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January 30, 2011

Steven Jovanovic does Victorian State double

While a small contingent of interstate drivers attended the AARCMCC 2011 Victorian state championship IC titles the event was the warm-up for the Australian titles that will be held in October at the Lilydale track in the wine region north east of Melbourne, Victoria. Home of the renowned Jovanovic brothers Steven and Peter, other well known drivers including Ashley Seward and Ryan Maker were also racing with a high level of local drivers on their high speed, 17 second track.

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January 29, 2011

JConcepts Indoor National Series – Announcement

For 2011, JConcepts, together with Team Associated and the participating race tracks, have organized a first of its kind, true Indoor National Series. Scheduled as a 4 race series across the United States, drivers now have the opportunity to showcase their abilities on a national and regional level. Jason Ruona, president of JConcepts along with Team Associated race team manager Brent Thielke have made the commitment and are attending each race in support of this new series. Team Associated / JConcepts drivers, Ryan Maifield, Steven Hartson and Tanner Denney highlight just a small portion of the attending drivers traveling from across the United States to compete at select events. Commitments from many other drivers are coming in on a daily basis. Race 1 (February 5-6, 2011) is coming up quickly and there are already a number of surprises shaping up. Brent Thielke is tentatively scheduled to debut the Team Associated SC10 4×4 truck at race 1. Jason Ruona will be on hand releasing the new JConcepts Bar Codes V2 and Rips tires to the public for the first-time.

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January 24, 2011

Maifield wins Pro buggy at CRCRC Midwest Champs

An amazing 2 weeks of action in Ohio ends with Ryan Maifield and JConcepts on top in the 1/8th buggy pro class taking the first big win in 2011. Ryan was a thrilling driver all weekend in the buggy class by first taking the TQ and then going on to win the 45-minute A-final against some the world’s finest drivers including Jesse Robbers, reigning IFMAR World Champion Cody King and Billy Easton. JConcepts Hybrids in green compound along with the Punisher body made the punishing easier as Ryan and his Associated RC8B made quick work of the fast, technical CRCRC layout with the fastest overall time during qualifying. In the 1/8th truck class, Ryan had to settle for 2nd place, 3.8 seconds behind eventual winner Jessie Robbers who drove a fantastic race. Pit strategy and traffic became a factor as Ryan battled hard for the entire 45 minutes with his RC8T-CE truck equipped with Punisher body and JConcepts Sevens tires.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

January 24, 2011

Andy Moore wins BRCA Winter Nationals

The permanent indoor carpet track at Ardent Raceway was the venue for the BRCA Winter National meeting, qualifying was by FTD with the top thirty two qualifiers going on to race a Reedy style Race of Champions with all drivers using 10.5 pro stock motors. Drivers not making the cut would contest the clubman title. The majority of the top UK national drivers were booked in and full quotas of 102 drivers were led away by current UK national champion Chris Grainger.

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January 20, 2011

Travis Dupree wins Colonel’s Winter Classic

This past weekend was the Colonel’s Winter Classic at SCORE in Savannah, GA. The race was a one day event with 90 entries. The weather was cold and wet leading up to the race, so the track was bumpy and slick. Travis Dupree was driving his Nitrotec/Nitrotane powered, Team Losi Racing 8ight 2.0 and was able to TQ 2 of the 3 rounds of qualifying, which gave him the overall TQ in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class. In the main, Travis jumped out to an early lead and was on a 2 stop fuel strategy in the 30 minute main event which allowed him to make one less stop than everyone else. This helped him increase his lead even more and leading every lap he took the win ahead of privateer Losi driver Jason Smith in 2nd.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

January 19, 2011

Ty Tessmann takes Rd2 of WCICS

This past weekend Ty Tessmann was at the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series Race #2 in Lethbridge, Alberta. In qualifying the first round went to Xray racer Wayne Mah, but in the 2nd round Ty upped the stakes to qualify 6 seconds faster, and setting the tone for the weekend. After the 3rd qualifier, Ty’s TQ from the 2nd round still stood. In the 4th and final qualifier Ty’s dogbone twisted off, opening the door for Associated’s Peter Toszer to take the TQ from Ty by 1 second. This set the stage for what would be an exciting main. Peter Toszer, Ty and Wayne Mah pulled away from the field, but Ty was able to come away with the win putting the HotBodies TCX with PROTOform’s MazdaSpeed 6 body in the top podium position, Wayne would take 2nd with Peter finishing 3rd after an unfortunate marshaling incident.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 17, 2011

Griffiths & Kerswell win BRCA 1/12th Nats Rd4

Round 4 of this season’s BRCA 1/12th scale nationals saw the annual trip south to Plymouth, a venue that remains a favourite on the calendar for many of the drivers. When entering the venue the drivers were greeted with an extra 2 meters of carpet width, ensuring that this is one of the largest venues visited during the series. The track had been laid to produce a fast flowing circuit which provided some excellent racing throughout the entire field.

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January 11, 2011

JR Mitch takes FSORS Rd3 double

The 3rd round of the FSORS series took place last weekend at Waverly in Florida and it was the first race of the New Year and so everyone had their new cars and accessories on full display. JR Mitch wouldn’t be left out and was rocking some new JConcepts products for 2011. For buggy he chose the new Hybrids in the SS Green compound and for the truggy class he was testing the new exclusive Subcultures in SS green compound. With the mains set, JR was ready to step up his game to the highest level. He got main day started off with a dominating performance in the Pro Truggy Class. His JConcepts equipped RC8TCE was the class of the field as he went on to win the 30min A-final wire-to-wire. Next up was the super competitive Pro Buggy Class were JR would put together one of his most impressive drives of the weekend. Starting 3rd on the grid he wasted no time making his move to the front with his JConcepts equipped RC8B. Within the first 3 turns JR made his way past Gene Hickerson and then Billy Easton for the lead. Once in the lead he went on to lead every lap of the 30min A-final and finishing 1 lap over 2nd place Billy and Gene finishing 3rd. Paul Wynn also TQ’d and won the 1/8th E-buggy class with his JConcepts equipped RC8B. He also used the new Hybrids in SS Green compound.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]