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June 2, 2011

Amezcua & Tessmann top opening ROAR Nats practice

A relaxed opening day to the 2011 US 1:8 Offroad Nationals at Thunder Alley saw Mugen’s Travis Amezcua and Hot Bodies Ty Tessmann top the single round of controlled practice for Buggy and Truggy respectively. Amezcua was fastest from Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri, Tessmann, Kyosho’s Mark Pavidis and the Losi of former US Champion Mike Truhe while in Truggy Tessmann set the pace over Adam Drake, Ryan Cavalieri and Chad Bradley.

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June 1, 2011

Kinwald does triple at Battle in the Desert Rd2

The 2nd leg of the Battle in the Desert Series took place at Competition Hobbies in Tucson, AZ. Brian Kinwald was on fire at his home track and was the driver to beat all weekend. Starting with a TQ in 2wd modified and Short Course 4×4, Kinwald put the rest of the racers on notice, to get the win you had to go through BK. The main events got underway and BK picked up right where he left off in the 2wd modified class. His perfectly prepared B4.1 with JConcepts Blue Bar Codes proved to be too much for the rest of the field as BK ran away with the main. Topping off the winning ride was Punisher body and 6.5” rear wing.

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June 1, 2011

Fernandez & Terceño win Spanish EP offroad Rd2

Miguel Fernandez and Iñigo Terceño win the second round of the Spanish 1/10 offroad nationals on the Club Carbi Track, home of the 2009 offroad Euros. In 4wd Miguel Hernandez, who at 13 years old was the youngest driver competing in the race, showed incredible performance with his Kyosho Lazer FS2. Winning the race on the last of the mains after passing all drivers following a crash that relegated him to the last position. David Bustos took second place with his Tamiya, with Durango driver Enrique Fuciños in 3rd. The 2wd class went to local Schumacher driver Iñigo Terceño followed by another local driver, Ival Martinez with his X-Factory X6, who hard a hard fight with Iñigo in all the finals. Associated driver Clemente Rodriguez took 3rd.

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June 1, 2011

Eric Clark & Shane Racer win TQ East Coast Challenge

This past weekend was the TQ East Coast Challenge hosted by Classic RC Raceways in Akron, Ohio. Saturday was the electric program indoors and Sunday was 1/8th Nitro program outdoors. Saturday for the 1/10th electric race saw a few TLR drivers in attendance that included Bill Shay, Ben Beard, and Eric Clark competing in 2 wheel mod buggy. TLR would put two TLR 22’s in the A-main final. Eric Clark would take the overall TQ and led the main from wire to wire for the A-main win. Sunday would be the start of the 1/8th nitro classes. TLR would have Shane Racer and Eric Clark in attendance for the nitro part of the event. Shane Racer would put himself in the A-main with consistent runs in qualifying and a chance at the win in the A-main. With a bad start from Shane in the A-main he would have his work cut out for him. Shane would put in a great race to take the lead at the halfway point and take the overall win. Eric Clark would end up 4th overall.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

May 30, 2011

Jamie Grayek does double at The Big One

This past weekend LCRC in Oakland Mills PA held their Memorial Day weekend race called ‘The Big One’. Despite it raining on and off all week the track held up great and ended up being a nice Blue Groove for the huge crowd of racers with 90 degree and sunny weather all weekend. With 3 rounds of qualifying on Saturday and a 4th round on Sunday there was a lot of track time for all. Sunday afternoon saw the mains and it was JConcepts driver Jamie Grayek who was able to take the 1:8 Buggy and Truggy class victory. With stiff competition from Associated driver Mike Gay and Losi’s Anthony Mazzara, Jamie’s JConcepts Sevens on his Truggy and Subcultures on his Buggy helped carry him to victory.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 30, 2011

Giorgio Defelici dominates Rd2 of Trofeo Capricorn

The first round of the Trofeo Capricorn series was held last weekend in Cassino. It was Capricorn/Novarossi driver Giorgio Defelici that claimed the top qualifying spot and would also go on to win the event. Second place went to another Capricorn/Novarossi driver Massino Agnese who had a close battle with 3rd place Brazilian driver Edoardo Dulac with this Shepherd/Max.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 30, 2011

Andy Moore takes BTCC Rd3

A dominant performance from Andy Moore saw the Hot bodies driver take the Cotswold round of this seasons Schumacher BTCC, starting from pole after taking TQ Andy eased a lead ahead of the chasing pack of the Associated TC6 of Olly Jefferies and the Schumacher Chris Grainger, with the Cotswold BRCA national only two week away this meeting was a good form guide to who would be the pace setters for the national and Andy Moore currently looks the man to beat and leaves the others looking to find a little more pace.

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May 29, 2011

Yannick Aigoin wins Rd3 in France

Round 3 of the French 1/8th buggy nationals was held this weekend in Cogolin in the south of the country close to Marseille. Qualification was headed by Losi/nVision driver Yannick Aigoin with his brother, Kyosho/Novarossi driver Jerome Aigoin in 2nd and US based Renaud Savoya with his RB powered Durango in 3rd. Nicolas Reynaud and Jerome Sartel completed the top 5. In the semi finals it was Jerome Aigoin that won Semi B to take pole position for the final with Savoya winning semi B to line up on 2nd spot ahead of 3rd place starter Yannick Aigoin. The 45 minute final ended in Yannick taking the win by over 2 laps from his brother Jerome in 2nd, who was locked in a close battle with Savoya in 3rd, the pair ending just over a second apart.

Image: TLR [tlracing.com]