May 27, 2014

AMC/CARS Summer Shootout Rd1 – Report

AMC/CARS Summer Shootout Rd1 – Report

The 1st round of the ever-popular Summer Shootout Series took place in Chesterfield, UK. These events have become a regular fixture for indoor racers in the UK in recent years and offer the best opportunity to practice and conduct testing on a national standard track with good grip. Once again Action Model Centre are supporting the series this year, which will cater for 1/12 scale LMP12 and GT12 cars as well as GT10. More than 100 drivers made this a capacity event which included drivers of all levels from national winners down to local club racers.

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May 26, 2014

2014 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions – Report

2014 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions – Report

The 2014 edition of the Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions was run last weekend. After a 5-year absence the race took place at the Tamiya America track running a 13.5T Stock, Open Modified and the prestigious Invitational class. Both the 13.5T and Modified class where held in the standard format with triple A-mains while the Invitational class saw the iconic Reedy Race format with different heat lineups for each round. As usual the Invitational class collected the creme de la creme of today’s touring car drivers with the likes of Jilles Groskamp, Marc Rheinard, Andy Moore, Atsushi Hara, Ronald Völker, Meen Verjak or Paul Lemieux to name just a few.

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May 24, 2014

Hartson & Motter take wins at JBRL Rd4

Hartson & Motter take wins at JBRL Rd4

The 4th round of the 2014 JBRL Electric series, hosted by OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA would see 265 entries with some of the areas fast guys plus several drivers coming in from out of state. Steven Hartson took the win in the 2WD Modified Buggy with Kevin Motter in 2nd and Jake Thayer in 3rd. Steven also swept the Modified Truck class while Kevin Motter came out successful in 2WD Modified Short Course. Jake Thayer then went on to win the Super Stock Buggy class. Round 5 of the series will be hosted by Controlled Chaos Raceway located in Palmdale, CA on June 14th.

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May 22, 2014

Nielsen & Jenson take wins at JBRL Rd4

Nielsen & Jenson take wins at JBRL Rd4

This past weekend was JBRL round 4 at OCRC in Huntington Beach, CA wit a great turnout once again for the JBRL with 265 entries for the one day event.  Doug “Casper” Nielsen was able to take a convincing win in Electric 8th scale. Casper drove his Tekin-powered TLR buggy to the victory. He would start the main in P2 loosing out on the TQ by only .8sec over TLR teammate David Jenson. At the tone David Jenson would lead the field for the start of the 10 minute A-main with Casper following close behind and the two would break away from the pack after a few laps. After a couple of minutes into the race David would make a mistake and Casper would be able to capitalise passed David and never look back. TLR/Tekin teammate Ryan Dunford would put in a great run to finish 3rd and take the JBRL points lead with the effort after 4 rounds. In Pro-4 Casper would finish a strong 3rd to put him on the podium with TLR teammates David Jenson first and Ryan Dunford 2nd to ensure a TLR podium sweep with the SCTE 2.0.

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May 22, 2014

Tanner Stees joins Team HB/HPI Racing for 2014

Tanner Stees joins Team HB/HPI Racing for 2014

Team HB/HPI Racing welcome 16 year old Tanner Stees from Chandler, Arizona to their family. Tanner has been racing 1/8th scale nitro off-road for nearly 10 years and has continually improved his performances at the National level. Additionally Tanner also competes in the 1/8th scale E-Buggy, Modified Electric 4WD and 2WD 1/10th scale Buggy classes. For the 2014 season Tanner will be using HB/HPI Racing’s line of competition off-road kits and he is looking forward to a great 2014 race season and plans to improve upon his excellent results from 2013.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

May 22, 2014

Mibosport Cup Summer 2014 – Announcement

Mibosport Cup Summer 2014 – Announcement

Mibosport will hold a number of races during the Summer in the form of an on-road series, off-road “club” meetings and a single off-road event. Starting with the on-road races, this year’s Mibosport Cup will see the running of only 2 races but they are held on what are considered the best tracks in the Czech Republic. The series opener takes place on the 14th of June in Brno and resumes on the 2nd of August in Blansko. Both events see the running of Touring Car Modified, Stock LRP, Formula and Yokomo GT classes. The technical regulations are the same as used on the popular Mibosport Winter Cup.

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May 22, 2014

Endurance Championship Austria – Announcement

Endurance Championship Austria - Announcement

The 5th running of the Endurance Championship Austria will take place on the 21st of June at the Tirol Ring in Kematen, Austria. The 10h race, organised by the MRC Zillertal club, will be run with Tamiya TT01 chassis equipped with control electrics in the form of a Speed Passion Citrix Stock Club speedo and MMM 13.5T motors using a 55/26 gear ratio. Ride 36R tyres and Tamiya GT bodies such as the Mercedes SLS, Audi R8 or Porsche GT3 are mandatory for all cars as are front and rear LED lights. The race will start at 1 p.m. with a special top qualifying to determine the starting grid taking place before. Entries for the race are still availably by clicking here.

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