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April 27, 2018

Delorme & Varinard win at French EP Champs Rd2

The second round of the French Electric On-road National Championship was held in Manspach, Alsace with more than 70 entries. In the Touring 13.5T Blinky class Pierre Delorme soon found a good pace in the low grip and hot conditions and he was able to win the three qualifiers on Saturday by a good margin. The final two qualifiers on Sunday again saw Pierre on top and he did also win the two opening A-mains for the overall for in front of Serge Boudet 2nd and Jeremy Delalondre 3rd.

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April 26, 2018

Barron doubles at Apex Off-Road Points Series

After a long hard fought races in the Apex Off-road Points Series it all cam down to the final race that was held recently. John Barron made a poor tyre choice in the second qualifier of 17.5 2WD buggy and was less than 1 thousandths of a second from TQ after having to dodge lap traffic on the last lap. Going into the third qualifier John had everything on point and put in the run of the day. Ultimately he ended up putting in the run of the day, setting the fastest time across all classes and putting in the second fastest lap to Kemp Anderson’s 13.5 4WD buggy. Having secured TQ in both 17.5 2WD Buggy and 13.5 Stadium Truck John only needed to finish second to take the overall win for the points series in both classes. In the end John was able to put a run in with both classes and secure the overall win.

View the Stock Buggy & Stock Truck top 5 results here

April 26, 2018

JConcepts Spring Super Cup Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final round of the 2018 JConcepts Spring Super Cup was held at Newred Hobbies in Ocala, Florida, that wrapped up the spring edition of the long-running Florida race series. With championship points on the line, the final round always becomes the most crucial race as overall results are decided by taking points from the best three of the four series races. Newred is a unique track that consists of Florida clay/dirt mix and sealed for low dust and high traction. The jumps are man-made consisting of wood construction and then carpeted over to provide grip and consistency. With the tire choice being a slick or semi-slick tire, the speed and intensity are off the charts. The finale layout was challenging requiring a degree of high technical skills and a car that could handle high-speed corners without traction rolling. All in all, the layout was fun and provided an awesome arena for the drivers to battle it out for the Spring Super Cup Championship titles.

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April 25, 2018

Winter Jumps series finale – Report

The sixth and final round of the Finnish Winter Jumps off-road series was held at Helsinki’s Hupicon fair last weekend. The concrete track was laid out with carpet-clad jumps and the event kicked off on Saturday, starting with the 2WD Buggy class. Some of the fastest drivers were missing due to the EOS held in Germany and the track was really slippery in the morning because there was some kind of dust layer on the concrete but as the qualifying rounds started, the track had developed more traction. Markku Honkanen showed some strong driving in the qualifying rounds and took the pole position for the finals with Jamiel Gabrielsson in 2nd and Lauri Ruotsalainen coming in 3rd.

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April 25, 2018

Spencer Rivkin doubles at JC Carpet Nats

With the popularity of artificial surfaces still on the rise, JConcepts teamed up with carpet track specialist, Northwest Hobbies, to present the 1st ever JConcepts Carpet Nationals event in Albany, Oregon. With Northwest Hobbies being one of the first tracks in the nation to go carpet, the local race scene has developed some extremely fast drivers that span from Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Mix in two World Champions, a car designer who placed 2nd at the Worlds Warm-up at Yatabe, with the fast locals and you have one of the most competitive fields in US off-road carpet racing history.

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April 24, 2018

Maifield TQs & wins 4WD Mod Buggy at JC Carpet Nats

The 2018 JConcepts Carpet Nationals were held this past weekend at NW Hobbies in Albany, Oregon. Over the past couple of years in the Northwest, this area has became very well known as the leader in the use of artificial surfaces. What better place to have a race of this magnitude than at one of the original pioneers being NW Hobbies. The event attracted a total of 146 entries and in the 4WD Modified Buggy class, Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield dominated qualifying by TQ’ing all three rounds to take the overall TQ honours. Maifield continued his dominance by winning A-mains 1 and 2 to take the 4WD Mod Buggy Title for the weekend from Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin 2nd and Yokomo’s Brandon Foote 3rd.

View the final results here

April 24, 2018

Speed King Tour Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2018 Speed King Tour was hosted by the TM Circuit Wakayama in the Japanese Wakayama prefecture last weekend. The event was held in Touring Modified and Stock classes with the Oval category not being run this time due to the track layout. In the Modified class Super Pole session, track owner Kazushige Tomita took the TQ with his Tamiya in front of Infinity’s Akio Sobue and young Yokomo driver Satoshi Bando.

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April 24, 2018

Kenny Kong wins at Dog Days of Summer race 2

The recent Dog Days of Summer round 2, hosted by The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was run with a somewhat condensed format of only two qualifiers and a single bump-up A-main. With around 110 entries the traction had really come up between qualifying rounds and especially for the mains, a lot of people would start to have issues with traction rolling. From the tone Kenny Kong (Yokomo) was leading the 4WD Buggy race, however after a troubled opening laps it was Adam Vink (Xray) in 2nd. Adam got right behind Kenny and tried making a pass, but tapped a pipe and didn’t have enough time to catch back up to him. Ultimately it was Kenny in 1st with Adam 2nd and Tekno driver Paul Rush in 3rd. Frank Deiny and Omar Ladenburg would round out the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]