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October 9, 2019

Czech 1/10th Off-road Nationals finale – Report

The final round of the Czech 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Praslavice last weekend. The event marked the beginning of the the indoor carpet season so driver were eager to get some laps under their belt during Friday’s practice sessions. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Ales Bidovsky with the overall TQ from Max Götzl with the latter taking the 4WD Buggy pole position from Ales Bidovsky. Over in the Truck class and with round TQs in Q2 and Q3 it was Max with another overall TQ. The 2WD A-mains then saw Ales Bidovsky taking the overall win from Max Götzl who had some mishaps in the A-mains. Ultimately Max would win A3 for the overall-runner-up spot as Marek Schiller came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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October 9, 2019

JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals Series – Report

The JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals Series saw a massive schedule change for 2019 as the event was moved from Boston to Detroit. The race was relocated to an all-new venue, RC Clubhouse, just outside of Detroit, in Warren, Michigan. Detriot has a long history in RC racing including playing host to the 1991 IFMAR World Championships in which RC legend, Masami Hirosaka, won the 2WD Mod class with his Team Associated RC10. During the 4WD portion of the World Championships, the other famous RC legend, Cliff Lett, took the Yokomo YZ-10 Super Dog Fighter Works ’91 to the top in 4WD Modified. Now, those names and those cars are forever a part of RC history, but those days are far in the past. The question is now … what about Detroit’s RC future? It’s been a long time coming and finally, a nationally acclaimed 1/10th off-road race has found its way back to Michigan bringing with it some of the best drivers in the world including a World Champion, National Champions, and Regional Champions. By having such a stacked field of drivers gives the local racers a chance to experience a high level of competition they typically can’t find at their club races. With more big events, the region will only get faster and perhaps someday we’ll see a world champion that hails from Michigan.

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October 8, 2019

Estonian 1/8th Off-road Nationals finale – Report

The Polgaste RC Track hosted the last leg of the 2019 Estonian Nationals on their brand new astroturf circuit recently. In qualifying it would be Hendrik Lainemae taking the TQ in both Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy. In Nitro Buggy Rainer Ressar would take the pole after a technical 10 by Hendrik, but Hendrik would soon take back the lead after an amazing first stint. Rainer seemed to have the pace to keep up with Hendrik, but lapped traffic would be the deciding factor this time around. In the end Hendrik would win the race and seal the championship followed closely by Rainer Ressar and Arco Aria.

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October 8, 2019

Drake, Westergaard & Saxton win at JBRL NS Rd7

Round 7 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California last weekend. While Ryan Maifield walked away with the win in the Expert Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with with win in Open Truggy, leaving behind TLR’s Anthony Westergaard in 2nd and Kyosho driver, Stephen Bess in 3rd.

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October 8, 2019

Harley Yoshii doubles at Northwest Gold Cup

Tacoma RC Raceway of Tacoma, Washington hosed the 2019 Northwest Gold Cup last weekend, attracting nearly 175 entries for the Modified and Stock 1/10th scale off-road classes. In the highly contested 4WD and 2WD Modified Buggy classes it was Harley Yoshii (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) with the double overall TQ and win. In 4WD the win didn’t came easy though as Harley suffered a DNF in A2, however with 1st place finishes in A1 and A3 Yoshii sealed the bag to take the overall from Dalton Pierce (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) 2nd and Tyler Miller (Team Associated/Reedy/JConcepts) in 3rd. Over in 2WD Modified Buggy Harley made a clean sweep in A1 and A2 for the early overall as Mikey Brown (Team Associated/Muchmore/JConcepts) and Dalton Pierce (Yokomo/Muchmore/JConcepts) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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October 8, 2019

Wahl, Lauter & Stocker win at Pegasus Masters

The city of Piding in the southern part of Germany played host to the 9th RT Pegasus Masters last weekend. The event was held in several electric on-road classes including Touring Modified, Stock and FWD classes. In Touring Modified it was Tim Wahl with the overall TQ after a nearly clean sweep in the qualifiers, winning four of the five qualifiers, leaving behind Q3 top qualifier Marco Kaufmann in 2nd. The finals then saw another dominant performance of Tim who left behind Simon Lauter in 2nd as Marco Kaufmann ended in 3rd overall.

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October 8, 2019

Roger Eifler wins at Swiss EP On-road Nationals Rd5

The 5th and final round of the Swiss Electric On-road Nationals was held at the AMCS track in Schaffhausen recently. In the SwissGT pan car class it was Roger Eifler with the overall TQ and also the win in all A-main finals, making it a clean sweep. A2 and A3 saw Andi Frattaroli and Roland Wild in exciting slipstream battles for the runner-up spot with Andi ultimately holding the upper hand over Roland. Already Swiss SwissGT champion going into round 5, Roger cemented his dominant performance this year by also winning the season finale.

Thanks to Roger Eifler for the report.

October 8, 2019

2019 International Indoor Championships – Report

The 2019 Edition of the Annual International Indoor Championships were held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national and international drivers with this year’s race drawing over 170 entries. In the Modified Touring class it was Alexander Hagberg who would lead the way but 2nd place qualifier Brandon Clements was putting on a formidable challenge. Able to see Hagberg just a few turns ahead of him, Clements threw down excellent and super consistent runs being 4-tenths of each other to score him a solid overall second place. The rest of the pack had assorted finishing positions and times that it had to go to the scoring cards with Drew Ellis emerging as the overall as the overall all third place finisher.

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