April 21, 2013

Maifield wins first Mod Truck encounter

Maifield wins first Mod Truck encounter

Ryan Maifield kicked of the final day of the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, this morning to take a comfortable win from 3rd on the grid over the battling TLRs of Taylor Larsen and Dustin Evans. Top Qualifier Cody Hollis had a poor race a series of mistakes dropping him back down the order to finish a distant 4th.

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April 21, 2013

KS Chu wins at Malaysian EP on-road race

KS Chu wins at Malaysian EP on-road race

One of the biggest EP on-road races in Malaysia was recently held at the Sarawak Sibu Ex-airport track that is considered one of the largest in the country with the cars reaching speeds of up to 100km/h down the main straight. The meeting was held in a stock 10.5T and a modified class and attracted racers from Kuala Lumpur, Terrengganu, Taiping, Sabah, Brunei, Kuching, Miri and Sibu. KS Chu was able to take pole position in both the stock and modified class ahead of Mohd Sonny and William Tiong. In the A finals Ks Chu lead from start to finish with no major challenge from any of the competitors. The second and third spot on the podium went to William and Sonny in the stock class with Sonny and William switching final positions in the modified event.

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April 21, 2013

Maifield, Hollis & Evans TQ Spring Indoor Nationals

Maifield, Hollis & Evans TQ Spring Indoor Nationals

Ryan Maifield, Cody Hollis and Dustin Evans have TQ’d the three main classes at this year’s JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, Maifield giving Associated pole for the 2WD Buggy A-Main while TLR pairing Hollis and Evans will carry the No.1 in Mod Truck and 2WD Short Course respectively tomorrow at the at Mike’s Hobby Shop event.  The only driver to record a double TQ this weekend, Maifield will also lead away the field in the 4WD Buggy A-Main.

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April 20, 2013

Maifield & Hollis up pace in Q2

Maifield & Hollis up pace in Q2

Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield and TLR’s Cody Hollis upped the pace in 2WD Buggy and Mod Truck respectively in the second round of qualifying for the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas with both drivers improving considerably on their opening TQ run times.  Benefiting from much faster track condition Maifield improved his time by over 7 seconds as he set a new fastest lap in the event’s premiere class with the next best improvement coming from team boss Bent Thielke who moves up to fourth behind TLR’s Hollis and Dustin Evans who both failed to improve.  In Mod Truck, Hollis improved by over 10-seconds to take the second of the 3 scheduled rocket round qualifiers by 4.3 seconds from Maifield as the pair posted the first 16-lap runs of the day.

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April 20, 2013

Maifield sets Q1 pace in 2WD Buggy

Maifield sets Q1 pace in 2WD Buggy

The opening round of 2WD buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, saw Ryan Maifield set the early pace around the Mike’s Hobby Shop track with the Associated driver taking Q1 by 1.578 from the TLR of Cody Hollis with Dustin Evans completing the Top 3 as the only other driver to manage 16-laps.  It was good opening round of qualifying for Hollis as he took his TLR22-T to the fastest time in the other big class this weekend Mod Truck ahead of his young team-mate Taylor Larsen with Maifield taking his T4.2 to the 3rd fastest time.

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April 20, 2013

Xray Challenge Italy – Announcement

Xray Challenge Italy – Announcement

The RCE Roma will host the Xray Challenge Italy on the weekend of the 2nd of June. The race is run in 1/10th touring stock 13.5T blinky, touring modified and 1/18 scale classes and you can find all information about the race on the hosting’s club website by clicking here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]


April 20, 2013

JConcepts Spring Indoor Nats underway in Dallas

JConcepts Spring Indoor Nats underway in Dallas

Round 2 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series got underway in Dallas, Texas, today with drivers taking advantage of a day of open practice at Mike’s Hobby Shop which plays host to the ‘Spring Indoor Nationals’ for a second year at its impressive and extremely large facility. With entries up on last year, the event has also attracted a much more competitive field setting the stage for an exciting weekend of racing which is set to get underway properly tomorrow with the first of three rounds of qualifying.

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April 19, 2013

Italian Job Race – Announcement

Italian Job Race – Announcement

The 2013 edition of the Italian Job Race will be held at the weekend of the 2rd of September at the D&R track in Castelnuovo Calcea. Run in buggy F1 and F2 category the race is a nitro buggy only meeting with no truggy or electric class. To sign up for the race and for more information click here.