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April 14, 2014

RB Challenge Norway Rd1 – Report

The first race of the six round RB Challenge in Norway was run with 62 drivers attending. The series is run on RB tyres and sees the nine fastest drivers from qualifying proceeding to the final with two drivers from the B-final as bump-ups. The TQ went to Bjorn Ivar Haug (Xray) and once the 40 minute final took off it was clear that the race was on between Bjorn Ivar and Team Associated driver Daniel Kobbevik with both drivers quickly pulling away from the field. 10 minutes into the race and Bjorn made a small mistake allowing Daniel to pass but Bjorn Ivar fought back eventually taking the lead again. Later on Daniel ran into trouble which resulted in three extra pit stops allowing Bjorn to cruise to the win. Daniel Kobbevik finally managed to grab the runner-up spot, Rune Karlsen (Xray) completed the podium.

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April 14, 2014

Ermen, Roemer and Puepke win at West Open Rd1

John Ermen, Philipp Roemer and René Puepke are the winners of the season opener of the Western German Championship, which has turned into a “West Open” with racers from six nations. A total of 59 racers attended the race weekend on the challenging track of MCK Dormagen in the North of Cologne with two racers which did not make it to the start line on Sunday. Close and fair racing in all three categories and perfect conditions at temperatures around 15°C made it an excellent start into the new season.

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April 14, 2014

Hartson 4WD Buggy win in Tacoma

Steven Hartson has taken the top honours in 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals which was making its first visit to Tacoma R/C Raceway in Washington State. With local racers stamping their authority on Mod Buggy, in 4WD it was first time visitor Hartson who wrapped up his first buggy victory of the 2014 series thanks to a win in A3 over JR Mitch and Tyler Vik. With all three drivers in contention for the overall win going into A3, the closing race at Scott Brown’s track would see Top Qualifier Vik have contact with both his rivals, the Xray driver fairing the worst of both A3 incidents to finish third overall behind Mitch.

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April 14, 2014

Schoettler takes the big win at JConcepts Indoor Nats

As if there was ever any doubt based on his blistering pace from the very start of the weekend, Michael Schoettler has taken the big win at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Tacoma R/C Raceway. Winning A1 with ease, A2 would prove a tougher affair for the Associated driver as fellow Tacoma racer Luke Smith mounted a challenge that would see him lead for four laps half way through the 5-minute encounter. A coming together between the two, who are used to battling one another weekly at Scott Brown’s track, Schoettler retook the lead holding on to head home Smith by just under a second to claim a very popular overall 2WD Mod win. In A3 Smith would go on to take an easy over Tanner Denney with Ryan Matesa seeing off a major challenge from Brent Thielke to finish third. The result would see Smith & Matesa complete an all local talent podium with Thielke ending up as the best visitor with fourth overall.

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April 14, 2014

Balestri & Guida win Italian on-road nats Rd1

Balestri & Calce win at Italian on-road nats Rd1

The first round of the Italian nitro on-road nationals was run this past weekend. In the premiere 1/8th scale class Capricorn’s Dario Balestri took the win from Mimmo Calce (Serpent) who finished only one lap down with Nicola Marrone in 3rd with his BMT. In the 1/8th F1 category the TQ was grabbed by Antonio Calce (Serpent) but the win in the final eventually went to Francesco Guida (Serpent).

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April 14, 2014

Arrowmax aluminium 1/8th on-road setup wheels

Arrowmax has released new CNC-machined aluminium set-up wheels for 1/8 on-road cars. Laser engraved with the Arrowmax logo and arrow pattern for looks they allow for precise setup adjustment of most of today’s 1/8 on-road cars. The wheels are sold in a set of four usable for the front and rear of the chassis.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

April 14, 2014

2nd Annual Mile High Indoor Champs – Report

The second annual Mile High Indoor champs were held last weekend at the 5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado. Racers from around the U.S. and Canada made up the nearly 200 car field. The classes run were F1, World GT, 17.5 TC, 13.5 TC, Modified TC, 17.5 12th and Modified 12th. In the very competitive 13.5 TC class it was Drew Ellis who was fast all week and had a great last qualifier to sit on the pole. Other TQ’s were Mario Ficco in F1, Bill Cydor in 17.5 TC. All five other classes were TQ’d by Josh Cyrul.

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April 14, 2014

Kyosho to re-release the 1980’s Scorpion 2WD buggy

Kyosho to re-release the 1980's Scorpion 2WD buggy

German news platform RC-News.de report that Kyosho is planning to re-release the iconic 1982 Scorpion 2WD buggy. Designed by Akira Kogawa, who was also responsible for the Kyosho Beetle, Tomahawk and Optima, the buggy marked the beginning of Kyosho’s successful line of 2WD buggies that later became the Ultima, a kit that won the 1987 World Championships in the hands of Joel “Magic” Johnson. It is understood that the re-release Scorpion buggy will be on show at this year’s Shizuoka Hobby Show that will kick-off at the 15th of May. We bring you more information on the kit as soon as they become available.

Source: Kyosho [kyosho.com]