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December 9, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at 11th annual Toys for Tots

The 11th annual Toys for Tots race was held this past weekend at Palm Desert R/C Raceway with some World-class drivers such as Adam Drake, Mark Pavidis, Joseph Quagraine, Richard Saxton, Tyler Brown and Victor Guerrero in attendance. In the 1/8th Expert Buggy class Mugen’s Adam Drake would take the TQ in both rounds of qualifying and he would lead the A-main from start to finish to win the 15 minute encounter by over a lap. TLR’s Mark Pavidis would end the race on the runner up spot from JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine in third. In the 1/8th Expert E-Buggy category Adam showed another dominating performance, taking the TQ after the qualifiers and the race win in the 10 minute A-main from Joseph Quagraine (JQRacing) and Dean Rock (Tekno) in second and third respectively.

View the E-Buggy podium here

December 9, 2015

Protoform WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held for the first time ever in the beautiful mountainside wine country of Kelowna, British Columbia. Round 4 was hosted by the KRC Club, with great teamwork and support from all the B.C. clubs for their premier WCICS event. Great weather helped racers from all around Western Canada make the drive, and in their first event ever they had the second highest registrations of any race so far in WCICS 25th season. In the Touring Modified class Xray driver Blake Bell drove his T4 from pole to checkered without looking back-for almost the 9th time in a row, three full events. Awesomatix’ Korgae Scales, driving the new A800 belt car, was in his draft the entire race, just 1 second behind at the line. WCICS President, top privateer Josh Carter, drove his Xray T3 to a solid 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

December 8, 2015

Rug Racers Rd2 – Report

Round two of the Rug Racers series welcomed all drivers with a familiar track and somewhat unfamiliar sound, between the last round the organisers had listened to driver feedback and based on this feedback re-invested the money straight back into a new sound system amongst other more subtle changes including allocated pitting being trialled and a larger rostrum. Controlled practice got underway just after 8 for 11 heats of 4 classes. After a re-sort for those that didn’t show this was reduced to 10 heats. In Open Modified Elliott Harper was clearly then man to beat taking 3 of 4 rounds but with Kyle Branson close behind and Elliot unable to finish round 4 Kyle would take pole position.

Continue reading the report here

December 8, 2015

Jeremy Limoges joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of multiple French Champion Jeremy Limoges to their team for the 2016 season. The electric on-road specialist will attend at all major regional and national races along international events such as the EFRA Euros and the ETS. Jeremy will run Xray’s T4 and X1 cars and he has the following to say:

I have been racing as a private racer with Xray since 2006 starting back in the time with my first T2 and over the years continued through the T3 platform until today. Thanks to the performance and reliability of the Xray cars I was able during the years to grab several major achievements and victories and being satisfied with the team work and team spirit there is no other choice for me than Xray. I am happy to be part of the Xray team to represent the team in France and I will do my best also at international races in 2016. Thanks to Xray for the given trust in me.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 8, 2015

Karri Salmela wins at Finnish Touring Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Finnish 1/10 Touring Nationals was held at the Fullspeed RC raceway in Helsinki on a small and challenging track. In qualifying Karri Salmela was the man to beat and after the four qualifying rounds he took the overall TQ from Henry Salmen and Kalle Lehto. The opening final then saw the top 3 finish in the starting order but in A2 Karri crashed at the three minute mark, resulting in a DNF for him. Kalle made maximum use of the situation and took the win and going into the third and decisive leg Karri, Kalle and Henry all had the chance to grab the overall win. At the end of A3 the top 3 again finished in the starting order, handing Karri the win in the final main and also the overall victory at the opening round of the championship.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

December 8, 2015

Willian Capitelli wins at Curitibano Championship Rd9

The ninth and final round of the Brazilian Curitibano Championship was held at the CAAR track. Despite a worst rain forecast with rain all weekend the weather on Saturday started out of and at the end it was young Lucas Baruffi (Xray) who came out fastest after practice and seeding from fellow Xray drivers Willian Capitelli and André Franchi. The heats then started on an inconsistent and slippery track and at the end of heat four the rain came back, forcing for an hour long break until heat five could be started. Unfortunately the heaven opened its gates again and so the championship reached its end and it was Willian Capitelli who took the overall win. Lucas Baruffi grabbed the runner-up spot from Flavio Salinet (Xray) who rounded out the top 3 result.

View the final result here

December 7, 2015

Maifield does double at JConcepts Finals

Ryan Maifield has completed the buggy double at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha. Taking the an early overall victory in 2WD Mod after winning A1 & 2, the Team Losi Racing driver would have to wait until A3 and the final race of the Hobby Plex event to claim the 4WD win. Top Qualifier in 4WD, Maifield would finish second to Spencer Rivkin in A1 but winning A2 it set up a straight battle between himself and his protege for the overall win. Starting second behind his mentor, Rivkin would push Maifield hard for the win until his Associated hooked the piping. Enough to give Maifield control of the race Rivkin would finish second with last year’s winner Jared Tebo coming home third to complete the podium at the fifth & final event of the JConcepts championship.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete coverage here.

December 7, 2015

Philipp Walleser wins at MRCL Winter Series Rd2

Round 2 of the MRCL Winter Series was held in Longwy and in the 10.5T Touring Stock category it was Philipp Walleser who grabbed the pole position for the triple A-mains with the round TQ in the third and final qualifier. Behind him Michael Kiesewetter and Alexander Becker lined up in second and third respectively. In the finals Philipp, who had just ended a year off from RC, took win in the first and second leg to grab the overall win early. Thomas Stenger would end the day on the runner-up spot with Michael Kiesewetter rounding out the top 3 result.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]