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July 13, 2014

Maifield 2WD Top Qualifier at Summer Indoor Nats

Ryan Maifield’s debut with Team Losi Racing is proving fruitful with him securing the overall TQ in offroad racing’s premiere class 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the result adding to the overall 2WD Short Course TQ he took earlier with the all new TLR22 SCT 2.0. Having taken the opening round of qualifying, Maifield claimed the honour of Top Qualifier by again topping the times in Q2, this time round from the Associated of his young protege Spencer Rivkin. Surprising the field with his pace in Q1, Mark Pavidis showed it was on merit as he again completed the Top 3 with his TLR22.

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July 13, 2014

Vik takes Q2 at JConcepts Indoor Nats

Tyler Vik took the second round of 4WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the Xray driver heading the times as the lead drivers broke into the 21-laps at the Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Running in the second fastest heat, Vik took the round from Q1 pace setter Ryan Maifield with qualifying top seed Drew Moller completing the Top 3.

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July 12, 2014

Maifield tops opening 2WD qualifier in Chico

Having taken the opening round of 4WD Buggy, Ryan Maifield repeated the feat in the first of the three rounds of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals at Outback Raceway in Chico. The new Team Losi Racing signing topped Q1 by 2.3 seconds from Team Xray’s Tyler Vik with fellow TLR driver Mark Pavidis completing the Top 3, the trio being the only drivers to post 20-lap runs. Having topped seeding it was a difficult opening qualifier for Steven Hartson with the Team Associated driver ending up only 16th fastest.

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July 12, 2014

Maifield TQs first 4WD Qualifier at Indoor Nats

Maifield TQ first 4WD Qualifier at Indoor Nats

Ryan Maifield kicked off his arrival at Team Losi Racing in the best way possible as he TQ’d the opening round of 4WD Buggy qualifying this morning at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals. Setting the fastest lap, Maifield topped the round by 1.94 seconds from the Associated of Daimon Borkowicz, the up & coming talent having set the TQ pace of the top heat for a number of laps before a rollover. Having topped last night’s seeding practice, Drew Moller completed the Top 3 just 56/1000ths off Borkowicz.

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July 12, 2014

Hartson fastest in 2WD seeding

Steven Hartson set the pace in seeding for 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the Team Associated driver fastest over 3-consecutive laps from team-mate Spencer Rivkin with TLR’s Frank Root completing the Top 3. Suffering an undisclosed issue with his TLR22, when Ryan Maifield eventually got running he would post the fourth fastest time ahead of Associated driver Chris Jarosz, who posted the fastest lap, while 4WD Buggy Top Seed Drew Moller completed the Top 6.

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July 12, 2014

Schumacher Cougar alloy centre track rod

Schumacher introduce this alloy centre track rod for their Cougar 2WD range of vehicles. The part offers great looks and improved strength over the kit option. Three holes are available for the Ackermann adjustment for steering fine tuning on many track surfaces and a revised position for the servo link makes the car feel calmer around neutral.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

July 12, 2014

Moller tops 4WD seeding in Chico

Drew Moller topped seeding for 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals, the A-Main Hobbies driver taking his HB around the track in the fastest 3-consecutive laps from the Associated pairing of Daimon Borkowicz and Steven Hartson. The first time new TLR’s new star signing Ryan Maifield found himself on the clock with one of his new buggies he would post the fourth fastest time followed by the Xray of Tyler Vik and his protege Spencer Rivkin.

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July 12, 2014

Team C TM4 alloy C-hubs & rear carriers

Team C introduce two new option parts for the TM4 4WD buggy in the form of 7 degree front castor blocks and +1 rear hubs. Starting with the C-hubs, the blocks are machined from high-quality aluminium, they come orange anodised and feature three different mounting holes for the upper camber link. The second new part are aluminium +1 rear hubs. Offering an increased rear toe-in they also feature add-on carbon fibre towers with three different mounting positions for the upper camber links.

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