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July 10, 2013

Alabama Manufacturers Shootout 4.0 – Report

The AMS event in Cullman, Alabama, continues to be one of the more well known races on the calendar during the summer racing season. The 4.0 event went off extremely well with the direction and management of Jimmy Babcock and Nick Black. A hefty 521 entries packed the facility for the weekend with the 1/8th classes once again showing the largest interest at this event. The now famous dirt, building and track layouts make for great racing and hold up extremely well to the punishment of the racers all weekend. Once again, the JConcepts crew was on hand to support the product, customers and race team as well as a contributing sponsor to the “Greatest show on Dirt.” Qualifying started with Team Associated/JConcepts driver Ryan Maifield picking up where he left off from previous years and TQ’ed the opening qualifier in the 1/8th truck class by a narrow margin over Jared Tebo.

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July 10, 2013

Jerome Aigoin top seed for qualifying in Reims

Jerome Aigoin

Kyosho’s Jerome Aigoin is the top seed for qualifying at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships after the quiet Frenchman topped the second round of timed practice in France from Kyosho/Novarossi team-mate Elliott Boots with Mugen’s Lee Martin putting in a much improved run to post the third fastest time. Having posted the fastest time of the day in the morning’s opening timed practice, Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk lost around 7-seconds after a coming together with a slower buggy and ending up only 10th fastest.

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July 10, 2013

Ronnefalk fastest in 1st timed practice

Kyosho’s David Ronnefalk has topped the opening timed round of practice at the 1:8 Offroad European Championship in France, completing 8 laps of the unique chalk surface track 2.7-seconds faster than Associated’s Yannick Aigoin with Kyosho’s Elliot Boots completing the Top 3 a further 2.3 seconds adrift. Defending Champion Darren Bloomfield took his TLR to the 6th fastest time over the 5-minute run which will count towards a reseeding of the heats for qualifying which gets underway tomorrow.

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July 10, 2013

Max Flurer wins E-Truggy at AMS 4.0

Now in its fourth year, the Alabama Manufacturer’s Shootout has become one of the premier events on the racing calendar. This year, the Cullman, Alabama track hosted over 500 entries, including the nation’s top factory pros. In the E-Truggy class, AE/Reedy factory driver Max Flurer drove his RC8T Truggy to the pole position. Max took full advantage of his front row start and cruised to victory in both 10-minute A-Main legs en route to the overall win. Joining Max on the podium in second place was teammate Damon Borkowicz.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com] | Image: Live RC

July 9, 2013

Thornhill Racing Circuit opening race – Report

After months of anticipation, Thornhill Racing Circuit’s gates opened for the first time on July 4th as racers from USA, Mexico, and Brazil gathered to run the first competitive laps at the new facility for the Grand Opening presented by FTW, Avid, RC America, Xray, Hudy, Hobby Pro USA, Beta, and VP Powermaster. Practice on Friday afforded the first opportunity for racers to experience the magnitude of the nation’s largest track. Designed and built by Joey “The Dirt” Christensen, the track features big lanes as wide as 20′ with European-influencing sweeping turns and American-styled jumps. Lap times dropped throughout Saturday’s qualifiers as the traction improved and drivers began to master the unique layout. Josh Glancy would TQ both nitro buggy and truggy, while Jake Dellinger and Andrew Clark took TQ honors in E-buggy and Pro4, respectively. Glancy made the fastest circuit of the day, lapping the track in 44.6 seconds.

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July 9, 2013

Euro title contenders content at end of Day 1

Darren Bloomfield

With no official timing available from the three rounds of practice that made up the schedule for today’s opening day of action at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in France, it is hard to decipher which driver has best mastered the conditions of the unique chalk surface Reims track but at the end of a very hot day all the main contenders have declared that they are happy with the direction in which they are headed although some seem more convincing than others.

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July 9, 2013

33rd 1:8 Offroad Euros underway in Reims

The 33rd running of the 1:8 Offroad European Championships got underway this morning in France with Day 1 of the event, which will come to a conclusion on Saturday, set to be a rather uneventful affair with just 3 rounds of untimed practice making up today’s schedule. Having had the Warm-up race cancelled just as the Semi-finals got underway due to rain, the hot sunny weather that has greeted drivers on their arrival to the famous Champagne producing city has created a totally different set of track conditions with tyre choice set to be the key factor to the outcome of the race.

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July 9, 2013

Patrick Hofer wins Hohenems Summerchamps 2013

The Hohenems Off-Road Summerchamps in Austria were held the the EFAC Hohenems’ blue groove clay track and saw the attendance of 80 drivers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The race was well organised by the local club and offered perfect track conditions. In the early low-grip stages Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer put his Team Associated cars on top of the field in the 2WD and 4WD class and he also stayed there in the ‘blue groove’ finals winning both categories in style.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]