Tanner Day & Harley Yoshii successful at NIS Rd3

The third round of the Northwest Indoor Series was held at the Tacoma RC Raceway in Tacoma, Washington last weekend, attracting nearly 170 entries for the multiple 1/10th scale buggy and truck classes. In the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class it was Tanner Day who took the overall TQ and with 2-1-6 finishes he also snatched the overall win, after winning the tie-breaker with Jackson Andres who scored 1-2-2 finishes. Harley Yoshii would come in 3rd overall with 3-4-1 finishes in the triple A-mains, making it an all-Yokomo top 3. 4WD Mod Buggy had Harley Yoshii taking the overall TQ and also the overall victory after winning the first and third A-main while coming in 2nd in A2. Tanner Day won A2 for the overall runner-up spot as Jackson Andres came in third after scoring a DNF in the opening A-main, completing another all-Yokomo podium.

View the 4WD Mod Buggy podium here

Schneider & Haemers win at NRW Offroad Cup opener

The opening round of the popular NRW Offroad Cup was held at the Racing Arena Limburg indoor carpet track in Sittard, The Netherlands over the weekend. The race saw the running of Modified and Stock classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was Marcel Schneider with the overall TQ from Rik Haemers on P2. The opening A-main was won by Mick Burbach, however Marcel stroke back in A2 and A3 to take the overall win from Mick in 2nd while Rik Haemers completed the top 3 results.

Continue reading here

2020 Muchmore Invitational – Announcement

NW Hobbies in Albany, Oregon will host the 2020 Muchmore Invitational on the weekend of the 1st of March. Muchmore’s Joe Pillars has helped put on these type of events in the Northwest for over 10 years with great success and the organiers couldn’t be more happy to work with him again. The fun and unique race format offers multiple classes of racing with the same vehicles to provide more time on the track and less time in the pits. Classes run include Invitational 2WD Mod Buggy, 2WD Mod Buggy, 40+ 2WD Mod Buggy, 13.5T Wheeler no-timing/no-boost, 13.5T Truck no-timing/no-boost, 17.5T 2WD Buggy no-timing/no-boost, and 21.5T 2WD Buggy no-timing/no-boost. Full details can be found on social media here and here.

DiBrino & Pillars win at Rockstar Winter Series Rd5

The fifth round of the 2019/20 Rockstar Winter Off-road Series was held at PDX Underground in Portland, Oregon this past weekend. The 2WD Mod Buggy class saw Yokomo’s Andy DiBrino with the overall TQ and win after the triple A-main events, leaving behind Yokomo’s Joe Pillars on the runner-up spot. Team Associated’s Ryan Reavis came in 3rd to complete the top 3 result. Over in the 13.5T Wheeler class Joe Pillars came out in swing, taking the TQ and win in the single 5-minute A-main event from Andy DiBrino in 2nd and Travis Harker in 3rd, making it an all-Yokomo podium.

View the 13.5T 4WD podium here

Burak Kilic wins at 2020 OWL Messecup

The 2020 OWL Messecup was held at the Bad Salzuflen fair grounds in the northern part of Germany over the weekend. In the competitive 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Mugen’s Burak Kilic with the overall TQ and also the win after the triple A-mains, courtesy of winning A1 and A2. Burak’s brother Berkan would win A3 to cement his overall runner-up spot from Serpent driver, Thomas Musial. Jeffrey Halsema from the Netherlands and Sophie Müller would complete the top 5 results.

Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]

2020 RC Chili Bowl – Report

The 2020 RC Chili Bowl was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma this past weekend. With sign ups filling by the hundreds every minute, the entire race sold out in less than two hours with 400+ racers. Unusually warm weather welcomed drivers this year to the world’s biggest R/C oval race in the and with arguably the best-built and prepped dirt oval around, the racing was guaranteed to be as close and action packed as the full size Chili Bowl Midget Nationals happening next door. Racing-wise and in Outlaw Sprint, the fastest class at the RCCB Nathan Dean had dominated this class since the beginning of the week and looked unstoppable. Dean would quickly jump out to the lead at the sound of the tone and started to build his lead early on. No traffic is ever guaranteed as Dean would run right into a crash six laps in with two cars in turn one. Quick to recover he would lose a couple of positions. That’s all the break that Ryan Ralph and Justin Driemeier would need as the two battled the rest of the race. Driemeier would finish on top of that battle for the win with Ralph settling for second and Nathan Dean would round out the top three.

Continue reading the report here