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June 11, 2014

Bornhorst & Viesins take wins at AMS 5.0

During last weekend’s Alabama Manufacturers Shootout 5.0 in Cullman, Alabama, TLR’s Adam Drake took the TQ in the highly contested 1/8th E-Buggy class. On the start of A1 Drake fall back early on but Serpent driver Joe Bornhorst inherited the lead and tried to put some space between him and the pack. Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz slowly chipped away on his lead though and the two took it down to the last corner, with Bornhorst taking the win. A2 had TQ Adam Drake out in front with Bornhost and Lutz in tow for the first few laps. Drake bobbled, giving Bornhorst the lead with the two would later have coming together on the straight allowing Lutz to capitalize and to take the lead. Lutz then ran out front trying to get some distance on the field. Bornhorst chipped away on his lead and took the lead with about 2 minutes to go after Lutz tapped a pipe. Bornhorst fend off a late charge from Drake taking A2 and the overall win while Ryan Lutz came in 2nd overall. JQ completed the podium in 3rd.

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June 10, 2014

Jeff Guest takes Mod Buggy at Mid Summer Shootout

The 4th annual Mid Summer Shootout was run at Coyote Hobbies in Victorville CA with about 180 entries. During qualifying in Mod Buggy, it was a battle between Jake Mayo, Rudy Rico, and Jeff Guest for the TQ. Jeff grabbed the TQ in round one and Jake went on to TQ the final two rounds of qualifying. So starting off the triple A-Mains it was Jake taking the TQ, while Jeff Guest was second and Rudy Rico was sitting in third.

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June 10, 2014

Drake sweeps Alabama Manufacturer Shootout 5.0

The Alabama Manufacturer Shootout event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the most well-known races on the calendar during the Summer racing season. The AMS 5.0 event had a record 600 entries, race directors Jimmy Babcock and Canyon Thompson kept the program running smooth all weekend while the AMS crew built a very technical layout that held extremely well. Qualifying in the Pro classes was dominated by Adam Drake. Drake was the overall TQ in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th Nitro Truck, and 1/8th Electric buggy.

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June 9, 2014

Korgae Scales takes WCICS WGT championship

At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series (WCICS), which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, newly crowned WGT champion Korgae Scales wasn’t racing. Instead he was at home welcoming his new son into the world. But he had so dominated the class that he had the Championship locked up before the 8th and final round. CRC sponsored Korgae won the WGT season Championship for the 3rd year in a row, becoming the first and only 3-peat champion in the modern WCICS era, moving ahead of the only other repeat champions Steve Soon and Josh Carter. Second in the WGT championship was Team Associated’s Peter Toszer, followed by privateer, WCICS President, Josh Carter. Planning is already underway for next season, which will begin in late September in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

June 9, 2014

Lee Martin doubles at 2014 Euros warm-up

The Nordic 1/10th electric off-road Championships and EFRA 2014 Euros warm-up race took place last weekend in Trelleborg, Sweden. The event took place on a purpose-built clay track housed in an icehockey stadium. The US-style layout and slippery surface called for rear motor buggies in the 2WD class and a smooth throttle finger. In said 2WD class Yokomo’s Lee Martin took the win from his Yokomo teammate Robert Batlle while Oskar Levin (Team C) completed the podium in 3rd which also handed him the Nordic Champs title.

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June 9, 2014

Andy Iwahara wins 13.5T class at Red Carpet series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Red Carpet series took place at the outdoor asphalt track of the Red Carpet hobbyshop in Semarang, Indonesia. Serpent’s Andy Iwahara came out successful in the 13.5T Touring class while his team mate Donie W finished in 3rd position overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 8, 2014

Volker claims 4th ETS title with victory in Luxembourg

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Ronald Volker has claimed his fourth consecutive Yokomo Euro Touring Series title securing the world famous championship’s top prize with victory at the penultimate round in Luxembourg. His 11th ETS race win, the Yokomo driver would back up his A1 win at the spectacular Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” track with another tone to tone win in the second encounter which started out looking like Marc Rheinard might take things to A3. Ultimately once the race passed a minute & a half however Volker would pull clear to wrap up his third win of Season #7. Behind Rheinard, Lucas Urbain would hold on to his starting position this time round to complete the Top 3.

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June 8, 2014

Volker cruises to A1 win in Luxembourg

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Ronald Volker cruised to an easy win in the opening A-Main at Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg this morning, the Yokomo driver leading from start to finish. While the first lap saw a passing attempt by Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard, Volker would go the rest of the race unchallenged to win by 0.823 of a second from the No.2 car with World Champion Jilles Groskamp making up one place to complete the Top 3.

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