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February 29, 2012

East Coast Carpet regionals report

Last weekend the East Coast Carpet regionals were held at the MRH Raceway in Baltimore/MD. The race unofficially began on Friday. Racers started pouring in before the store even opened to try and get as much practice as possible. Friday evening laid host to a small club race so that some out-of -owners could get acquainted with the track and be fresh for the Saturday marathon of racing. The real fun started on Saturday, practice began promptly at 8am and the track filled immediately with cars from all the offered classes; 13.5 WGT, Stock TC, Stock 12th, and F1. The goal of the race was to provide a warm up for the carpet nationals in Texas, so the class structure followed what ROAR had laid out. This structure proved to be popular, as all the classes were sufficiently filled with a wide talent range. 3 qualifiers were ran in traditional format and the mains concluded around 11PM. Racers had a great time, some visiting us from up to a 6 hours drive away. We all are looking forward to next years event, and hope to make it bigger and better than the last.

View the final results here

February 28, 2012

Naoto Matsukura wins JMRCA Kanto GrandPrix Rd1

This year the JMRCA introduced the Kanto 1/12 scale Grand Prix that is run at the World famous Yatabe arena in the Kanto region in which Japan’s capital Toyko is located. Seven meetings will be run over the year with round 1 was held at the weekend of the 12th of February. The race saw a total of 50 drivers in the 17.5T stock and modified class with the latter being dominated during the qualifying by CRC Gen-Xi driver Hayato Ishioka who took TQ from Yokomo ace Naoto Matsukura. In the finals it was Naoto who scored full points in front of CRC driver Toshiki Kunitomo and Kato (Yokomo) in third place. Fourth place went to TQ Hayato Ishioka.

Source: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.net]

February 28, 2012

Vesa Yli wins Finnish 1/12 nationals Rd2

The 2nd round of the Finnish 1/12 scale national series, the FinTrack Tour, took place in Oulu, Northern Finland last weekend. The organising club OSPA will host the 2012 Nordic Challenge for both 1/12 and Touring cars in October as well as hosting the 2013 1/12 Euros. The race combined both 1/12 and touring classes as an exception as for many years the classes have been run separated to get more suitable conditions for both type of racing. A total of 97 drivers signed in for the weekend to race. The track saw a technical layout suitable for Saturdays’s 1/12 racing in the mod and spec class.

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February 28, 2012

DNC 2012 Pro Buggy final video

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Having shown you the Pro Truggy A-main yesterday, today it is the turn of the Pro Buggy final. Ty Tessmann would once again take the win, but first would have to fend off Ryan Cavalieri and then a fast charging Ryan Maifield before pulling out almost a lap lead on 2nd place to take the victory. Check out the video above of the entire Pro Buggy final, shot late at night at the Fear Farm Raceway in Arizona.

February 28, 2012

Jorn Neumann doubles @ ‘Off Road Wars’

Jörn Neumann sealed up a nearly perfect weekend of racing at Maritime Raceway’s second annual ‘Off Road Wars’ event. The event drew some of the very best drivers in the UK – and a few European drivers made the trip over including Team Durango’s rising star, Jörn Neumann. The track was constructed in the week prior, over the top of the usual carpet on-road track – with plenty of challenging jumps and sections for the drivers to negotiate. In 2WD, Jörn was running the standard DEX210 with the addition of the new geared differential – running 650cst shock oil on the high grip surface. Running in the middle of the top 10 in the first two rounds of qualifying was a slow start for the Team Durango driver but in round three he put in the fastest time of the day for the TQ and first on the grid. The finals got off to a bad start when Jörn made an unforced error in leg one – but came back to win the second and third legs for the victory.

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February 27, 2012

DNC 2012 Pro Truggy final video

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Ty Tessmann won The Dirt Nitro Challenge Pro Truggy final in dominant style, but the action on the track was still intense. Check out the video above of the entire Pro Truggy final, shot under the lights at the Fear Farm Raceway in Arizona.

February 27, 2012

Mazovia Model Car Championships – report

Last weekend saw the final race in the Mazovia Model Car Championships. The biggest electric model cars racing series in Poland is organised by OSM and the final round of the series was run at a big carpet track in Piaseczno, next to Warsaw with 55 racers fought for the win in five classes. Saturday saw the on-road classes and in Modified the winner was TQ Dennis Fadtke using an Associated TC6.1. With this win Dennis also took the championship title. The second place went to vice champion Bartosz Pochopien (HB TCX) followed by Maciej Mrozek (HB TCX).

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February 27, 2012

Tessmann does double at Dirt Nitro Challenge

Ty Tessmann pulled off the double at the Dirt Nitro Challenge in Phoenix, Arizona, late on Sunday night when he cruised to victory ahead of his Hot Bodies team-mate Jessie Robbers, as the only two drivers to mount any sort of challenge on the Canadian both ran into problems. Driving his prototype D8, such was the pace of the 19-year-old that he was on target to lap the entire field before his father & pitman Gord called him in for an extra splash of fuel in the final minutes of the race so as to keep out of the closely fought battle for second and third.

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