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November 12, 2017

Coelho leads the way China in early 2WD practice

With the first two rounds of free practice complete at the 2WD Offroad World Championships in China complete it is Bruno Coelho who leads the way. The Xray driver set the fastest 3-consecutive laps on his second run to top the times by a massive 2.5-seconds from Naoto Matsukura after posting a fastest lap of 24.788. With things much more closely bunched from P2 to P6, the five drivers separated by 3/10ths of second it was Jared Tebo, the last 2WD World Champion on dirt who completed the Top 3 ahead of Ty Tessmann, Joern Neumann and Dakotah Phend. With 4WD Champion Coelho fastest in contrast reigning 2WD Champion Spencer Rivkin, who celebrates his 19th birthday today in Xiamen, found himself 13th fastest.

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November 10, 2017

Yannic Prümper returns to Yokomo factory team

Yokomo have announced the return of Germany’s Yannic Prümper to their factory team. Yannic grew up using Yokomo cars and buggies and he now comes back to the iconic Japanese manufacturer following a stint with other brands. Prümper will use the BD8-2018, YZ-2 and YZ-4SF platforms in his upcoming campaign that will see attendances at events such as the ETS, EOS and major races in Europe. Yannic says:

I would like to thank Team Yokomo for giving again the opportunity to use their excellent products. It feels good to be back in that Team where my RC carrier started and I grow up. I‘ll do my best in the future to deliver the best results!

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

November 10, 2017

Andrei takes double Fxracing Indoor Series title

The final round of the 2017 UCS Fxracing Indoor Series was held recently. After an intense first two rounds, multiple national champion Jako Zsolt and current Mini-Z class champion Stroe Razvan were the main contenders. In the Buggy Stock 13.5T class, Andrei managed to take the victory after two heats, followed closely by Zsolt, Razvan and Liviu. Andrei then took the overall victory and was crowned Indoor Series Champion. In the 2WD Modified Short Course class, Andrei had strong competition from Zsolt but in the end, Andrei again took the victory and overall crown in this class.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 8, 2017

Cole Ogden wins Pro Buggy at Fall Brawl warm-up

The Fall Brawl warm-up race was held at Badlands RC last weekend. In the Pro Nitro Buggy class it was newly signed HB Racing pilot Cole Ogden, who scored a popular TQ with his Reds Racing-powered ride. In the 20-minute main final it was again Cole who was able to come out on top, leaving behind Jason Smith (Mugen/Reds Racing) in 2nd and HB Racing/O.S. Engines’ John Michael McGinty in 3rd.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

November 8, 2017

Garret takes JBRL Nitro Series Intermediate Buggy title

RC Tracks of Las Vegas played host to the season finale of the 2017 JBRL Nitro Series and in the Intermediate Buggy class it was Marcus Garrett (HB Racing) with the overall win. Marcus Garret and Cole Jenson (HB Racing) were separated by only 1 point going into the last round of the series. Marcus qualify 2nd and finished 4th in the class which helped clinch the championship from Cole Jenson 2nd and A.J. Schumacher (Team Associated) 3rd.

Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com] | Image: JBRL [jimmybabcock.com]

November 8, 2017

Hollander & Hill win at SARDA EP Off-road Nats finale

The last round of the 2017 SARDA National Series was held at Ultra Raceway in Pretoria, South Africa. It was a two day event with three heats of qualifying being held on the Saturday and three heats of mains being held on the Sunday. The track is an outdoor carpet surface with extremely high traction and this lead to some exciting high-speed racing for the weekend in all the various classes. 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified were action packed and it was Charles Hollander who took a TQ and 1st place in the A-mains and managed to keep the same pace going to take TQ and 1st place A-mains in 4WD. Charles also rounded the year as South African Champion in both Modified classes.

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November 7, 2017

Super Cup Championship Series Rd3 – Report

The JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series made its way to Ocala, Florida last weekend to Newred Hobbies for round 3 of the 4 round fall series. This unique track is one of Florida’s longest running indoor facilities and will celebrate 15 years of operation next year in 2018. With a history and heritage, Newred has also looked towards the future by evolving with new style wood/carpet jumps making track rebuilds much faster and easier without the need to shape jumps and move large piles of dirt.

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November 7, 2017

Saxton & Drake win at JBRL Nitro Series Rd8

Round 8 of the Jimmy Babcock Racing League Nitro Series was held at R/C Tracks of Las Vegas with over 170 entries. In the premier Expert Nitro Buggy class it was Mugen’s Adam Drake with the TQ and he would also come out fastest in the Open Nitro Truggy class. However in the 15-minute Expert Buggy main it was Team Associated’s Richard Saxton with the win, coming from the 3 spot in the grid. Adam would end the race on the 2nd place some four seconds behind Richard and only 0.7 seconds in front of Aaron Gomez (Mugen). In the Open Truggy A-main Adam was able to take a dominant win, one lap in front of Team Associated’s A.J. Schumacher and Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the Open Truggy podium here