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April 12, 2014

Schoettler tops 1st JConcepts qualifier

Having topped timed practice yesterday at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Washington State, local ace Michael Schoettler backed it up with a TQ run in the opening round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at Tacoma RC Raceway. The Associated driver dominated the round running a time almost 5-seconds quicker than fellow local Luke Smith. Winner of the opening race of the series in St.Louis Tanner Denney was the best of the visitors the Associated team driver opening qualifying with 3rd for the round.

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April 12, 2014

MRRC Raceway 2nd Annual Super Challenge – Report

The 2014 Nitro Season began this past weekend on Long Island, NY at MRRC Raceway for the 2nd annual MRRC Super Challenge. Over 140 entries from NY, NJ, CT, PA, MA and even Canada made the trip to run on the newly built Joey “The Dirt” Christensen layout. Round one of Nitro Buggy qualifying would go to Mugen’s Jerome Treignier from Quebec Canada followed by Associated’s Gunnar Rieck & TLR’s Jay Bless. Round Two would see TLR’s Anthony Mazzara reset the TQ with team mate Stephen Plackis less than 2 seconds behind.

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April 12, 2014

2014 ROAR Electric Carpet Regionals – Report

TQ RC Racing hosted the ROAR Region 12 regional championships with 60 competitors raced in 7 different rubber and foam tire classes at the indoor carpet track in Southern California. In Modified Sedan taking the win after a race long battle was top qualifier Fred Hubbard just a few seconds ahead of second place Peter Chuu with newcomer to the class Kyle Goodwine rounding out the top three.

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April 12, 2014

Drivers get accustomed to Tacoma RC Raceway

Playing host to its first ever JConcepts Indoor National Series race and being the first time for all of the series’ front running drivers to visit Scott Brown’s Tacoma RC Raceway in Washington State, drivers have used the day to get accustomed to the track. Having run a day of open practice, drivers have had plenty of opportunity to get in a lot of track time but it won’t be until this evening’s single round of controlled practice that will determine the seeding of the heats for tomorrow’s qualifying that we will get an indication of drivers true form.

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April 11, 2014

Andrew Cartwright Takes the Emerald City Classic

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On-road racers from the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada gathered last weekend for their winter season finale, the Emerald City Classic. The Seattle RC Racers hosted over 150 entries on the high-bite gym track known as “the smooth”. The largest class of the event was 17.5 Touring. In his first race Team Associated’s Andrew Cartwright was the man to beat every time he hit the track. Andrew topped the time sheets in all three qualifying rounds. He also set a new track record on his way to a convincing win in the A-Main event.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

April 11, 2014

Birinyi & Toth win RCProf Speedpassion Challenge

The 7th and final round of the Hungarian RCProf Speedpassion Challenge was held in Budapest. In the Touring Car Stock class the overall championship was already decided for Janos Birinyi who also took the TQ for the finals. The Xray driver then also went on to win the A-mains in a controlled manner, taking the 6th win this season. Tamas Pongho came in second while Mate Toth completed the podium of the 7th round. Behind Janos, Tamas Pongho and Peter Taal completed the 2013/14 series sitting in 2nd and 3rd place.

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April 10, 2014

MRC Wiener Neustadt track opening – Announcement

The 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt announce their track opening race for the weekend of the 4th of May. Taking place on the renewed track some 50km away from the Vienna airport, the race will be run in a Touring Car Modified, Touring Car 17.5T and a Formula class. The entries for the event, that starts on Friday with a full day of practice, are limited to 120 drivers and you can find more information on the club’s website by clicking here.

April 9, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd1 – Report

First round of this year’s Belgian SCT Cup was held at the new urban UndeRing track in Brussels. The track is nicely located under the highway bridge within a public park with an interesting layout slippery surface. This race marked the first ever meeting organised by the club and after all it went pretty smooth and without problems. In the 2WD Pro2 class Philippe Hautecoeur (Associated SC10) ran a pretty weird but effective tyre setup, with astroturf tyres allowing him to run fast and consistent laps in order to take the TQ in front of Julian André (Associated SC10) and Martin Viérin (Associated SC10). In Pro4 Thierry Matthieu (Tekno SCT410) showed a great pace and took TQ in front on Nicolas Evens (TLR Ten-SCTE).

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