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December 9, 2013

Pro-Line EP Masters Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Pro-Line Winter Masters at Storm Valley again attracted a good amount of UK racers. In 4WD 4WD Mitch took top honours for round one, just missing the fabled 19 lapper by 12 hundredths of a second, with Craig appearing in the top three in second place with Glen Howard taking the last top three place just a second ahead of his brother Graham. Round two once again saw Mitch in pole but with a new name in the frame for second in the shape of Ryan Lawrence, just half a second ahead of Craig. Round three and Mitch continued his domination with a 19 lapper, a Howard brother in second, this time the Graham flavour, and Craig once again third. Final round and Graham broke Mitchell’s strangle hold on top spot to take the honours in this round with Mitch second and Craig being pushed out of the top three by Ryan.

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December 9, 2013

Hara wins Pattaya Buggy Party race

The Pattaya Buggy Party race took place last weekend and the event was just another Asian meeting to be dominated by Atsushi Hara, this time running SWorkz’ forthcoming S350 Evo buggy. After taking TQ the Japanese ace, who appears to attend each race with a different brand of vehicle, went on to win the 50 minute final by one lap ahead of Meen Vejrak. Joseph Quagraine completed the podium while Carlee Phutiyothin completed the top 4 result.

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December 9, 2013

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at French charity race

Lorenzo Crolla doubles at French Charity Racce

The Charity Race for the Téléthon took place at a small club in Avesne-sur-helpe in the North of the France with around 100 drivers attending. Xray’s Lorenzo Crolla took TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class after controlling the proceedings in qualifying, although this was the first 2WD race on carpet for the young man. The finals then saw Lorenzo being in control of things again, easily taking A1 and A2 for an early win in the 2WD class. Julien Parnot and Ludovic Valtier came in second and third while Remy Barbillon completed the top 4.

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December 9, 2013

Sterling takes 2WD Mod title at Victorian State Champs

The 2013 Victorian State Titles for EP 1/10 off-road started with controlled practice on Friday and culminated in the finals run on Sunday. In the first 2WD modified A-main TQ Matt made a mistake in the second lap allowing Ben and Ash to get by. Both drivers then battled for entire leg swapping positions several times and at the end it was Ben who passed Ash at the triple handing him the leg 1 win although his contender tried another move on the Kyosho driver. A-main number 2 had Matt taking the win while elsewhere Ben got hit multiple times only allowing him to finish 7th in the run.

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December 8, 2013

Oskar Levin takes 2wd at VBC Cup Rd2

The second round of the VBC Swedish Indoor Cup took place at the Klippan RCK track. In the competitive 2wd class it was round 1 winner Oskar Levin that was on top of his game and took the top qualification spot with his Team C car. In the finals Oskar would convert that pace into the win in front of TLR driver Otto Ausfelt in 2nd place while Erik Månsson completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: RC Hobbysyd Racing [rchobbysydracing.se]

December 7, 2013

Dakotah Phend extends deal with TLR

Team Losi Racing announce another re-signing, this time of US National Champion Dakotah “The Phenom” Phend for the 2014-2015 racing seasons. Dakotah had what many would consider to be a dream year in 2013, driving his Team Losi Racing vehicles to 3 ROAR National Championships in 1/8-scale electric buggy, 4WD short course truck and the prestigious 2WD modified buggy classes. To follow this up on his success Dakotah finished 8th in the debut for the new TLR 22-4 4WD buggy in the 2013 IFMAR World Championships. He had this to say:

I, along with Team Losi Racing, have had a great 2013 racing reason and I’m looking forward to my renewed partnership with them through the 2015 season. The last few years with TLR have been great and I’m excited to continue driving, tuning and winning with the full-lineup of electric and nitro TLR vehicles.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

December 6, 2013

Davide Tortorici teams up with Xray

Xray announce that multiple European and Italian Champion Davide Tortorici has joined the team to race the company’s 1/10th electric off-road cars. Davide will use the XB4 & XB4 2WD at all Italian races as well as internationally at the EOS and European Championship. This is what Davide has to say about the deal:

I would like to thank Xray to give me this opportunity to race with the currently best 1/10 off-road cars. I am really happy to be part of the extremely professional and dedicated team and the quality and performance of the car give me a real confidence. I hope to see you all at EOS or Euros.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 6, 2013

Jared Tebo renews with Kyosho

Following some speculation about his future, Kyosho have announced that Jared Tebo has he re-signed a contract with the Japanese manufacturers. Winning 8 ROAR National Championships, an IFMAR World Championship as well as nearly 50 big races in the past 5 years Jared has extended his deal with Kyosho for a further 5 years. Jared has this to say about his new deal:

I am very pleased to be signing with Kyosho for another 5 years. My relationship with Kyosho is great, and the past 5 years have been amazing together on and off the track. I feel as a person, and driver, I fit in really good with the Kyosho brand and it just feels like home for me in my racing career. In the past 5 years we have been able to have amazing results; 47 big race wins, including 8 ROAR National Championships and 1 IFMAR World Championship. I am very excited to say the least about the next 5 years in my racing career, as I feel Kyosho can give me the best resources to reach my main goal of 1/8 Offroad World Champion. Thanks to Aki, Mitsuo, Kanai, Chikuba, Joe, Futoshi, and all the the Kyosho staff for their hard work.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]