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August 28, 2009

2009 ROAR Region 4 Championships

Ocoee, Florida and Outtacontrol Raceway played host to the 2009 ROAR Region 4 Championships and JConcepts have the following report. Always an event that brings the best out in every driver within the state of Florida, the ROAR Regional’s displays the best of the best. With early wet weather conditions being a concern, the JConcepts team turned to the trusty combination of Crowbars in the buggy class and Cross Hairs in the 1/8th truck class, all in Soft Blue compound.

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August 27, 2009

Viktor Wilck dominates Norwegian Nationals

The Norwegian Nationals were run last weekend at the Lorenskog Modellbiklubb track close to Oslo. International Tamiya driver Viktor Wilck was present, following his impressive performance at the off road Euros in Spain, and he took the top spot after qualifying for the Modified class. In the finals Viktor was untouchable and won all 3 legs of the A-main to take the win from Xray driver Adrian Bernsten in 2nd and Hot Bodies driver Tomy Svaasand in 3rd.

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August 26, 2009

Nordman & Ronnefalk take Swedish buggy titles

Last weekend saw the Swedish Nationals for 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggy held in Trelleborg, Sweden. In the 2WD class it was PerErik Nordman that took TQ by setting the fastest times in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th qualifying rounds along with setting the fastest lap time with his Kyosho Ultima RB-5 SP. Nordman continued his domination in the first final and won it in front of fast 1/8 Kyosho driver David Ronnefalk. PerErik also took the second final and was therefore crowned the Swedish champion in 2WD.

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August 26, 2009

Joern Neumann wins season opener in Germany

The opening round of the German 1/8th buggy Nationals were held last weekend in Senden. The event attracted 132 drivers and saw 4 rounds of controlled practice on Friday and 2 more rounds of practice on Saturday morning. In these 2 practice rounds, the 3 fastest laptimes in a row count towards reseeding the groups for qualifying and after that there were 5 rounds of qualifying with the best 3 counting. TQ went to Daniel Reckward, with Jörn Neumann in 2nd place and Tim Bremicker in 3rd. At the start of the 40 minute main final it was Daniel and Jörn that were battling it out for the victory. Jörn made a little mistake that cost him around 3-4 seconds and so Daniel had a 5 seconds lead. With Jörn pushing very hard he closed the gap and at the 30 minutes mark was able to pass Daniel and he never looked back. Joern took the win from Daniel Reckward in 2nd and Tim Bremicker in 3rd. The 2nd round is in 2 weeks in Osterhofen.

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August 25, 2009

Stockman & Vekemans win Belgian Nats Rd4

The club SRCF was the host for round four of this years FBA touring car championship. In the EFRA class, qualifying went the way of Benoit Thomaes with his Xray who was the polesitter, with Thomas Stockman also with an Xray on second spot and local driver Manuel Henriet with his Schumacher was third. The first final was very exciting and saw a battle between Benoit Thomaes and Thomas Stockman for the lead, lap after lap. Thomas Stockman took the lead and Benoit was fighting hard to retake it, but Thomas was outstanding and took victory in the first final, Benoit came as second and Nick Joosens was third. In the second final there was a collision in the first lap but Benoit Thomaes had a clean start and pulled away from the rest. It was Olivier Bultynck with his Corally who came from last and took second spot just behind Benoit with Manuel Henriet third.

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August 25, 2009

Dennis Fadtke wins Rd4 in Poland

The 4th round of the Polish outdoor Nationals took place last weekend in Klodzko. Championship front runner Dennis Fadtke had to make an unscheduled trip to the hospital after tearing ligaments in his knee and so was in great pain during the weekend’s racing. The top qualifying spot went to Morris Indovino followed by Blażej Orlowski in 2nd with Dennis Fadtke, who was struggling with pain in 3rd. The first two finals saw 2 different winners, with Dennis managing to take the final and decisive victory to secure the overall win.

August 24, 2009

Grainger secures title with Rd4 victory

The Snetterton circuit in Norfolk hosted round four of this years BRCA touring car championship, the meeting was held in glorious sunshine and saw victory for Chris Grainger and in winning the meeting Chris secured the 2009 BRCA national title. Qualifying was all about tyre management with the Snetterton track giving its best time on new rubber, the drop off on second run tyres was very noticeable, so it was important to put in a clean run when you had new tyres fitted. Chris Grainger dominated the early stages of qualifying with his Schumacher Mi4, Olly Jefferies kept Chris on his toes finishing second in every round of qualifying during the Saturday runs, Andy Moore and Elliott Harper struggled on day one but improved their cars overnight.

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August 21, 2009

Kim wins at Korean 1/10th Nats

The Korean Nationals for 1/10th GP was held recently at the Kirina Circuit in the PoChun area near Seoul. Qualifying in the very hot temperatures went the way of Mugen driver Mr.Kim who didnt have it all his own way in the fine. Sitting in 3rd with 5 minutes to go he mounted a challenge on the front Serpent pairing of Mr.Ahn and Mr.Nam and managed to get by and take the victory in the 1 hour long final.