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January 22, 2014

Lucas Sanford wins e-Buggy at TNS Winter Series Rd3

OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA hosted round 3 of the JConcepts Top Notch Winter Series, an 8-race points based series run at various tracks throughout Southern California. In attendance were Team Associated’s Kevin Motter, Nick Wautlett and Wayne Wyrick, TLR’s James Raschko and David Jenson, Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico, Mugen’s Tim Long, Serpent’s Matt Schreffler, and a number of very fast local racers. There would be two rounds of 5 minute qualifiers, followed by 5 minute A Mains. In the finals Lucas Sanford (Kyosho) took the win from Tekno RC driver Rudy Rico with Matt Scheffler (Serpent) completing the podium.

Source: Tekin [teamtekin.com]

January 22, 2014

Jesper Rasmussen joins Team Associated & Reedy

Team Associated and Reedy Products welcome another talented youngster to the Scandinavian team. Jesper Rasmussen from Denmark is the latest junior to choose Team Associated and Reedy products. Scandinavia is becoming a hot bed for up and coming stars and Jasper’s fearless style and talent has already surprised many and it recently secured him a fantastic 3rd place podium finish at the hugely popular DHI CUP on his debut with his new cars.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 22, 2014

Lin Le Hua joins Team Losi Racing

Team Losi Racing announce the signing of China-based driver Lin Le Lua for their 2014 race team. The A-finalist of the 2013 FEMCA Nitro Race and 2013 FEMCA EP podium finisher will be piloting TLR’s 8ight and 22 series of vehicles throughout 2014. Beside competing at all major events in China, Lin will also attend at a variety of races throughout Asia to represent the TLR brand. Le Hua had the following to say about the deal:

First of all, I will like to say a big thank you to Horizon Hobby-China for setting up the opportunity to represent TLR for the year 2014. TLR is a brand of Horizon with a long racing history and I am always amazed by their innovation on various off-road platforms. I am very much looking forward for the year 2014 and racing with TLR line of products.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.com.cn]

January 21, 2014

Jones & Weatherholt win at Winter Midwest Champs

JConcepts team driver Tyler Jones took the win in Pro Nitro Buggy at the CRCRC Midwest Nitro Championships. Tyler started from 2nd on the grid with his TLR 8ight 3.0 and finished off the main, lapping the entire field for the win. In the eBuggy class Tyler, coming from 4th on the grid, lead the entire race but a last lap bobble left him with a 2nd place finish behind Collin Weatherholt.

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January 21, 2014

Patrix wins at 2014 MRCC Challenge

The 2014 MRCC Challenge was held at the MRCC Track, Medan, North Sumatera. The annual event attracted a total of 35 participants from Jakarta, Surabaya, Pekanbaru and Medan. In the 50 minutes final Patrix (JQ Products) took the win from Wie Wen (SWorkz) and Jason Nugroho (Xray). John Agus and Andre Irawan completed the top 5 result.

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January 20, 2014

Cragg doubles at Worksop Indoor Masters

Round 4 of the Schumacher sponsored 2013/14 Worksop Indoor Off Road Masters took place last weekend. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg was the driver to beat in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class and at the end of the weekend he had both class wins under his belt. Joining him on the podium of the 4WD class where Team Durango’s Chris Doughty and Nathan Waters (Schumacher) while elsewhere in 2WD Craig Collinson (Team Durango) and Richard Lowe (X Factory) finished second and third respectively.

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January 19, 2014

EOS win #9 for Neumann

Despite facing by far his toughest opposition yet at a Euro Offroad Series race, Team Durango’s Joern Neumann remains unbeaten in 4WD Buggy after he secured win #9 at Round 2 of the series today in Berlin. Taking a relatively easy win in A1, the German faced intense pressure second time round from Team Xray’s Martin Bayer but a last lap coming together allowed him to take the Leg and with it the overall win.

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January 19, 2014

Matsukura takes thrilling A3 for overall EOS victory

Naoto Matsukura has taken overall victory in 2WD Buggy at Round 2 of the Euro Offroad Series in Berlin, Germany. Only his second appearance in the series, the Team Yokomo driver took the EOS victory after a last lap mistake in A3 by Round 1 winner Hupo Honigl, the Austrian looking to have been on target for a repeat of his Polish victory. Taking the win by less than half a second over Honigl to back up his A1 victory, the Japanese ace was joined on the podium by defending Champion Joern Neumann, winner of A2, with Honigl completing the Top 3.

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