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January 24, 2014

Evans takes most convincing win of opening RROC encounter

Former champion Dustin Evans took the most convincing win of the opening round of races at the 20th running of the Reedy Race of Champions in which all three races were won by the TQ starting drivers. Winner of the world famous race in 2011 on a tie break with current champion Ryan Cavalieri, the Team Losi Racing driver put in a faultless race winning by 5.6 seconds from another former champion Joern Neumann. What was more significant about the Colorado driver’s win was that he did it in the fastest race time something that could again prove vital come Sunday evening. With a time some 5-seconds slower than that of Evans, Ryan Maifield took Heat 1 over Neil Cragg. Heat 3 went to Marc Rheinard in a three way battle of World Champions, the touring car ace holding off Cody King and Cavalieri who came through from the back twice.

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January 24, 2014

Hungarian National Championship R4 – Report

The 4th round of the Hungarian National championship was held at the RC Arena track in Budapest in Touring Car Stock 13.5T, Boosted 13.5T and Modified. Qualifying proofed to be challenging for the Touring Car drivers as there also was a Buggy race that made for changing track conditions. The finals of the Modified class saw Zsolt Kalnay taking the win from Viktor Juhasz and Bandabas Toth.

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January 23, 2014

20th Reedy Race underway at OCRC

The 20th running of the World famous offroad Reedy Race of Champions has gotten underway at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California with drivers getting their first taste of the track with a round of 2WD and 4WD practice. Overall the feedback on the track from drivers is a positive one the majority agreeing while not the most technical of layouts it should produce good racing for the heads up racing format which the Reedy Race is all about. 2WD World Champion Jared Tebo however was one driver not so complimentary describing the track as ‘not good at all’ adding it was ‘way too easy’. In terms of times on the freshly laid track it was Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans who set the pace in 2WD with a 20.373 second lap while in 4WD Absolute Hobbyz driver Barry Baker topped the times with a 18.991 lap.

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January 23, 2014

Date change for EFRA TC Euros

The EFRA announced several updated for three of this year’s European Championships one of which is a date change for the 2014 European Electric Touring Car Championships in Spain. Due to permission problems beyond control of the organisers and the EFRA set a new date for the 21st to 24th of August. The organiser and also AECAR as well as EFRA apologize for any inconvenience caused by this date change due to reasons which were not foreseeable.

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January 23, 2014

Paul Lemieux joins Team Hobbywing

Team Hobbywing welcomes Paul Lemieux to the team. The multiple US National Champion will exclusively use Hobbywing speed controllers in all his electric cars in 2014. This is what Paul has to say about the deal:

I am excited to race Hobbywing speed controllers in all my cars for the 2014 season. In testing the product I feel like it is a very solid speed controller. I also feel like Hobbywing as a company and team has good knowledge in this department which is something that I tend to lack personally, so I am looking forward to learning a lot.

Source: Hobybwing [hobbywing.com]

January 22, 2014

Lucas Sanford wins e-Buggy at TNS Winter Series Rd3

OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA hosted round 3 of the JConcepts Top Notch Winter Series, an 8-race points based series run at various tracks throughout Southern California. In attendance were Team Associated’s Kevin Motter, Nick Wautlett and Wayne Wyrick, TLR’s James Raschko and David Jenson, Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico, Mugen’s Tim Long, Serpent’s Matt Schreffler, and a number of very fast local racers. There would be two rounds of 5 minute qualifiers, followed by 5 minute A Mains. In the finals Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) took the win from Tekno RC driver Rudy Rico with Matt Scheffler (Serpent) completing the podium.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

January 21, 2014

Xray Challenge Scandiano – Report

The first Xray Challenge of 2014 was held at the RC Landia facilities of Team La Gang, in Scandiano, Italy. The race was sold out quickly after the entry was opened and a total of 120 drivers attended in three classes. Open practice started on Friday, whereas the race commenced on Saturday, with 5 qualifying rounds for all drivers, and triple finals. In Touring Car Modified Xray’s Alexander Hagberg won all rounds in front of Alessio and Martin, and he also set TQ in the 1/12 category in front of fellow Xray drivers Massimo Fantini and Marek Cerny. In the Touring Car Stock class, Xray took a 1-2 as well with Marek Cerny on the top spot followed by Mattia Collina.

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January 21, 2014

Jones & Weatherholt win at Winter Midwest Champs

JConcepts team driver Tyler Jones took the win in Pro Nitro Buggy at the CRCRC Midwest Nitro Championships. Tyler started from 2nd on the grid with his TLR 8ight 3.0 and finished off the main, lapping the entire field for the win. In the eBuggy class Tyler, coming from 4th on the grid, lead the entire race but a last lap bobble left him with a 2nd place finish behind Collin Weatherholt.

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