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December 31, 2014

Hupo Honigl and Team C part ways

Multiple European Champion Hupo Honigl has confirmed his departure from current chassis sponsor Team C. Having only joined the team this time last year after a long spell at Durango, the Austrian racer had a competitive season racing the company’s electric car but struggled with an un competitive 1/8th scale. Yet to confirm his new sponsor for 2015 he released the following statement.

I would like to say thank you to Stephen Shih from TeamC and Jürgen Laux from Absima for a wonderful and successful year and their great support. Although it was only a 1 year journey for me I made a lot of new friends there and had good fun. I was super happy with everything but now i have a new challenge and I´m more then motivated to start fresh again, stay tuned…

December 31, 2014

Associated & Reedy lock down Spencer Rivkin

Spencer Rivkin

Team Associated and Reedy have announced that they have signed 2014 break-out star Spencer Rivkin to a multi-year agreement that will keep him with the team for years to come. Rivkin has been on an upward trend since his first major win at the Cactus Classic back in 2013. The now 16-year-old Arizona driver has racked up two ROAR Stock National Championships, a 4WD Open title at the Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions, and countless podiums at Nationals-level events. When asked about signing Rivkin, Team Manager Brent Thielke said:

Spencer has the raw speed and dedication required to go far in this sport. All of us at Team Associated and Reedy look forward to working with him for many years to come.

Rivkin will be representing the full line of Team Associated and Reedy products and will be concentrating on 1:10 and 1:8 off-road. With an assortment of events scheduled, look for Rivkin’s purple and blue cars at a race track near you.

Source: Associated [associated.com]

December 29, 2014

Nugroho wins 3 Stone Park Off Road Challenge

The 3 Stone Park 2014 Off Road Challenge was held on 21 December 2014 at 3 Stone Park Track in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The race was divided into 2 classes, Pro and Open Class and the race format consisted of three rounds of 10 minutes qualifying with your two best counting. After 3 rounds of qualifying in the Pro Class it was Jason Nugroho who took the TQ. Starting from pole position Jason got a clean start to the final and pulled away to take the win ahead of Kelvin Ngow and Eric Lim. In the open class it was Ryan Stocek, who just a few weeks earlier changed to Xray who took the TQ spot and would go on to take the win from Danny K and Ricky Teoh.

View the race results here

December 24, 2014

2014-15 WA EP Interclub Series Rd2 – Report

2014-15 WA EP Interclub Series RD2 – Report

With the Australian Summer now in full swing, round 2 of the WA EP Interclub Series kicked off at Carine Radio Controlled Car Club INC. The small and challenging track came up wonderfully for the strong showing of 65 entries who arrived on Sunday morning to do battle. The multi-surface track, well known for its challenges and unique layout was sure to make the racing interesting, and it did not disappoint. The sun was out, the track looked good, the cars primed and ready – the stage was set for a great day of racing.

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December 23, 2014

Ruona & Mitch win at Toys for Tots race

301 Raceway and Hobby hosted its inaugural Toys for Tots event last Saturday. The show of support was amazing with 105 entries as many racers throughout Florida showed up baring gifts in one hand and their racing gear in the other. The day was filled with great racing, raffle prizes, and a 50/50 fun race. Many of the top drivers came out to show their support and put on a great show. The 2WD Modified class would see a dominating performance by JConcepts very own Jason Ruona. Jason’s mid motor B5M was on point all day as he would take the TQ honours and the wire to wire win, teammate Paul Wynn would go on to secure the P2 position with his B5M, and JConcepts’ teammate JR Mitch would round out the podium with his TLR22 2.0.

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December 23, 2014

Jeremy Kortz leaves Agama for a new venture

After several years of being with Agama and Nemo Racing former ROAR National Champion and Worlds podium finisher Jeremy Kortz announce he will leave for a new venture due to having an opportunity offered he could not miss. No information about his new sponsor are available yet and we keep you up to date as soon as information become available. Jeremy has the following to say about his move:

I would like to thank Agama and Nemo Racing for the support over the past few years! But an opportunity has came up that I couldn’t miss. I miss the old school racing days and this opportunity reminds me of that time. But at this point in my career, this opportunity has presented itself to me and I’m really looking forward my new Company, teammate! Soon I’ll reveal everything. Thank u again to Nemo and Agama.

December 23, 2014

Adam Drake doubles at Toys for Tots race

Revelation Raceway hosted a Toys for Tots race this past Saturday with 115 entries and top drivers like Cody King, Mike Truhe, Barry Pettit, Shaun Kirkman, Tyler Brown, Colin Herzig and Adam Drake in attendance to name just a few. Revelation Raceway also raffled off a bunch of prizes for their annual raffle. As for the race, TLR’s Adam Drake soon set the pace and was the overall TQ in Nitro Buggy and Truck. Drake led both finals from start to finish to sweep the event with Cody King and Mike Truhe rounding out the podium in Buggy and Tyler Brown and Barry Pettit coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Truck class.

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December 21, 2014

Mibosport Cup Christmas Race – Date change

The traditional Christmas Race of the popular Mibosport Cup will take place at a later date due to technical and operational reasons at the Hotel Sport venue in Hrotovice. The event will now be held on the 3rd of January 2015. The race will also see the use of the popular black ETS carpet. The next dates of the Mibosport Cup series have already been set and won’t be changed. Thus the 4th round will be held on the 14th of February 2015, a week earlier than it was originally announced, and the final round including the podium ceremony will take place on the 14th of March 2015. The ranking leaders in the respective classes after round two are Kuba Simurda in Touring Car Modified, Rene Kölbel in TC Stock LRP and Formula, Marcell Wostalek in 1/12th scale and Martin Bayer in the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes.

Source: Mibosport [mibosport.com]