After an impressive top 10 finish earlier this year at the Reedy Race of Champions, Travis Amezcua took double wins at the Chi Town Shootout in Joliet, IL. His Viper powered Durango’s took the Top Qualifying spot in 4wd Modified Buggy and the overall wins in 4wd Modified Buggy and 2wd Modified Buggy. But his winning didn’t end there, Viper power also drove Travis to 4wd and 2wd Modified class wins in the Dash for Cash.
Source: Viper-RC [viper-rc.com]
In just its first year, the Top Notch Series (TNS) is going strong. With close to 200 entries for the sixth round at Redlands RC Raceway, racers were greeted by the friendly staff and a flowing and fun layout. Reminiscent of former SoCal tracks, the Redlands RC Raceway track is a bit smaller than others, but has great dirt and makes use of every square inch of the facility, including a 15′ wall ride. In the 2WD Modified class it was Brent Thielke who took the TQ with his Factory Team B4.2, with its Reedy Sonic Mach 2 8.5 and LRP Flow speed control. As the tone went off, teammate Chris Jarosz climbed the ranks and reeled in Thielke. The two raced hard for the win, with Jarosz’ LRP X20 8.5 and Flow-equipped B4.2 coming out on top by just a few tenths of a second. In the Truck Modified class, Thielke jumped out to the lead and was quickly joined by teammate Nick Wautlet, who kept him honest throughout the 5-minute main event. In the end, Thielke led a 1-2-3 podium sweep with his Factory Team T4.2 with his Reedy Sonic Mach 2 7.5 turn motor and LRP Flow speed control.
The 1/10 EP Offroad season kicked off in Singapore last weekend with round 1 of the NOOB Singapore Open Buggy Series held at the RaceWorks Arena. In the 4WD class, reigning champ Mark “BC” Lim set the pace in qualifying and secured his Durango DEX410 buggy a spot at the front of the grid. Unfortunately he experienced transmission issues throughout the mains. Last year’s series runner-up Tein capitalized on this and with some great runs took the win in all 3 mains. Joakim, who has steadily been moving up the rankings in the past years finished in 2nd leaving BC to be content with a 3rd place finish.
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The first round of the French 1/10th electric buggy nationals took place at the Gymnase Jean Collignon in Louvres this past weekend. The race saw the attendance of the usual breed of fast French drivers such as Antoine Rossetti, Sebastian Wartelle and Vicent Heligoin. In the 4WD Open class Team Associated factory driver Yannick Aigoin, normally at home with 1/8th nitro off-road buggies, was on a mission and won its first 1/10th electric buggy race with his AE B44.2 in front of Team Durango’s Antoine Rossetti and Schumacher driver Armand Lantheaume. In 2WD Open it was 4WD runner-up Antoine who grabbed the top sport of the podium in front of Ahmed Kerfati and Ludovic Valtier. The 2WD Promo class saw the win of Vincent Le Peltier with Olivier Langlet and Jean-Luc Salmeron in tow.
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The sixth and final round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. Once again, the event was fully booked many weeks before the meeting, including a number of top drivers. With a final total of 165 different drivers competing and over 550 individual entries to the series, the organisers were keen to thank all the drivers for their attendance and support. The Super Stock 13.5 class saw a straight championship battle between Tony Broad and the defending champion Paul Pinkney, both drivers tied on points coming into the final meeting. As qualifying begun, it was Paul’s Schumacher team-mate, last years championship runner-up Ashley Wiffen who topped the first round, with James Hart in second and Phil Chambers in third with their X-rays.
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The final round of the Worksop Player saw Nathan Waters take the 2WD title with his Team Durango DEX210. With a close battle in both classes over the proceeding rounds of racing, it was always going to be a closely fought series. Nathan who put his DEX210 into TQ position from the first round of qualifying, and then go on to dominate the 2WD class throughout the days racing to take first overall and conclude his series campaign as Players Champion. Team Durango super racer Craig Collinson followed Nathan closely to take second overall in the series. Team Durango drivers had been forging a comprehensive collection of 4WD results during the previous rounds of this star-studded race series. The DEX410v3 vehicles of Craig Collinson and Nathan Waters had already made a big impression in previous meetings at the Worksop venue. With the closing stages of this nationally renowned series coming to an action packed conclusion, Craig Collinson was to place his DEX410v3 in fifth overall. Nathan was pipped by Neil Cragg but was again a force to be reckoned with by securing second overall in a field that was as strong as any UK based off-road line-up.
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The Bandung Open 2013 race was held as the grand opening race of the new Bandung Indah Golf on-road circuit located in Bandung, the capital city of West Java. The race saw a strong 50 competitors field from Jakarta, Bandung, Malang, Yogyakarta and Banjarmasin. The meeting was held in the Super Stock, FWD and Mini class. In the Super Stock class, Bowie Ginting (Xray) who only arrived on Sunday morning, took the TQ honors, followed by defending national champion Heri Susanto (Xray) who ended up some 3 seconds behind Bowie. Another post-TITC attendant who just made it to the race was Ronald Kasengkang (Tamiya), followed by Denny Pangestu (Associated) and Ade Jatmiko (Xray). In the FWD class, local hotshot Irawan Situmorang took the TQ spot.
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The Jimmy Babcock Racing League (JBRL) kicked off its 2013 season at beautiful OC/RC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. With over 300 entries for the one-day event and classes for all skill levels, racers were treated to a full day of racing action. Team Associated/Reedy/LRP representatives were on hand to support customers throughout the event while competing in multiple classes. Starting out the winning streak for Team Associated was TQ Jake Thayer and his Reedy/LRP-powered Factory Team RC8.2 eBuggy. In the premier class of 2WD Modified, Steven Hartson proved to be the best of the best by taking the TQ and win with his LRP/Reedy-powered Factory Team B4.2. Hartson again got the TQ and win in 2WD Modified Short Course with his Factory Team SC10. In Truck Modified it was the Reedy/LRP-powered Factory Team T4.2 of Kody Numedahl that got the TQ and win for Team Associated. Rounding out the modified classes, Jimmy Barnett and his Reedy/LRP-powered Factory Team B44.2 took the win in 4WD Modified. Dropping down a classification to 2WD Super Stock (13.5) Nick Wautlet got the win with his Reedy/LRP-powered Factory Team B4.2, while OC/RC local Mike Squillace took the win in 2WD Stock (17.5), again with the Reedy/LRP/B4.2 combo.
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