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February 7, 2014

HB HPI Racing Challenge Rd2 – Report

Orange County’s only remaining permanent road course played host to the second round of the 2014 HB HPI Challenge Series on Saturday, February 1st. 41 Racers from San Diego to Bakersfield and in between gathered at Cal Raceway in Orange, California anticipating another exciting round of the HB HPI Challenge Series. Cal Raceway’s Charlie Barnes began track preparation on Friday afternoon to ensure track conditions were ideal for racers arriving Saturday morning. With a total of 47 entries dialed in, round two of the 2014 HB HPI Challenge Series was set to begin.

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February 6, 2014

Brian Henn take Rd1 of the RC Pro Series

Round 1 of the RC Pro Series kicked off at Ultimate RC in Alvin, Texas. Mother Nature would make an appearance with an Ice storm blowing in cancelling Friday practice. Saturday practice was “wet” causing cars to pick up weight, however come qualifying time the track would dry up enough to race on. Due to the practice the program was cut short to 2 qualifiers which allowed Tekin powered Brian “Smiley” Henn to TQ 4wd SC and take 2nd in Pro 1/8 E Buggy. Back on schedule had mains running on Sunday. The track was nice and dry but a little rough due to the weather. First up was 1/8 Pro E-buggy where Henn would take A1 battling it out with Jake Dillinger. A2 was much of the same the two battling for the lead however Dillinger would take A2. Due to the reduced schedule only two A’s were ran with the tie breaker coming down to average times, giving Henn the win. In Pro 4 SC it was the “Smiley Henn” show with Brian taking both A1 and A2 in dominating fashion.

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February 5, 2014

Drake doubles at TLR Winter Series Rd1

Round 1 of the Team Losi Racing Winter Series took place this past weekend at Revelation Raceway. TLR driver Adam Drake TQ’ed both rounds of qualifying in 1/8th expert buggy and truck. Drake checked out in the 25 minute buggy final and won by two laps. In the 20 minute truck final Drake powered away from the competition again to take the win.

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February 4, 2014

JP Richards wins 2WD at WRL Rd4

This past weekend was the 4th round of the Winter Racing League held at The Loft R/C Raceway located in Columbus, Ohio. This event brought in 160+ entries with some of the top talent in the region. In 2WD TLR’s JP Richards TQ’ed by four seconds over the rest of the field with his 22 2.0 buggy. In the main JP started 1st on the grid and led tone to tone unchallenged. In 4WD JP was able to qualify in second position challenging the leader but was unable to unseat him finishing 2nd in the end.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

February 4, 2014

Max Mört wins 4WD at SC Winter Cup Rd3

The SC Winter Cup is the most competitive SC race series in Finland, fought out in a total of 6 races all over Finland. The classes run are 2WD and 4WD SC. Last weekend the series travelled to Helsinki where one of Europe’s biggest RC centres is located. 3700 square meters of racing space host four permanent tracks. PKSRCA is also the biggest club in Finland with over 300 members. The race schedule sees two rounds of practice and three rounds of qualifying of which two count while the finals are run in a 2-out-of-4 format. This has let the racing class to grow rapidly as it offers plenty of track time. The 4WD class had a very exciting qualification to offer with Max Mört and Max Söderlund both having first and second place finishes and in the end Max Mört took the TQ by just 0.5 seconds. The grid was completed with Tom Thusberg and Lauri Ruotsalainen for the 4 first spots.

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February 4, 2014

Birinyi & Toth win at Speedpassion Challenge Rd5

The 5th round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challenge took place at the RCArena track in Budapest. In the Touring Car Stock class it came to a close fight between Janos Birinyi and Peter Taal. In the first final Janos attacked the leader for the whole leg but could not find a way past and following a final-lap collision Janos had to settle for second place. The second A-main again saw Peter and Janos battling it out, this time with the better end for Janos who could profit of a tangle with the leader. The third and decisive final then had Janos taking a more easy win handing him the overall victory in the Stock class. Peter Taal and Tamas Pongho came in second and third respectively. In the Modified class Barnabas Toth took the win from Zsolt Kalnay and Christian Faur, who completed the podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 4, 2014

Thomas Ek doubles at MSEC Rd6

The 6th round of the MSEC was held in Norrtälje in the North of Stockholm and hosted by Norrtälje RCM. The track was a small and technical temporary track, almost square in layout. In the Modified Touring class Thomas Ek managed to grab TQ by 7/10th over Andreas Husman. Andreas then also went on to take the pole position in the Stock class ahead of Kenneth Malkusson and Lars Hägerman.

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February 4, 2014

Paul Sinclair wins 2WD at Superbowl Shakedown

The first Superbowl Shakedown race was hosted by Redneck R/C in Baldwinsville, NY. The race saw over 200 entries and in the 2WD class it was X Factory’s Paul Sinclair who grapped the TQ spot with the only 18-lap run in qualifying. Computer problems plagued the mains, and the large entry made things run late, so the mains were cancelled and trophies awarded based on qualifying. This handed TQ Paul the win in the 40-car field.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]