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November 4, 2013

JConcepts Super Cup Fall Session Rd2 – Report

Florida’s best racers made their way to Bashers RC Raceway in Palm Beach Gardens for the second round of the fall session. Many came early for practice and a club race on Friday. It was poised to be a great weekend with a feel of electricity in the air. 138 entries would fill the 20 heats to seed racers in the top qualifying spots. Stock 2WD buggy had JConcepts Team Driver Riker Gatenby on top of the field of 23 to a time of 20/5:12.692. Seven drivers would start the C-main for 2 bump spots to the B. After changing positions many times Nate Adair and Matt Bradford Jr., were able to hold off a hard charge from Ron Viesins to the B-main. Brian Buckley lead every lap of the B-main, but the show was put on by Matt Bradford Sr. Matt started in the 2 spot but fell to 7th after a multi-car pile-up on lap 2. Rich Schafer and Robert Molina would be back and forth for the final bump spot for many laps all while Matt was working his way back though the field racing clean and consistent laps. On lap 11 Matt made his final pass of the B-main into 2nd and the final bump spot. As the tone sounded for the 10 racers of the A-main, Riker set sail and never looked back. Glenn Worthington finished 2nd with Billy Bruce 3rd, Rick Jacobs in 4th and Jovan Cruz 5th.

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November 4, 2013

Mike Wilder victorious at the 2nd annual NEIC

Maximus RC Raceway located in York, Maine hosted the 2nd Annual Team Durango North East Indoor Championships. JConcepts’ Mike Wilder qualified 4th on the grid for the highly contested Mod Short Course class. He made his way to the front fairly quick during the main and after a late race battle with Matt Olson, Wilder was able to take the overall victory.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 4, 2013

Ronald Ström wins 1/12th at MSEC Rd1

The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup saw new Zen Racing driver Ronald Ström taking the 1/12th scale win. Having only received the conversion kit the Friday before the race Ronald still managed to leave Mickael Brandt and Magnus Hedlung behind.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

November 4, 2013

Van Biljoen & Geldenhuys win at SA Off Road Champs

The last round of the South African National Off Road Championship took place at the Avion Raceway near Johannesburg. Drivers from all over the country attended the event with over 50 entries in the buggy and truggy class. In the buggy class, Justin van Biljoen (Mugen) from Pretoria was Top Qualifier and went on to win the 1 hour final in front of Christoff Meyer (Team Associated) and Tiaan Oelofse (Mugen). In the overall championship the buggy class win went to Miguel Haasbroek (Mugen). In the truggy class, Cape Town driver Arno Geldenhuys (Mugen) won the final closely followed by local driver Chris vd Westhuizen (Team C) and 3rd was up and coming young driver Tyler Burger (MUgen) from East London.

Thanks to Wayne Joelson for sending the report.

November 4, 2013

Alex Zanchettin wins at IBR Winter Indoor Race Rd1

The first out of three Winter Indoor Race meetings was held at IBR Padova last weekend. The race saw a good amount of international drivers attending such as Kyosho’s Cody King and Elliott Boots, Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann or Mugen’s Robert Battle to name just a few. At the end of the hour long F1 final TLR’s Alex Zanchettin took the win one lap ahead of TLR team mate Alessandro Stocco. Cody King finished five seconds down in third position. Martin Wollanka (Xray) and Jerome Sartel (Agama) came in fourth and fifth respectively.

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November 4, 2013

Bryan Ferrara wins F1 at ModelBerghem race

At last weekend’s ModelBerghem race Fenix Racing driver Bryan Ferrara took the win in the Formula 1 class with the new Su-zuka conversion kit. Coming in second was Flavio Paladin (Tamiya) with Domenico Drago completing the top 3.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]

November 4, 2013

Oskar Levin doubles at VBC Cup

The first round of the Swedish VBC Cup took place at the Borås track. Oskar Levin took TQ in the 2WD class and later went on to win in front of Niclas Månsson and Otto Ausfelt. In 4WD, despite starting from 3rd on the grid, Oskar again went home with the winning honours, this time in front of Marcus Lind and Felix Sandberg. In the 1/10th ST class Marcus Sandberg brought home the win with Jesper Uvehall and Niclas Månsson in tow.

Source: rchobbysydracing.se [rchobbysydracing.se] | Images: Oskar Levin

November 3, 2013

Akimoto & Ootsuka win 4WD at Asia Offroad Champs

After yesterday’s running of the 2WD classes at the 2013 Asia Offroad Championships today the 4WD classes were run. The race schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains with the lower finals being run twice. The Modified class had Kohta Akimoto taking TQ three seconds in front of Masatsugu Ido and Kai Kikuchi, who was another second down on his fastest run. Shin Adachi came in fourth, Daisuke Sakamoto ended the qualifying in fifth position. The 13.5T Stock class had Daisuke Katou taking the TQ honours closely followed by Masahiro Outsuka and Masaru Takeda. Hiroki Katou was the last driver to score 15 laps, fifth placed Mami Hoshino lead the 14 laps club.

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