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September 17, 2015

Brandon Marsh doubles at Race Against Cancer

Racers from across the eastern U.S. gathered at McCullough’s Off Road in Sarver, PA for the 14th annual East Coast Race Against Cancer. Despite rain showers drowning out the A-mains, the race still managed to raise over $20,000 in donations for the American Cancer Society, which puts the 14-year total upwards of $121,000 in donations. This year’s event saw over 200 entries, which brought some very intense competition. In Modified 2WD, Brandon Marsh took the winning honors, with Paul Nam finishing second and Luke McCullough in third. In the 4WD class Marsh took another win with Matt Stoltz in second and Alex Miller in third.

View the 4WD podium here

September 17, 2015

Munn & Wonders take NCT titles

The 2015 North-West Championship Tour (NCT) Series began earlier this year in April and just recently finished this past weekend. This 6-race series would hit some of the best outdoor tracks in the beautiful Pacific North-West. After the dust had settled, Jesse Munn would take the 4WD Modified Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy championship while Tayler Wonder grabbed the 2WD Modified Buggy title.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

September 16, 2015

Super Cup Championship Series Rd2 – Report

199 racers from all over Florida made their way to Beachline Raceway in Cocoa for the recent round 2 of JConcepts’ Super Cup Championship Series. Beachline’s large indoor pitting area filled in the early morning with racers quickly setting up to turn practice laps while working on tuning and tire combinations. Racing went live at 9:30am with 48 heats to be run over 2 rounds of qualifying. For the main event of the day, Modified 4WD was shaping up to be a epic showdown of skill and talent. JR Mitch set TQ with a time of 17/5:04.459. Mitch would amass a quick lead over Ryan Eckert. It looked as if Mitch would take a win until lap 9, JR’s car snapped an A-arm giving the lead to Ryan Eckert. Daimon Borkowicz was close behind and looking for the lead, but Eckert ran the clean laps to take the win with Daimon in 2nd. Leon McIntosh raced home for 3rd with Sebatian Hazbun 4th and Alfredo Arrieta 5th.

Continue reading the report here

September 16, 2015

Ryan Lutz wins E-Buggy at Bring the Heat

The 2015 Bring The Heat took place in Flowood, Mississippi this past weekend with over 200 entries would do their best on the big elevation changes, tight sections, and big jumps. In 1/8th E-Buggy TQ Ryan Lutz would battle it out with JR Mitch for the first 5 minutes. Lutz would bobble giving JR the lead while falling back to 3rd but Lutz would battle back and get close but never make pass so JR would take the win in the opening A-main. In A2 Lutz would pull a gap but JR Mitch was on a mission, catching Ryan around the 6 minute mark. JR would push hard but too many little mistakes wouldn’t allow JR to capitalize and make a pass so Lutz would take A2. A3 would be a bit rougher as the track had slowed creating a lot more traffic in the back of the field. This would allow Ryan to create a gap and lead tone to tone without pressure. This would give Ryan Lutz the overall, JR Mitch 2nd, Denny 3rd, Dickerson 4th, and Harrison 5th.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

September 16, 2015

Simon Nicholson wins at Newcastle Grand Prix

Simon Nicholson, Nathan Reese and Jeffrey Mackie lead a Yokomo 1-2-3 finish at this years Newcastle Grand Prix which attracted a healthy gathering for the relatively new club. The club certainly proved it has the facilities and members to put it on par as one of the best venues in Australia. The medium to high-grip surface played havoc with car setup, however this was overcome relatively quickly with both Simon Nicholson and Nathan Reese breaking track records early on. With the two sharing TQ honours it was Simon who would eventually walk away with the TQ and the first place trophy, with Nathan a close second and Jeffrey in third.

September 16, 2015

Carson Wernimont teams up with Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of Carson Wernimont to their electric off-road factory team. The multi-year deal will see Carson attending at events around the World and his campaign officially kicks off at round one of the EOS this coming weekend at the Nürburgring in Germany were he will be joining team mates Lee Martin and Marc Rheinard. Carson says:

I am super excited to be joining Team Yokomo! From my testing I’ve been doing the cars were awesome, and the team environment was awesome and it will be a great fit going into the 1/10th World Championships and the future! I want to say thank you to Tom Yokobori, Aso Minoru, Robert Itoh, Shin Adachi, and Lee Martin for all helping out and making this happen! Looking forward to what the future holds!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

September 15, 2015

HNS Austria Rd2 – Report

The second and final round of HNS Austria series was held at the MRC-Fruehwirth track in Sollenau, located 20 kilometres south of Vienna. The track layout chosen was the super fast 1980’s original with a long straight, big sweeper and long back straight with around five to seven seconds of full throttle. On this track, with an overall length of 345 metres, Christoph Pietsch set a new track record of 15.8 seconds, with an average speed of 78.6 km/h. The premier class of 1/8th Nitro saw an entertaining fight of Herfried Pucher (ARC/Picco) and Michael Klausner (Mugen/Picco) for the TQ with both winning two rounds each and the TQ being taken by Herfried as Michael made too many mistakes. In third Rene Pflanzl (ARC/Max) grabbed the 3 spot after the qualifiers.

Continue reading the report here

September 15, 2015

Jörn Neumann snatches another German Nats title

This year’s German 1/10th scale 4WD Electro Off-road Nationals were held at the iconic MAC Burgdorf track near Hanover. Saturday started off with good weather, three practice rounds and the first qualifiers and it was the triple of Björn Prümper, Jörn Neumann and Tom Maquel that battled for the TQ spot. Overnight rain made the astro turf track slippery and the drivers had to adjust their buggy’s setup for the remaining two qualifiers and the finals. At the end Björn took the pole position for the triple A-mains from Jörn who in turn made a clean sweep in the finals by winning A1 and A2 to take the overall title early. Tom Maquel came in second while Luca Rau rounded out the top 3 result in the 4WD Buggy class.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]