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April 25, 2018

Spencer Rivkin doubles at JC Carpet Nats

With the popularity of artificial surfaces still on the rise, JConcepts teamed up with carpet track specialist, Northwest Hobbies, to present the 1st ever JConcepts Carpet Nationals event in Albany, Oregon. With Northwest Hobbies being one of the first tracks in the nation to go carpet, the local race scene has developed some extremely fast drivers that span from Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. Mix in two World Champions, a car designer who placed 2nd at the Worlds Warm-up at Yatabe, with the fast locals and you have one of the most competitive fields in US off-road carpet racing history.

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April 25, 2018

Neil Cragg Alpha-powered for 2018

UK Alpha distributors X-Factory UK have that UK frontrunner, Neil Cragg will be using the Asian engines for the 2018 season. The long-time LRP driver, who only recently announced the end of his collaboration with the German brand, will be using the new Alpha Dragon 4 engine, combined with Alpha 2134 exhaust and P range of glow plugs to power his 1/8th scale nitro rides and he has the following to say:

I would like to let you guys know that I will be using Alpha Engines in my nitro cars for the 2018 season! I would like to thank Jon Dell and the whole team for giving me this opportunity. Having tested the engines I am super pleased with the performance so far. I look forward to racing for Alpha, starting at Westmill for the 1st round of the BRCA Nationals this coming weekend.

Source: X-Factory UK [xfactoryrc.co.uk]

April 24, 2018

Kenny Kong wins at Dog Days of Summer race 2

The recent Dog Days of Summer round 2, hosted by The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland, was run with a somewhat condensed format of only two qualifiers and a single bump-up A-main. With around 110 entries the traction had really come up between qualifying rounds and especially for the mains, a lot of people would start to have issues with traction rolling. From the tone Kenny Kong (Yokomo) was leading the 4WD Buggy race, however after a troubled opening laps it was Adam Vink (Xray) in 2nd. Adam got right behind Kenny and tried making a pass, but tapped a pipe and didn’t have enough time to catch back up to him. Ultimately it was Kenny in 1st with Adam 2nd and Tekno driver Paul Rush in 3rd. Frank Deiny and Omar Ladenburg would round out the top 5.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2018

Tasos Paparegas wins at Greek Championship

A round of the Greek 1/8th Off-road Championship was held at the Serres track in Northern Greece last weekend. Tasos Paparegas would be in control of things in the main final, bringing home the win some two and a half laps in front of runner-up, Nikos Grigoriadis. In 3rd Makis Mistakopoylos rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2018

Xray Racing Series Poland finale – Report

The final round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held recently, marking the end of the indoor season with the drivers now moving outside in their respective classes. In the premier 2WD Buggy class it was Bartlomiej Zambrzycki with the win from Sebastian Migal and Bartosz Zalewski in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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April 24, 2018

CJ Jelin takes April Fools Classic 4WD Mod title

The 30th annual April Fools Classic was held at Intermountain R/C Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah recently with about 400 entries for a multitude of electric off-road classes. When the dust had settled after qualifying it was Xray’s CJ Jelin with the TQ in the 4WD Modified Buggy class from Team Associated’s Dustin Evans in 2nd. In the opening A-main it was Dustin with the win after he was able to get past CJ when the latter went wide on the triple. A2 and A3 then were a pretty straight forward affair for CJ who would take the overall title from Dustin Evans 2nd and Team Associated’s Jake Mayo 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 24, 2018

Mark Sousa doubles at Quebec Indoor Nationals

The Quebec Indoor Nationals were held in Degelis, Quebec over the weekend. The track crew laid down a great track that was very technical and high speed and the slippery track surface made it even tougher. Xray’s Mark Sousa would TQ two of the three Nitro Buggy qualifiers for the overall TQ from Damian Lamy while in Nitro Truggy Mark would come out fastest in Q2 and Q3 for the overall as Q1 winner, Eric Deschenes, would take P2 after the qualifiers. Going into the finals and in Buggy Mark quickly realised that the track had a lot more grip compared to qualifying so he went into the main with his setup from qualifying but the buggy was a bit to soft, making it hard to drive so he made a few mistakes in the beginning and went back to last and after that he quickly started to make moves and get back into first. From there he was able to stretch out the lead more and more every lap and was able to take the win with Mugen’s Sam Langer in 2nd and Team Associated’s Damian Lamy in 3rd.

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April 23, 2018

Jon Hazlewood wins at SRS Rd1

The opening round of the SRS was held this weekend with the series visiting South Coast. A great astro turf track and some fantastic weather meant there was some awesome and close racing in the 1/8th rally cross class. Ultimately it was Jon Hazlewood (Agama) the win by the narrowest of margins, some 0.03 seconds, over Kevin Brunsden (SWorkz) in 2nd and Mike Daniel (TLR) in 3rd.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]