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November 15, 2011

Adam Drake Sweeps JBRL Nitro Series finals

The final round of the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series was held last weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies. The event was scheduled to be run dry and blue groove, but Mother Nature had a different plan. A rain storm hit late Friday night, but the Hot Rod Hobbies crew did an amazing job to pump off the water and start racing at 10am. The JBRL series consists of eight races with five counting towards your point total over the course of eight months. In the Expert 1/8th Truck class Adam Drake had the championship wrapped up, but still competed in the final race to get more track time. Drake TQ’ed both rounds of qualifying and won the final by a large margin. Second went to Jesse Robinson and third place was Matt Schreffler. Adam Drake is the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series Champion, Cody King second, and Jesse Robinson finished third.

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November 14, 2011

Cody Jandrakovic wins ROAR Region 8 off-road regionals

Hobbytown in Omaha Nebraska was the setting for this year’s ROAR Region 8 Off-Road event. There were nearly 150 racers at the newly enclosed HobbyPlex to battle out for Midwest bragging rights. JConcepts Team Driver Cody Jandrakovic took the 2WD open class with his Finnisher/Bar Codes equipped Associated B4.1 and he also TQ’d and finished 2nd in open stadium truck with a Team Associated T4 decked out with a JConcepts Hi-Flow body and blue compound Bar Codes.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 14, 2011

Maxi Vogl wins German Open Indoor Masters

One week ago the German Open Indoor Masters took place at the Faszination Modellbau Fair in Friedrichshafen. The race was won by young talent Maxi Vogl who was ranked on 6th position after the qualification. In the main final Vogl was able to work his way up to second position behind reigning World Champion Robert Pietsch after several minutes. Later on Pietsch had a crash and damaged his rear rim and he also lost some time to get back in the pits and letting Vogl tale over the lead. Pietsch tried to catch up after a quick repair in the pits, but time was rung out and Vogl crossed the finishing line in first position followed by Robert Pietsch and Armin Baier.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

November 14, 2011

Portuguese Off-Road Series Rd2

On the Weekend of 5t and 6th of November the second round of the Portuguese Off-Road Series was held. 60 Drivers attended in the four classes Buggy 2WD, Buggy 4WD and Short Course 2WD and 4WD. Among them was Miguel Matias, the multi-times World and Euro Finalist made his appearance at this round and could not wish for a better debut as he was dominating the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes. In 4WD Nuno Roque took the runner-up spot just befind Miguel with Hugo Miguel grabbing the last podium spot (all three Team Durango DEX410). In 2WD it was again Migual who took the race victory followed by Nuno Roque (both Team Durango DEX210) and Nuno Rola (TLR22).

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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

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.

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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 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]