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February 23, 2013

Tebo is Top Qualifier at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Jared Tebo is the Top Qualifier for the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Kyosho driver putting the honour beyond the reach of his rivals with one round to go after he backed up his Q1 run by again topping the time sheets at the famous Arizona event. Have just seen off his team-mate Elliot Boots by less than a second in Q1, birthday boy Tebo posted a much more convincing Q2 taking the round by over 6 seconds from Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield and A-Main Hobbies’ Dylan Rodriguez putting in yet another impressive performance this weekend to complete the Top 3.

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February 23, 2013

Tebo TQs first Buggy qualifier at DNC

2011 Dirt Nitro Challenge Champion Jared Tebo got his 26th birthday off to the perfect start as he headed a Kyosho 1-2 from Elliott Boots in the opening round of qualifying for the 14th running of the world famous Arizona event. Running earlier than Boots in the round Tebo had to watch an impressive run from US debutant Boots, the World Championship Top Qualifier just 8/100ths shy of the TQ at the end of the 7-minute run with the pair the only drivers to record 12 laps. Just missing out on joining them on 12-laps, Team Xray’s Renaud Savoya completed the Top 3.

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February 22, 2013

Duncan, Due & Olsen win at Motorama 2013

Frigid Pennsylvania temperatures weren’t enough to stop the competition from heating up at the 2013 Motorama located in Harrisburg, PA. Temperatures rose quickly inside the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex with two R/C tracks and a record setting 740+ race entries, racers were amped up and ready to lay down some laps. JConcepts Driver Dave Duncan edged out ahead of the competition by only 0.8 of a second taking the TQ spot in Stock Short Course Buggy. Duncan took advantage of the ever important pole position by checking out and not looking back taking the A Main Stock Short Course Buggy win.

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February 22, 2013

Drake Truggy Top Qualifier at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Adam Drake is the Top Qualifier for Truggy at the Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Team Losi Racing driver wrapping up the honour early by backing up his opening qualifying run at the Fear Farm with another TQ run in Q2, this time ahead of Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz and his TLR team-mate Mike Truhe.

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February 22, 2013

Drake takes first Truggy Qualifier at DNC

Adam Drake set the pace in the opening round of qualifying at the World famous Dirt Nitro Challenge, the Team Losi Racing driver taking the first of 3 scheduled qualifiers by 3.7 seconds from defending Champion Ty Tessmann and Team Durango’s Ryan Lutz, the Top 3 being the only drivers to complete 12 laps of Joey ‘The Dirt’ Christensen’s track creation for this the 14th running of the famous track builder’s signature event. Having suffered hail & snow during yesterday’s practice day which meant drivers got just a single practice run on the track, today’s weather in Phoenix, Arizona, was much more favorable with a 2 hour delay to the start of proceedings enough to dry the track off enough to get the event underway. Eventually starting at 10am such is the size of the entry including an increased number of European’s, today’s action at the Fear Farm is not set to be completed until the early hours of Friday morning.

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February 21, 2013

Xray Challenge Italy – Announcement

Xray Italy with cooperation with Sprint RC and Team La Gang invites all Xray electric on-road racers to visit the Xray Challenge Italy. The race will take place on the weekend of the 7th of April in the city of Scandiano. The meeting sees the running of a touring car modified, 13.5T ‘blinky’ and 1/12th scale class on handout tires for the touring cars and your own tire choice for the pan car class. As a little extra the TC stock class winner will receive a free ticket of the Xray Challenge Grand Final at the Xray factory. You can book in for the race here and find more information by hitting this link.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 21, 2013

Juan C Rodriguez wins in Puerto Rico

The second round of the Puerto Rican electric touring series took place at the PitLane RC track. The traction was high all day and the layout very fast with many hairpin turns which meant speed and acceleration would play an integral part in the car’s setup. Juan C Rodriguez was able to TQ the first of two qualifiers in the Boosted 10.5T class ahead of Xray team mate Jose Colon. In the first A main Juan had to retire early due to a broken sensor cable but the following finals saw him pull away from Jose handing Juan the win with Jose Colon in second and Jose Cruz in third place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 20, 2013

DJ Apolaro wins Sedan at 2013 Winternats

Beside the 1/8th scale classes the recent Winternats in Florida also saw the running of the 1/10th 200mm sedan class. The qualifying saw Ralph Burch take TQ from DJ Apolaro and Mike Swauger. At the beginning of the A main Ralph was able to pull away with DJ Apolaro in tow. The latter was running on relatively hard tires, meaning a slower pace for the Capricorn driver but DJ’s plan was to push in the final minutes of the race. Some minutes into the final Ralph made a small mistake and this allowed DJ to pass. He could then hold the lead while Ralph started to really push his car. It looked like it was going to come down to either Ralph or DJ and with Ralph eventually making another mistake DJ was able to drive an error free race for the entire 45 minutes with Xray’s Ralph Burch would end up having a problem towards the end of the race and this allowed DJ to back off and just cruise to the end and take the win in the Sedan class.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]