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November 2, 2013

Asia Offroad Championships – Day 1 update

The Asia Offroad Championships for electric offroad are currently being held in Japan at the Yatabe Arena. The race, that is announced by Novak’s one and only Charlie Suangka, sees the 2WD Modified and 17.5T Stock classes being run on day 1 with the 4WD Modified, 17.5T and Short Course Modified class being run tomorrow. At the end of the 2WD qualifying Kouta Akimoto leads the Modified class quite dominantly as he leads the score board with a 17/5:15.790 run. Masatsugu Ido comes second with a 16/5:00.722 and Shin Adachi completes the top 3 with a 16/5:01.212. In the Stock class Yusuke Kobayashi can be considered the hot favourite of the class with a 15/5:06.164, some 12 seconds faster than the runner-up. He also is the only driver able to pull 19 seconds laps. In second comes Yoshiaki Amasaki with a 15/5:18.291 run. Eiji Chiba is sitting in third with a 14/5:02.280.

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October 31, 2013

2013 JConcepts Southwest Indoor Grand Prix – Report

Competition Hobbies of Tucson, AZ, hosted some of the country’s best racers for their 10th Annual Southwest Indoor Grand Prix. Drivers were sent out from all the big camps, and Team JConcepts made sure to have some of their best drivers on hand as the competition was sure to be tough. Ryan Maifield led the team at the SIGP, along with him was long time RC Legend Brian Kinwald and one of the local Young Guns, Spencer Rivkin and Tanner Denney. In 2WD modified buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri was going to wrap things up as he locked down the TQ in the this class.

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October 31, 2013

Martin Bayer wins Czech Buggy championship Rd7

Round number 7 of the Czech 1/8th off-road championship was held in Dolní Bukovsko. The weather forecast looked everything but promising but at the end it stayed dry and nice all weekend to make for a worthy last race of the season. Martin Bayer (Xray) already won the championship two weeks ago and used the race to try and test a couple of new things on his XB9 buggy. Obviously they worked very well as Martin took the overall TQ for the finals but he struggled with the upcoming wind letting him drop to third after the semis. He then got everything together, took the lead in the very first lap of the A final and never looked back taking the day’s win in front of Jirka Mara (Xray) and Lukas Zeman (Xray). Fellow Xray drivers David Kukla and Stepan Silhavy ml. completed the top 5. In the overall championship David Kukla grabbed the runner-up spot behind Marting, Jirka Mara ends the season in third position.

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October 30, 2013

Berlin to host EOS Round 2

The Euro Offroad Series is pleased to confirm that Round 2 of its championship for 1:10 Electric Offroad will take place in the German capital city of Berlin over the weekend of January 17-19. After a very successful start to the third season of the EOS in Poland just two weeks ago, the opportunity to stage the second event on the four round 2013/14 calendar was only officially given the green light by the local government authorities yesterday evening.

Continue reading the announcement here

October 30, 2013

Kevin Lee joins Team C/Absima/SMD

After a successful campaign with FDL, Kyosho and Tekin Racing UK top driver Kevin Lee will join Team C, Absima and SMD to run Team C’s latest electric off-road cars and Absima electronics. This is what Kevin has to say about the deal:

It’s an exciting and busy time for Team C/Absima/SMD at the moment with lots of TM4 development work and many other plans in the pipeline. I wanted a piece of this, and that’s why I am so happy to have agreed a 2 year contract to run Team C cars and Absima Revenge electronics. Thanks to all at Team C/Absima/SMD for making it possible. I plan on attending the EOS, European Championships and Japan Worlds in 2015, so it’s definitely going to be an a fun time with a great team. I’d like to thank my previous sponsors FDL/Kyosho/Orion and Tekin Racing. They have helped me so much over the last few years for which I am extremely grateful. I will still be using Spektrum Radio equipment, Rudebits accessories, Puppy Paint, and products from my own shop, Inside Line Racing.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

October 30, 2013

Merlin Race 2013 – Announcement

The Merlin Race 2013 for 1/8th Nitro Buggy will take place at the Fuencarral Circuit, near Madrid. The circuit has been recently renewed with a new layout designed by a famous BMX pilot, and the Merlin Race will mark the grand track re-opening. All the drivers attending the race will have the chance of winning prices in a raffle and Merlin will provide free fuel for everyone. Most of the top Spanish drivers will attend the race and some big international names will also be soon revealed. Further information can be found here.

October 30, 2013

Davide Ongaro joins Yokomo off-road team

Yokomo announce the addition of Italian 1/8th nitro off-road driver Davide Ongaro to their talented team of factory drivers. Davide TQ’d this year’s European B Championship and ended in 5th place while also achieving a very good result at the Euro A in Reims. This is what Davide has to say about the deal:

I am extremely grateful to Team Yokomo for offering me this stimulating opportunity to start this new adventure and I thank the Italian Yokomo distributor – FRAMEGA for their support.”

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

October 30, 2013

Atsushi Kawamoto wins JMRCA 1/8th buggy nats

This year’s JMRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals were held at the RC Land 23 track in Matsuzaka-city. Kyosho’s Wataru Takashiro took TQ and but at the end of the 60 minute final multi Japanese champion Atsushi Kawamoto (Kyosho) crossed the finish line as the 2013 champion some five seconds in front of Itaru Kawamoto (Kyosho) and Kazuya Tanaka (Kyosho) who was further 8 seconds down. Takuya Kimura (Kyosho) and Wataru Takashiro (Kyosho) completed the top 5.

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