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December 5, 2015

Cavalieri takes first qualifier at JConcepts Finals

Ryan Cavalieri has TQ’d the opening round of 2WD Mod Buggy Qualifying at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha. Racing for the first time on the HobbyTown USA Hobby Plex indoor track, the Associated driver was the only one to run 16-laps to top the times from practice top seed & last year’s winner Jared Tebo. 9/10th back on Tebo, World Champion Spencer Rivkin would complete the Top 3 ahead of Ryan Maifield, the TLR driver clearly unhappy with his opening performance.

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December 5, 2015

Tebo tops seeding at JConcepts Final

Jared Tebo has topped seeding at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha, Nebraska. In the short 3-minute single seeding round, the Kyosho driver set the fastest three consecutive laps around the Hobby Plex track to top the 2WD Mod Buggy times from Ryan Cavalieri who was the only other driver to do a 59-second time. Running a time of 60.039, half a second off Tebo’s pace, Ryan Maifield completed the Top 3 with World Champion Spencer Rivkin fourth a further 3/10ths off.

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December 5, 2015

Tyre prep order of day in practice at JConcepts Finals

Tyres are the order of proceedings on the opening day of the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals at HobbyTown USA Hobby Plex in Omaha, Nebraska. The fifth & final stop on the JConcepts INS calendar, the series’ third year to visit the impressive Hobby Plex facility has attracted a high quality driver line up among the 260 plus entries with all using practice to get their tyres down to the right thread depth in preparation for qualifying.

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December 4, 2015

Xray Work.Shop XWS Morava – Announcement

Xray team driver and European Junior Champion, Kuba Simurda will hold an Xray Work.Shop at the forthcoming third round of the XWS Morava. Held on December 19th in the Jedovnice Sport Hall the workshop will focus on the T4 touring car with Kuba teaching interested drivers all setup secrets. Sign-up for the event is available here.

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December 4, 2015

Patrick Gollner signs with Xray

Xray have announced the signing of Austrian Junior Champion and multiple ETS finalist, Patrick Gollner to their team. For 2016 Patrick will focus on the touring car class and he will be joining the Xray Factory team at all major races in Europe including the EFRA European Championships, the ETS as well as the Austrian nationals. Patrick says:

I am very thankful to get this great opportunity to be part of the famous Xray team. With my focus on more international races I wanted to be part of the strongest and best working team which Xray is with no doubts. The T4 platform along with the support are hard to beat and therefore were for me the logical choice. I will do my best for the team and will work as hard as possible. A big thanks to the whole Xray family for this great opportunity and the big trust in me.

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December 3, 2015

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

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

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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