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July 1, 2009

Cavalieri & Maifield win big at ROAR Nats

Located directly in the center of the United States, Omaha, Nebraska and the Hobbytown Hobbyplex was selected to host the 1/10th ROAR Electric Off road National Championship and Team Associated were there in force and have given us this report. With prior experience in hosting National Championships, the Hobbyplex crew put together a great layout that challenged drivers from the top pros to the 17.5 classes. This year’s event featured a few new changes highlighted by six-minute races as opposed to the traditional five-minute heats and due to the large track size, 12-car main events.

Continue reading the full race report here

June 30, 2009

Ryan Maifield wins Truck Mod Nationals

Beautiful Omaha, Nebraska played host to the 2009 ROAR Electric Off-Road Nationals and without disappointment the surroundings, facility and competition was second to none. In qualifying JConcepts driver Ryan Maifield put his Associated B4 buggy in the TQ position for the 2wd class, while also qualifying up-front in the 2 other modified classes. Maifield was to go on and take the win in the Modified Truck class however, winning A-main leg 1 and 2 using JConcept’s Double Dee’s tires and Illuzion Hi-Flow body and spoiler, to claim the title.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

June 30, 2009

Nordman & Svensson claim Nordic titles

Last weekend the Nordic championships for 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy was held in Stockholm, Sweden at the Skarpnäck race track. The field was mostly Swedish drivers but also had many Norwegians and Danish drivers in attendance. The 4wd class was dominated by Sweden’s PerErik Nordman, winning all 4 qualifying rounds and setting the best lap time, he TQ’d ahead of Mikael Johansson and Ketil Pettersen. In the finals PerErik stayed cool and could take home the first two finals from his TQ position and was able to claim the overall in front of Christoffer Svensson in 2nd and Mikael Johansson in 3rd.

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June 29, 2009

Olly Jefferies wins Schumacher BTCC Rd4

Round 4 of the Schumacher BTCC series took place last weekend at the superb Cotswolds track. With a lot of racers present to avail of the track time ahead of the next round of the Nationals, it was Associated driver Olly Jefferies that took the pole position spot in the Modified class. In the A final Olly continued his domination, taking two straight wins ahead to take the overall win ahead of the Tamiya pairing of Chris Kerswell and Glen Doman in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: CML [cmldistribution.co.uk]

June 29, 2009

Jilles Groskamp wins Euros Warmup

Last weekend the official Warm up race for the EP TC European Championships was held at the large and tricky Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. Following practice it was Marc Rheinard who was setting the pace, getting the only 17 Lap run seen so far on the track. In qualifying it was Viktor Wilck who would set the early pace with a fast 16 Lap run in round 1, but rain showers would ruin any chance to improve for the rest of the day despite some drivers managing some more dry running later in the afternoon. With 3 more rounds of qualifying on Sunday morning, and Marc Rheinard now absent due to a prior commitment, Viktor Wilck would take the TQ spot ahead of Jilles Groskamp and Alex Hagberg, with Wilck, Groskamp and Yannic Pruemper sharing a round win each on Sunday. The 3 leg finals would see International TC race winner Groskamp win the first leg from Hagberg in 2nd and Wilck 3rd, while in the 2nd Leg it was Wilck from Marc Fisher and Elliot Harper, to set up a show down in the final leg. Unfortunately it again started to rain and with Wilck electing not to go on track and Groskamp taking the leg win, the Dutch man would claim the overall win from Tamiya team mate Wilck in 2nd, with Elliot Harper taking 3rd for Xray. A lot of the racers will now continue to test on the track for the next few days in order to fine tune their machinery even more in preparation for the Euros at the end of July.

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June 28, 2009

F1 RCGP Round 6 report

The 6th Round of the F1RCGP Championship was held recently at Crest Speed Way. This indoor carpet track allows drivers to concentrate on setting up the car without worrying about the weather conditions. The layout of the track had been changed a week ago and this was maybe part of the reason that most of the drivers were suffering from inadequate traction. For the GP Class, Team TRG was a new comer for this round bringing their brand new TRG 109 driven by works driver Atsushi Takeshita, while Team Futable F-1 Racing had switched to the Tech F125BR driven by the new partnership of Takatoshi Morita and David Tse.

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June 25, 2009

Lee & Stafford win Eden Park BRCA National

oOple are reporting on the third round of the 2009 BRCA 1/10th off road national series held last weekend at Eden Park Raceway. Ellis Stafford dominated 2WD qualifying with the X-Factory X-6 but couldn’t hold it together for the finals, instead it was the Tekin powered X-6 of Kevin Lee that took the win with two leg wins and a second. In 4WD Grant Williams kicked thing off with the win in round one of qualifying but it was Neil Cragg that took the overall TQ, winning rounds 2 & 3 before reigning 4WD champion Lee Martin took the final round. A hard fought A final saw three different winners in the three legs, Ellis Stafford and Neil Cragg with one win and a second each were tied on points but by virtue of his faster winning time it was Ellis Stafford that took the win.

Check out the full report, with video and lots for photos, here.

Source: oOple [oople.com]

June 24, 2009

Euro Touring Series – Round 5

The 2008/2009 Much More backed ETS season finale (round 5) will once again take place at the awesome Andernach track, close to Koblenz in the West of Germany from the 17th to the 19th of July. A great event to cap off this years series, the organizers are once again planning a highly competitive race for both the Modified and Pro stock racers, as well as a fun relaxed atmosphere with plenty of other activities to keep drivers occupied between heats. Once again attracting the cream of European racers, like local World Champion Marc Rheinard, Jilles Groskamp, Ronald Volker, Viktor Wilck and many more, the ETS also expect more surprise international entrants in the build up to the race. In addition to the regular classes their will also be a hobby class run for Tamiya TT01 chassis’ split over a number of classes. For more information about the event and where it takes place go to the Series page on our site here.

Racers can enter round 5 of the ETS (and find more info on the hobby class) by going to rcracecontrol.com.