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September 12, 2012

Hobby Haven Off-road Shootout report

JConcepts Team Driver Dave Duncan made the trip from Florida to Urbandale, Iowa for the 2012 Hobby Haven Off-road Shootout annual race. The track, a black dirt surface, is built next to the Hobby Shop building with a nice large concrete parking lot to pit on right next to the track. The track crew was awesome with the keep up, track watering, blowing the track off and/or just using a push broom in the corners to remove the fluff off the driving surface.

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September 11, 2012

Orlowski & Okonski take Polish offroad titles

Last weekend saw the Polish 1:10 Electric Buggy championship organized by Polish Model Car Federation take place in Warsaw. The biggest off-road event in the season in Poland attracted more than 40 drivers in both 2WD and 4WD classes. The 2 days event was organized in a comfortable format for the drivers and mechanics with half a day 2WD and half a day 4WD which allowed many drivers to race in both classes.

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September 11, 2012

Hudy Racing Arena joins as host of ETS finale

The schedule for the sixth season of the Euro Touring Series has been finalised with the exciting news that the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia will open its doors to its first international race meeting by hosting the season finale of the world famous electric touring car championship next Summer. The official test track of reigning ETS Pro-Stock Champions Xray, Round 6 of the upcoming season is scheduled as an outdoor event but should the local weather give rain for the July 19-21st date the state of the art facility can quickly switch to an indoor event ensuring racers who make the trip to the historical city of Trenčín will still get to race no matter what the weather. The other big announcement for the new season is that Modified champions Yokomo will continue as title sponsor for a third consecutive season with the series to continue to be officially known as the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.

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September 11, 2012

Oliver Scholz wins German 2wd offroad title

The 2WD modified & stock Off-Road German Championships took place last weekend. In 2WD modified Absima TeamC team driver Oliver Scholz showed excellent performance throughout the entire race weekend with his TeamC TC02C 2WD buggy. After 5 rounds of qualifying Oliver set the TQ pace and would start the A Finals from the number 1 spot. With a perfect start to finish run in A Final leg 1 Oliver also could wrap up the title in Leg 2. In Leg 2 he lost his position on the first lap but impressively closed the gap to the race leader Joern Neumann whom he passed half way through the race and went on to extend the lead to win by 5 seconds ahead of Joern and wrap up the overall title.

Source: TeamC [teamcracing.net]

September 10, 2012

Hellquist, Fransson & Wilck take Swedish titles

The Swedish Nationals for 1/10 EP, GP and 1/8 GP cars was held at the beautiful Väst-8 facilities in Gothenburg, Sweden. Over 80 entries from Sweden, Norway and Denmark had made their way to this race. Most racers arrived already on Friday to get some track time before racing started on Saturday morning. Cool and windy conditions on Saturday made track conditions a bit unpredictable, but in the end, some very quick lap times were put in. In 1/10 GP, Mikael Fransson (Serpent/Orcan) was TQ in front of Alexander Hagberg (Xray/Orcan), followed by Norwegian Capricorn driver Adrian Berntsen and the Swedish Serpent/OS driver Per-Ola Hård. In the 1/8 class it was the very fast Niklas Johansson from Stockholm who set the TQ time with his Xray/Orcan combo. He was followed by Mikael Fransson, Marcus Lindner, both racing Serpent cars, and Magnus Bengtsson, running a Mugen, which were all within the top 4 and directly qualified for the main final on Sunday.

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September 8, 2012

Jimmy Maddison joins Team AME & ORCA

Having just signed to race for Awesomatix, multiple British champion and 2008 DHI cup winner Jimmy Maddison has joined Team AME and ORCA. “Jimmy is not only a fast racer but also a great ambassador for AME and ORCA” said Andreas Myrberg “and we wish him the best of luck and fun at the upcoming indoor season.” Jimmy had this to say:

Joining Team AME/ORCA feels great working alongside some of the best drivers in the world and helping develop the fantastic range of growing products will be amazing, I would just like to thank Andreas from AME for this opportunity and one which I will grasp with both hands. I will be using the full line of ORCA products to power my car and I will do my best to bring ORCA to the UK through and with Team AME.

Source: Team AME [team-ame.com]

September 7, 2012

LRP-HPI-Challenge Final 2012 – Report

The 13th edition of the LRP-HPI-Challenge final took place at the Hamm track near Dortmund in Germany at what appeared to be the hottest weekend this Summer. With 187 of a total of 1328 drivers during the 2012 season everything was set for a challenging weekend. Used for the first time at the LRP-HPI-Challenge final was the LRP SXX Upgrade-Kit for generation 1 and 2 controllers. The upgraded BEC system and improved brake controllability helped Oliver Franke and Jan Asmer achieve a win and a second place overall in the Stock Challenge class.

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September 7, 2012

Rug Racers 2012/13 – Announcement

The organisers of the popular Rug Racers series have announced their 2012/13 championship with the series getting underway on Sunday October 7th at the superb Woodson Park venue. A donation from the first round will go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital so they are looking for as many racers as possible to come along. Sign up is now open and the dates for the monthly rounds from November through to March, can also be seen on the Central Booking website. This year, top class touring car racing in 13.5T and 17.5T will be joined by a Mardave National championship and a focus on junior racers.

Source: Hertford Racing [hertfordracing.co.uk]