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November 15, 2016

Akiyama win Speed King Tour Rd7

The seventh and final round of the 2016 Speed King Tour took place at Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in Gunma prefecture last weekend. TRF driver Akio Sobue has already crowned 2016 Modified class series champion but he was still in attendance. The typical Modified and Stock touring classes were run alongside two special classes, the first one is Oval class while the other was the ‘Father and Mother’ class. Only parents of race entrant can enter this race and although some fathers were ‘racers’, some parents had no experience of driving RC cars which led to some chaos.

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November 15, 2016

Drake double at Rd2 of Top Notch Tour

Revelation Raceway was the host for round 2 of the Top Notch Tour this past weekend. The event had over 100 entries including Adam Drake, Cody King, Jeremy Kortz and Joseph Quagraine. Drake was the top qualifier in both rounds of qualifying for nitro buggy and nitro truck. In the nitro buggy final, Drake, King and Kortz had a great battle the first 15 minutes of the final. Eventually Drake settled into a groove and comfortably pulled away to take the victory. King and Kortz had an intense battle until Kortz ran out of fuel only a few turns from the finish. In the nitro truck final, Drake led wire to wire and took the victory.

Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]

November 15, 2016

Tebo sweeps 2016 JConcepts WIS & Invitational

This past weekend Kyosho/Team Orion Factory Driver Jared Tebo would attend the 2016 JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout & Invitational hosted by Fastlane R/C Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri. In the Invitational 2wd/4wd Modified Buggy class, Tebo was on another level as he would finish the first day of racing with a perfect score of 4 wins in the 2wd Buggy class with his Team Orion powered RB6.6. Tebo then continued his dominance on Sunday by also taking 4 wins in 4wd Buggy with his ZX6 to finish the event with a perfect score & take the overall Championship. Kyosho America’s Jonathan Burkhalter would put in an impressive performance to finish only 4 points behind Tebo to take 2nd overall with TLR’s Mason Fuller in 3rd. In the Modified Truck class, Tebo would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all 4 rounds and then went onto win the single 8-minute A-Main Event with his Team Orion powered RT6 by a comfortable margin to complete the clean sweep for the weekend.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

November 14, 2016

Nugroho wins final Indonesian National & takes title

The fifth and final round of the Indonesian National Buggy Championships was held at Willson track, Denpasar, Bali last Sunday. A total of 66 drivers attended this event from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Medan, Batam, Palembang, Kendari, Balikpapan and Bali. The race format originally was to be 6 rounds of 10 minutes with 4 best rounds to count but there was heavy rain during the 3rd qualifier, so the race director took 3 best of 5 rounds. Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took TQ honours and he converted that into the win, followed by Adrian Sutanto (TLR/Reds) in second and Stanley Wangasanegara (Mugen/OS) third.

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November 12, 2016

Sergi Franch wins Spanish ‘RC World’ Cup

Sergi Franch wins Spanish 'RC World' Cup

The annual RC World Cup race, hosted by Johnny Pastor shop (RC World), was held at the Almussafes track in Valencia, Spain. This race is famous for the attendance of the best national drivers, as well as the amount of prizes given away in the draw at the end of the race. After Saturday night rain, the track was very tricky in qualifying, where in 1/10th scale Sergi Franch came out fastest topping 2 of the 3 rounds in front of Victor Pelaez, qualifying both drivers directly into the main final.

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November 11, 2016

Luke Pittman wins at the Big Chill

The Big Chill went down in Chilliwack, BC, Canada in early November and Xray’s Luke Pittman made the trip to represent team Xray and RC America. The track layout was very fast and flowing and allowed for some excellent racing which was seen in all classes. The Touring Stock class was sponsored by ORCA who provided their new RT 17.5 for all entrants as a hand-out motor, creating an even playing field among all those who entered. Motors were randomly picked during registration and racers were free to change timing and gearing as they wanted. Pittman left the timing at the recommended setting and ran the recommended gearing of 3.72.

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November 11, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd7 – Report

The last race of the 2016 Belgian SCT season was organized at the famous offroad indoor track “Blackcounty Arena”, which hosted an EOS race some years ago. The clay track they had last year is now covered with astroturf providing higher grip but keeping the natural elevations and underneath bumps. The layout has been revised as well and is really fun to drive. The Pro4 title was already decided before this race, but the Pro2 was still open with Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT) and Géry Ledocq (Kyosho SC6) tied on points in the series ranking.

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November 9, 2016

Jack Embling wins at Irish Astro Cup

The Irish Astro Cup was held at the Navan circuit, Ireland in sunny yet slightly cold weather. The race format was three rounds of practice on Saturday followed by three qualifiers and another two qualifiers on Sunday with bump-up finals and an EP final concluding the day. Jack Embling TQ’d the 1st round with local hero and top Irish driver Bradley Baird 2nd. The next round Brad would use his local knowledge to good use and TQ so it was all even. Brad TQ’d again in the 3rd round so he would be last in the reversed grid for the Dash for Cash.

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