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January 14, 2015

BRCA GT & F1 Nationals Rd1 – Report

South Yorkshire Raceway saw the inaugural national meeting open the books on this never before seen class combination – the grand prix of the GTs and F1s. After the infamous GT12 class lost its national status in early 2014, when it ceased to be the 1/12 support class, GT12 really needed its own section to return to its former glory and flourish as a driver’s class. With a limited 30 driver grid seen at the 2013/14 supporting nationals and grey areas of rules being pushed further and further every round, the class that was so reputable previously, was struggling to keep afloat. The Clubman’s series was developed to back the class this year and with initially mild interest, it wasn’t looking good. However once the National series had been finalised, class popularity sky rocketed, with the final round of the Clubman’s series reaching an all time record of just under 90 participants.

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January 14, 2015

Ryan Cavalieri doubles at CRCRC Winter Champs

The 28th running of the CRCRC Electric Winter Midwest Championships were held at The Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, OH, about 30 minutes south of Columbus. Organised by the CRCRC club, the event is one of the longest running and most popular events in the nation. With close to 500 entries, racers from all over the area attended to see how they stacked up against some of the best in the world. In the 2WD Modified class, Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri capitalised on his second-place starting position to pace Top Qualifier Jared Tebo throughout the main events. Sharing similar speed and lap times with Tebo, it came down to a clean 7 minutes throughout the triple A-mains. With wins in A2 and A3, Cavalieri showed the racing strategy he’s become famous for, taking the overall win. In the 4WD Modified class, the results were the same, with Cavalieri taking the wins in A1 and A2.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 14, 2015

Ryan Maifield wins at Dirt Nitro Challenge warm-up

Ryan Maifield took a TQ and win in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class at the Dirt Nitro Challenge Warm-up. Maifield TQ’ed by a large margin during the 7 minute qualifier and went on to win the A-main with a consistent and quick drive. Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin finished in the 2nd position showing that the young AZ driver can wheel a 1/8th as well.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 14, 2015

WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series visited the unseasonably warm city of Airdrie, Alberta, for their normally appropriately named Annual Snowpocalypse, round 4 of the WCICS series. Airdrie hosted a great event, with the highlight of the weekend, and a particular strength of the Karz club, the kids only Mini class. Seven other WCICS classes were hotly contested, and as the midway point before the Christmas break, the season class championships are revealing some strong favourites. In the Touring Car Modified class Team Associated’s Peter Tozser came from 4th on the grid to top of the podium, Serpent’s Steve Soon cleanly drove to 2nd, and dominant TQ and fast lap holder Wayne Mah unfortunately ended up 3rd after his Awesomatix took some contact.

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January 13, 2015

Patrick Hofer takes 4wd buggy at Winterchamps

With 150 entries in four classes, the Winterchamps turned out to be one of Europe’s biggest electric offroad races. The large indoor track offered many technical sessions and different jumps. Qualifying took place on Saturday and the first heats began the same day and continued throughout Sunday. On Saturday, Team Associated/Reedy driver Patrick Höfer entered the finals qualifying second place in 4wd Buggy and 2wd Buggy Modified classes. On Sunday, Patrick strove to win both classes. In 4wd Modified, the two greatest contenders, Oliver Scholz and Patrick Höfer, gave the spectators a great fight, but Patrick won the race, taking the overall win. In 2wd Modified, Oliver Scholz won the race, followed by Patrick in second.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 12, 2015

Robin Kaiser wins at Austrian 1/12th Stock Nationals

The Austrian 1/12th scale Stock Nationals were held on the permanent indoor racetrack of the MAC Traiskirchen, just outside of Vienna. The event attracted a good turnout of drivers thanks to the 10.5T motor limit in combination with “blinky” speed controllers. Robin Kaiser took the TQ and win with his CRC Xti in front of his teammate Dominic Vogl and Rene Dockter also using a CRC Xti WC car. Beside the main 1/12th class the race also saw the running of a Formula category, won by Herbert Weber (CRC), and a World GT class that was taken by Christoph Holter (CRC).

Source: Blackart [blackart-racing.eu]

January 12, 2015

Fourth DHI Cup win for Neumann

Joern Neumann remains the unbeaten DHI Cup Champion in 4WD Buggy when for the second year running, the German again saw off the challenge of Martin Bayer in the third A-Main. With a win a piece, Bayer winning A1, the pair went into A3 exactly as they did 12-months ago with a winner takes all situation. Starting from the TQ position Neumann would only briefly relinquish the lead when Bayer attempted a move on lap 3 and had to wait on Neumann to retake position as David Ronnefalk drove past the recovering Durango to take a short lived lead. While Bayer had the pace to challenge his carpet track nemesis a series of mistakes from the Czech driver would drop him to fourth leaving him to again finish second overall. Finishing A3 in second position Ronnefalk would complete the podium in Denmark on his HB debut.

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January 12, 2015

Volker takes DHI Cup tally to six

Ronald Volker has brought his tally of DHI Cup titles to six after another easy win in A2 secured him overall victory at the 15th running of the famous Danish event. The Yokomo driver was joined on the podium in Odense by Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, winner of a controversial A3, with Freddy Sudhoff getting his debut for HB off to an encouraging start with third overall. Having been the only serious contender to the reign of Volker over the weekend Yannic Prumper would miss the podium finishing fourth after a coming together with Hagberg as they battled for the lead in the closing race.

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