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January 21, 2012

Video – 2012 Pro-Line SC open house

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This past weekend Pro-Line opened its legendary test track in Banning, CA to the local Short Course crowd for some fun, food and the opportunity to meet the a few of the top RC drivers in the World such as World Champion Cody King, Adam Drake, along with Ty Tessmann, Rhonda Drake, Scott Hughes and Pro-Line’s own Tim Clark and Gerardo Gonzalez. Pro-Line would like to take the opportunity and thank all who came to their Open House and helped to make it a huge success. Keep your eyes peeled to PL’s website and Facebook pages because you never know when the opportunity to run on their test track will come around again. See the above video to get an idea of the event’s fantastic atmosphere.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 17, 2012

Jared Tebo wins SC 2wd at CRCRC Champs

The 25th Annual CRCRC Winter Mid-West Championships were held January 12th-15th at The Ohio R/C Factory in Jeffersonville, OH. This is known as the first big race of the new year. Racers from as far east as New Jersey and as far west as California made the trip for this great annual event. Team Orion would have their All-Star cast of drivers in attendance which included: Current 2wd & 4wd World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Current Truck and 4wd ROAR National Champion Jared Tebo, Mike Truhe, Shaun Dunlap, Matt Castellano and Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars. On Friday and Saturday the qualifiers were set for a length of 5-minutes. Each drivers two best points would count towards their overall qualifying position. Then on Sunday, Triple A-Mains would be ran for 7-minutes to decide the Champions in each class

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January 11, 2012

Felix Law double at Mills Pond New Year shootout

One of the most competitive RC car clubs located in Fort Lauderdale, FL called Mills Pond kicked off their 1st race of the year last Saturday. Race director Bart Collins & the rest of his crew laid down a fresh layout for the New Year in order to get ready for this race. With an amazing 100+ entry, Mills Pond New Year shootout was definitely the race to watch for the weekend.

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December 23, 2011

Pro-Line Short Course Open House

On January 14th Pro-Line will be hosting a Short Course Open House BBQ to kick off the racing season. We will be accepting 100 Sportsman drivers starting January 2nd to come out for a FUN day of timed practice at Pro-Line’s home track. Entries are $15.00 and include FREE XL Open House T-shirt, FREE Bag of Swag, FREE Lunch and a fun day of being one of the first to run your RC Car on Pro-Line turf. So, if you are a sportsman driver and you want to come have some fun out at Pro-Line, then visit Pro-Line’s website for details on how to enter.

November 30, 2011

JConcepts Super Cup final round report

The final round of the JConcepts Super Cup 2011 season was host at Daytona, FL during the Thanksgiving weekend and was the decider of the series winner in many classes. Due to the interesting characteristic of the Daytona track it causes many drivers to struggle. The track quickly builds up a groove during the practice day but still didn’t have traction like other FL track, due to the amount of sand. Many drivers were fighting for traction while eating tires like sandpaper. Drivers needed to adapt quickly in order to finish races making this one of the hardest track conditions to race on.

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November 11, 2011

Janos Lazar wins Pro4 at Nitro clash warm up

JConcepts Clash is the Biggest off road race in FL every year. This year Clash is host at Coral Spring, FL (CSRCCC). With the amazing 370 pre entries this year’s clash is going to be the biggest Clash yet. This weekend’s Nitro clash warm up was a successful test day for all the Nitro racers. In order to satisfy the current RC trend, 1/8th E-buggy & Short Course truck were included in this weekend’s Nitro clash warm up to make things interesting. The Pro4 Short Course was the biggest class even at this Nitro Warm up event. It had 30+ racers attend this race showing everyone how popular Short Course truck racing has become. In the A main, the TQ, driving the Associated SC10 4×4, Christopher Viesins checked out early in the race. He was having his perfect weekend and was able to click in a fast lap of 27.8, the fastest time in SC. At the 4 minute mark, he started to make a few mistakes at the table top and this is where the race began. The battle for 2nd was between Johnny Meija, driving the Losi SCT-E & Janos Lazar driving the Durango DESC410R. The intense battle was focused on those two until Christopher’s mistake caused him to fall back. At the 5 minute mark the 3 drivers battled to the finish, Johnny’s mistake in the hairpin letting Lazar & Christopher to slip by. Lazar’s Durango flew over the table top follow by the double while Christopher fell short in the double costing him the chance to catch Lazar. Lazar won the race by 1 second over Christopher with Johnny finishing 3rd.

Source: Hobby Crap [hobbycrap.com]

November 1, 2011

JConcepts SuperCup report

One of the biggest race series in FL is the JConcepts SuperCup. The Series has an average of 130+ entries every race thanks to the great race director Mike Applegate. For this 3rd round of the SuperCup, it was hosted at New Red hobbies, Ocala FL. This indoor facility was the only track that has enough traction to run slick tires. But due to the last minute rule to keep competition fair, JConcepts decide to make this a “Non Slick” race. The Biggest Class of the entire SuperCup Series is the Short Course class. There about 75% of driver enter at least one short course class.

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October 25, 2011

Brian Kinwald dominates 9th Annual SIGP

The 9th annual Southwest Indoor Grand Prix, hosted by Tucson, AZ’s Competition Hobbies, should be re-named as the BK Invitational. Team Associated’s Brian Kinwald owns this track and went on a tear, TQ’ing 14 of the 16 rounds of qualifying among 2WD Modified, Modified Truck, Pro2 and Pro4. Starting from pole position in everything but Pro4, Kinwald showed the fluid, effortless driving style that helped him win two World Championships in the 90’s. Now, almost twenty years later, he’s still winning.

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