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March 19, 2013

Chaos on the Coast Series Rd2 report

The 2nd round of the Chaos on the Coast Series hosted by Space Coast R/C went off without a hitch with 105 entries. The track was in great condition allowing the racers to take full advantage of the extreme traction producing some great side-by-side racing action. First round winner Brett Kingsbury was looking for a repeat, but the competition is heating up and making for some great battles. The 2WD Modified class saw Billy Easton and JConcepts driver Paul Wynn break away from the pack early, but a costly mistake by Billy ended his race early and Paul went on to win the 7min main with his JConcepts equipped B4.2 buggy; JConcepts driver Brett Kingsbury also finished a strong 3rd behind Ryan Johnson. Next up was 4WD mod and this was the Brett Kingsbury show as he went on to TQ and win by more than a lap on the field with his JConcepts equipped B44.2. Last class of the day was the Pro 2 SCT class and the day belonged to the youngster Chris Viesins. Chris took his JConcepts equipped TLR 22SCT from the TQ spot, straight to the top of the podium over 2nd place Rich Shaeffer and JConcepts team manager John Piant in 3rd.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

March 19, 2013

Adam Drake wins truggy class at GRRS Rd2

The second round of the Grass Roots Racing Series race took place at the Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California. The event had 145 entries and the track will also host the first round of the JBRL Series in a few weeks. The weather was cool in the morning, but warmed up by mid-day to around 80 degrees. The track was hard packed and very technical and it was TLR’s Adam Drake who set the fastest times in nitro buggy and nitro truggy. In the truck final he took off from pole position and never looked back to take the win by two laps. In the buggy final Adam battled with Drew Moller early, but was able to put in clean and consistent laps and had almost a lap lead with 5 minutes to go when he ran into steering servo problems that hindered his pace so we went on to finish second behind Drew Moller. Cody Smith finished third to make it a Pro-Line tire 1, 2 and 3 on the podium.

Thanks to Adam Drake for sending the report.

March 18, 2013

McKenzie & Williamson win HNMC Rd9

The ninth round of the HNMC Winter series took place at the club’s astro turf track rather than the dirt venue due to best British weather conditions. 51 races braved the conditions and it was Kevin Brunsden who dominated qualifying in buggy with Richard Cousins taken TQ in the truggy class. Richard was not able to conserve his position in the finals with Kong McKenzie taking the win from Callum Niblett and Gary Brace. In the truggy class Ian Williamson was able to steel the win from TQ Richard who had James Morl in tow. Round number 10 of the Winter series will take place at the weekend of the 31st of March.

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March 18, 2013

JJ Wang wins big at China SMP Opening Race

Team C team driver JJ Wang took a clean sweep in three classes at the opening race of the new SMP off road track in Shanghai, China. Driving his Thunder powered Team C TM2 and T4, JJ won both the 2WD and 4WD buggy class including taking TQ in 2WD. In the 4WD Short Course class, it was a real battle between Horizon’s newly signed Hong Kong factory driver Frankie and JJ but in the end, the latter took the victory with his TS4 completing a sweep of three classes at the inaugural race.

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March 18, 2013

Spanish 1/8th EP buggy nationals report

Last weekend the first round of the Spanish 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the new RC La Nucia track. Being of a high-speed design with some smaller double and triple jump sections setup was crucial. After the qualifying Serpent driver Sergio Martinez took TQ followed by Daniel Vega (Agama) and local driver Toni Alcalá (Serpent). The finals were a bit chaotic because the track became bumpy meaning drivers could run into errors easily. At the end European Champion Daniel Vega had the pace to win the race followed by TQ driver Sergio Martínez, and Alberto García (Serpent).

Click here to the top 10 result

March 18, 2013

Kenji Tsuruta doubles at Tresrey Off-Road Race

Round 11 of the Tresrey Off-Raod Race was held at the RC Maniax Arena in Izumi-city, Osaka, Japan. A total of 90 entries made it to the event with 49 drivers attending in the 2WD class and 41 in 4WD. Tresrey driver Kenji Tsuruta (TLR) won the 2WD class with Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) in second and Toshihiro Ueno(TLR) in third place. In 4WD class it was again Kenji Tsuruta (Team Durango) who won the race with 15 year old Syun Mukaiyama (Tamiya) in second place and Osamu Kamo (Tamiya) coming in third. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a TLR22 kit, Team Durango items, Speed Passion controller and motors, Viper RC controllers and motors as well as Highest servos.

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March 18, 2013

Maifield & Tebo take buggy titles at Cactus Classic

For the first time in a number of years the blue ribbon buggy titles at the Proline Cactus Classic have gone to two different drivers with defending champion Ryan Maifield successfully retaining his 4WD title while Jared Tebo took the 2WD win, a crown he last held in 2008. In the truck classes, 4WD Short Course was also decided with Dakotah Phend wrapping up the title in the second leg of finals.

View our complete event coverage here.

March 17, 2013

A1 wins for Maifield & Tebo at Cactus

Ryan Maifield and Jared Tebo claimed the wins in the opening A-Main of the Proline Cactus Classic’s blue ribbon classes with defending Champion Maifield taking a close win over Joern Neumann in 4WD Buggy while Tebo took a more convincing win ahead of Dustin Evans in 2WD Buggy.

View our complete event coverage here.