Current British Champion Lee Martin has topped 4WD Buggy in official practice for the second round of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series. The Tamiya Racing Factory driver set the fastest three consecutive laps at the Black Country Arena in Belgium, ahead of the Schumacher of fellow Brit Tom Cockerill and series leader Joern Neumann.
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Despite having never before seen an astro turf track until he arrived in Belgium yesterday, US Champion Dustin Evans has topped 2WD Buggy practice at the second round of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby. The factory TLR driver was the surprise of the four rounds of practice as he ran the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of Tamiya’s Lee Martin and Schumacher’s Tom Cockerill, both of whom have plenty of experience on astro turf.
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TOP Racing are currently working on a Rebel F-1 prototype that was tested during the KRC track opening race in Shenzhen/China. Penny Yip TQ’d and won the F-1 class followed by Frank Ng. TOP will now make use of the experience gained at the race and make further design refinements to the vehicle. Based on the final testing in Japan, TOP may release it for production.
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The RC organisation of Brunei, PEMKAR, recently held an electric on-road race in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. The annual race marks the start of racing season in this region. The venue for this year’s race was the Youth Center Hall that had an indoor carpet track laid out. Some 50 racers joined the race in four classes. The premier class was the Open modified touring car that saw attracted the most racers. The other classes were novice touring car, M-type chassis and Drift. Spec Sweep 32 QTS tyres were used for both touring car classes as well as spec Hobbywing Justock 11.5T combos for the novice TC class.
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The 2012 Chi-Town Shootout was held this past weekend at Leisure Hours Raceway. Top drivers were in attendance from all over the country making for some great racing and a combined 340 entries made this event a record breaking year. In the 2wd Modified Buggy class, Chad Due started 5th but it wasn’t long before he was well in contention. At the start of the A-main event, Castellano and Hartson got into each other right away letting Root and Horne battle it out for a couple laps in the lead position. Root made a pass and led for several laps until he made a small mistake. Horne and Due were on the move and after Root’s mistake they were now battling for the lead. Due had a small bobble which put him back about a straight-away from Horne. Mid-way through the race the battle for the lead really started to heat up. Due charged up on Horne and applied some pressure and the leader made a small mistake. Due took the lead where he relied on his experience and technique to finish the race off in style. Chad Due crossed the line just before the 6 minute mark to finish on his own with a victory lap.
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The sixth and final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Gothenburg and 30 drivers attended in the Modified class, which is quite good for this time of the season. The track saw some low grip and a tight and very technical layout making it very hard to go fast. After three rounds of qualifying Niclas Nilsson took TQ followed closely by Michael Nilsson and super talented Niklas Johansson, normally driving 1/8 onroad. After some nice qualifying we made it into the finals.
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Round 1 of the annual Jimmy Babcock Racing League kicked off their electric series this weekend at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. The Season started with an amazing record breaking 385 entries. TLR was in attendance with many top drivers including Mike Truhe, Cody Turner, Team Manager Kevin Gahan, Ryan Dunford, Casper and Nick Lasley. Our organization is thrilled to see the Stadium Truck class coming back strong this year with many TLR 22T trucks present and as well with a lot of new racers attending the series. TLR factory driver Mike Truhe earned the win in Mod Truck by TQing both rounds of Qualifying and leading the pack from start to finish in the A-main with his Orion powered TLR 22T Stadium Truck.
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The 3rd Annual PRCR Invitational was held last weekend at Portland R/C Raceway in Clackamas, Oregon. This is the home track of Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars and is owned by his father in-law Jim Dunlap. At this years event, current 2wd & 4wd IFMAR World Champion Ryan Cavalieri was in attendance along with the fastest drivers in the North-West. For the Invitational Class, all drivers would use their 2wd Modified Buggies for all 8 rounds. 4 rounds of heads up racing were ran on Saturday followed by another 4 rounds on Sunday. Each driver was given 2 throw-outs, using their best 6 points. Tie-breakers were determined by the number of 1st place finishes, 2nd place finishes, and so on using the 6 counted points. If still a tie, then the drivers 2 best combined laps and times were added together. Throw-outs were just that, and were not used. This is the same system that is used at the International Reedy Buggy Race of Champions.
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