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October 11, 2012

2012 Southern Nationals – report

The 2012 Southern Nationals took place in a cavernous temperature-controlled facility in Monroe, Louisianaperfectly suited to a major RC race. The event draw around 300 participants including pros like Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler. Jason Branham was strong all weekend in Pro buggy and truggy. He narrowly missed the Pro truggy win after a pitched battle with eventual winner Josh Wheeler. Branham would get the job done later in Pro buggy. With cool consistency he outlasted the field and took the crown. He was joined on the podium by Jake Dellinger, who added to his recent string of impressive finishes with 5th place run.

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October 9, 2012

Team C successful at NSR opening race

The NSR opening race took place at a new off-road track near the Shenzhen Gymnasium in China. More than 40 drivers attended in the 1/8 nitro and electric buggy classes that saw Team C driver Tommy taking TQ. In the 45 minutes final the win went to Tommy’s team mate Wai who drove an Angus-power T8.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

October 9, 2012

Tamás Hegdüs wins Hungarian 1/8 championship

Last weekend the final round of the Hungarian On-Road Championship was held near the famous Hungaro Ring. In the 1/10 Tuning class the championship was already decided in the previous rounds. Just like the years before Gergely Csekő took the title in a really close battle with Simon Ciudan (Shepherd). Gergely skipped the last race which left Simon without a real opponent. He won the race although Balázs Bihari was quite close in the 30 minutes final and finished only one lap behind the fast Shepherd driver. Gábor László completed the podium. With this first place Simon equaled Gergely on the point table, but Gergely won the title because he had one more on his side. Overall third place also ended with a tie with Shepherd driver Laszló Kis-Orbán taking third overall.

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October 8, 2012

Boots & Phillips win HNMC Winter series Rd1

The first round of the HNMC Winter series at the Herts Nitro Model Club saw wins of Elliot Boots in the nitro buggy and Harry Phillips in the nitro truggy class. Kevin Brunsden and Simon Reeves are the names of the second and third placed buggy driver while Simon Miller and Colin Drummond took two and three in the truggy class. The next round of the nitro series is set for the first weekend of November.

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October 8, 2012

Perfect weekend for Evans at ‘Fall Indoor Nats’

Dustin Evans showed why he is a US National Champion, Reedy Race winner and Worlds finalist as he completed the perfect weekend at the Fall Indoor Nationals successfully defending all three 2WD titles at the RC Excitement track in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Starting the 8-minute single Buggy, Short Course and Stadium truck A-Mains from pole having topped every round of qualifying, the factory TLR driver cruised to three convincing wins.

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October 8, 2012

Hartson makes it 4 out 4 at ‘Fall Indoor Nats’

Team Associated’s Steven Harston has made it four wins from four races in the JConcepts Indoor National Series today as he cruised to victory in 4WD Mod Buggy at the Fall Indoor Nationals at the RC Excitement track in Massachusetts. Starting from pole position on the first start of the race Hartson parked his Reedy powered Associated causing chaos to break loose in the chasing park leading race announcer Timothy Stuessy to call a restart of the race. At the second time of asking the Californian, who has already secured the overall title in for the 2012 series, made a blistering start from where he was able to check out and take control of the 8-minute race.

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October 8, 2012

Evans completes clean sweep of 2WD Qualifying

Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans completed a clean sweep of 2WD qualifying at the JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals, the World Championship finalist picking up where he left off yesterday to TQ the third & final round of qualifying in Buggy, Short Course and Stadium Truck. With no one able to out pace Evan’s TLR cars around the RC Excitement track the 2011 US National Champion looks to be firmly on target to defend the three titles he won here last year in Fitchburg however the Colorado driver says he is taking nothing for granted as with single A-Mains one mistake can easily cost you the win.

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October 7, 2012

Kosciuszek takes final 4WD Buggy qualifier

13-year-old Alex Kosciuszek has TQ’d the final round of qualifying at the JConcepts ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, the young up & coming talent setting a run of 20/5:05.038 to top the time sheets ahead of Jason Ruona and last year’s Top Qualifier Mike Gay. Fastest in Q1 & Q2, it was a bad round for Steven Hartson however in 4WD Short Course the factory Associated driver managed to pull off his first TQ ahead of Matt Olson who took both of yesterday’s qualifiers.

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