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November 16, 2013

Mike Gee wins Horsham RC Raceway Fall Classic

Last weekend saw the 1st annual Fall Classic held at Horsham RC Raceway, home of the 2013 R.O.A.R. Carpet Nationals. With over 75 entries the track was packed with some of the best talent in the country including 2011 Nationals champion Jeff Cuffs, 2013 IIC 1/12 TQ Donny Lia, Mike Gee and Jon Williams. With a total of 11 races per round, there was never a dull moment in the action and classes included VTA, 17.5 1/12, WGT, 1/10 TC mod, and their signature event 17.5 1/10 TC. In the A Main, fresh off his second place finish as the N.O.R.C.A.R. Halloween Classic Awesomatix team driver Mike Gee got out to the early lead followed closely the Donny Lia and Sal Amato in third. On lap 5 Lia was able to overtake Gee for the lead. Lia and Gee put on an exhibition and some of the best competitive driving until Lia encountered an unfortunate body tuck leaving the door open for Gee to retake the lead and dropping Lia to fourth place. This caused a reshuffling in the top three divers running order of Mike Gee 1st, Jeff Cuffs 2nd and Jon Williams 3rd. Lia made a great effort to recapture a top three podium postion baring down on Williams for several laps however, Williams was able to hold on to third.

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November 13, 2013

Tom Cockerill wins at Silverstone Winter Series

This weekend was the second round of the popular Silverstone Winter Series. With 15 heats it was sure to be a busy day, 100+ drivers in the 2WD class alone. Competition was very high with several regular national A finalists in attendance along with some good 8th drivers who enjoy a bit of 10th in the warmth during winter. The club had laid an excellent track with plenty of jumps creating the off-road feeling, a “love it or hate it” slippery section, tight twisty sections and some nice flowing fast corners.

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November 13, 2013

Adam Drake doubles at JBRL Nitro Series Rd8

The final round of the popular JBRL Nitro Series took place this past weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies. Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake claimed the TQ and win in Expert Nitro Buggy and Electric Buggy class. He was sidelined by Kyosho’s Cody King and Sean Gaffney in Nitro as as well as TLR team mate Mike Truhe in E-buggy.

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November 12, 2013

Lahti Touring Car Challenge 2013 – Report

Lahti Touring Car Challenge 2013 - Report

The Lahti Touring Car Challenge was held in Lahti, Finland in the town’s Fair Centre as part of the Kätevä-Tekevä-Lukeva crafts, hobbies and reading expo that saw around 8,500 visitors throughout the weekend. The race was run in three classes, with the main one being the 28 driver invitational 10.5T blinky ProStock class, run in a spectator friendly format with racing consisting of final type starts with mixed heat and starting order. Seven rounds were held with four seven car heats per rounds of which six rounds counting for the final order. Saturday also saw a supporting blinky 17.5T stock class and on Sunday a FWD class was run, both in a more familiar two qualifying rounds and two final rounds format. The invitational ProStock class gathered a variety of top Finnish national FinTrack-Tour series drivers from the several classes to race each other in a more laid-back fun event. The invitational class also had some interesting names in the mix, especially Christer Andersson who made a one-off comeback with a borrowed Yokomo BD7 after a two year hiatus from the sport. Also one of Europe’s fastest 1/12th scale racers, Vesa Yli made a touring car comeback with the new Serpent car.

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November 12, 2013

DiBrino wins Pacific North-West Showdown Series Rd1

Round 1 of the Pacific North-West Showdown Series was held this past weekend at Top Gear Raceway in Clackamas, OR. This 2-day event consisted of open practice on Saturday along with 1 round of qualifying starting while Sunday would see 2 more rounds of qualifying starting followed by double A-Main Events. The premier class of the weekend was 2wd Modified Buggy. Kyosho/Team Orion’s Andy DiBrino would go onto TQ all 3 rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ. DiBrino then went onto lead every lap in both A-Main Events uncontested, to take home the overall win with his Team Orion powered Kyosho RB6 in Mid-Motor configuration. Shaun Dunlap went onto qualify 2nd and finish 2nd overall while Kyosho America/Team Orion USA Team Manager was on hand to lend his support to his team and raced as well. JP went onto qualify 3rd and would finish 3rd overall to take the final spot on the podium.

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November 12, 2013

RCProf Speedpassion Challenge Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challenge was held in Budapest on an indoor carpet track. Beside several other classes including electric buggy also a touring car modified and 13.5T race was held. Qualifying for the touring cars proved to be difficult due to the track conditions as the buggy tyres made for tricky grip conditions. In the Stock class János Birinyi, coming from second on the grid, was able to take the lead in A1 and A2 bringing home an early win for Xray. Viktor Kiss and Tamás Ponghó completed the podium for a 1-2-3 for the Slovakian manufacturer.

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November 12, 2013

Evans & Wagner win at Castle Classic race

The second leg of the 14th annual Castle Classic was held at NorCal Raceway in Union City CA. The classes run on day two of the Classic were F1, Mini, Rookie On-road, Touring Car Nitro Expert and Sportsman, Super Ten, and 1/8 Electric Buggy were held. In the F1 class T.O.P. team ace EJ Evans took the win with his Rebel F1 just ahead of top qualifier Cameron Wagner who was also driving a Rebel F1, two laps up on third place finisher Elliot Miyashiro. In the Mini class T.O.P. team member Cameron Wagner had a challenge to get his new car dialled in for the race against some very experienced mini racers. The first qualifiers were a bit rough but in the end he was able to secure the TQ spot. In the race Cameron led from start to finish, one lap ahead of the close race for second by Jaime Manzanilla and Willie Fok.

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November 11, 2013

JJ Wang wins at RCI farewell race

JJ Wang, who was announced as part of the Reedy factory team only days ago, successfully took part in the recent RCI farewell race, the track which hosted round 1 of this year’s AOC moving to a new premises. The HPI/Hot Bodies driver put himself on top of the podium with Jack Iverson and Jimmy Qian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Image: Jonathan Wang