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July 11, 2016

Kobbevik wins 4WD title at Swedish Off-road Champs

Last weekend’s Swedish Electric Off-road Championships saw Yokomo driver Daniel Kobbevik taking control of the proceedings in the 4WD class. Putting some two seconds on the second placed driver in the best three consecutive laps Daniel was also the only one to break into the 23 seconds barrier when it came to the fastest single lap. The track was pretty beaten up from the 2WD portion of the event and it looked like the conditions would be pretty changeable during the day.

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July 11, 2016

JConcepts Summer Indoor National Series – Report

This past weekend was the last indoor race ever to be held at Outback Raceway located in the warehouse of Amain Hobbies in Chico, California. Without a doubt, this raceway will be missed as it has held countless memorable moments for many racers near and far. However, the racing in Chico won’t disappear, but rather move to Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway outdoor facility that once held the IFMAR World Championships in 2013. With nearly 300 entries, the final race was a complete success and the racing top notch. In addition, world famous and the voice of RC, Scotty Ernst was on the mic bringing his unique, energetic style making this race one to remember. Master track builder, Kevin Jelich and his track crew did a fabulous job building a layout that was technical and flowy, challenging all racers of all levels.

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July 11, 2016

Novak & Olesiuk win at Oder Pomerania Cup

The recent 2016 Oder Pomerania Cup was held in Murowana Goslina, Poland in challenging weather conditions. Saturday’s race was interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm but thanks to the great job of the RC club Poznan the race would continue on Sunday with good track conditions. In the 2WD class, Maciej Nowak would take the day’s win from Pawel Ntkovca and Krzysztof Siemianowicz in second and third respectively.

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July 11, 2016

MC Ettlingen hosted inaugural electric race – Report

The German MC Ettlingen club hosted its first ever electric race in 40 years of club history this past weekend. The event attracted a good amount of racers from France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to race in the four classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock, as part of the RC Lemans South series, as well as 1/8th Electric On-road Modified and Stock. In 1/8th Modified it was nitro specialist Patrick Nähr who secured TQs in all three qualifiers while also setting an unofficial new track record of 12.5s during Saturday’s practice. Oliver Mühlhauser and Adrian Burren completed the top 3 result.

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July 11, 2016

Olly Jefferies & Zak Finlay win at BRCA Touring Nats Rd3

The fast open layout of the Halifax track hosted round three of this season’s BRCA Touring Car national series and after three rounds the Modified class has now seen three different winners. This weekend it was Xray’s Olly Jefferies who took the spoils taking TQ and the overall victory in tricky constantly changing weather conditions. Right up to the last final drivers had to be on their toes, two minutes in to the last Modified A-final the rain came and with all drivers on slicks it was one of the slowest finals held at Halifax for a long time, but Jefferies kept it on the tarmac to take the win over the Team Associated of Chris Grainger and Schumacher’s Elliott Harper, with each of these drivers taking a round win so far the series now really opens up with two rounds still to go.

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July 11, 2016

Andreas Edvinsson wins at Swedish EP Off-road Champs

The Swedish Electric Off-road Championship was held this past weekend in Norrkoping. The probably biggest 1/10th scale event of the country only happened for the second time with the race being run on a purpose-build grass track and alongside other sports events in the country. In the 2WD class, Andreas Edvinsson set the early pace and he looked to be unstoppable but Christoffer Svensson would close the gap at the end. The top 3 would then see the two Yokomos of Andreas and “Coffe” in first and second with HB Racing’s Oscar Levin rounding out the top 3.

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July 11, 2016

Jared Tebo dominates The Plex Summer Series finale

This past weekend, The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska would host its Plex Summer Series finale race. This would be the last big event at the facility before the ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals next month. After qualifying was complete, it was Jared Tebo (Kyosho) taking the TQs in 4WD Modified Buggy and Modified Truck while Derek Wood (Kyosho) took the impressive TQ in the 2WD Modified Buggy class. After the dust had settled from all three single 8-minute A-Mains, it was Tebo taking the convincing wins in all three Modified classes. Team Associated’s Kody Numedahl came in second in the 2WD Mod class while TQ Derek Wood would round out the podium in third.

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July 8, 2016

BRCA 1/8 Electric On-road National Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the BRCA National series took place at the Cotswold Model Car Club, returning to this track for the second time this season. Run alongside the Nitro classes, the race would see nice weather and as the 1/8 electric drivers are now figuring out their electronics packages, they’re edging closer and closer to the ultimate pace of the .21 engine nitro cars, all though it is clear to see that the electric cars have huge amounts of torque, the 4S battery limit is making the cars a little slower down the main straight. New comer Alex Thurston was setting the pace and it was looking somewhat ominous for the drivers behind him as he had such a pace advantage. Sunday morning headed into the qualifying which was dry and most drivers managed to get good clean runs in every round. After four rounds of qualifying the Electric A-final would line up as follows:

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