French company RC Concept have announced the signing of Germany’s Björn Prümper to their growing team. The Yokomo driver will attend all major national events along the EOS, using the company’s line of motors, speed controllers and batteries.
Source: RC Concept [rcconcept.net]
This past weekend saw the running of the 2016 ROAR 1/8th Fuel Off-road Nationals at Thornhill Raceway in Hutto, Texas. TLR’s Ryan Maifield would double TQ the event but in the hour-long Nitro Buggy A-main it was Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin who stole the show by taking the win with a narrow 1.5s from Maifield. Spencer would take the lead in the early stages of the main while Maifield dropped down the order, letting Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Ryan Lutz (Tekno) by. Also in the mix was HB’s Ty Tessmann who even lead in the early stages of the race but once things settled in, Spencer would control the pace from the front with team mate Ryan Cavalieri in tow. The latter would then fall back in the closing stages, allowing Maifield to put pressure on Rivkin while also Tessmann regained a podium spot shortly after. Ultimately Rivkin would bring home his first big national title in style to add to his Stock Buggy and Short Course Championships and his IFMAR 2WD World Championship title.
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The Clube de Radiomodelismo in Freixedas, Portugal played host to the 2016 EFRA 1/8th Buggy European Championship B over the weekend. Gonçalo Melo took out the Top Qualifer honours after four rounds of high-intensity driving, just pipping fellow Junior driver Juan Carlos Canas on a tie-breaker. Both finished with 224 points after the four rounds, but a slightly better result for Melo in round four gave him the edge when dropped scores, of which each driver had two, were taken into account.
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Qualifying of the 2016 ROAR 1/8th Fuel Offroad Nationals at Thornhill Circuit in Hutto, Texas saw TLR’s Ryan Maifield walking away with double TQs in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck. Scoring four round TQs on the opening day of qualifying, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin denied Maifield the same spectacle on the second day by coming out fastest in the final Truck qualifier. Maifield had to settle for second, only a couple of tenth of a second shy of Rivkin’s time. Behind Maifield, Kyosho’s Jared Tebo, HB’s Ty Tessmann and Tekno’s Ryan Lutz would complete the top 4 while in Truggy Spencer Rivkin, Ty Tessmann and Jared Tebo made up the top 4.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
Up and coming US racer, Tyler Jones has joined forces with LRP to run the company’s nitro engines, brushless motors and controllers as well as using LRP chargers in his upcoming campaign. Tyler achieved a lot of titles in his young but already 7 years lasting career, such as the 2015 ROAR Jr. National Champion, qualification for the 2016 1/8 IFMAR Worlds, a 2nd place in Pro Nitro Buggy at the AMS 5.0 and he was A-finalist in all three Pro A-Mains at the 2015 CRCRC Midwest Championships.
Source: LRP [lrp.cc]
Round three of the Team Associated Summer Series at the Plex in Omaha, Nebraska, opened with some deja vu. Much like round two, 170 racers from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota were on hand to battle it out for the top steps of the podium and a chance to advance in the points standings. Alex Vanderbeek and Tom Rinderknecht once again took victories in all three of the premier Modified classes. Tom started from pole position in Mod 4WD, and took a big win over the field. Alex Vanderbeek got the TQ in both Mod Buggy and Mod Truck, earning that valuable extra TQ point. He went on to take convincing wire-to-wire wins in both classes.
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The third round of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at one of Southern California’s best-known 1:8-scale tracks, Revelation Raceway. In Expert Buggy and at the sound of the tone, Cody King led the field with Jeremy Kortz, Kody Numedahl, and Dayton Brown in tow. Toward the end of the race, both King and Dayton stretched out their lead and separated themselves from the rest. With just over 2 minutes to go, Brown pressured King for the race lead, causing him to bobble and give Brown the lead. King tried to go after Brown, but Brown was running too quick and smooth and he took the win in Expert Buggy.
Xray have announced the signing of Shanghai based JJ Wang to their electric team. The young Chinese-American, who recently won the AOC season opener in Shanghai, is considered to be one of the most talented drivers at present and he will campaign Xray’s line of 1/10th scale electric on-road and off-road kits at major national races in the USA as well as at selected international events. The former HB driver has the following to say about the deal:
After the departure from my previous team, I had the opportunity and freedom to try almost every platform in the market. After several extended testing with most of the brands, Xray was by far the most consistent in performance and quality. I am very happy and thankful to join Team Xray and be a part of the family for years to come. Special Thanks to Hudy family for this opportunity.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
