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October 8, 2015

4WD gets underway at World Championships

With drivers having had a day off to recover from their 2WD exploits it is back to business this morning at the Yatabe Arena as the 4WD World Championships got underway with the first round of practice. With the astro turf track undergoing two changes from that used in 2WD it was Xray’s touring car ace Bruno Coelho who found the best early footing in the high traction conditions as he lay down the early pace over 3-laps. For defending champion Steven Hartson it was not the start the Associated driver was looking for with the American set to change car for the second practice.

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October 7, 2015

Dreams do come true – Rivkin is World Champion

Dreams do come true - Rivkin is World Champion

His team-manager Brent Theilke has been using the hashtag #dreamsdocometrue to highlight the progress of his young driver’s first World Championship and the use of wording couldn’t have turned out to be more true with Spencer Rikvin your new 1:10 2WD World Champion. The 16-year-old claimed the sport’s greatest accolade by backing up his A2 win with an even more impressive drive to victory in A3. Going up for the title against two of the sport’s biggest names, Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri, what was special about the performance in Japan was how the new star of offroad dealt with the pressure of the occasion like water off a duck’s back. Behind Rivkin, outgoing champion Tebo would claim second overall with Cavalieri completing the podium at the Yatabe Arena.

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October 7, 2015

Belgian SCT Cup Rd6 – Report

Round six of the 2015 Belgian SCT Cup was held on the dirt track in Seraing. Despite being quite late in the year the race could be run on a dry track, making for good racing conditions for the several drivers present. In Pro2 qualification, Nicolas Evens (TLR) took round TQ in the first and third qualifier to grab the overall TQ from Martin Vierin (Team Associated) who started from the 2 spot after winning Q2. Laurent Halluin (Team Associated) completed the top 3.

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October 7, 2015

Oscar Navarro takes Madrid Buggy regional title

The final round of the Madrid Nitro Buggy regional championship was held at the Tarancon track. Oscar Navarro would take the TQ after the qualifiers but it was Javier Pombo who came out fastest after the semifinals to start from pole position into the main final. The A-main would then see Oscar Navarro taking an early lead and he would keep it until the end to take the win from Javier Pombo and Ignacio Gutierrez in second and third respectively. With the win Oscar also secured himself the overall regional championship.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 7, 2015

Kyle Klingforth sweeps 2015 Halloween Classic

This past weekend NORCAR R/C Racing at The Gate hosted their 21st edition of the Halloween Classic. This year proved to be the largest Halloween Classic ever with IIC not happening in 2015. In the largest class, 17.5 Touring, Xray’s Sam Issacs would take TQ in round 1 and re-set TQ in round 3. At the start of the main, a mini failnado would mix things up and out of the carnage, Sam Issacs lead Kyle Klingforth (Awesomatix) for the first few laps with Xray’s Eric Anderson in 3rd. Early on Kyle and Eric would swap places once, and then give them back the lap later. On the 25th lap Sam would tap out allowing the hard charging Kyle to take over the lead. The rest of the podium would be decided with just four laps to go when Eric fell victim of team mate Dan Hamann which allowed last year’s winner, Michael Hanulec (Awesomatix) to promote himself into 3rd after starting 9th.

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October 7, 2015

Team Associated Top Gun Shootout – Announcement

The 2015 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout will be held from the 12th to 13th of December at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California. The event will see the usual mix of 1/10th Buggy and Truck classes along an 1/8th E-Buggy category and more information and signup can be found here.

October 6, 2015

Noah Ford wins E-Buggy class at SRI Showdown

The Scale Reproduction Inc Showdown 29th Anniversary race was recently held with a 170+ entries field. Noah Ford would take the round TQs in the first and third qualifier to grab the overall TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the opening A-main Noah would lead from tone to tone only to run into problems in the second A-main. An early mistake let Ford drop to fourth place. With three minutes to go Noah had moved up to second place and he started to close in on the leader who would make a mistake with two laps to go. Ford was able to get around and hold the lead for the remainder of the race to take the overall class win.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 6, 2015

Cody King doubles at Sidewinder Nitro Explosion

The 12th annual Sidewinder Nitro Explosion was held at Heritage R/C Park this past weekend. The event was heavily affected by rain, causing several delays but at the end it was Cody King (Kyosho) who came out successful both in the Expert Buggy and Expert Truggy classes. Drew Moller (HB) would grab the runner-up spot in the Buggy class from Mugen racer Steve Harris. In the Expert Truck class Adam Drake (Mugen) would finish second behind Cody while Tekno RC’s Billy Fischer rounded out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class would see a tie-breaker after the triple A-mains between Drew Moller (HB) and Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) with the better end for Drew while Tanner Denney (Team Associated) would complete the top 3 result.

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