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March 31, 2014

Ryan Maker wins at Victoria State Titles

Last weekend the Victoria State Titles took place at the Adrenalin Arena, host of round 2 of this year’s AOC Champsionship. The indoor asphalt facility was well prepared and the Touring Car Modified field was tightly contested with some of Australia’s best drivers in attendance. VBC’s Ryan Maker made a clean sweep in qualifying taking TQ by winning 6 out of the 6 qualifiers. Behind him Kyosho’s Simon Nicholson and Awesomatix driver Tom De Nardis battled for the 2nd spot with the better end for Simon. In the triple A-mains Ryan again was the man to beat and he took an early overall win by coming in 1st in the first two mains. Sitting out A3 Ryan made way for Simon whose win handed him the runner-up spot while Tom had to settle for third despite scoring two 2nd place finishes.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

March 27, 2014

Mibosport Cup 2013/14 – Season review

Mibosport Cup 2013/14 - Season review

The Yokomo-backed Mibosport Cup 2013/14, which was sponsored by Pelikan Daniel, Trivox Patrik Dworschak and Yokomo, finished last weekend. The series saw six 1-day events with a total of 299 drivers from 6 European countries competing in two off-road and four on-road classes. The 2WD Buggy and 4WD Buggy classes had 62 entries each which makes overall 124 drivers attending in the off-road category. A total of 175 different drivers attended the on-road class with 51 drivers in Touring Car Modified, 79 in Stock LRP, 29 in Formula and 16 in the Yokomo GT class. The four best results counted towards the championship. The maximum number of points from a weekend would be 102 points including 100 points for a win, a point for TQ and a point for the fastest lap which makes 408 points overall. David Nemček (Stock LRP) and Ladislav Mlčák (Yokomo GT) both took the overall victory for scoring the most points in the season making it 407 points for David as well as for Ladislav.

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March 27, 2014

Evans sweeps SC Showdown Nationwide Tour Rd2

Race 2 of the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour was hosted by RC Excitement in Fitchburg, MA. With a full day of practice on Friday, the layout was fast and fun with lots of places to pass, making for a great racing weekend. The track opened at 7am on Saturday with 1 hour of open practice. After a quick drivers meeting racing kicked off at 9am. After round 1 Dustin Evans TQ’d Modified 2WD Buggy with his TLR 22 2.0 in mid motor configuration. Dustin also TQ’d 4WD Buggy and Modified 2WD Short Course while Dave Duncan TQ’d Stock 2WD Buggy with his Team Associated B5M. After two more rounds of qualifying on Saturday, the same drivers still held their TQ spots. Sunday morning started with 45 minutes of open practice followed by a final round of qualifying. When all the dust settled Dustin and Dave still had the TQ spots in the same four classes and both also where in control of their mains taking all 4 wins.

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March 27, 2014

Rudy Rico wins E-buggy at Top Notch Series race

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During last weekend’s Top Notch Series race at the 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico brought home the win the the 1/8th E-Buggy class. After taking TQ he went on to win the A-main event while Lou Figueria took the runner-up spot. Rudy’s Tekno teammate Jared Bryant rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

March 27, 2014

Yusuke Sugiura sweeps Japan All Star race

The 2014 edition of the annual Japan All Star EP off-road race took place at the RC Park Gojo circuit in Gojo, Nara, Japan. The event brought many sponsored drivers from Kyosho, Tamiya, Yokomo and MuchMore and is an opportunity for racers to compete and interact with the top Japanese racers from around the country. The indoor facility is famous for its great track conditions and fun layouts with the owner being an experienced motocross track builder, who has worked with Richard Winkler of Dirt Wurx. To keep the surface in a high grip condition, water was provided by pipes buried under the track.

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March 26, 2014

Luke Smith wins 2WD Mod at PNW Showdown finale

March 21st through the 23rd marked the final race of the epic Pacific NW Showdown winter series 2014. The finale was held at Four Season’s raceway in Olympia Washington, home of Gary Brown, father to Northwest legend, Scott Brown. Unfortunately, good things must come to an end and after a long winter the final race was upon us. Undoubtedly saving the best race for last, Northwest’s finest 1/10th scale off-road drivers would once again meet up for a last showdown and make claim for the series overall championship title. The event was scheduled for open practice on Friday from noon till 9pm and all 4 rounds of qualifying to be ran on Saturday. Sunday would hold triple A-main events decided by best 3 of 4 rounds of qualifying with 6 minute lower mains for bumps and award ceremony held after racing.

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March 26, 2014

Super Cup Championship Series Rd3 – Report

JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series packed the house at Shiverville Raceway in High Springs, FL for round 3, with a record 193 entries on the perfect spring day. Shiverville Raceway’s freshly expanded and highly groomed race surface was primed to see some close and intense racing action. The track crew did an amazing job rebuilding the surface as early in the week it was hammered by over 3 inches of rain. Practice was held to a 2pm start on Friday for extra time as the Florida sun worked its magic baking the track. Racers then hit the track to work on lines and setups for Saturday’s showdown that started at daybreak.

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March 26, 2014

Tödtmann & Georgiades win in Greece

Tödtmann & Georgiades in in Greece

The first round of the Greek Nitro Series and Greek Touring Series started at the popular Fanatix track. The 200mm nitro class had German Xray driver Thilo Alexander Tödtmann taking the TQ position after the three 7 minute qualifiers. For the 45 minute final Thilo decided to use his Greek friend Doucakis as his mechanic and went for 4:30 minute pitstops while his main competitor Sotiropoulos J. was able to do 5:10 minute stints. But Thilo was able to compensate the larger amount of stops with a faster pace allowing him to take the win in front of 6-times champion John Sotiropoulos while Spiros Sotiropoulos completed the podium in 3rd position.

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