November 6, 2012

Due & Numedahl win Spektrum Offroad Champs

Each year Scotty Ernst Productions along with the famous Spektrum radio system brand bond together for an incredible event. 326 entries made up one of the best events to date as Scotty moved through the races as only the he can. The modified classes were once again hotly contested and Team Associated / JConcepts drivers Chad Due and Kody Numedahl were at the top of the field each round during qualifying. With the grippy JConcepts blue compound Bar Codes providing the traction, some of the best drivers in the business battled for 4 rounds of qualifying.

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November 6, 2012

Oliver Scholz wins 2wd at Indoor Dirt Race

Last weekend the Edling Model Club close to Munich hosted its 3rd annual Indoor Dirt Race, which attracted over 160 Drivers from Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Germany. The 2WD Mod class had the most entries with 79 drivers. Absima TeamC Team driver and current 2WD German Champion Oliver Scholz used the brand new TeamC 2WD mid motor Prototype which he received one day before the race. It was used at the EOS race the previous week-end by the Team. Oliver could immediately adapt to the Buggy and was Super fast from the first practice session and leading by 2 sec on three consecutive fast laps on Friday. In Qualifying he then dominated the field by winning 3 out of 4 and setting TQ pace. Oliver finished his perfect race weekend by winning all three finals ahead of Kyosho’s Chrissi Krapp and Durango driver Benni Gröschel. With blistering lap times and overall race Time Oliver could have also won the 4WD event with his 2WD.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

November 4, 2012

EFRA releases 2013 race calendar

EFRA releases 2012 race calendar

Following this weekend’s EFRA AGM in Brussels, the European governing body have finalised the dates for next year’s European Championships. A busy summer season with 3 ‘B’ championships, a 1/8th flat chassis Euros and 2 40+ titles along with the usual ‘A’ titles up for grabs. Other noteworthy items from the meeting all surround the 1/8th and 1/10th 200mm gas on road classes, where from 2013 all ECs in theses classes will be run using a controlled tire – one brand, one diameter and one hardness, to be handed to the driver as they go to the track. Full AGM details can be found here.

March 6-10 – 1/12th scale Euros – Oulu, Finland
May 20-25 – 1/8th on road ‘B’ Euros – Aigen/Schlägl, Austria
June 3-8 – 1/10th on road ‘B’ Euros – Gubbio, Italy
June 3-8 – 1/8th off road ‘B’ Euros – Sicily, Italy
June 8-13 – 1/8th on road Flat chassis Euros – Avignon, France
July 8-13 – 1/8th off road ‘A’ Euros – Reims, France
July 15-20 – 1/10th EP off road Euros – Valladolid, Spain
July 22-27 – 1/8th on road ‘A’ Euros – Halifax, UK
August 2-4 – 1/10th EP on road Euros – Torres Novas, Portugal
August 12-17 – 1/10th on road ‘A’ Euros – Kirchberg, Austria
September 13-15 – 1/8th off road 40+ Euros – Bistensee, Germany
September 16-21 – 1/8th & 1/10th on road 40+ Euros – La Turble, Monaco

View the full calendar here (PDF).

October 30, 2012

Mibosport Cup report

The first of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup attracted over 130 drivers from 6 countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Bayer, Rene Klockner, Dominic Vogl, René Trauner, Martin Hudy and Zdenko Kunák. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 40 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunák, René Klockner and Dominic Vogl. In the final Martin Hudy was able to secure the top position on the podium followed by Zdenko Kunák and René Klockner.

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October 29, 2012

Hartson & Motter win at JBRL series finale

This year’s eights and final round of the Electric JBRL was held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, CA. There were two rounds of rocket-round qualifying and one 6-minute main event, all run on Saturday. Racers showed up on Friday to get some practice for the racing on Saturday. As always, there was a good number of racers getting in some laps. The track layout was the same from the Reedy Truck Race a few weeks before and had good flow and great traction for how early in the event it was. Saturday morning brought overcast skies and slightly colder temperatures than the practice day before. But the weather didn’t seem to hamper the traction or racing. It looked to be another great day of racing if the rain managed to stay away. In the Truck Modified and 2WD Modified classes, Steven Hartson started second behind Mike Truhe. A patient Hartson shadowed Truhe for the entire Truck Modified main event only to finish a few tenths of a second behind at the finish line. In 2WD Modified, Hartson got around Truhe on the first lap and never looked back. The Team Associated driver lapped almost the entire field on route to a dominant performance.

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October 28, 2012

Evans wins Short Course ending Durango’s reign

Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans brought Durango’s domination of the 4WD Short Course class in the Euro Offroad Series to an exciting end as he claimed the overall win in the third and final A-Main at the 2012/13 season opener in Poznan, Poland, ahead of defending champion Joern Neumann.  Having won the class at the EOS pilot race in Sweden and all three rounds of the inaugural season of the series, the first sign that Team Durango’s reign was under treat came in qualifying when Evans used his Losi Ten-SCTE to TQ qualifying.  Predicted to be the best racing of the day the small grid of trucks didn’t disappoint with an epic battle in the first A-Main which saw Evans Orion powered truck take the win in a drag race to the finish line with Neumann, the American doing just enough to snatch the win from the German who had led the previous 9 laps.

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October 28, 2012

Neumann takes easy EOS 4WD Buggy Victory

Having claimed victory in 2WD Buggy earlier in the day, Joern Neumann made it a buggy double at the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series in Poland as he also secured an early overall win in 4WD. In a class of his own in 4WD, none of rivals could come even close to challenging the reigning champion.

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October 28, 2012

Neumann wraps up 2WD as Evans loses Leg 2 win

Joern Neumann has wrapped up the overall win in 2WD Buggy at the opening round of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby. The German was declared winner of the second A-Main following an incident on the penultimate lap when original race winner Dustin Evans was deemed to have not waited appropriately following an incident coming off the table top on to the main straight.  Evans had taken the win by 7/100th from Neumann but on reviewing video footage of the race the American was demoted to second with the Top Qualifier declared the winner handing him the overall win.

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