The 7th and final round of the Southern California based JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California. The season end race also decided on the overall series titles with the 1/8th Expert Nitro Truggy class being won by Adam Drake who left Cody King and Drew Moller behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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The 2nd Annual CML Halloween Masters was hosted at the BCL indoor track at Louvre, Paris this past weekend. With over 220 entries across 6 different classes CML are proud to announce it was a huge success and will become a regular feature on the 1/10th off-road calendar. In the premier 2WD Modified class it was Craig Drescher who surprised the field and hit the ground running with a flourish. His Reedy-powered B5M topped practice, every qualifying round and all 3 mains. It was a flash back of the 90’s for Drescher who was in superb form. Even Drescher said he was “astounded” to be so competitive after 13 months off the sticks. The final then saw Craig continuing to excel with his 3-gear transmission equipped mid motor AE buggy as he left Nicolas Risser (Team C) and Elliott Boots (Kyosho) behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.
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The Race for the VETTS was hosted by the T&T Speedway indoor facility in Shreveport, LA with the event attracting drivers from the Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana region. With 23 entries the 2WD Modified Buggy was the largest class in the field of almost 80 total entries. Qualifying was based on your one fastest of three runs. Eric Hodge TQ’d 2WD Mod Buggy, being the only buggy driver to put in a 20 lap run. The 8 minute, 10 car A-final was pretty stacked with names like Larry Pryor and Mugen Seiki driver Drew Spurgeon. Overall the main was pretty uneventful and “a racers dream” for Eric as he put in a near flawless run to take an unchallenged tone to tone victory.
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In a week that lets Formula 1’s “silly season” look like a kindergarden Xray announce that the Slovakian company and French factory team driver Renaud Savoya are ending their professional relationship. Xray’s Juray Hudy states that both parties split in a friendly way.
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HPI/HB announce that IFMAR World Champion Ty Tessmann has signed with HB for another 2 years, to the end of 2016. A longtime member of Team HB and backed by his father Gord and mother Leann, Ty is a dominant force in off-road racing an his progression through the ranks has been steady and unceasing as he raced with the biggest names in RC racing. Everyone at Team HB and HPI Racing would like to thank Ty for his continued commitment and congratulate him for his recent World Championship win. This is what Ty has to say about the deal:
I’m excited to be signing with HB for another 2 years, my entire career has been spent with HB and I am grateful for their support. I want to thank Tatsuro, Hiro, Torrance and the rest of the HB staff for supporting me throughout the years. Success is a team effort and I believe that we have a winning team.
Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]
The 2014 season of the Belgian SCT Cup came to an end with the final round being held at the brand new indoor clay track of the BRCC, the first and only venue of this kind in Belgium. The new track attracted a lot of driver as the 8th round counted a new record attendance for the SCT Cup. The Pro2 class qualification then was very open with a bunch of new local drivers joining. Loic Voumard (TLR), running in a lower heat, scored the best times in the opening two rounds to take the overall TQ early while Martin Vierin (Team Associated) took the final round to start from 2nd on the grid. Behind the two Julian Andre (Team Associated), Nicolas Gandibleu (Team Associated) and Nicolas Evens (TLR) lined up tie on points.
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The 2014 Asia Offroad Championships were held last weekend at the World-famous Yatabe Arena, the venue of next year’s IFMAR EP Offroad World Championships. The race was held on the facility’s astro turf track that received a new layout prior to the event to allow for equal conditions and no advantage for the drivers that attended the JMRCA Nationals back in July at the same venue. As in previous years the race was announced by Charlie Suangka and the race format was five rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains, double B and lower mains. Overall more than 50 drivers, including a good amount of entries from oversea, attended the race in the three classes of Electric Buggy 2WD, 4WD and Junior and it was newly crowned Touring Car World Champion Naoto Matsukura who took the win in the 2WD class from UK’s Lee Martin and Kohta Akimoto.
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The final round of the JBRL Nitro Series was held this past weekend at the famous Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, CA. Kyosho driver Cody King took the win during the A final becoming the 2014 JBRL Expert Buggy Champion. Round 7 had Drew Moller (Mugen) coming in 2nd while Jeremy Kortz rounded out the podium in 3rd.
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