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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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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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.
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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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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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.
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The Trofeo Automodelli was held at RcLandia, Scandino, the venue of the 2014 1/12th EFRA European Championships. Beside a touring car modified and 13.5T class also a 21.5T blinky F1 class on Ride R1 tyres was run. The category saw Fenix driver Matteo Berlincioni setting the pace and claiming the pole position with an impressive 36 laps in 10.10.323, but he was chased by his team mate Nico Catelani who was only 2 seconds behind. Coming in 3rd further 8 seconds down was Luca Torreggiani. After qualifying the A-final had a massive amount of national talents to offer in the form of Luca Torreggiani, Paolo Bottignol, Andrea Aquilino, Davide Carbone, Riccardo Monzani, Andrea Selva, Davide Campanini and Stefano Luppi. During practice and qualifying it became obvious that the long heats were extremely hard for the tyres making the right tyre treatment crucial for everyone with winning ambitions.
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For the 3rd consecutive year, the newly constructed Genesis RC Raceway in Marshall, Minnesota hosted the Midwest Indoor Championship. With racers attending from Canada and 7 states through out the upper Midwest, the race fell victim to some of the top drivers in the county in their respected classes. After four rounds of very tight qualifying, the mains were set and first up was the WGT class. The TQ holder Tony Block broke out and was able to hold on for the win with current national champion and CRC teammate Randy Grosse taking 2nd and John Wiita rounding out the podium.
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