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September 13, 2012

Jarda Kopecky wins Czech TC Nationals

The 2012 1/10 TC Czech Championship took place recently at the track in Nachod and saw the best drivers competing including young talented guys promising some great racing. It was a 3-day event with training on Friday, Saturday 5 rounds of qualification and Sunday the finals. Without winter national champion Peter Grof it was another Xray driver Jarda Kopecky who was the favourite for the title. He showed a steady performance in all three final races and became a national champion for 2012 ahead of Radek Flek in 2nd and Michal Blahovsky 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 13, 2012

Dmitry Malyshko wins Russian EP title

JQ Products driver Dmitry Malyshko had a great performance at the Russian 1/8 E-buggy Champinoships with his THECar Tekno Conversion EP Car. TQ and total domination in all race days in this class, Dmitry is now Russian National Champion 2012 in 1:8th E-Buggy. Dimitry also made the main in the Nitro Russian Championship at the new Raduga raceway in Bolshoy Vyas, finishing 7th after a hard fought final. Starting 7th on the grid in the final Dimitry managed to drive up to 4th place but unfortunately he had a receiver problem in the final due to the rain and had to retire finishing 7th.

Source: JQ Products [jq-products.com]

September 13, 2012

Cavalieri & Drake win at JBRL Nitro Series Rd6

Round six of the JBRL Nitro Series made its way to Chula Vista R/C Club last weekend. The weather and track conditions were amazing with the CVRC club preparing a technical track that held up great all weekend. TLR/Novarossi/Pro-Line driver, Adam Drake headed to round six of the JBRL nitro series as the points leader in 1/8th nitro buggy, 1/8th nitro truck and electric buggy. In the nitro buggy class Cody King TQ’d round one and Drake TQ’d round two. King would be the overall top qualifier followed by Drake and Cavalieri. King and Drake had a rough start and found themselves buried deep in the pack. At one point Drake was over twenty seconds behind leader Cavalieri. Drake was able to catch Cody at the end of the 25 minute final, but wasn’t able to make a pass. Cavalieri won by 11 seconds followed by King and Drake only one second apart.

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September 12, 2012

Evens & Keyaerts win Belgian SCT Cup Rd4

Home of the famous Belgian GP, MBV Kampenhout hosted the 4th leg of the Belgian SCT Cup recently. The track is very challenging with a lot of elevation and off camber turns. The 2WD class qualifications saw Nicolas Evens taking TQ with his freshly built 22SCT by winning all 3 qualifiers. Vincent Brauns won the first final leg with his TeamC truck, Nicolas ending second under strong pressure from Mike Renotte. In the second leg, Nicolas came ahead of Mike. Vincent had a bad start and ended 3rd. During the last final, Vincent and Mike had a great fight, Mike closing on Vincent lap by lap, ending 0,3 second behind. Nicolas took the leg win and the overall.

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September 12, 2012

Cseko, Timar & Varsanyi win Rd7 in Hungary

The 7th and penultimate round of the Hungarian Onroad Championships was held in Pecs last weekend. The club cleaned and sugar-watered the track for this event so the grip was there right from the beginning. This time the direction of the track has changed from regular anti-clockwise to clockwise which was a but tricky in the beginning for mechanics during refueling. The layout is fast and flowing with only one harpin corner and the weather was nice all weekend, around 25°C and no winds.

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September 12, 2012

Hobby Haven Off-road Shootout report

JConcepts Team Driver Dave Duncan made the trip from Florida to Urbandale, Iowa for the 2012 Hobby Haven Off-road Shootout annual race. The track, a black dirt surface, is built next to the Hobby Shop building with a nice large concrete parking lot to pit on right next to the track. The track crew was awesome with the keep up, track watering, blowing the track off and/or just using a push broom in the corners to remove the fluff off the driving surface.

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September 11, 2012

Orlowski & Okonski take Polish offroad titles

Last weekend saw the Polish 1:10 Electric Buggy championship organized by Polish Model Car Federation take place in Warsaw. The biggest off-road event in the season in Poland attracted more than 40 drivers in both 2WD and 4WD classes. The 2 days event was organized in a comfortable format for the drivers and mechanics with half a day 2WD and half a day 4WD which allowed many drivers to race in both classes.

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September 11, 2012

Hudy Racing Arena joins as host of ETS finale

The schedule for the sixth season of the Euro Touring Series has been finalised with the exciting news that the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia will open its doors to its first international race meeting by hosting the season finale of the world famous electric touring car championship next Summer. The official test track of reigning ETS Pro-Stock Champions Xray, Round 6 of the upcoming season is scheduled as an outdoor event but should the local weather give rain for the July 19-21st date the state of the art facility can quickly switch to an indoor event ensuring racers who make the trip to the historical city of Trenčín will still get to race no matter what the weather. The other big announcement for the new season is that Modified champions Yokomo will continue as title sponsor for a third consecutive season with the series to continue to be officially known as the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.

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