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October 9, 2014

Ogden wins as Whitenton  takes 2nd at Southern Nats

This past weekend the 2014 U.S. Southern Nationals were held in West Monroe, Louisiana at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center on a flowing track that has a lot of elevation changes. In the Nitro Buggy main Cade Whitenton got a good start, moving up to 3rd in the first lap coming from 6th on the grid. Taylor Petersen and Jason Branham were out in front with Cade being about 3 seconds behind them when Jason ran into engine troubles and Cade was moved up to 2nd to settle behind Taylor just to find Petersen coming into the pit lane for his own engine troubles. This moved Whitenton up to 1st with a pretty good gap on 2nd place Cole Ogden.

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October 9, 2014

Daniel Brown wins Mod Truck at Top Gun Challenge

This past weekend Norcal Hobbies in San Jose California wrapped up the 5th Annual Top Gun Race. This race attracts top drivers from Northern California, all attempting to earn the title of “Top Gun” of their respective class. Along with bragging rights, top drivers in each class earns themselves an authentic Fighter Jet Helmet. The program consisted of 4 rounds of qualifying and triple A-mains on Sunday. In the final round of qualifying Daniel Brown, who missed the first day of qualifying, secured the TQ in the Mod Truck class over Norcal local Brian Gross by 4 seconds. In A1 Daniel pulled a 5 second lead early on and was able to maintain the gap throughout. While Gross was running similar lap times he was not able to pull within striking distance. In A2 Daniel was able to pull a significant gap in the first few laps letting the rest of field battle it out for second.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 8, 2014

Schumacher Masters Rd1 – Report

This past weekend was the start of the hugely successful Schumacher Indoor Masters Series, a great entry of almost 130 meant that the racers were once again keen to get back racing indoors in the dry at the awesome Worksop venue. In 2WD it was very close all day, going into the last heat of qualifying any one of four drivers could still take the pole position on the grid for the start of the A-final. After all of the racing action the A-final 2WD result saw Simon Moss taking the win from Richard Lowe and James Helliwell.

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October 8, 2014

Hagberg tops final qualifier

Having set the pace in practice and then struggled in early qualifying Alexander Hagberg finally returned to form to take the 6th & final round of qualifying at the 1:12 World Championship in Florida. Posting the fastest 8-minute run of the event, the Xray driver just missed out on a 55-lap run by 1/10th of a second as he topped the time sheets by 2-seconds from Donny Lia. Having sat 7th in the overnight standings the TQ run will see the Swede start the A-Main from 4th on the grd behind Lia, Marc Rheinard and Top Qualifier Naoto Matsukura. Posting his best qualifier, Jilles Groskamp would ran the third fastest time of Q6 to go from sitting 21st overnight to securing his 6th consecutive 1:12 World Championship A-Main appearance, the 2012 podium finisher set to start 7th.

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October 8, 2014

Patrick Hofer takes 11th Swiss championship title

Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer successfully ended his campaign in this year’s Swiss 1/10th Buggy Championship by taking the 2WD and 4WD Buggy class titles. Patrick won all rounds this season on his way to grab his 11th Swiss Championship title in a row.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

October 8, 2014

Steven Hartson wins Mod Truck at Reedy Truck Race

The 2014 Reedy Truck Race of Champions was hosted by Hot Rod Hobbies and Raceway located in Southern California with the truck-only event bringing out the best competition for Short Course and Stadium Truck racers of all ages at a two day event. In Modified Truck Steve Hartson and Kevin Motter went 1-2 while in Modified 2WD Short Course, Kevin and Steven were also on the podium finishing 2nd and 3rd behind Cody Turner.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 8, 2014

Tyler Jones wraps up Midwest Nitro Series

TLR/JConcepts driver Tyler Jones wrapped a very successful summer season this past weekend when the young gun attended the Midwest Nitro Series finals at Leisure Hours raceway in Joliet,IL. Rain and cold weather scared some off but still a great turnout. With the rain, the organisers were forced to run on the indoor track and the crew had a great track for the drivers. Tyler was able to TQ both the Pro Nitro Buggy and Truggy classes again, with the only 19 lap runs in Pro Nitro Buggy.

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October 8, 2014

Mibosport Cup 2014/15 – Announcement

The 2014/15 season of the popular Mibosport Cup Winter Series will kick off on the weekend of the 1st of November in the city of Hrotovice, host of the opening round of the 2014/15 ETS. Attracting 299 drivers in total including the likes of Ronald Völker, Marc Rheinard, Marc Fischer, Martin Bayer and Marek Cerny last year’s series was great success. This year’s series is run in the six classes of Touring Car Modified, Stock LRP, Formula 1, 1/12 and 2WD and 4WD Buggy. More information can be found here.