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March 2, 2012

Meen Vejrak wins 2012 TITC race

The 10th TITC was held recently at the RC Addict track in Bangkok. The race saw the attendance of four former or recent IFMAR World Champions and an entrance of about 300 drivers. In qualifying Meen Vejrak took TQ followed by Jilles Groskamp, March Rheinard and Chavit S. In the first A final Meen hat a tough fight with Atsushi Hara with the better end for the Xray driver Meen who win the first final race ahead of Atsushi Hara and Jilles Groskamp. Come the second final Meen wasn’t able to hold his position as he spun at the start and lost several positions. Jilles made the best out of the confuse run, ahead of Atsushi and Marc Rheinard. A final three had to decide for the overall standings and thanks to a mistake-free run Meen V. took the overall win with Jilles Groskamp (Tamiya) in second and Atsushi Hara (Hot Bodies) in third position.

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March 2, 2012

Dustin Evans to contest Euro Offroad Series

Current American 2WD Buggy Champion Dustin Evans is to contest the rest of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby. The 26-year-old, who took the then newly launched TLR22 to 2WD victory at the EOS Pilot race in Sweden last year on his first ever visit to Europe, will join fellow American Mike Truhe and Portugal’s Miguel Matias to strengthen Team Losi Racing’s EOS campaign with their main focus being on securing the 2WD Buggy title.

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March 2, 2012

Lemieux & Burch win 2012 Florida Winternats

The 2012 Winternats was once again held at The Fort in Fort Myers, Florida. This year was the 36th annual running of the unofficial start of the nitro season. The Fort is one of the most demanding tracks in the world due to its high bite and very fast pace. In the 1/10 scale 200mm class Ralph Burch had the strongest NT1 through qualifying, with Paul and Mike close behind. Ralph and DJ Apolaro exchanged TQ position with each round, besting each others efforts through the two days of qualifying. In the final round, Ralph completed the only 34 lap run in sedan to secure TQ with his Max Power’ed Xray NT1, in front of D.J. Apolaro and Paul Lemieux.

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March 2, 2012

Kenji Tsuruta wins Akashi Buggy Club GP Rd 2

Round 2 of the Akashi Buggy Club GP Buggy Race 2012 and the Alpha Engine Cup was held at the Akashi Buggy Course in Akashi City, Japan last weekend. A total of 38 entrants joined the race with Tresrey team driver Kenji Tsuruta being the winner with Daisuke Endo in 2nd and Takashi Kittaka in 3rd place. After the price giving ceremony, Japanese Alpha Plus distributor Tresrey held a prize draw that included Alpha engine combo sets, engines, and the company would like to thank the Akashi Buggy Club and Alpha Plus for making the event possible.

Source: Tresrey [tresrey.com]

March 1, 2012

Root & Dunford win Rd3 of TLR Series Sunday

TLR and Losi’s Frank Root and Ryan Dunford were on hand at the 3rd round of the TLR Series Sunday at Orange Country R/C Raceway (OCRC). The track had fantastic traction and a very fast layout and the entry count was very strong at over 110 and a great day of racing was had by all. There were 2 heats of modified buggy and the qualifying action was intense. Frank Root had a great run going in the first round, but a late mistake would drop him from a possible TQ to 5th. The second round saw Frank show the same speed from round 1 and keep it clean throughout to take a strong TQ by over 4 seconds. When the tone went off, Root jumped out to a quick start to gap the field. About 4 minutes in, Frank had a slight interaction with traffic and surrendered the lead. He would battle wheel to wheel for the next 3 laps and took the lead for good with 1 lap to go. After regaining the lead, Frank would make it by for his 16th lap, and cruise home for the win.

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February 29, 2012

Eckert & Law win JConcepts SCS Rd2

Round 2 of the JConcepts Super Cup Series was hosted by New Red Hobbies in Ocala, FL. With easy 200+ entries, this one day race event has become the race to attend. This track is also selected to be one of the JConcepts Indoor National’s locations so all FL racers wouldn’t miss this chance to get their practice in time. In Pro 2 SC, their was an intense battle between JConcepts’ Paul Wynn and Kyosho’s Ryan Eckert. During qualifying both drivers were only separated by less than 1 sec of each other. During the A main, Ryan got the hole shot, leading Paul in the main but Paul had the faster car with 20.6 sec as best lap & 20.8 sec as his top 5 average lap, Ryan Eckert was still able to hold off Paul with his consistent driving ability & well setup Kyosho Ultima SC-R. In the end, Ryan Eckert took the win Paul Wynn 2nd & Daimon Borkowicz 3rd.

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February 29, 2012

Marc Fisher wins FF class at 2012 TITC

Serpent are reporting on a dream debut for their new 411-FF version in the front wheel drive electric 1/10 class at the TITC in Bangkok last weekend. Marc Fischer TQ’d the event and went on to take victory in the finals to claim the title from Atsushi Hara in 2nd and Jilles Groskamp in 3rd. Meen from Thailand and Fai Hon from Hong Kong also both qualified for the main final with the 411-FF, but due to crashes ended in 8th and 9th respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

February 29, 2012

Chambers & Mazarra win at 2012 Motorama

TLR drivers Matt Chambers and Phillip Atondo made the trek to the 4th annual Motorama race in Harrisburg, PA. Meeting Matt and Phillip at the event were east-coast TLR teammates Anthony Mazarra, James Schlick, J. Armwood, and Toddie Anderson. At the end of qualifying Phillip sat as TQ in 2wd modified, Matt would be TQ in Modified Truck, and Anthony Mazarra TQ in 4wd Short Course. TLR driver Anthony Mazarra took home the win in the Expert Electric Truggy class and Matt Chambers took home the win in the Modified Truck class. Special mention also goes out to Losi privateer Steve Geist who took home the win in 4wd SC with his box-stock Losi SCTE.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]