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March 7, 2013

’13 JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series Rd3

JConcepts’ Super Cup Round 3 packed the house at FZRC in Sarasota Florida. Once again, racers drove from hundreds of miles around to continue another attendance record setting event. Marty Chilton had the track ready for everyone that arrived as early as Thursday night. Racers wanting to get the edge on the competition, hurried to the track on Friday in order to gain valued practice time dialing in their setups. The JConcepts crew setup quickly and began accepting early registrations. As the sun rose on race day morning, racers were patiently waiting for enough sun light to hit the clay. Mother Nature also made an appearance delaying race start 30 minutes with a quick shower. Rain didn’t dampen the spirits of the 174 racers who attended, setting a new attendance record for FZRC Raceway. Once the weather cleared, it was time to go racing. In 1/8th E Buggy Jim Hess showed everyone how it’s done taking TQ and the first place spot with 16 laps/5:06. Bruce Bennett finished in 2nd place as Rob Didion, Mike Myers & Steve Baron separated by only 2 seconds to finish 3rd, 4th, and 5th. In the Stock Truck class Matt Bradford paced the field for the TQ spot with 14 laps/5:01. Mark Mixon & Jeff Lynn held off 9 others to bump into the A main. The A-main winner, Tracy Carver stared in the 6th position and fought his way to the top with 14 laps/5:01. Erik Everett took the 2nd place spot, and Riker Gatenby took the 3rd place spot edging out Landen Lewis 4th, Jeff Lynn 5th.

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March 7, 2013

2013 A Main Hobbies Outback Shootout – report

The 4th Annual Outback Shootout was once again hosted at The Outback Raceway in Chico, California. Racers from the local area to neighbouring states would make the trip to what is one of the nicest indoor facilities in Northern California. Outback’s indoor track is known for its consistent, high-bite clay surface and challenging layouts. The pits are heated, and there are classes for all electric off-road racers. Competitors will automatically be entered to win dozens of raffled prizes from our sponsors. A Main Hobbies’ massive inventory is available to racers who need miscellaneous parts while competing, and those will be conveniently delivered to their pit spaces. Not many tracks can say that have that kind of inventory. All off road classes were offered and the largest being the 2wd Stock Buggy class with nearly 5 full heats. 4wd SC and 4wd Mod buggy were also large classes at the event. Qualifying for the event would be qual points best 2 out of 4 rounds.

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March 6, 2013

2013 Euro Contest – Announcement

2013 Euro Contest - Announcement

The organisers of the Euro Contest have been in touch to promote what they believe will be one of best races in Europe on the newly rebuilt US style track of ‘Barco Off’ which is one of the best Italian offroad tracks. The race will be open to 2 buggy classes, Pro (F1) and Open (F2) as well as the brushless class and will once again feature Superpole competition as well as Last Chance Qualifiers not to forget the DJ set, music, cocktail party, girls and much more. The event will run from the 21st to the 23rd of June and entry is now open here.

March 5, 2013

World Champion Batlle joins EOS

This weekend (8-10 March) the third round of the ‘TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby’ travels to Leoben in Austria where some of 1:8 Nitro Offroad’s biggest names are set to try their hand at 1:10 Electric Offroad including newly crowned World Champion Robert Battle and multiple European Champion Renaud Savoya. Arch rivals in 1:8, both drivers are newcomers to 1:10 and will be looking to impress in particular against 1:8 racing peers Darren Bloomfield and David Ronnefalk who are experienced electric offroad competitors.

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March 5, 2013

Silver State Nitro Challenge – Announcement

Southern Nevada RC is proud to present the prestigious Silver State Nitro Challenge which will be held from April 18th to 21st. The race will be held at the World Famous Boulder City RC Speedway in Boulder City Nevada and is open to 1/8th buggy & truggy nitro & electric and SCT 4×4 and 2wd. Entry is open now and you can find more information here.

March 1, 2013

Darren Bloomfield joins Vampire Racing

Vampire Racing is proud to announce the latest addition to their factory racing team in the form of UK super star and 1/8th EFRA IC buggy European Champion Darren Bloomfield. Driving for Team Losi Racing, Darren will use Vampire Racing’s full line electric components such as the upcoming AB+ V2 brushless motors, SR1+ controllers and the company’s latest LiPo competition batteries. The Briton already achieved the first race victory for his new sponsor by TQ’ing and winning the recent Off Road Wars race at Maritime Racing leaving Jörn Neumann and Lee Martin behind.

Source: Vampire Racing [vampire-racing.com]

March 1, 2013

Ryan Cavalieri fully Orion’d

Team Orion announce that current IFMAR 2WD and 4WD 1/10 Electric Off-Road World Champion Ryan Cavalieri has made the move to use Team Orion’s Vortex R10 and R8 Pro ESC’s beginning March 1st. Cavalieri has been a valuable asset to Team Orion over the past seven consecutive years using their Vortex motors, nitro engines, LiPo batteries and chargers. Now with the addition of the Vortex R10 and R8 Pro ESC’s, Ryan has completed the entire product line with Team Orion. Ryan added:

I would first like to thank Jürgen and Reto from LRP. They have provided me with great support over the years and have helped me win three IFMAR World Championships along with many other races. I would also like to thank Philippe Neidhart, Oscar Jansen, and Joe Pillars for the great continued support of Team Orion Products. Team Orion has been behind me basically from the start of my professional career and it feels great to now run the complete power package.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

March 1, 2013

Ben Ellis wins at Early Spring Off-road champs

Located in Southern Indiana, P&T Hobbies and Raceway hosted the “Early Spring Off road Champs”. Being in business for well over 25 years, P&T Hobbies and Raceway is one of the longest running tracks in the state and in the region. The one day trophy race brought in over 90 entries from across the tri-state area. With limited practice, everyone had to adapt to the track quickly and make setup changes as quickly as possible. Team Associated driver Ben Ellis was on a mission and TQ’d round two and three of the 2WD modified buggy class and ended up second in the truck class. In the main events he was able to get out to a quick lead and even lapped the entire field in both classes taking comfortable wins.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]