HotShots R/C Raceway played host to roughly 140 entries at the first annual Georgia Indoor Championships. The race schedule was Friday open practice with Saturday having 3 rounds of IFMAR qualifying and extended single mains with bump-ups. Carl Knight and the HotShots crew did a fantastic job providing the racers with a great layout and super consistent surface.
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SiK Track Designs together with AZRCR have come together for a great battle in the desert of Phoenix, Arizona. Held at the Fear Farm RC Raceway, the event organised by Levi Jackson of SiK Track Designs saw some of the best in 1/8th scale racing battle it out in the ever changing Arizona weather conditions. After a great day of qualifying, Ryan Maifield was sitting TQ in the Pro Buggy and Truggy classes. Ryan then took the first two, 20 minute A-mains to take the overall Pro Buggy Championship. Then coming out and completely showed the field why he was the champion this weekend, lapping all but 4 drivers in the final 20 minute A-main. Overall Adam Drake finished in 2nd and Ryan Lutz 3rd. Starting off the Pro Truggy Mains, Ryan had mechanical issues in the first two mains and came back to win the 3rd main over Lutz. The final podium would be Ryan Lutz taking the overall win, Reno Savoya 2nd and Tanner Stees 3rd.
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Team Associated soon have new Factory Team parts available for the B44.3 4WD buggy in the form of a carbon fibre shorty battery strap, an aluminium centre diff cap and 12mm front hex adapters. Starting with the battery strap, the brace is machined from high-quality carbon fibre and made to replace the standard part with a more rigid and cooler looking part. Included with the strap comes a pair of blue anodised mounting screws.
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Italian company Reds Racing announce the re-signing of Elliott Boots for another two years through to 2016. The Kyosho front runner and 2012 IFMAR Worlds top qualifier has the following to say about the deal:
I have been very pleased with the fantastic support from Reds Racing in 2014, on and off track. The engines have been so good this year and with the personal track support from Mario and Marco which has been fantastic. Looking forward to 2015/16 with Reds Racing.
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The 2nd round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Hassleholm, Sweden. The racers faced quite a small but yet technical layout with good grip. Right from the start local driver Daniel Carlsson found himself on top of the timesheets with a 4 seconds margin over the 2nd place driver in practice. Daniel then also lead the qualifying with Markus Hellquist coming in 2nd some 4 seconds behind while Christian Holmström ended the qualifiers in 3rd further 3 seconds down. The finals then were a done deal for Daniel who made a clean sweep in all three legs to take the overall win from Markus and Christian.
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The first round of the Norwegian National Winter Series was organised by the Kvinesdal RC Club in the South of Norway with a record entry of over 80 drivers in attendance. Held in the classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock 13.5T, Touring Car Recruit 21.5T and 1/12th scale Modified the race format saw three rounds of qualifying with the best result to count followed by triple mains. In the Touring Car Modified class raining Nordic Champion and Schumacher team driver Nikolai Haaheim would secure the overall TQ by topping all three rounds of qualifying. A close 2nd was Team Associated driver Petter Berntsen, Oskar Fjeld (Yokomo) followed in 3rd while Rune Svestol (Xray) came in 4th.
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The 2014 Edition of the New Zealand North Island EP Champs took place at the North Harbour RC Car Club Track which is situated at the most Northern part of the country’s biggest city Auckland. The event was somewhat of a sombre affair on the knowledge that the track was ear marked to be redeveloped into a swimming complex in a short few weeks after the event. Come qualifying, the weather played ball after months of rain in the region, the sun was out, and so were all challengers for this event.
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Last weekend’s Battle of the Sikest saw Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst taking the TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class over some of the fastest drivers in 1/8th electric racing. Bornhost then would take the opening A-main with a tone to tone victory over Tekno teammate Ryan Lutz who came in 2nd. In the second leg Joe would make a mistake in the first corner to give Lutz the lead. For the next few minutes the entire field would battle it out and Lutz would hold onto to take the win in A2, while Joe finished in 2nd. The third and decisive A-main would have the teammates Bornhorst and Lutz swapping the lead countless times. Side by side for nearly five minutes it would come down to Bornhorst making a mistake giving Lutz the room to take the overall win. With Bornhorst on the runner-up spot Kyosho’s Cody King would round out the podium.
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