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November 14, 2011

South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2 report

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held on an indoor track in the middle of south Sweden. About 30 drivers attended the race on a newly endowed carpet track which had a new layout that was really nice and flowing. The first round of qualifying was taken by Michael Nilsson who had a solid run, he was a few seconds ahead of the home driver Markus Hellquist followed by the Rd1 winner Daniel Carlsson. Q2 was once again taken by Michael and this time he drove perfectly without any kind of mistakes, he was followed by Daniel who was 3 seconds behind and third place did go to Markus. Q3 looked out to be a close finish between David Ronnefalk and Michael, this was “Buggy” David’s first race this season and his gear diff equipped TF6 was going really well. Michael was under pressure but he stayed calm and was able to hold David behind, at the end they were separated with 0.5 seconds, so Michael took TQ followed by David and Daniel.

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November 13, 2011

Lucas Urbain confirmed for ATS Pilot race

The organisers of next weekend’s Asian Touring Series Pilot race at the Yatabe Arena have confirmed more top level entries for this exciting race with the news that former European finalists Lucas Urbain will attend the event. The factory Yokomo racer from France is just one of a number of new European drivers confirmed with Toni Rheinard, Michal Bok, Radek Flek, Ivan Laptev and Sandro Kuriger all going to compete. From Asia there is of course also a lot of interest with multiple World and Japanese National Champion Naoto Matsukura racing alongside former National Champions Daisuke Yoshioka, Takehiro Yamauchi & Shin Adachi as well as Korean National Champions Lee Jung Duk & Eung Chan Kim confirmed to compete. The event which will be run from the 18th to the 20th of November will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.

November 13, 2011

Matsukura continues buggy dominance in Japan

The JMRCA Japanese electric buggy nationals took place this weekend at the newly renovated Yatabe Arena, host to next weekend’s ATS race. With the race being on home soil for Yokomo, it was their factory driver and two time World 1/12th Champion who begun his title defense by taking the top qualifying spot in both 2wd and 4wd with the B-Max2 and B-Max4 respectively. In the 2wd class it was Kohta Akimoto (Kyosho) and Satoshi Maezumi (Tamiya) that completed the top 3, while in 4wd class it was Shin Adachi (Kyosho) and Keisuke Enomoto (Yokomo). In the 2wd finals, Naoto was unchallenged as he wrapped up his 4th consecutive title in this class winning all 3 legs ahead of Akimoto in 2nd and Maezumi in 3rd. It was the same result in 4wd as Naoto dominated all three legs to take victory in front of Adachi in 2nd and Enomoto in 3rd, giving Naoto his 5th consecutive 4wd National title.

View the final results here

November 11, 2011

Kurzbuch & Volker win HobbyPro Open

Last weekend the annual HobbyPro Open race took place at the TRC track in Hong Kong. More than 100 drivers entered the race with Ronald Völker, Simon Kurzbuch, Jilles Groskamp and Patrick Schäfer representing the Shepherd factory team. Additionally the Shepherd mechanics Armin Weihert and Alex Kempe travelled to Hong Kong offering assistance to every attending driver.

Continue reading the race report here

November 11, 2011

JR Mitch wins Nitro Clash warmup

Last weekend’s Nitro clash warm up was held in Coral Spring, FL and was a successful test day for all Nitro Racers attending the Clash. In the Pro Buggy A main, JR Mitch driving the Associated RC8.2 took the TQ spot. Mitch was able to checks out early in the race and was able to extend his lead to half a lap over 2nd in the first 10 min of the race. Just when everyone thought the race was over 2nd placed Renato Jr Tradardi slowly caught up to Mitch. When it was time for pit stops, it was all up to the pit men to make the difference.

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November 11, 2011

Janos Lazar wins Pro4 at Nitro clash warm up

JConcepts Clash is the Biggest off road race in FL every year. This year Clash is host at Coral Spring, FL (CSRCCC). With the amazing 370 pre entries this year’s clash is going to be the biggest Clash yet. This weekend’s Nitro clash warm up was a successful test day for all the Nitro racers. In order to satisfy the current RC trend, 1/8th E-buggy & Short Course truck were included in this weekend’s Nitro clash warm up to make things interesting. The Pro4 Short Course was the biggest class even at this Nitro Warm up event. It had 30+ racers attend this race showing everyone how popular Short Course truck racing has become. In the A main, the TQ, driving the Associated SC10 4×4, Christopher Viesins checked out early in the race. He was having his perfect weekend and was able to click in a fast lap of 27.8, the fastest time in SC. At the 4 minute mark, he started to make a few mistakes at the table top and this is where the race began. The battle for 2nd was between Johnny Meija, driving the Losi SCT-E & Janos Lazar driving the Durango DESC410R. The intense battle was focused on those two until Christopher’s mistake caused him to fall back. At the 5 minute mark the 3 drivers battled to the finish, Johnny’s mistake in the hairpin letting Lazar & Christopher to slip by. Lazar’s Durango flew over the table top follow by the double while Christopher fell short in the double costing him the chance to catch Lazar. Lazar won the race by 1 second over Christopher with Johnny finishing 3rd.

Source: Hobby Crap [hobbycrap.com]

November 10, 2011

Ryan Lee wins Kyosho Buggy championships

JQ Products continues to do well in Korea with another victory for THE Car in the hand of Ryan Lee at the recent Kyosho Buggy championship at Jungwang offroad circuit. Ryan gave this report. “The track was wet due to rain until 11am, but many drivers helped to clean out water after the rain stopped, so the race could start at noon with a shortened schedule. My car performed a lot better than at the Korean nationals. The new smooth gearing is even better than overdrive with stock gearing, and lighter diff oil set up of 3-5-2 felt very good on entire track. My car was super strong at the very tough Jungwang track. I could finish the 40 minute main final with faster average laptime under bad surface condition compared to Nationals. Another JQ Products driver made the A-main. DJ Park also achieved a good result, having struggled at the beginning but he could manage to move up the order one by one, finally finishing in the runner up spot. Hyungwook Jang driving a Serpent completed the podium.”

Source: JQ Products [jq-products.com]

November 9, 2011

Alexander Hagberg confirmed for ATS Pilot race

The organisers of next week’s Asian Touring Series Pilot race at the Yatabe Arena in Japan, are delighted to announce that Swedish driver Alexander Hagberg will attend. If current form is anything to go by the factory Xray/LRP driver, who will compete at the event alongside the Xray T3’s designer Martin Hudy, is expected to be battling for the race win. The event which will be run from the 18th to the 20th of November will be open to Modified and Pro Stock, running hand out 17.5T Speedpassion motors, as well as a large number of support classes including an offroad race at the Arena’s indoor dirt track. For further information on this event, visit the official ATS site here.