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November 20, 2014

Andrew Poole triples at East Coast Offroad Series

The 2014 East Coast Offroad Series tools place over six races and travels the corners of North and South Carolina while offering nitro and electric classes in both 1/10th and 1/8th scales. Andrew Poole swept the 2WD Buggy, 2WD SC and 1/8th E-Buggy classes to take a triple in this year’s series. Teammate Brandon Melton was also able to attend select events and put his Team Associated car in the victory lane, but missing out on a few events dissolved any chances of an overall championship. Chris Pace was able to take the runner-up spot, despite a misfortune with a transponder not counting a few laps. Unfortunately for Pace, the series director chose to award him with a ninth place finish rather than third, taking away points that would have given him the overall championship.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 20, 2014

4th Annual JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout – Report

Fastlane Raceway in Blue Springs Missouri held the 4th Annual JConcepts Invitational and Winter Indoor Shootout. This year’s event had one of the best classes of the Invitational, the Reedy format of 5 main events of 2WD on Saturday and 5 main events of 4WD on Sunday with a control tire being JConcepts Dirt Webs in Green compound. The open classes being ran in the standard format of 4 rounds of qualifying using qual points. Friday’s practice had all of the drivers getting laps in on the fun flowing circuit built just for this event. With 2 bowl turns, and a lot of elevation changes, this year’s track was fun to get around in both Stock and Modified.

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November 19, 2014

Danish DMSU nationals Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Danish DMSU nationals was held at the Broendby Racing Club in the suburbs of Copenhagen on a small and technical track in the classes of Prostock, LeMans 1/10th pan car, Formula and a FWD. The biggest classes of the weekend were Prostock and Lemans with 22 and 16 drivers respectively. In the Prostock class Mike Gosvig took the overall TQ from Patrick Folman and Soren Boy Holst. Stefan Finnich and Patrick Danielsen rounded out the top 5 result.

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November 19, 2014

Vysin & Kopecky win at Winter Race Morava Rd2

Round 2 of the Winter Race Morava was held at the sport stadium of Jedovice. In the Touring Car Modified class Jirka Vysin came out successful in the A-final in front of Vitezslav Hola and Petr Grof. Jarda Kopecky and Michal Vitamvas rounded out the top 5 result. The Touring Car Stock class had Jarda Kopecky walking away with the win from Karel Kratochvil and Ales Pelikan.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 19, 2014

JJ Wang signs with HB-HPI through to 2016

HB announce that American racer JJ Wang has extended his contract to race wit the electric on-road and off-road racing team through to 2016. Now a veteran member of the HB-HPI Racing on-road racing team, JJ has been helping develop the new HB Pro 5 with the help of HB designers and teammate Andy Moore. JJ has also been campaigning the HB D413 at off-road tracks around the world. This is what JJ has to say about the deal:

I am very happy and excited to be able to continue with HB-HPI Racing for the upcoming season. I want to thank the team for providing me with this opportunity and I cant wait to continue racing with the best team and have another enjoyable season. I am looking forward to be back on the track soon with the new Pro 5 package as well as the D413.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

November 19, 2014

Masters of Foam 2015 – Announcement

After a 3 year break the famous Masters of Foam pan car race is back in 2015. Addressing 1/12th scale and World GT racers alike the event will be held in the three classes of 1/12th Modified, 1/12th 10.5T Blinky and 1/10th World GT 10.5T/13.5T Blinky. The race will take place at the RC Nuclea Mol racing club in Mol, Belgium on the weekend of the 1st of February. The entry fee of 25 Euros has to be paid in advance via PayPal to marcus.willems1@pandora.be and entries can be made here. For more information please see the event’s Facebook page here.

November 18, 2014

1st annual Georgia Indoor Championships – Report

HotShots R/C Raceway played host to roughly 140 entries at the first annual Georgia Indoor Championships. The race schedule was Friday open practice with Saturday having 3 rounds of IFMAR qualifying and extended single mains with bump-ups. Carl Knight and the HotShots crew did a fantastic job providing the racers with a great layout and super consistent surface.

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November 18, 2014

Daniel Carlsson wins at South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2

The 2nd round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Hassleholm, Sweden. The racers faced quite a small but yet technical layout with good grip. Right from the start local driver Daniel Carlsson found himself on top of the timesheets with a 4 seconds margin over the 2nd place driver in practice. Daniel then also lead the qualifying with Markus Hellquist coming in 2nd some 4 seconds behind while Christian Holmström ended the qualifiers in 3rd further 3 seconds down. The finals then were a done deal for Daniel who made a clean sweep in all three legs to take the overall win from Markus and Christian.

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