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October 7, 2015

Kyle Klingforth sweeps 2015 Halloween Classic

This past weekend NORCAR R/C Racing at The Gate hosted their 21st edition of the Halloween Classic. This year proved to be the largest Halloween Classic ever with IIC not happening in 2015. In the largest class, 17.5 Touring, Xray’s Sam Issacs would take TQ in round 1 and re-set TQ in round 3. At the start of the main, a mini failnado would mix things up and out of the carnage, Sam Issacs lead Kyle Klingforth (Awesomatix) for the first few laps with Xray’s Eric Anderson in 3rd. Early on Kyle and Eric would swap places once, and then give them back the lap later. On the 25th lap Sam would tap out allowing the hard charging Kyle to take over the lead. The rest of the podium would be decided with just four laps to go when Eric fell victim of team mate Dan Hamann which allowed last year’s winner, Michael Hanulec (Awesomatix) to promote himself into 3rd after starting 9th.

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October 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins at ORCA Cup Malaysia

The ORCA Cup Malaysia was recently held at the Kota Raja track in Klang, just outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2-day event saw the running of four different classes and the attendance of Sweden’s Alexander Hagberg as a special guest. The current EFRA Touring Car European Champion would attend in the Modified Touring class and he was facing some difficulties at first as the bumpy and low-grip track took the better of him, allowing local Azri Amri to take the TQ. In the finals Alex was then able to fight for the win after some drastic setup changes. A1 though didn’t went to plan but the Swede was fighting back in A2 after a mid-race mistake of Azri allowed Alexander to take the win. In the third and decisive final leg Alex was again able to profit of a mistake by Azri, allowing Alexander to take the overall win in the Modified class.

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October 7, 2015

French Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Reding. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) took the day’s win from Team Magic driver Cyril N’Diaye and Xray’s Hugo Ragaut. Jérémy Limoges and Rémi Callens in fourth and fifth respectively rounded out the top 5 result.

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October 7, 2015

Team Associated Top Gun Shootout – Announcement

The 2015 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout will be held from the 12th to 13th of December at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California. The event will see the usual mix of 1/10th Buggy and Truck classes along an 1/8th E-Buggy category and more information and signup can be found here.

October 6, 2015

Noah Ford wins E-Buggy class at SRI Showdown

The Scale Reproduction Inc Showdown 29th Anniversary race was recently held with a 170+ entries field. Noah Ford would take the round TQs in the first and third qualifier to grab the overall TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the opening A-main Noah would lead from tone to tone only to run into problems in the second A-main. An early mistake let Ford drop to fourth place. With three minutes to go Noah had moved up to second place and he started to close in on the leader who would make a mistake with two laps to go. Ford was able to get around and hold the lead for the remainder of the race to take the overall class win.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 6, 2015

Lemieux & Ellis win at Halloween Classic

The 21st Annual Halloween Classic was hosted at its home track “The Gate” in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has gone back many years as the warm-up to the Cleveland Indoor Champs and has grown its own prestige over time. The event format was official practice on Friday with three qualifiers on Saturday and one qualifier on Sunday followed by the finals. This year’s race sold out at 220 entries in 90 minutes when the online sign-ups opened. This year it was considered the first race of carpet season for the US so it is fair to say that there was some big anticipation for everyone to get back to carpet racing.

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October 6, 2015

Cody King doubles at Sidewinder Nitro Explosion

The 12th annual Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at Heritage R/C Park this past weekend. The event was heavily affected by rain, causing several delays but at the end it was Cody King (Kyosho) who came out successful both in the Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy classes. Drew Moller (HB) would grab the runner-up spot in the Buggy class from Mugen racer Steve Harris. In the Expert Truck class Adam Drake (Mugen) would finish second behind Cody while Tekno RC’s Billy Fischer rounded out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class would see a tie-breaker after the triple A-mains between Drew Moller (HB) and Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) with the better end for Drew while Tanner Denney (Team Associated) would complete the top 3 result.

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October 6, 2015

Rivkin’s talent shines through to win A2

Rivkin's talent shines through to win A2

World Championship debutant Spencer Rivkin’s raw talent shown through in A2 of the 1:10 Offroad Worlds at the Yatabe Arena with the Associated driver take a very popular win. Starting from third on the grid the 16-year-old had taken the lead by lap 2, putting a great pass on Top Qualifier Jared Tebo, and lead through to the finish ahead of Associated team-mates Ryan Cavalieri and Neil Cragg. Winning by over 2-seconds, Rivkin’s win puts him in a 3-way all American shoot out for the 16th IFMAR 2WD World title with Cavalieri and A1 winner Tebo who would finish the second encounter 4th.

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