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January 23, 2014

20th Reedy Race underway at OCRC

The 20th running of the World famous offroad Reedy Race of Champions has gotten underway at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California with drivers getting their first taste of the track with a round of 2WD and 4WD practice. Overall the feedback on the track from drivers is a positive one the majority agreeing while not the most technical of layouts it should produce good racing for the heads up racing format which the Reedy Race is all about. 2WD World Champion Jared Tebo however was one driver not so complimentary describing the track as ‘not good at all’ adding it was ‘way too easy’. In terms of times on the freshly laid track it was Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans who set the pace in 2WD with a 20.373 second lap while in 4WD Absolute Hobbyz driver Barry Baker topped the times with a 18.991 lap.

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January 23, 2014

Date change for EFRA TC Euros

The EFRA announced several updated for three of this year’s European Championships one of which is a date change for the 2014 European Electric Touring Car Championships in Spain. Due to permission problems beyond control of the organisers and the EFRA set a new date for the 21st to 24th of August. The organiser and also AECAR as well as EFRA apologize for any inconvenience caused by this date change due to reasons which were not foreseeable.

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January 21, 2014

Scotty Gray wins Pan-American GT pro race

The Pan-American GT Race was held this past weekend at Homestead R/C Raceway which is one of the biggest GT events in the US with racers from Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Peru, and more. Qualifiers were a battle between Paolo Morganti and Scotty Gray having Scotty taking round 2 and 3 and having electrical issues on round 4 while on a new TQ pace. At the end Paolo took the final round and the overall TQ honours. In the finals it was a close battle for the first 35 minutes of the race being both racers 1 second apart the entire time. Scotty was able to gain the lead and make some ground from second place, thanks to a very clean run and a very good pit strategy. Finally Scotty with took the win with his Capamerica developed and XRD-powered prototype car by 8 laps followed by Andy Baez from Puerto Rico and Joel Abreu from the Dominican Republic.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

January 19, 2014

2014 IFMAR 200mm Worlds back in Bangkok

Huge RC in Bangkok, Thailand, the track owned and run by 2002 ISTC World Champion Surikarn Chaidajsuriya, has been confirmed as the new host for the 2014 IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Championships. IFMAR were left looking for a new host for the event after deciding in Japan last November not to travel to Argentina for the race. The event is scheduled to be run from the 7th to the 15th of November and will mean back to back 200mm World Championships in the country following the 2012 Worlds being held at RC Addict in another part of Bangkok.

Source: IFMAR [ifmar.org]

January 19, 2014

EOS win #9 for Neumann

Despite facing by far his toughest opposition yet at a Euro Offroad Series race, Team Durango’s Joern Neumann remains unbeaten in 4WD Buggy after he secured win #9 at Round 2 of the series today in Berlin. Taking a relatively easy win in A1, the German faced intense pressure second time round from Team Xray’s Martin Bayer but a last lap coming together allowed him to take the Leg and with it the overall win.

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January 19, 2014

Matsukura takes thrilling A3 for overall EOS victory

Naoto Matsukura has taken overall victory in 2WD Buggy at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Berlin, Germany. Only his second appearance in the series, the Team Yokomo driver took the EOS victory after a last lap mistake in A3 by Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl, the Austrian looking to have been on target for a repeat of his Polish victory. Taking the win by less than half a second over Honigl to back up his A1 victory, the Japanese ace was joined on the podium by defending Champion Joern Neumann, winner of A2, with Honigl completing the Top 3.

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January 19, 2014

Neumann wins A2 of 2WD in Berlin

Joern Neumann has won the second leg of the 2WD Buggy A-Main at the Euro Offroad series setting the stage for a three way battle for the overall win in Berlin going into the third Main. The Team Durango driver took the win ahead of Team C’s Hupo Honigl and Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura, benefiting from a mistake by the latter on lap 3 that dropped the A1 winner from the lead to fifth.

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January 18, 2014

Matsukura takes first A-Main at EOS

Naoto Matsukura took a tone to tone victory in the first A-Main at the Euro Offroad Series in Berlin but the Japanese ace almost threw it away in what was a clearly dominant performance. Top Qualfier for the 2WD Buggy encounter, the Team Yokomo driver had a commanding lead over the No.2 starting Durango of Joern Neumann but with three laps to go he made a mistake that required marshaling. However such was his lead over the three way battle for second place that even with the loss of 4-seconds he was able to hold on to take albeit a narrow 6/10ths of a second win over Neumann with Hupo Honigl third and Lee Martin fourth.

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