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March 11, 2020

2020 Desert Classic – Report

The 4th annual Desert Classic was held at Hobby Action R/C Raceway in Chandler, Arizona last weekend. Relatively new to the big race scene, the Desert Classic is now in its 4th year and just keeps getting better with each iteration. This year’s layout was fabulous. Many of the racers in the pits commented that the layout was fun, easy, but had a nice degree of difficulty that was just enough to make racing interesting. It had a tremendous amount of flow mixed with a very tricky rhythm section that cut back towards the middle of the track. The jumps weren’t so straight forward either as they had a high degree of difficulty; like the set of double-doubles on the right side. You had to land your car perfectly on the downslope of the 2nd set to gain time. If you missed it, you would have to wait for the car to settle before getting on the gas losing valuable tenths. Overall, the layout was perfect for racing and the track smoothness was the best it has ever been at Hobby Action. Another plus was the consistency of the track as the watering system was on point and made fair for all. Xray’s Ty Tessman was on fire in 2WD Modified. The Canadian superstar captured the overall TQ in qualifying and used it to win A1 and A2 to wrap up the overall 2WD win. Yokomo’S Ryan Maifield found a good groove in qualifying and looked ultra-competitive in 2WD and was able to win A3 to finished 2nd. Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin was Mr. Consistency and was the only driver to make all three modified podiums by landing himself 3rd in Truck, 4WD, and 2WD Modified.

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March 10, 2020

Andy Murray wins at BRCA Formula 1 Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the BRCA Formula 1 Indoor Nationals was held at the CARS club in Chesterfield this past weekend. The club laid down a very technical circuit and in qualifying it was Schumacher’s Andy Murray, running a prototype car, who would lead the way from Carisma Racing’s Ben Cosgrove. A1 was a pretty unspectacular race up front with the top 3 holding their position, and also in A2 it was Andy with the win while Ben Cosgrove and Michael Lee (Xray) swapped places after a little error of Ben who was chasing down Andy. Ultimately Ben was able to hold onto the runner-up spot overall from Michael in 3rd overall.

Image: Ben Cosgrove

March 10, 2020

Brown & Yoshii win at Northwest Indoor Series Rd4

Round 4 of the Northwest Indoor Series was held at the Tacoma RC Raceway in Tacoma, Washington last weekend. The event attracted over 150 entries and in the premier class of 2WD Mod Buggy it was TLR racer, Mikey Brown with the overall TQ. Mikey then went on to win A1 and A2 for an early overall victory while the fight for the remaining podium spots was on between Harley Yoshii, Roger Seim, Dalton Pierce and Jackson Andres. In the end it was Yokomo pilot Harley who would snatch the runner-up spot with 2-3-3 finishes as Roger Seim (Yokomo), despite winning A3, had to settle for 3rd overall. Dalton Pierce ended tie on points with Harley and Roger but only came in 4th overall as Jackson Andres completed the top 5 results.

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March 9, 2020

Alsop & Fyfe win at Deerdale Winter Series

The Deerdale Off-road Club in the UK held a round of their Winter Series this past weekend. The event was the penultimate round of the winter series and in Nitro Buggy it was HB Racing’s Graham Alsop with the win from the Team Associated duo of Neil Cragg in 2nd and Freddie Thompson in 3rd. Over in the E-Buggy class Paul Fyfe would walk away with thew in from Rob Beavers in 2nd and Chris Jeffery in 3rd.

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March 9, 2020

Thomas Hui TQs & wins at Team Powers Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Team Powers Cup was held at the Hong Kong based PYC outdoor track this past weekend. Despite the weather, that brought a cloudy sky and a little bit of rain, some 60 drivers joined the race. In Touring Modified it was Thomas Hui (Awesomatix/Hobbywing) with the overall TQ and he also brought home the silverware from Fong King (Yokomo/Team Powers) on the runner-up spot. 4th place qualifier, Jackie Shum came in 3rd to round out the top 3 result.

Source: Team Powers [team-powers.com]

March 9, 2020

Isaacs, Anderson & Hebert win at ROAR Carpet Nats

The 2020 ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals were held at APEX Raceway and Hobbies in Murfreesboro, Tennessee this past weekend, attracting nearly 160 entries for the multiple 1/10th and 1/12th scale classes. The Touring Modified class saw Awesomatix driver, Sam Isaacs taking the overall TQ after the three rounds of qualifying from Xray’s Keven Hebert in 2nd. Andrew Ellis came in 3rd on the grid. A1 of the triple A-mains had Sam taking the win some six seconds in front of Keven, the latter striking back in A2 as Sam only scored a 4th place finish. However, the pole position holder put things straight again in A3 and with a win in front of Keven, Sam grabbed the overall title from Keven in 2nd while 4th place qualifier, Kemp Anderson (Awesomatix) came in 3rd overall.

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March 9, 2020

Kevin Nielsen TQs & wins at DRCMU On-road Nats Rd5

The fifth round of this season’s Danish DRCMU On-road Nationals was held in Tinglev this past weekend. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Xray’s Kevin Nielsen with the overall TQ from teammate, Patrick Danielsen in 2nd. The opening A-main saw Yokomo’s Frederik Hovgaard taking the win as Kevin came in 2nd and Michael Hovgaard completed the top 3. In A2 it was Kevin’s turn who would take the win from Patrick in 2nd and Frederik in 3rd. The 3rd and decisive A-main again had Kevin coming out on top for the overall as Patrick and Frederik finished in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Ultimately and behind Kevin it was Frederik who would snatch the overall runner-up spot from Patrick, who had to settle for 3rd overall.

Image: Kevin Nielsen

March 9, 2020

2019/20 Mibosport Cup – Report

The final round of the 2019/20 Mibosport Cup was held recently with the past season drawing nearly 365 different drivers from more than ten countries including Great Britain, The Netherlands and Sweden to compete in the ultra-competitive series that consists of both electric on-road and off-road classes. In the premier electric on-road class of Touring Modified Matej Sulc was one of the top competitors from the first race and he continued in the same manor through the whole series. Oliver Havranek missed one race which resulted in making it harder for him to fight with Matej and so he had to settle for 2nd in the overall championship. Kuba Simurda with some decent runs finished overall 3rd in front of Petr Grof and Karel Kratochvil.

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