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December 9, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at 11th annual Toys for Tots

The 11th annual Toys for Tots race was held this past weekend at Palm Desert R/C Raceway with some World-class drivers such as Adam Drake, Mark Pavidis, Joseph Quagraine, Richard Saxton, Tyler Brown and Victor Guerrero in attendance. In the 1/8th Expert Buggy class Mugen’s Adam Drake would take the TQ in both rounds of qualifying and he would lead the A-main from start to finish to win the 15 minute encounter by over a lap. TLR’s Mark Pavidis would end the race on the runner up spot from JQRacing’s own Joseph Quagraine in third. In the 1/8th Expert E-Buggy category Adam showed another dominating performance, taking the TQ after the qualifiers and the race win in the 10 minute A-main from Joseph Quagraine (JQRacing) and Dean Rock (Tekno) in second and third respectively.

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December 7, 2015

Ryan Lutz doubles at U.A.E. National Day Event

The Binona RC track in Al Ain, UAE held its first international race event this past weekend. Although a bit light in terms of entries the event had some special guests in the form of Ryan Lutz, Surkiarn C. and Meen Vejrak. The opening qualifier of the Nitro Buggy class belonged to Ryan Lutz but making too many mistakes and being stuck in traffic meant the US boy would not be able to improve, but he would end up with the TQ in Nitro Truggy. In the opening stages of the 45 minute Buggy A-main Ryan was in a battle with Meen for the lead until he found a groove and was able to open a 2 seconds gap. A disastrous lap with three mistakes soon after saw him loosing about 18 seconds on Meen but constantly pulling high 29 seconds laps while Meen was doing low 30’s allowed Lutz to close the gap slowly but steadily. In the lead by about 10 seconds Meen made a mistake and he soon after round his tyres to become unglued so he had to pit for a new set which allowed Ryan to take over the lead and to bring home the win by some five laps after the 45 minutes. Surikarn C. would grab the runner-up spot five seconds in front of Meen V. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truggy class Ryan Lutz had a pretty easy 45 minutes, winning the race some 8 laps in front of Edward Anthonijsz in second and Tamas Klein in third.

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December 7, 2015

Maifield does double at JConcepts Finals

Ryan Maifield has completed the buggy double at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha. Taking the an early overall victory in 2WD Mod after winning A1 & 2, the Team Losi Racing driver would have to wait until A3 and the final race of the Hobby Plex event to claim the 4WD win. Top Qualifier in 4WD, Maifield would finish second to Spencer Rivkin in A1 but winning A2 it set up a straight battle between himself and his protege for the overall win. Starting second behind his mentor, Rivkin would push Maifield hard for the win until his Associated hooked the piping. Enough to give Maifield control of the race Rivkin would finish second with last year’s winner Jared Tebo coming home third to complete the podium at the fifth & final event of the JConcepts championship.

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December 7, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins high-class Slovakia Cup Rd3

The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia this past weekend. With the opening round of the 2015/16 ETS taking place at the iconic venue in only one week time, both national and international drivers used the event to get some last minute practice, making for a total of 97 entries for the weekend. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Alexander Hagberg would dominate the proceedings by taking the TQ and the win from Martin Hudy (Xray) with Germany’s Dionys Stadler (Xray) rounding out the top 3 result.

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December 6, 2015

Maifield & Rivkin take A1 wins at JConcepts Finals

Ryan Maifield and Spencer Rivkin drew first blood in the opening buggy A-Mains at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha. In the first of the encounters, 2WD Mod, it was Maifield from fourth on the grid who would take the win ahead of Top Qualifier Ryan Cavalieri. In 4WD an early mistake from Top Qualifier Maifield would see the TLR drop to the back of the pack handing the No.2 starting Associated of Rivkin an unassailable lead the World Champion would never give up. As the battled hotted up for second between Ryan Cavalieri, Jared Tebo and the recovering Maifeld, a mistake by Cavalieri coming onto the main straight in the late stages of the race would set off chaos. Maifield would come off the best of it to finish second in front of Tebo and Cavalieri.

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December 6, 2015

Maifield locks up 4WD TQ in Omaha

Ryan Maifield has locked up the overall TQ for 4WD Buggy at the Finals of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha. The Team Losi Racing driver secured the top spot on the grid for tomorrow’s A-Main when he again set the pace in the second of the three rounds of qualifying. Taking Q1 by a comfortable 5-seconds from Ryan Cavalieri, in Q2 the reigning series champion would face a much improved Jared Tebo, until a last lap mistake from the Kyosho driver. With Tebo holding on for second 1.4 seconds off Maifield’s time, Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin would complete the Top 3 ahead of Welch Kendall and Ryan Cavalieri.

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December 6, 2015

Cavalieri Top Qualifier for JConcepts Finals

Ryan Cavalieri is the 2WD Mod Buggy Top Qualifier at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha, Nebraska. The Associated driver claimed an early pole position for the biggest class at the Hobby Plex hosted event when he backed up his Q1 topping performance with another TQ run ahead of Jared Tebo in the second of the three qualifying rounds. The Top 4 for Q2 would be a repeat of Q1 with World Champion Spencer Rivkin again completing the Top 3 ahead of his mentor Ryan Maifield.

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December 5, 2015

Maifield TQs first round of 4WD at Hobby Plex

After a frustrating opening 2WD qualifier, Ryan Maifield bounced back in the first of the three rounds of 4WD qualifying at the JConcepts Indoor National Series at Hobby Plex in Omaha to post a convincing TQ. The TLR driver would be 5-seconds faster than 2WD Q1 pace setter Ryan Cavalieri with last year’s winner Jared Tebo posting a P3 run. Behind the big three big names of offroad, teenagers Spencer Rivkin, Austin Horne and Damion Borkowicz would complete the Top 6.

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