December 3, 2015

Paul Lemieux takes Modified TC title at USIC

Paul Lemieux takes Modified TC title at USIC

The U.S. Indoor Championships is among the oldest and most prestigious events in carpet racing. Held on Thanksgiving weekend at the Holiday Inn in Strongsville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the event draws top talent from across North America. At the end of qualifying, Paul Lemieux would hold TQ in Touring Modified while Sam Isaacs snatched the Touring 17.5T TQ, Danny Jenkins took the top qualifying honours in USGT, and Max Kuenning captured TQ in WGT.

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December 2, 2015

Risser & Wartelle win at Franck Deboes Memory race

Risser & Wartelle win at Franck Deboes Memory race

The Franck Deboes Memory race was held last weekend at the Loisirs Modélisme de Loos club with some of the fastest drivers from France in attendance. In the 2WD Buggy class Nico Risser swept the qualifiers to take the overall TQ and the pole position for the A-main. After some nice battles with Stephane Deroch, Nico would grab the overall win with Sebastien Wartelle rounding out the podium result. In the 4WD class TQ Sebastien Wartelle would come out successful from Stephane Deroch on second and Remi Callens in third.

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December 2, 2015

Andrew Knapp wins at US Indoor Champs

Andrew Knapp wins at US Indoor Champs

The grand daddy of all indoor races in North America, the U.S. Indoor Championships, was held in Cleveland, Ohio with the 36th running of this prestigious event attracting over 330 entries. In the 1/12th Modified A-main, CRC’s Andrew Knapp had a classic dogfight with Team Associated driver Keven Hebert. It was a real treat and a pleasure to watch both drivers wrestle the little rockets around the track within inches of each other. After a couple lead changes and a couple minor board meetings, Andrew fought his way to the front, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, to win the A-main in the featured class at the U.S. indoor Champs.

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December 1, 2015

Blake Boggs triples at Black Saturday Blowout

Blake Boggs triples at Black Saturday Blowout

The Black Saturday Blowout was held at Radioactive Raceway in Wingo, Kentucky with 120 entries in the one day event. The race schedule saw rocket rounds with three, five minute qualifiers and single 8-minute A-mains. In the Modified 2WD Buggy class, after close battles with teammate Chris Rakus and Xray’s Nate Jaskot, Team Associated driver Blake Boggs would end up overall TQ. In the main Jaskot, Rakus and Boggs would be swapping the lead early and eventually Boggs would pull away near the end to take the win.

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December 1, 2015

Tasos Paparegas wins 4WD class at Greek Nats

Tasos Paparegas wins 4WD class at Greek Nats

The final round of the Greek Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Zorri racing track near Athens. The opening 4WD qualifier, run in wet conditions, was won by Sikianakis with Tasos and John Paparegas one second behind him. Tasos then won the second round more than a lap ahead of the second place driver and another win in Q3 secured him the overall TQ from John Paparegas, with Sikianakis rounding out the top 3.

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December 1, 2015

Nico Risser teams up with Xray

Nico Risser teams up with Xray

Xray have announced the signing of Belgium’s Nico Risser to their electric off-road team. The Belgium and French national champion will attend both national and international races such as the Belgium and French Nationals, the EFRA Euros as well as the EOS events and he has the following to say about the deal:

I have closely followed the Xray team and evolution of their cars since few years ago. During these years Xray was the team that has worked hardest to have the best cars on the market in every category. It is honor for me to join one of the most professional and best performing team. I am fully confident of the performance of the XB8, XB4 and XB2 cars and quality of Xray products and for sure I would like to thanks to Xray for this great opportunity.

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December 1, 2015

Chris Nielsen wins at Danish DRCMU series Rd4

Chris Nielsen wins at Danish DRCMU series Rd4

The fourth round of the Danish DRCMU series was hosted by the Djurs RC Racing Club on a fast and flowing track with decent grip. In the 17.5T Blinky Touring class Chris Nielsen was able to TQ all three qualifiers after pulling some fast laps during practice and going into the qualifiers from the top spot.

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December 1, 2015

Ronald Volker dominates AOC finale

Ronald Volker dominates AOC finale

Quickly establishing itself as “the” on-road race in Japan, the AOC finale brought a lot of international talent to the legendary Yatabe Arena setting the stage for the biggest race of the year and with some saying “the biggest race the country has ever seen”. With multiple former World Champions, National Champions, and numerous international stars attending this event, the competition keeps getting higher making it a battle of champions.

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