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July 14, 2015

ROAR 1/8th Electric Offroad & 1/10th SC Nats – Report

The 2015 ROAR 1/10 4×4 SC and 1/8 Electric Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at Lost Creek R/C Raceway in Oakland Mills, Pennsylvania. This year’s track at LCRC would put every manufacturer’s electronics to the extreme test with a very hi-speed layout and hot/humid temperatures while the event would record its largest entry count in history reaching an impressive 211!. The race schedule saw controlled practice on Thursday, two rounds of qualifying each on Friday and Sunday followed by the main events with triple A-mains on Sunday. In the 1/8 Electric Buggy qualifying Ryan Maifield would TQ two rounds to lock-up the overall TQ. The triple A-Mains for the 1/8 Electric Buggy class would be 10-Minutes each. Maifield was a man on a mission showing tremendous speed in both A-Main 1 and 2 by taking the wins in each to take the overall win and his first ROAR National Championship of the weekend. Dakotah Phend would go onto win A-Main 3 in style to secure 2nd overall.

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July 14, 2015

JConcepts Summer INS – Final results

The qualifying rounds during last weekend’s JConcepts Summer INS has been exciting and intense. Everyone was able to witness the true speed of one of the industry’s brightest stars, Spencer Rivkin, who has masterfully pulled off a perfect Saturday in qualifying winning every round and earning TQ in 4 of the Modified classes. Although, Sunday was a different story. With the last round of qualifying held in the morning, Rivkin’s perfect streak came to an end as his rivals were starting to figure things out on the high traction, full slick conditions. AE/JConcepts’ teammate Michael Schoettler, was able to derail the young Arizona Superstar by taking TQ in 2WD and 4WD in the final round. The momentum was shifting and everyone in the pits could sense the change as “The Rivkin Show” was now becoming a real battle for the title of Summer Indoor National Champion.

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July 14, 2015

Elias Johansson wins at Summer Series Rd3

The third round of he Swedish Summer Series was held at the Årsundaring, a pretty fast track with off camber jumps and a huge wall ride. The event attracted a good turnout of racers and the hot weather made for track temperatures as high as 50 degree Celsius. In the 2WD class Elias Johansson took the TQ after sweeping the qualifiers and he also went on to win all three A-main legs to take the day’s win.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 14, 2015

Cyril N’Diaye wins at French Electric On-road Nats Rd4

Cyril N'Diaye wins at French Electric On-road Nats Rd4

Round four of the French Electric On-road Nationals was recently held in Tour in the centre of France. In the 21.5T Formula class Jeremy Limoges top seeded the practice rounds in front of Georges Saux and Cyril N’Diaye. Come qualifying Cyril upped his game as he won two round to be tie on points with Jeremy and the fast tie-breaker handed Cyril the pole position for the triple A-mains of which he won the first and second leg to take the overall win early. Jeremy took the win in the third A-main to grab the runner-up spot from Georges Saux.

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July 14, 2015

Joakim Niclassen takes Nordic Championships

Last weekend the Nordic Championships took place at Hvervenbukta, Oslo. The very high bite and bumpy Astroturf track had a lot of elevation changes. Although some of the usual talented drivers were missing from Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, the competition did not disappoint. By the end of Friday’s practice, Team Associated’s Joakim Niclassen was comfortable with his buggies, and was confident going into the weekend. Once qualifying started, both the driver and his cars were working perfectly and TQ was soon followed by the win.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

July 13, 2015

RC Lemans Rd4 – Report

Round four of this year’s RC Lemans Series was held this past weekend at the M.A.C. de Baanbrekers club in Rucphen, the Netherlands. Partly damp conditions made things interesting, nevertheless most of the qualifiers and finals could be run in dry conditions. With the qualifiers not being counted by points and following a dry and a slightly damp qualifier the final round would be the rocket round to qualify for the A-mains in both the Modified and Stock classes. In the Modified class it was Reinder Wilms who was able to score the only 23 laps qualifying run to take a maiden TQ in the RC Lemans Series. Behind the Dutchman Tobias Weist, Sven Stoffels, Tim Altmann and Marc Lorenz completed the top 5 with all four being covered by only a couple of seconds.

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July 13, 2015

JConcepts Summer INS – Brendan Wheatley’s T5M

JConcepts Summer INS – Brendan Wheatley's T5M

Brendan Wheatley has been on fire all weekend long here at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals in the 17.5 Stock Truck class earning the overall TQ with his Team Associated T5M. Only racing for 2 years, Brendan has been climbing the stock ladder and making great progress with his well equipped custom T5M chassis made by Dillon Davis, Schelle ceramic bearings, MIP 3 gear aluminum gearbox and Eco top shaft. With smooth power delivery from his Hobbywing ESC/SchuurSpeed Select motor combination, Brendan has been able to masterfully tame the high traction, full slick tire conditions here at Outback Raceway. With Ron Schuur on hand, Brendan has been able to optimize his gearing and motor timing to maintain both high corner and straightaway speed to separate himself from the field resulting in the only 20 lap qualifying run.

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July 13, 2015

JConcepts Summer INS – Q4 update

With such a fantastic start to the weekend at the JConcepts Summer INS, dominating his rivals in all 4 classes and already earning the overall TQ in all 4, the final round of qualifying for Rivkin was used to break in tires for the mains. The combination of track watering and new tires, Rivkin struggled a bit to maintain his previous pace and had to settle for a 20 lap 5:08.7, but still taking the win. The battle between TLR/JConcepts’ Jason Moberly and Kyle Layton has been on since the start of qualifying. Edging out his competitor, Moberly would finish ahead of Layton in the final round of quals giving him 2nd overall in qualifying with Layton starting just behind Moberly.

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