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February 10, 2015

Akio Sobue wins at 2015 Speed King Tour Rd1

The Kazuki Endo presented Speed King Tour 2015 started at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track this past weekend in the two electric touring car categories of Modified and Stock with more than 50 drivers in attendance. Last year’s Speed King Akio Sobue shows great speed right from the start of the qualifying and he took the TQ in the Modified class with his Tamiya TRF419. ARC driver Yusuke Goto placed his car 2nd on the grid and 2014 1/12th Electric On-road National Champion Hayato Ishioka came in 3rd with his VBC D07.

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February 10, 2015

2014/15 Rockstar Winter Off-Road Series – Report

The 2014/15 Rockstar Winter Off-Road Series was hosted by Premier R/C Raceway in Portland, Oregon. This six race series started in November and just recently came to an end. Each driver’s four best rounds out of the six would be used to determine the Champion in each class. The three month series averaged an impressive 60+ entries. With the ease of a carpet track and pre-made jumps, new track layouts were done the day of each series race in only 30-minutes to level the playing field for all drivers. When the dust had settled, Kyosho was left standing on top by taking four Modified class Championships.

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February 10, 2015

Evans & Chambers win at Rumble in the Rockies

The 20th Annual Rumble in the Rockies were held this past weekend at MHOR Raceway in Denver, CO, the home track to superstar drivers Dustin Evans and Matt Chambers. This year the entry count would reach an impressive 269, making for a great weekend. The race schedule saw open practice on Friday, 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and one last qualifier on Sunday followed by triple A-main events. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Dustin Evans would TQ two out of the four rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ honours and he would then drive perfect in the first and second A-main to wrap up his 1st championship of the weekend.

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February 9, 2015

Daniel Kobbevik sweeps JConcepts Challenge Rd4

Round 4 of the Norwegian JConcepts Challenge was held at Mustit RC Raceway in the usual classes of 1/10th Electric Off-road and 1/8th Light Buggy. Saturday started with 1/8th Light Buggy, 2WD Buggy and 2WD Truck, and after 3 rounds of qualifying it was Oyvind Fast Olsen who sat on TQ position in the 1/8th class while in 2WD Buggy it was Joakim Nicolaysen who grabbed the pole position. In 2WD Truck it was Daniel Kobbevik who was the fastest driver after the qualifiers.

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February 9, 2015

Volker & Prumper complete ETS podium

Ronald Volker and Yannic Prumper completed the podium at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany after the Yokomo pairing claimed a 1-2 finish in the 3rd A-main. With Marc Rheinard wrapping up his first ETS win on carpet in 5-years with a second win of the weekend in A2 and sitting out A3, the closing race of the record breaking event would see Volker lead an uneventful race from start to finish. Behind him Prumper, despite making early attempts to pass his team-mate would run the entire race in second despite coming under pressure from a much improved Alexander Hagberg in the closing laps. Winner of the event last year, Hagberg would be classified 4th overall followed by Viktor Wilck and Christopher Krapp, all drivers having started the leg with a chance of a podium finish.

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February 9, 2015

JConcepts Indoor National Series Rd1 – A3 results

The 2WD Modified Winter Indoor National Champion of the premier class came down to the final race between AE/JConcepts’ Michael Schoettler and AE/JConcepts’ Nick Gibson. With Gibson having a win and a 3rd and Schoettler with a win and a 2nd, A3 would decide who would be crowned the new champion. Once again, Nick Gibson would attack right from the start and put the pressure on the rest of the field as he would try and repeat his perfect run in A2. Gibson’s fast pace was hard to match lap for lap as TLR’s JP Richards would push hard to keep the Kansas City native within striking distance. On the 7th lap, Richards was unable to maintain Gibson’s pace and a mistake would allow Schoettler and Kyosho/JConcepts Mitchel Gardner through to see if they could chase down the leader.

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February 9, 2015

JConcepts Indoor National Series Rd1 – A2 results

Having made an early mistake in A1 which resulted in an unfavorable 3rd place finish for the 2WD Modified TQ, AE/JConcepts’ Nick Gibson vowed he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice. This time, the story was much different as Gibson was able to slowly stretch out his lead from the rest of the pack. In a league of his own and having the fastest car on the track, Gibson was able pull away and cruise to an uncontested win in A2 leaving the rest to battle for 2nd and 3rd.

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February 9, 2015

Josh Cyrul triples at Snowbird Nationals

During the recent Snowbird Nationals electric on-road legend Josh Cyrul took the TQ honours in the 1/12th 17.5 Stock class with a blistering 54/8:03. He then took maximum advantage of his TQ and led the 1st lap of the super close class where any mistake can cost several positions. Luckily, Josh had a flawless run, taking the A-main win wire to wire.

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