean win in A final one and two handing him the day’s win in front of Schumacher Racing’s Simon Moss and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. Darren used Vampire Racing’s new Type AB+ V2 brushless motors, the SR1+ speed controller and Vampire Racing’s latest 2013 spec LiPo batteries to win in style.

Source: Vampire [vampire-racing.com]

April 16, 2013

Yannick Aigoin double at French EP Nats Rd2

Last weekend the LVDM Club organised the 2nd round of the French 1/10th EP buggy nationals. In the 2wd class it would be Associated/Orion driver Yannick Aigoin that would take the overall victory, with wins in the first 2 legs to take home the victory ahead of Antoine Rossetti in 2nd for Durango and Alexandre Desbrosses 3rd for X-Factory. In the 4wd class Yannick would TQ and win again to complete the perfect weekend ahead of Xray driver Lorenzo Crolla in 2nd and Antoine Rossetti in 3rd.

View the 4wd podium here

April 16, 2013

Andy Moore wins Gloucester Quays Grand Prix

Organised by the touring car section of the BRCA the Gloucester Quays Grand Prix took place at the weekend and saw victory in the race of champions section for Hot Bodies driver Andy Moore. The grand prix was held in a shopping centre and due to its high profile nature promoting the sport was a high priority, the BRCA offered the public the opportunity on the hour to drive Schumacher Superstox and the event received massive media coverage.On track the Reedy style race saw some close racing but from early on it was clear the title would be between Andy Moore and Associated team driver Olly Jefferies. Olly took TQ with his TC6.1 and the top thirty two qualifiers were split off for the remaining touring car drivers to contest the race of champions.

Continue reading the report here

April 16, 2013

Marek Cerny joins Xray factory team

Xray have announced the signing of top stock touring car driver Marek Cerny to their factory racing team. Marek has been racing the Xray as a private driver and with the astonishing and constantly improving race results they have rewarded him to join the official Xray factory racing team. Marek had this to say:

I am very lucky and happy to join the Xray factory racing team – the professionalism, dedication and working atmosphere are second to none. I have raced the Xray T3 and T4 already for last two years and both performance and reliability are just perfect for me and recently allowed me to win in some very highly competitive races such as ETS or nationals. I would like to thanks especially to Martin Hudy for all his advices, support and trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 15, 2013

Lemieux & Hebert win Mile High Indoor Champs

This past weekend some of the best on-road drivers in North America met at 5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado for the second annual Mile High Indoor Championships. Multiple time national champions Paul Lemieux, Keven Hebert, Rick Hohwart, Josh Cyrul, and world champion Ralph Burch to name a few were on hand to test their skills in both modified touring car and modified 1/12th scale. Paul Lemieux was able to control the pace in modified touring car not only setting an untouchable 32 lap pace to TQ, but also all brought home the win for Xray and RC America. Keven Hebert of Team Associated had the field on lock down in modified 1/12th scale with a TQ and the win. Recently Crowned ROAR National Champion Randy Grosse brought home the win in WGT. Drew Ellis of RC America took the TQ and overall win in 13.5 touring car with his Xray T4. Team driver Mike Haynes was able to TQ and win 13.5 1/12th scale. Joe Trandell was able to take the win in stock 1/12th scale with a very competitive battle in A3 over Mitch Witteman who TQ’d the class. Bill Sydor was able to TQ and win Stock Sedan and Brent Klingforth brought home the win in VTA.

View the other final podiums here