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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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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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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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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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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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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Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield and TLR’s Cody Hollis upped the pace in 2WD Buggy and Mod Truck respectively in the second round of qualifying for the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals at Mike’s Hobby Shop in Dallas with both drivers improving considerably on their opening TQ run times. Benefiting from much faster track condition Maifield improved his time by over 7 seconds as he set a new fastest lap in the event’s premiere class with the next best improvement coming from team boss Bent Thielke who moves up to fourth behind TLR’s Hollis and Dustin Evans who both failed to improve. In Mod Truck, Hollis improved by over 10-seconds to take the second of the 3 scheduled rocket round qualifiers by 4.3 seconds from Maifield as the pair posted the first 16-lap runs of the day.
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The opening round of 2WD buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Spring Indoor Nationals in Dallas, Texas, saw Ryan Maifield set the early pace around the Mike’s Hobby Shop track with the Associated driver taking Q1 by 1.578 from the TLR of Cody Hollis with Dustin Evans completing the Top 3 as the only other driver to manage 16-laps. It was good opening round of qualifying for Hollis as he took his TLR22-T to the fastest time in the other big class this weekend Mod Truck ahead of his young team-mate Taylor Larsen with Maifield taking his T4.2 to the 3rd fastest time.
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