The tension at the opening round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series had finally reached the weekend high as racers calm the nerves and settle in for the first round of A mains. The highly anticipated battle in the super competitive 2WD Modified class did not disappoint and a nail biter from start to finish.
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The last round of qualifying was an awesome display of dominance by TLR’s JP Richards. On a mission, Richards set the quickest time in all 3 classes he entered. Posting the fastest time in the 2WD Modified class with a 19 lap 5:04.78, Richards was able to take his 1st TQ and bettering his overall position for tomorrow’s triple a-main by starting 2nd on the grid.
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Round 2 of the Winter Indoor National Series has seen an unexpected rise of the young, fast, and talented racers like Nick Gibson. The Team Associated/JConcepts driver had a near flawless run with just two minor incidents with traffic, but was able to climb his way to the front and put in the fastest time of the round with a 19 lap 5:08.35. Having not changed his car from his first run, Gibson said he was “glad to have a much better run than round 1,” and was much happier with his performance.
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Delivering on what the TLR customers have asked, TLR’s updated 22T 2.0 truck in all the right ways. TLR’s Senior Product Developer Frank Root is running a basically stock kit in mid-motor form (rear motor parts are all included) at Round 1 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series with ti-screws and turnbuckles by TLR. Pushing the envelope to another level, TLR has included 2 bodies for mid and rear motor configurations for all your racing needs. Also included in the kit is the updated grooved slipper plates to help clean as well as cool the slipper pads. In addition, the kit comes with machined shock internals and the bellcrank steering assembly.
Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard cruised to an unchallenged win in the opening A-Main at Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series tonight in Germany. Posting the fastest lap of the race the Top Qualifier would win by a 1.4-seconds from the number 2 starting Yokomo of Ronald Volker and new Serpent signing Viktor Wilck both benefiting from an mistake by Yannic Prumper which saw the Yokomo driver crash out while running second.
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Team Associated’s Team Manager Brent Thielke is running a production version of the T5M at round 1 of the JConcepts Indoor National Series, decked out with Factory Team option parts such as titanium turnbuckles and screws, an aluminium steering rack, rear hubs and C/D plates along other options such as a graphite battery strap, 8.5mm aluminium hexes, motor plate and shock standoffs. With the stadium truck being based off the very successful B5M platform, most of the Factory Team option parts are interchangeable and already in stock with the release date is scheduled to be in March.
Round 1 of the 2015 JConcepts Indoor National Series takes place this weekend at Smactrac in St. Louis, Missouri. The 2015 edition is even better with the addition of the 13.5 modified 4WD class to broaden the class range for more competitive racing and round 1 is only the beginning of an ultra competitive 5 race series. First of all congratulations to last year’s INS overall champions, including TLR/Orion/JConcepts star driver Ryan Maifield, who looked nearly invincible last year and took home 3 Modified titles including the highly coveted 2WD title as well as 4WD and SC. Also congrats to Kyosho/Orion/JConcept’s Thomas Tran for winning the Modified Truck title along with TLR/Trinity/JConcepts JR Mitch for winning the Modified 4×4 SC class. Also, congrats to Kyosho’s Dustin Delaney for winning the ultra competitive 2WD Stock class. However, this year’s title race starts over on a clean slate and looking to crown new Champions in all classes.
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Reds Racing has announced the signing of French superstar Jerome Aigoin to their expanding off-road race team for 2015/2016. Jerome will join fellow Kyosho drivers Cody King and Elliott Boots to race Reds Racing’s latest off-road engines.
Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]
