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March 5, 2014

Bernal & Albano win at Outback Shootout

A Main Hobbies would host their 4th annual Outback Shootout at their indoor track, Outback Raceway in Chico, CA with a total of 281 entries. Qualifying would consist of 4 rounds of heads up qualifying taking your best 2 runs. 4WD Open Buggy would see Albano taking the TQ with Strange starting 2nd and Bernal 3rd. Matesa would take the TQ in Open Stadium Truck. In 2WD Open Buggy, going into the 4th round, Matesa, Strange, and Albano would all three have one win. Albano would claim the win and overall TQ with Strange 2nd, Matesa 3rd, and Bernal 4th.

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March 5, 2014

Ferrell wins at Pacific NW Showdown Rd4

The Marty Barnes’ Pacific NW Showdown Tour made its way to Albany, Oregon last weekend. Conveniently located just off the I-5 freeway, NW Hobbies hosted round 4 of the 5 race series on an all clay, super high bite, tacky indoor race arena. Practice was held on Saturday with 1 qualifier in the evening and 2 on Sunday with mains to follow. The layout was technical yet easy, but at the same time extremely challenging. The most challenging part was deciding which tires to go with and playing with the amount of grip that was available. There was a fine line between speed and too much speed that would make the car very twitchy and edgey to drive resulting in increased chances of roll-overs and crashes. The window was very small and tire combo was definitely the key to your success.

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March 4, 2014

Jörn Neumann joins Maxima Fuel

Maxima Fuel announce the signing of Jörn Neumann to run the company’s racing nitro fuel. Jörn joins an already successful line-up of drivers such as Jared Tebo and Eric Dankel.

Source: Maxima Fuel [maxima-fuel.com]

March 4, 2014

Alberto Garcia wins Madrid Championship Rd1

The first round of the 2014 Madrid Championship took place last weekend with around 80 drivers in attendance. The event was a perfect warm up race for the European Championship “B” and the Spain Nationals which will be held at the same track this Summer, therefore many of the top Spanish drivers where in attendance. During practice rain made things slippery and it was S-Workz driver Albert Garcia (S-Workz/RB/JConcepts) who was able to make the best out of the slippery conditions. Just before the main final rain started to fall again but this did not keep Alberto from taking the win in front of Juanma Guillen (JQ/Alpha/ProCircuit) and Dani Vega (Agama/Reds/Beta).

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

March 4, 2014

2014 JCP-RC Winter Cup – Report

JCP-RC Raceway located in Indianapolis Indiana, played host to the 1st annual JCP-RC Winter Cup. The 3 day event brought in just over 160 entries from across the tri-state region to try and claim a title in what will be a must attend event in the years to come. Consistency was the name of the game for the event as drivers competed in a practice seeding round on Friday. Using the drivers full 5 minute practice run laps and times to seed the drivers for qualifying for the remainder of the event. Once seeding had been determined, the event used 3 rounds of qualification Saturday, and 1 round on Sunday using qualipoints to set the main events. Triple A-mains would then determine the winners on Sunday in the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy, Mod Truck, and 1/8 E-Buggy classes, while 10 minute A-mains would determine the winners in the 2WD SC, 4WD SC, 17.5 2WD Buggy, and Novice classes with bump-ups in all classes.

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March 4, 2014

Xray XB4 adjustable ball differential

Xray introduce this ball differential for the use with the XB4 and XB4 2WD line of buggies. The pre-assembled diff is equipped with 2.4mm ceramic balls, a carbide axial thrust race, Hudy spring steel outdrives, heavy-duty diff plates and a composite material crown gear. The externally adjustable differential is best used on low-grip surfaces as it can enhance traction and drivability.

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March 4, 2014

Hudy 5.5mm & 6mm turnbuckles wrenches

In addition to their already existing 3mm, 4mm and 5mm turnbuckles wrenches Hudy now also have a 5.5mm and 6mm variant to offer. Made from hardened steel the tools are of a minimalistic and easy to use design, they are black of colour and come laser-etched for easy size identification.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

March 4, 2014

Matt Chambers joins Tresrey & Yaiba Racing

Tresrey and Yaiba Racing announce the signing of top US off-road racer Matt Chambers. Matt brings with him years of professional racing experience and will assist with R&D and product development. Matt had this to say:

I would like to start off by saying a big thank you to Tresrey and Yaiba Racing. This is a unique opportunity for myself as I will be able to compete at national level races with any manufacturers chassis that Tresrey and Yaiba make quality option parts for. It will be great to get to race the numerous 1/10 platforms available knowing I already have the best option parts for each. I’m extremely excited to be representing these fine companies for 2014: Tresrey, Yaiba Racing, Reedy, Pro-Line, Airtronics, Avid, UpGrade RC, B-Fast, Bradley Fine Line Designs, OCRC Raceway, and MHOR RC Raceway.

Source: Tresrey [tresrey-usa.com]