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October 30, 2014

Chris Jarosz doubles at Winter Takes All

Traction Hobbies of Reno, NV hosted the second annual Winter Takes All race. Three rounds of qualifying were run on Saturday, rocket-round style, with Triple-A mains run on Sunday with eight drivers qualifying directly to the main and two bumping from lower mains. Drivers flocked from all over the Northern California/Nevada area to see who would take the overall win along with the cash purse put up by Traction Hobbies owner Justin Clark. Qualifying went perfect for Chris Jarosz, who took the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Modified classes, setting the fastest times in round 2 of qualifying on the indoor clay track. A1’s of both classes would be wire-to-wire victories for Jarosz. A2 of 2WD would be another victory for Jarosz to take the overall title. A2 of 4WD proved to be more difficult for Jarosz. An early mistake put him down to the third spot, and it was an intense battle before he would come out on top, giving Jarosz his second victory of the weekend.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

October 29, 2014

Lucas Sanford wins at Mugen GP Series

The final round of the Mugen GP Series would see Kyosho driver Lucas Sanford taking the win and with it the overall title in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. He started out the meeting with a mistake free run in wet conditions to take the TQ in round 1 and he would better his TQ with a win in round two to take the pole position for the 10 minute A-main. Lucas then got a great start and he soon stretched out a big lead, continued a flawless run and finished in 1st place to take the win and the overall series title from Miguel Perez (Mugen) in 2nd and Jaime Boquiren (Mugen) in 3rd.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

October 29, 2014

Andraz Stefe takes Slovenian Electro Challenge title

The final round of the Slovenian Electro Challenge was held in Blatni Dol with the title decision still being open. Andraz Stefe had the best chances to take the overall win as he only had to score a top 4 finish to take the championship. Despite using a newly built car with an out-of-the-box setup Andraz immediately set the pace and he took the pole position for the triple A-finals of which he won two to take the day’s win and with it the overall championship.

Click here to view the top 10 result

October 29, 2014

Adam Drake doubles at RC Pro Series Rd4

This past weekend was round #4 of the R/C Pro Series at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas. The event had over 200 entries and it was Adam Drake who set the pace in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Truck classes and lined up first for the 45 minute buggy and 30 minute truck final in which he was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win in both categories.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

October 28, 2014

Rudy Rico takes E-Buggy & Pro4 JBRL E-series titles

Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico has secured himself the 1/8th E-Buggy and Pro4 Short Course titles at this year’s JBRL Electric Series. In the 1/8th class Rudy scored a total 610 points leaving Ryan Dunford (TLR) and Chris Blais (Team Associated) in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. In Pro4 Rudy left the TLR duo of David Jenson and Ryan Dunford behind who rounded out the top 3 overall result.

Click here to view the E-Buggy podium

October 28, 2014

Jason Nugroho wins Jakarta Buggy Championship Rd5

The 5th and final round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Champsionship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java. The 45 minute main final on the dusty and bumpy track, that was also used for the penultimate round two weeks ago, was a challenge for all drivers with Jason Nugroho, coming from 5th on the grid, taking the lead some 25 minutes into the race. Jason was able to maintain his position until the chequered flag to take the win in front of Adrian Wicaksono and Rama Tribudiman. Deslina Nenenk and John Agus rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 27, 2014

Elliott Boots wins at Herts Winter Series Rd2

The 2nd round of the 2014/15 Herts Winter Series was held this past weekend. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took the TQ and win in the Nitro Buggy class on the track that will host the 2015 EFRA Euros B. Darren Bloomfield finished the 20 minute main final some 9 seconds behind Elliott in 2nd place while Graham Alsop (Hot Bodies) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

October 26, 2014

Matsukura completes ‘perfect’ EOS weekend

Naoto Matsukura completed a perfect weekend in Poland as he backed up his 2WD success with a convincing first 4WD victory at the opening round of the Euro Offroad Series. Getting his 2WD title defence underway on Saturday by collecting maximum points, his Sunday win means the Yokomo driver heads back to Japan as leader of both championships. Becoming only the third driver to win in 4WD, Matsukura did so with ease backing up his A1 win with another tone to tone win despite a lap 10 error that cost him over 2-seconds. Taking the win in A3, defending champion Joern Neumann would as he did in 2WD, finish 2nd overall with American Carson Wernimont completing the podium at the Poznan ‘Hobby’ exhibition hosted race.

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