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March 18, 2013

JJ Wang wins big at China SMP Opening Race

Team C team driver JJ Wang took a clean sweep in three classes at the opening race of the new SMP off road track in Shanghai, China. Driving his Thunder powered Team C TM2 and T4, JJ won both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class including taking TQ in 2WD. In the 4WD Short Course class, it was a real battle between Horizon’s newly signed Hong Kong factory driver Frankie and JJ but in the end, the latter took the victory with his TS4 completing a sweep of three classes at the inaugural race.

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March 18, 2013

Spanish 1/8th EP buggy nationals report

Last weekend the first round of the Spanish 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the new RC La Nucia track. Being of a high-speed design with some smaller double and triple jump sections setup was crucial. After the qualifying Serpent driver Sergio Martinez took TQ followed by Daniel Vega (Agama) and local driver Toni Alcalá (Serpent). The finals were a bit chaotic because the track became bumpy meaning drivers could run into errors easily. At the end European Champion Daniel Vega had the pace to win the race followed by TQ driver Sergio Martínez, and Alberto García (Serpent).

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March 18, 2013

Kenji Tsuruta doubles at Tresrey Off-Road Race

Round 11 of the Tresrey Off-Raod Race was held at the RC Maniax Arena in Izumi-city, Osaka, Japan. A total of 90 entries made it to the event with 49 drivers attending in the 2WD class and 41 in 4WD. Tresrey driver Kenji Tsuruta (TLR) won the 2WD class with Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) in second and Toshihiro Ueno(TLR) in third place. In 4WD class it was again Kenji Tsuruta (Team Durango) who won the race with 15 year old Syun Mukaiyama (Tamiya) in second place and Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) coming in third. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a TLR22 kit, Team Durango items, Speed Passion controller and motors, Viper RC controllers and motors as well as Highest servos.

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March 18, 2013

Maifield & Tebo take buggy titles at Cactus Classic

For the first time in a number of years the blue ribbon buggy titles at the Proline Cactus Classic have gone to two different drivers with defending champion Ryan Maifield successfully retaining his 4WD title while Jared Tebo took the 2WD win, a crown he last held in 2008. In the truck classes, 4WD Short Course was also decided with Dakotah Phend wrapping up the title in the second leg of finals.

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March 17, 2013

A1 wins for Maifield & Tebo at Cactus

Ryan Maifield and Jared Tebo claimed the wins in the opening A-Main of the Proline Cactus Classic’s blue ribbon classes with defending Champion Maifield taking a close win over Joern Neumann in 4WD Buggy while Tebo took a more convincing win ahead of Dustin Evans in 2WD Buggy.

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March 17, 2013

PSM TC6.1 & RC8.2 carbon option parts

PSM introduce two new carbon fibre option parts for Team Associated’s TC6.1 touring car and the RC8.2 buggy. Starting with the TC6.1, available now is a 2mm carbon top ‘flexx’ plate. CNC-machined from PSM’s glossy fibre material the plate weights only 9g and incorporates an additional chassis post mounting position to adjust the torsional flex of the chassis if needed. The part is a direct fit on the TC6.1’s chassis. Also new is a carbon fibre radio plate for the RC8.2 nitro buggy. CNC-machined from 3mm carbon fibre that part is designed to better resist heat and to improve servo fitment. It incorporates a personal transponder mount and comes with all needed hardware such as bolts, nuts, washers and posts.

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March 17, 2013

Matsukura Top Qualifier, Maifield TQs Q4

Naoto Matsukura is the Top Qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the 27th Proline Cactus Classic, the Japanese driver securing the honour thanks to his TQ runs in Q2 & 3 at SRS Raceway. Going into the fourth and final qualifier only Q1 pace setter Jared Tebo could deny the young Japanese star pole for tomorrow’s final but the Kyosho driver could only manage 5th as defending Champion Ryan Maifield posted his first TQ run finishing 2.7 seconds up on Matsukura.

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March 17, 2013

Another TQ run for Matsukura

The star of last night’s second round of buggy qualifying at the Proline Cactus Classic, Team Yokomo’s Naoto Matsukura backed up that performance with another TQ run in 2WD Buggy today topping the penultimate round of heats by 3-seconds from Q1 pace setter Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. In 4WD Buggy Cavalieri headed an Associated 1-2 ahead of defending champion Ryan Maifield with TLR’s Dakotah Phend completing the Top 3.

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