TLR and Losi’s Frank Root, Cody Turner, and Matt Castellano were on hand at the second round of the Thanksgiving Throwdown Series Saturday at West Coast R/C Raceway (WCRC). The track had fantastic traction, and a really fun and technical layout. The entry count was very strong with 19 full heats and a great day of racing was had by all.
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Shepherd racer Choi Nak Sung has won the annual KMRCA National 1/8th On-Road Championship which took place at the Oh-Chang Hitec Circuit near Oh-Chang in South Korea. The race which is considered the most important race of the season attracted 40 drivers in total. During qualification Choi Nak Sung showed a good performance taking the TQ spot with his Velox V8 “eleven”. In the final Sung was unchallenged leading from start to the checkered flag crossing the finishing line 3 laps in front of the rest of the drivers field.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Travis Amezcua has won the 2011 Electric 1/8 Buggy Class at the prestigious JBRL Nitro series. The series visited multiple tracks across southern California over eight months. His Mugen MBX6 Eco powered by LRP equipment proved to be unbeatable. Travis would also finish out the series third in expert gas buggy with his MBX6R powered by the new Ninja JX21-B02 engage. Both rides where rolling on AKA rubber. Travis would like to thank the entire JBRL and Hot Rot Hobbies staff for making the 2011 JBRL series such a huge success.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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