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December 13, 2017

JConcepts INS7 finale – Report

The JConcepts Indoor National Series is considered to be the most successful offroad racing series in the U.S. and the 2017 season proved that the series keeps growing attracting the best racers in the nation to compete on five different tracks across America. As soon as the JConcepts INS7 Finale race registration opened for SpeedRC Raceway, spots filled up fast and soon hit the max capacity limit at 350 entries very quickly. The highly anticipated race was headlined by some of the most competitive names in the game like current 2WD and 4WD IFMAR World Champion Ryan Maifield, 4-time World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, 2015 World Champion Spencer Rivkin, former National Champion Dustin Evans, Max Flurer, JP Richards, Spencer Heckert, Griffin Hanna, Alex Kosciuszek, and Daimon Borkowicz just to name a few.

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December 12, 2017

2017/2018 RcKongen Winter Series Rd4 report

The Heljan/Rckongen group has been hosting Denmark’s only winter championship for 1:10th scale buggies trying to find the right balance between serious and rookie drivers. This past weekend round 4 of this seasons winter series was run, and it looks like their hard work the last few years is paying off. More than 60 drivers attended, among them 2 former EFRA European Champions, factory drivers from AE, Yokomo, and Hot Bodies were all out in force providing some very exiting racing.

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December 11, 2017

Phend doubles at Horizon Hobby Mid-West Classic

The Horizon Hobby Mid-West Classic was held at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois this past weekend. TLR’s Dakotah Phend would take the respective TQs in the premier 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes while Charlie Maiorana came out on top after the Stadium Truck qualifiers. Dakotah then would also stay on top of things after the triple 2WD Mod A-mains to take the title from TLR’s JR Mitch 2nd and Team Associated’s Cole Tollard 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Robert Batlle wins at Advents Cup

The Czypu-Drom dirt indoor track in Bad Oeyenhausen, Germany played host to the 6th annual Advents Cup this past weekend. The 1/8th E-Buggy class was won by Mugen’s Robert Batlle who came all the way from Spain to take the win from Agama’s Burak Kilic 2nd and free agent driver Jörn Neumann, piloting a Mugen, in 3rd. Over in the Junior finals it was Burak Kilic who took the winning honour from Laurin Czypulowski 2nd and Berkan Kilic 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Martin Bayer sweeps XRS Slovakia Rd3

The third round of Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Arena. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Martin Bayer who took a pretty easy TQ with Max Gotzl in 2nd after great run in Q3 and Kaja Novotny in 3rd. 4WD Buggy was a different story with Martin and Kaja swapping the lead multiple times during the qualifiersn and eventually it was Martin who took overall TQ. Few seconds back each run was another duo of Adam Izsay and Max Gotzl fighting for 3rd place and in the end Adam prevailed. In the Truck class Martin was on another level and took his third TQ of the day with Kaja Novotny in 2nd place and Max Gotzl starting 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Jason Nugroho wins UCP Fun Race

The UCP Fun Race was held last weekend at the Urban Community Park in Cisauk, West Java, Indonesia. This new track is located about 60km from the Jakarta city centre and the event a was trial race before the track owners will hold the grand opening race. A total of 45 drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Gresik, Solo and Pontianak attended and the event kicked off in good weather in the morning, however by midday there was rain after qualifying and caused a delay for the finals. After qualifying, Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took the TQ honours and he also secured the 1st position after the 45-minute main final, follow by Chopin Yusuf (TLR/O.S.) and Edianto Ong (Kyosho/O.S.) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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December 7, 2017

Daniel, Boggs & Jones wins at Toys for Tots race

Warehouse Hobby in Helena, Alabama held their Toys for Tots race last weekend and in the 2WD Buggy class it was Jeremy Daniel with the win from Evan Boggs 2nd and Blake Boggs 3rd. The 4WD Buggy main had Blake Boggs coming out on top from TQ holder, Evan Jones. Evan fall back during the race but was able to still take the runner-up spot from Jeremy Daniel 3rd. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was Evan Jones with the TQ and he also got out to and early lead and despite a few mistakes he was able to grab the win from Allen Lowe 2nd and Joe Pharis 3rd.

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December 7, 2017

Xray Racing Series UK Off-Road Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series UK Off-road was held at Midlands Raceway last weekend. It was another busy day with ten heats of drivers booked into the round and the club team changed the track again and pulled out the tricky jump rhythm section and replaced it with a new table-top, 180 degree corner and step-down section that was a little easier for the drivers but equally fun, along with a huge kicker jump after the main straight to add the 3D element in the challenging layout. The fastest 2WD Mod guys took to the track and were immediately flying with Dom Nunn setting a TQ time in round 1 that wouldn’t be beaten all day.

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