April 23, 2013

Lutz & Tebo win at Silver State Nitro Challenge

Boulder City saw the Silver State Nitro Challenge last weekend and it was Team Durango/Alpha’s Ryan Lutz who brought home the victory in the nitro truggy class. Second place went to Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo with Team Associated/Team Orion’s Ryan Cavalieri in third position. In the highly competitive nitro buggy class the podium finishers remained the same but mixed up a bit with Tebo taking the win in front of Ryan Cavalieri. and Ryan Lutz.

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April 22, 2013

Zac Ryan wins Malaysian buggy nats Rd2

Malaysia has become a hotbed of off-road nitro racing in the past couple of years. This past weekend with the effort of the new Putrajaya club and Alvin Lam along with the huge support of the local Putrajaya city and government officials a new track was launched. The Putrajaya city is creating sporting facilities for Malaysians to enjoy and within 100m of the new track were a RC flying field, RC drift track, a lake for RC boating and a world-class swimming complex. Supported by beautiful hotels set on the water it’s a great place to race. 135 drivers from Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and Brunei attended and would contest the second round of the national’s. Qualifying would be 3 rounds of 10-minute heats with the best 2 of 3 to count. Round one ended up being dropped due to a transponder loop issue so it would be best 1 of 2 rounds to count on Saturday. TQ went to new factory JConcepts driver Zac Ryan from Australia. With his first outing on the JC rubber and a brand new MP9 Tki3 he would be tough to beat as he led the timesheets. Close behind him was Felix Tan (JQ/GO/AKA) and Didier Perrin (Mugen/Novarossi/AKA).

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April 22, 2013

Matsukura doubles at RC Park Gojo off-road race

Naoto Matsukura scored a double victory at the recent off-road race held at the RC Park Gojo in Japan. The 1/12th on-road World Champion secured the 2WD title in Yusuke Sugiura (Kyosho) and Kohta Akimoto (Kyosho). The 4WD class saw an identical result with Naoto (Yokomo) taking the overall win followed by Yusuke and Kohta.

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April 22, 2013

Lee Martin wins at BRCA nationals

The first round of the BRCA 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the dirt track of the HNMC. Day two kicked off cold and dry and gave perfect conditions for the drivers. Kyosho’s Elliott Booth took TQ after the qualifiers but dropped out in the semis due to problems as did Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. The A final saw a great battle between Mugen driver Lee Martin and TLR’s Darren Bloomfield for the whole 45 minutes. Every time Bloomfield caught Martin he was forced into errors letting him drop back again. At the end it was Lee who took the race win in front of Darren Bloomfield and Simon Willetts. Jack Embling won the Junior category with Oliver Curry taking the runner-up spot. The third place went to Callun Niblet.

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April 21, 2013

Evans wins Mod Truck at Spring Indoor Nationals

The only one of the feature classes at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals to go to the third A-Main, Mod Truck saw Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans secure the overall title as he took the win in Leg 3 backing up his A2 result to claim the top step on the podium at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas, ahead of Leg 1 winner Ryan Maifield and Top Qualifier Cody Hollis.

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April 21, 2013

Maifield takes ‘Spring Indoor Nationals’ Buggy titles

Ryan Maifield is the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals buggy champion, the Team Associated driver wrapping up overall victory in 2WD and 4WD Buggy by backing up his A1 results with two more tone to tone wins in Leg 3 of the triple A-Mains at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas, Texas. Winner of the opening round of the Indoor National Series in St.Louis in February, the Winter Indoor Nationals, Maifield claimed his second win of the five race series with another easy win over TLR’s Dustin Evans although this time round the advantage was a much more slender 3 second gap with Taylor Larsen completing the Top 3 a further 4-seconds adrift.

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April 21, 2013

Maifield wins first Mod Truck encounter

Ryan Maifield kicked of the final day of the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, this morning to take a comfortable win from 3rd on the grid over the battling TLRs of Taylor Larsen and Dustin Evans. Top Qualifier Cody Hollis had a poor race a series of mistakes dropping him back down the order to finish a distant 4th.

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April 21, 2013

Maifield, Hollis & Evans TQ Spring Indoor Nationals

Ryan Maifield, Cody Hollis and Dustin Evans have TQ’d the three main classes at this year’s JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, Maifield giving Associated pole for the 2WD Buggy A-Main while TLR pairing Hollis and Evans will carry the No.1 in Mod Truck and 2WD Short Course respectively tomorrow at the at Mike’s Hobby Shop event.  The only driver to record a double TQ this weekend, Maifield will also lead away the field in the 4WD Buggy A-Main.

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