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October 26, 2011

Numan, Thielke & Denney take JC Indoor titles

Announced early 2011, the JConcepts Indoor National Championship Series consisted of four rounds at various indoor track locations across the nation. The series started out in St. Louis, Missouri, at SmacTrac, then moved out West to OC/RC in Huntington Beach, California, and then up the coast to Outback Raceway in Chico, California, before rounding out at RC Excitement in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Gaining points at each round, drivers competed to become the first Indoor National Series Champion.

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October 26, 2011

Sidewinder Nitro Explosion wins for Maifield & Cavalieri

New ventures bring new challenges and Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield and Ryan Cavalieri rose to the occasion. With the Sidewinder Nitro Explosion moving to ARC Raceway in Temecula, CA, many racers were seeing the facility for the first time. Taking the top two grid positions in the Expert Gas Buggy, Ryan Maifield starting on pole for the 35-minute gas final with team mate Ryan Cavalieri on the second spot. From the start, The Ryans checked out from a star-studded field. Battling till the end, Ryan Maifield and his LRP powered, JConcepts equipped RC8.2 out-dueled teammate Ryan Cavalieri’s Pro-Line-equipped RC8.2. However, not to be left out of the winner’s circle, Ryan Cavalieri made good on his Top Qualifying position in the Expert Electric Buggy class by taking home the win with his soon-to-be-released LRP iX8 speed control and eBuggy converted RC8.2. Honorable mention also goes to Cavalieri for a second place finish in Expert Gas Truggy with the ROAR National Champion Maifield finishing a respectable fourth.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

October 26, 2011

Michael Bruce & Austin Harrison win FSEARA Rd2

The Florida State Electric Auto Racing Association (FSEARA) hosted their 2nd race in their 7 race series in FL at Strickland RC Raceway. This track is famous for its tire wear and so tire strategy is the key to win and many racers conserve their limited control tires in qualifying. The new tires only last one qualifier, which mean you only have one chance to set your fastest time. Most racers end up saving the 2nd set of tires for the final and it helped create some fast & exciting final to watch at this event.

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October 25, 2011

Kwon Chanwoo wins Korean Stock Nationals

The KMRCA Korean nationals for 1/10 Electric Sedan was held last weekend at the Gyungsan onroad track. TOP/Acorn driver Kwon Chanwoo led qualifying in Stock and secured the TQ with a big margin of almost one lap over second position. In the finals he would take the win in the first and second legs to be crowned the 2011 Korean national champion. Kyosho driver Hwang Kyongwon would take 2nd with Choi Ikjoon driving a Tamiya 417 in 3rd. In the modified class it was an all Yokomo podium with Lee Jungduk winning from 2nd place Ahn Jonghyun, with Ahn Junghyun completing the podium.

Source: TOP [top-racing.jp]

October 24, 2011

Spashett & Jefferies win at BRCA 1/12th opener

Round 1 of the 2011/12 BRCA 1/12th scale nationals took place at Ardent Raceway last weekend. Saturdays event was for the stock class, with all cars running 10.5 motors in ‘blinky’ zero-timing mode. Team Associated/LRP driver Olly Jefferies qualified on pole for the A final ahead of multiple world champion David Spashett, who has returned to competition in this class for the first time since 2006 and was driving one of Josh Cyrul’s CEFX cars. Mark Stiles lined up third for Serpent/LRP with the new S120LT ahead of his team mate Chris Kerswell and multiple British Champion Andy Griffiths who is once again driving for V-Dezign/Nosram this season.

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October 19, 2011

Acorn Racing sign P.Y. Tang

Acorn Racing have signed P.Y. Tang from Singapore to run and test its wide range of products. Racing since 1989, P.Y. has competed in multiple national and international races around the world achieving success in multiple Tamiya Asia Cups as well as making the final at last year’s TITC in the Stock 11.5T class. The Team Xray Singapore driver will be using Acorn Racing’s product range such as tyre additive, pinion gears, spur gears and silicone wires. On top of that P.Y. will be supporting Acorn Racing in testing their LIPB LiPo battery range as well as its upcoming electronics.

Source: Acorn Racing [acornracing.com]

October 18, 2011

Levin & Ausfelt crowned Swedish Champions

The Swedish Offroad Nationals was held in Tomelilla at the EOS pilot race track last weekend. The track layout was different now from the EOS with a lot more traction and the track was faster this time so making a mistake would be costly. In 2wd it was Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk that took TQ in front of Oskar Levin and Otto Ausfelt. The first final was all about Ronnefalk and Levin. A clean final with Ronnefalk holding the place to take the win in the first leg. The second final started with Ronnefalk out front but after making a mistake on the second lap let Levin and Ausfelt past. Levin was running a clean final without mistake to take the second leg. The third final would decide who was going to take the Swedish national title. Ronnefalk was out front but made a mistake and again let Levin and Ausfelt past and again Levin took the lead and never looked back to win the Swedish national title.

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October 18, 2011

David Joor wins RC Pro US Series 16

The RC Pro US Series 16 took place September 23 in Harlingen, Texas and David Joor wrote this report. This race was turning out to be quite crucial for me if I wanted to continue my points lead to defend my RCP Electric National Title. Two years ago when I got into electric 1:8 scale I won the RCP Finals, and in 2010 I took home the RCP Electric National Title. The points setup has changed this year, which means so has the game. I was leading the points, Mitchel Gardner who was fierce competition at last year’s Finals was second. Jake Dillinger, who is in my region, has really been coming into his own this year, making every race a battle. I knew he would be attending this race. If he took a TQ and win here, he would become the new points leader. So I grabbed my Associated RC8.2s and took the venture down south.

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