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May 3, 2012

Gillespie leads Associated April Fools Classic haul

For the 24th year in a row, racers gathered at the historic Intermountain R/C Raceway just outside of Salt Lake City, UT and this year the entry count was over 200 for the smooth indoor clay surface race. Qualifying started Friday afternoon and ended Saturday night, with Mains on Sunday. Mod classes included 2WD Buggy, Stadium Truck, 4WD Buggy, and 4×4 Short Course. Team Associated/Reedy/LRP driver Rob Gillespie Jr. made a bold statement in qualifying, earning TQ in all three classes he entered, Mod Buggy, Mod Truck, and Mod 4WD. The hometown driver seemed to be very comfortable on the track with his Pro-Line-equipped Team Associated vehicles all weekend long. Adrian Redding went on to earn the last TQ spot in the 4×4 Short Course field with his Factory Team SC10 4×4.

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May 2, 2012

Hartson & Numan win JConcepts Stock Nats

This year OC/RC Raceway played host to the 1st Annual Stock Nationals in Huntington Beach, California. With four rounds of qualifying on Saturday using qual points and two out of four rounds counting, an emphasis was placed on consistency. On Sunday, the event continued with the running of the lower main events with the top two drivers bumping up to the next highest main event. The Sportsman classes would use a triple A-Main format, while the expert classes were one single 10-minute main.

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May 2, 2012

Jacky Siow wins MBA Cup 2012

The Minyak Beku Agrotourism Cup, an annual event held at the sea side resort in the southern part of Malaysia has attracted some of the best racers from Malaysia and Singapore, resulting in more than 50 racers participating in the 10.5T boosted class. The first round of qualifying saw Jacky Siow from Team Orca Asia taking the preliminary TQ spot with the fastest lap time of 12.281sec and completing 24 laps in 5:00.937. Michael Lo also from Team Orca Asia achieving 24 laps 5:02.352, with a fastest lap time of 12.291sec and Siow WoonFong achieving 24 laps 5:04.489 coming in 3rd.

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May 1, 2012

RCI hosts successful Horizon Hobby China Cup

On May 1st, a public holiday in China, RCI hosted the first ever Horizon Hobby Cup with the offroad event attracting an encouraging 55 entries to the impressive indoor facility situated in the Shanghai suburbs. Also housing an asphalt track which is set to host a round of the upcoming Asian Touring Series, the venue was the perfect stage for Horizon Hobby China to interact with racers in a sport that is still very much in the early stages of development in this potentially huge market.

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May 1, 2012

Lemieux to contest ETS Apeldoorn

Xray have confirmed that American Touring Car ace Paul Lemieux will contest the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series over the weekend of June 1-3 at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Having made annual appearances in three of the four previous seasons of the world famous electric touring car series, this will be the US National Champion’s fourth time to race in the ETS but will be the Wisconsin driver’s first experience of the Apeldoorn venue which is rated by many top drivers as one of Europe’s greatest race tracks. The RC America/Thunder Power backed driver will join factory Xray drivers Alexander Hagberg and Martin Hudy at the fifth round as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to build on their maiden victory in the Ride Modified class at Round 4 in Poland that has moved Hagberg into contention for the overall 2011/12 ETS Championship title.

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April 30, 2012

Brunei PEMKAR series Rd1 report

Last weekend saw the first round of the Brunei PEMKAR series race held in an indoor hall in the capitol of Brunei. The series races is the most popular in this region and attracted some 40 drivers in three classes. The Mod Open class was TQ’ed by Wirawan in front of Hazmi and Zaman. In the finals, Wirawan was crowned the early winner after being successful in leg 1 and 2. 2nd place went to Hazmi and 3rd place went to Khai.

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April 29, 2012

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian TC Nationals Rd2

Round two of the Belgian touring car nationals took place at indoor track of Lovanrc in the town of Zarren. The EFRA class was dominated by Thomas Stockman for the first two qualifiers but at the end it was Olivier Bultynck who took TQ followed by Thomas and Nick Joosens in third. The first A final saw a four minute battle for the win between Olivier and Thomas, who kept all spectators in suspense until Thomas made a small mistake giving Olivier the chance to pull away. Oliver was able to keep his pace and took the victory with Thomas came in second. Nick Joosens secured the third place.

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April 26, 2012

Drake wins 1/8th BL at 2012 Silver State

TLR, Pro-Line and Tekin driver Adam Drake took TQ and 1st in the Expert 1/8 Electric Buggy class at the Silver State Nitro Challenge in Boulder City, NV. The 10 minute final saw an amazing battle between Drake, Kortz, Moller, Lutz, and Wernimont. In the final Drake and Kortz exchanged the lead multiple times in the closing laps, but Kortz made a mistake on the final lap that allowed Wernimont to take second place. Drake came home with the victory followed by Wernimont and Kortz in third.

Many thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.