The 2014 Mid-Atlantic Championships took place in Gaithersburg, MD. The 1-day event attracted 100 entries in total. In the Modified Truck class Peter Davagian first TQ’d and then won the race in front of Deon Gray and Justin Lopes. The Modified 2WD class had James Schlick TQing and taking the win from Gabriel Galeano and Zack Sinclair.
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The third round of racing at the Reedy Race of Champions at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California, saw Ryan Cavalieri become the first double winner of the event. The defending champion took the win by just over one second from a hard charging Dustin Evans while the other two heats saw European duo Lee Martin and Joern Neumann notched up their first maximum points haul.
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Defending Reedy Race Champion Ryan Cavalieri claimed his first win of this year’s 20th running of the event when he saw off a late challenge from the ever spectacular Ryan Maifield in a race that saw the duo produce the first 16 lap runs for 2WD around the OCRC Raceway. In the other two encounters of the round former 2WD World Champion Neil Cragg took a tone to tone win in Heat 1 over Rick Hohwart while in Heat 2 current 4WD World Champion Steven Hartson came through from 4th to win by almost 7-seconds from Cody King. For Round 1′s most convincing winner Dustin Evans it was a tough second race for the TLR driver. Starting Heat 1 from 8th on the grid, the former champion was making his way to the front and looking good for at least a Top 3 finish but a coming together with Germany’s Oliver Scholz on lap 4 dropped him back to last from where he was only able to recover to 4th.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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