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June 3, 2011

Ben Ellis does double at Memorial Day Shootout

Over the past weekend Indy RC Raceway and Hobbies hosted the second annual “Memorial Day Shootout” and Ben Ellis made this report. The one day event brought over 120 entries from around the tri-state area to compete at the premier Midwest facility located on the south side of Indianapolis, IN. The race format was two rounds of rocket round qualification, with single 7 minute A-mains. Qualifying was as close as one could hope for with myself and Team Associated driver Adam Rayls and Jacob Robins trading the TQ back and fourth in 2wd Mod Buggy, Mod Truck, and 2WD Pro SC.

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June 3, 2011

Gulyás & Körmendi take victory at Rd2 in Hungary

The Hungarian Shepherd Team topped 2 classes at the 2nd round of the Hungarian Championship, which was held on the newly rebuilt track at Hungaroring. In the 1/10th 200mm stock class Krisztián Gulyás TQ’d by winning all qualification heats. In the final he only lost the lead for 2-3 laps when pitting for fuel, but after 30 minutes he crossed the finish line with decent gap ahead of the of the Kyosho pairing of Tamás Kovács and Dávid Szabó. In the 1/8th class it was again Gábor Körmendi who took the first position in the starting grid for the 30 min final. He crossed the finishing line in first position without any big issues setting a new lap record of 15,975 sec. The fight for the second place was very close with Tibor Bognár (Serpent) finishing second in front of Shepherd driver Kelbert Péter.

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June 3, 2011

Miguel & Cosme win Rd3 in Portugal

Last weekend saw the Portuguese Nationals head to the Torres Novas track for round 3 of the series. In the Modified Class the outcome stayed the same as in the last 2 rounds, with Hugo Miguel taking the win and Helder Silva as the runner up. The pair were followed closely by João Miguel Martinho. In the Stock Class Bernardo Cosme, running at his home track, didn’t give anyone a chance, taking TQ and the overall win, beating almost every track record on the way. Fernando Cardoso got second and Mário Coelho was third. Championship leader Jorge Simões couldn’t do any better than 4th.

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June 3, 2011

CRC Speedsport line of LiPos

For those enthusiasts that have really been wanting to try out CRC batteries, but couldn’t justify shelling out the coin for top level “Factory Team” racing packs, Team CRC’s new Speedsport line of LiPo batteries are just the answer you’ve been looking for. Team CRC’s Speedsport LiPos offer great battery packs at an even better price. These batteries pack a huge punch for your vehicle, not your wallet. Available in 5300mAh 40C 7.4V with bullet connectors, 5300mAh 40C 11.1V with TRA connector and a 5300mAh 40C 14.8V with deans connector.

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June 3, 2011

Ryans rule ROAR buggy practice

At the end of practice for the ROAR Nationals in Southern California it is Team Associated who controlled today’s pace as their drivers where the only ones to record 15 lap runs with Ryan Maifield topping the time sheets from Ryan Cavalieri. Winner of the Warm-up event at Thunder Alley back in April, Maifield ran a stiffer set-up on his LRP powered RC8B in the final controlled practice changing to harder springs and swaybars.

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June 3, 2011

Christopher Krapp wins EP TC warmup race

Last weekend the Warm Up race for the forthcoming European Championship 1/10 Electric Touring Cars was held in Traiskirchen in Austria, organizers of last years Buggy EC. The venue was a partly open hall used during winter as an ice hockey rink and the race attracted about 50 drivers from all over Europe. After 6 qualification rounds it was Christopher Krapp (Germany) driving a Kyosho TF-6 who took the pole position ahead of Yannic Prümper (Germany) driving a Yokomo BD-5 and Dominik Fleischmann (Germany) driving a HB TCX. The fastest lap of the whole event went to Steen Graversen (DK) driving the incredible Awesomatix 900.

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June 2, 2011

Drake fastest in second ROAR Truggy practice

Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake has set the pace in the second round of controlled Truggy practice for the 2011 US Nationals this morning, topping the 7-minute run from former champion Ryan Maifield and A-Main Hobbies team driver Chad Bradley. Despite running on a freshly watered track which caused a little understeer on his AKA Gridiron shod 8ight-T, Drake said his truck was really good to drive and should get better as the track gets more packed.

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June 2, 2011

JQ Products colour sets & wings

JQ Products have made available some new products for THE Car, including full colour kits that allow drivers to change their cars according to personal taste. The sets include all required hardware, all M3 & M4 shims, shock ride height adjustment nuts, servo saver adjusting nut and throttle link collars, in Black, Green, Red, Blue and Gold (standard) colours. JQ have also different colour wings now available for those who want to stand out from the crowd in White Yellow and Green.

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