Chris Cristo and John Cravotta dominated the modified truck class at the eighth running of the Gobbler Classic held by R/C Excitement in Fitchburg, MA with a total number of nearly 150 entries. Cristo drove the soon-to-be-released X Factory X–60CF to wins in both qualifiers and the A main, followed closely by John Cravotta with an original X–60.
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The annual U.S. Indoor Championships in Cleveland is a premier road racing event for 1/12th and 1/10th pan cars and touring cars. For over 30 years, the ‘Champs’ has created many exciting finishes and fond memories. For 2012, there were big changes to the schedule and a new venue. For the first time in 25 years, racers would no longer travel to the Holiday Inn in Independence, OH, instead the new location for the race was the Holiday Inn in Strongsville, Ohio. Also new this year, no car would hit the track on Thanksgiving day, making it a shorter more affordable race.
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The 2nd round of the Norwegian national indoor series was held in Gjovik last weekend. All of the best modified drivers in Norway were attending the race which increased the level of the race and made it even tougher to make the A-main, and also making it harder to make the podium. After qualifying it was Adrian Berntsen who took the TQ spot being the only driver to make a 30 lap run. In second was Tom Erik Haaversen, while Petter Berntsen took the 3rd spot. The gap between Tom Erik and Petter was 0.142 seconds. In the first two finals it was Adrian who could take two easy wins and claimed the 1st place overall. Talented Oskar A. Fjeld drove two impressive finals battling both with Petter and Tom Erik to take the 2nd place in both of the two first finals. Petter Berntsen took 3rd in the first final, while the newly crowned 1:10 2wd buggy Norwegian Champion Niklas Bjørkå-Roos took 3rd place in the 2nd final. In the last final Adrian was having a safe lead, but after rolling on the curb in the last minute, Petter was able to overtake the lead and in the end finished right ahead of Adrian, taking an important win in the last final to take the 2nd place overall from Oskar.
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Last weekend the 2012 Winter 1/10 Off-Road Czech National race took place and Martin Bayer was present with his new Xray XB4. The club prepared a really nice track for this event and there was around 100 drivers attending. With virtually no practice we directly went to qualification heats. In the first qualification Bayer made an easy win but made a mistake in the second run, crashed by lapped traffic. Winning the third qualification Martin secured the overal TQ for main the final. With just some minor changes to the car in the final it was an easy win for the XB4 with 2 laps ahead of the Jiri Mara, with Kaja Novotny in 3rd.
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The second round of the Danish Nationals was held at LFRC, a new club in Denmark with a brand new track. Saturday practice started and the track had not so much grip at the start, but the traction was building up quickly and the lap times got better. On Sunday when the race got underway it was soon obvious that it would be a close battle between Mike Goswig and Martin Lissau. After qualification Lissau would take TQ with the only 26 laps run, about a second in front of Mike. The first two finals showed great racing between Mike and Martin and although there were a number of touches there was great sportsmanship shown. Lissau would win all three but only after some close racing with Gosvig in 2nd and and Patrick Folman 3rd.
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Yatabe Arena in Japan played host to their Asia On Road and Off Road Championships this past weekend and the event attracted some international drivers in both classes with the likes of Volker, Rheinard, Groskamp, Levanen & Jasmin attending the TC race while Meen V and Charlee made the trip to take part in the Buggy race. Qualifying for the touring car race saw Ronald Volker dominate qualifying ahead of Yokomo team mate Naoto Matsukura in 2nd, while Marc Rheinard would end up in 3rd. In the final it was more of the same from Volker who won the first two legs of the A-main to secure the win while Naoto took the Leg 3 win to take the runner up spot ahead of Rheinard. Current World Champion Groskamp would recover from a 7th place on the grid to take 4th overall.
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SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, AZ hosted the 27th annual Arizona State Championships. A fresh layout was built and a highly prepared surface made for one of the best State races in recent memory. 170 entries came out to compete at one of the largest 2-day state championship events ever at SRS. With the green inspired JConcepts Events T-shirts on-hand the spirit was great in the pit area and everyone was ready to race on the famous high-bite dirt.
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Horizon Hobby UK’s David Spashett continued his dominant start to the 2012/13 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals by winning both the stock and modified classes at round 2 of the championship. David looked to be in imperious form and cruised to TQ in the 10.5 blinky stock class on Saturday driving a chassis that he has had designed and manufactured himself using Associated suspension parts. At times the Serpent S120 LTX of Chris Kerswell looked like mounting a serious challenge, but despite showing good pace Chris was unable to topple David from the top spot. Mick Farrell was driving the new CRC Xti for the first time at this event and lined up 3rd on the grid ahead of the Associated of Matt White and Mark Stiles, also driving a CRC Xti. Mark looked to have 3rd in the bag during the last qualifier but a late tangle with a back marker dropped him to 5th in the qualifying list.
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