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June 13, 2015

JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals – Announcement

The JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals will be held from the 11th to 12th of July at the Outback Raceway in Chico, CA. This race will be held at AMain.com’s new and improved facility, to give racers an even better experience while racing and enjoying themselves. The Summer event of this first of its kind, true Indoor National Series will start on Thursday with open practice and a Thursday Night Club Race and officially kicks off on Friday with controlled practice. More information can be found on the event web page here while event sign-up can be found here.

June 11, 2015

Jarda Valder wins at RCHobbzRacing Cup

The RCHobbzRacing Cup was recently held in the Czech Republic. Stefan Lutka (Xray) pretty much dominated the 1/8th E-Buggy qualifying to take the pole position for the triple 8 minute mains. In A1 Stefan took a comfortable win some 14 seconds ahead of the second placed driver only to be hindered by an ungluing tyre in A2. The third A-final would then decide for the overall win and again the TQ holder ran into trouble so he ended the leg in 3rd place. Ultimately Jarda Valder (Xray) took the win from Stefan Lutka (Xray) while Lukas Bulka (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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June 11, 2015

Grenland Cup 1/10 Buggy – Report

The third round of the Grenland Cup 1/10th Electric Buggy Cup was held in Skien, Norway. Local hero Joakim Nicolaisen set the pace in the qualifiers to put his Team Associated buggy in front of the Xray XB2 prototype of Malin Karlsen, who had a maiden outing in the 1/10th Buggy Cup. The first of the triple A-mains had Joakim scoring an easy win after an early mistake of Malin who only managed a 3rd place at the end as her buggy became difficult to drive during the race. Simen Halstensen came in 2nd in the opening A-final. A2 had again Joakim coming out successfully which handed him the day’s overall win early. Behind him Malin again made a mistake early in the race which denied her to challenge Joakim for the win but she was able to hold Simen behind thanks to a new set of tyres that made her buggy more constant to drive. In the last A-main Malin was finally able to take the win after a series of early mistakes by Joakim. Behing Joakim Nicolaisen (Team Associated) Malin Karlsen (Xray) ended the day on the runner-up spot while Simen Halstensen (Team Associated) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 10, 2015

Yuichi Kanai leaves RB

In a Facebook statement Kyosho’s Yuichi Kanai has announced his departure from his engine suppliers RB. The split isn’t that unexpected as the French company recently underwent some sort of restructuring and has since went out of business. As for Yuichi the forthcoming French Kyosho Masters will be his last event for and with RB with more information about his future power unit suppliers being awaited shortly after. This is what Yuichi has to say about the situation:

I leave the RB. The RB was a splendid engine. It becomes last to use an RB in France Kyosho masters of the next week. Thank you very much so far.

Source: Yuichi Kanai

June 10, 2015

Belgian SCT Cup Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the astroturf track of the BPT club on a technical yet fun layout. As usual the event was run very smoothly and due to the track being in the shadow in the early hours of the day the qualifying started with a wet and slippery surface but from round 2 on the grip came up, making for ideal racing conditions. In Pro2 qualifying Nicolas Evens (TLR) swept all three qualification rounds to take the TQ from Philippe Hautecoeur who put his mid motor converted Team Associated truck on the 2 spot for the finals. Behind the two ten drivers were covered by only 5 points meaning that getting into the A-final was not an easy task. At the end Laurent Halluin (Team Associated) would end up in 3rd place ahead of Pascal Bouffioux (Team Associated).

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June 9, 2015

2015 Victorian State Offroad Titles – Report

The 2015 AARCMCC Victorian State titles were held last weekend at the Mildura offroad track, 6 hours north of Melbourne, Australia. Just under 150 drivers from around the country made the trek to the red clay track, which started off wet following a rain dump Thursday night but grooved up beautifully through the weekend with perfect weather. The format was Friday practice, Saturday 2WD and Sunday 4WD and Truck classes with Pro-Line Holeshots were chosen as the control tyres for all classes. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Ray Munday (Team Associated) defended his title with the TQ from local hero Mark Rogers (Team Associated) and young gun Cameron Zammit (Team Associated). After winning all four qualifiers, Munday was pushed hard in A1 by Zammit with Rogers taking A2 to set up an A3 showdown that was ultimately won by Munday sealed the title with a 6 seconds win in the deciding A-main.

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June 9, 2015

Adam Drake fuelled by Flash Point Racing Fuel

Flash Point Racing Fuel have announced the signing of Adam Drake. Adam has been testing and running Flash Point since February, but has now made it official that he will be running Flash Point Racing Fuel exclusively and will be helping with the development of the fuel and future products.

Source: Flash Point Racing Fuel [flashpointrc.com]

June 8, 2015

Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nats Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Austrian 1/10th scale Electric Off-road nationals was held this past weekend at the MAC Traiskirchen track in the south of Vienna. The track, home of two European Championships, held some difficulties for the racers but the hard-packed and sugared surface made for equal conditions for everyone. A total of 72 racers signed in for the 2WD and 4WD classes and in the 2WD class it was former European Champion Hupo Hönigl who set the pace and who came out on top after the four qualifying rounds in front of Team C driver Martin Kreil and new Schumacher signing Peter Pinisch.

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