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October 22, 2015

Neil Pestka wins at 2015 Fall Brawl

The 2015 Fall Brawl would be the last race of the season in the Midwest for 1/5th scale racing. The weather was calling for cool days and cold nights dipping into the high 20’s but this didn’t stop the racers for coming out for the closing race of the season. Friday would be practice all day followed by Saturdays qualifying and the mains on Sunday. Neil Pestka would win the Buggy A-main after having a disrupted practice and qualifying day due to work commitments. Neil would start 12th in the buggy A-main and he would slowly move up in position and before he knew it he would take the lead about 6 minutes into the race and he would hold the position for the remainder of the race to take home the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 22, 2015

RCProf Challenge Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Hungarian RCProf Challenge was held at the RC Arena track in Budapest. In the Touring Car 13.5T Stock class Janos Birinyi took the TQ but in the opening A-main Barnabas Toth stroke back with a win after Janos made a mistake. A2 then brought a clean win for Janos, so the decision for the day’s win would fall in the third A-main and it was again Janos who came out successful to take overall victory from Barnabas Toth and Peter Miko.

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October 22, 2015

Brett Kingsbury wins at ROAR Region 4 race

Sundancers Raceway in Port Saint Lucie, FL, recently hosted a ROAR Region 4 1/8th scale off-road race. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class Brett Kingsbury was the man to beat as he won two out of the three qualifiers to take the overall TQ and pole position for the A-main. Brett then went on to win the final as well to take the overall title.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

October 21, 2015

Rudy Rico takes double JBRL Electric Series titles

Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico has secured the overall win in the Expert 4WD Short Course and Electric 1/8 scale classes at the 2015 JBRL Series, defending his 2014 titles. This year the prestigious JBRL Electric Series travelled to eight California tracks over seven months and averaged over 200 entries per round. The TLR duo of David Jenson and Ryan Dunford would finish second and third overall in the Expert 4WD Short Course class while in 1/8th E-Buggy David Jenson (TLR) and Casper (TLR) would complete the overall top 3 result.

View the E-Buggy podium here

October 21, 2015

Tamar Schäfer wins at Swiss Off-road champs Rd5

The fifth and final round of the Swiss Electric Off-road National Championship saw Tamar Schäfer (Intech) walking away with the win in the 4WD Short Course class. Tamar would win the opening A-main but Intech teammate Tyas Wuillemin came out faster in A2 meaning the third leg would decide over the day’s win. A3 then again had Tamar grabbing the win to take the overall victory from runner-up Martin Weidmann (Team Durango) with Tyas Wuillemin rounding out the top 3 result.

Source: Intech [intechracing.com]

October 21, 2015

2015/16 Slovakia Cup Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2015/16 Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. The race was held in several electric on-road and off-road classes and in Touring Modified it was pre-event favourite Martin Hudy who took the pole position on his home track. The fight for the 2 spot was on between David Nemcek and Zdenko Kunak with the better end for Zdenko while David placed his car on the third spot for the finals. As expected the A-mains then saw a clean sweep from Martin but behind him the race was on for the runner-up spot and this time David kept his cool while Zdenko ran into trouble. At the end David would grab the runner-up spot behind Martin, with Juraj Hudy rounding out the top 3 result. Oliver Havranek and Zdenko Kunak completed the top 5 result.

Continue reading the report here

October 21, 2015

Jack Embling joins Kyosho international team

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of UK’s Jack Embling to the international team. Jack will be using the Inferno MP9 TKI3 chassis with Reds Racing engines and AKA tyres. The young man has improved each year of his career and is now ready to go that extra step and follow his new team mate Elliott Boots to success in 2016. Jack had the following to say:

I am incredibly excited to be joining Kyosho factory team for 2016. It’s always been my ambition to drive for Kyosho and I see this as a great opportunity to take my racing to the next level. I would like to thank Mike, Christophe, Kenji and Mitsuo for making this happen. So 2015-2016 is going to be a busy year, starting with the upcoming race at Padova in November, then on to Montpellier, Neo, Euros, UK Nationals, and the Worlds in Vegas, its going to be a fantastic year. I am feeling super confident running one of the best packages around with my proven Reds engines and AKA tyres.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

October 21, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at MNRC Series finals

Last weekend the MNRC Series finals headed to the Motodome race facility in Browerville, Minnesota. The event had some 160 entries and in the Nitro Buggy class, Adam Drake took the TQ honors and he would also win the 30 minute main final. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truck final Adam again controlled the race and to take the day’s win.

View the Truck podium here