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November 27, 2012

Martin Bayer wins Czech Winter Nationals

Last weekend the 2012 Winter 1/10 Off-Road Czech National race took place and Martin Bayer was present with his new Xray XB4. The club prepared a really nice track for this event and there was around 100 drivers attending. With virtually no practice we directly went to qualification heats. In the first qualification Bayer made an easy win but made a mistake in the second run, crashed by lapped traffic. Winning the third qualification Martin secured the overal TQ for main the final. With just some minor changes to the car in the final it was an easy win for the XB4 with 2 laps ahead of the Jiri Mara, with Kaja Novotny in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 25, 2012

Volker & Sugiura dominate at Yatabe Arena

Yatabe Arena in Japan played host to their Asia On Road and Off Road Championships this past weekend and the event attracted some international drivers in both classes with the likes of Volker, Rheinard, Groskamp, Levanen & Jasmin attending the TC race while Meen V and Charlee made the trip to take part in the Buggy race. Qualifying for the touring car race saw Ronald Volker dominate qualifying ahead of Yokomo team mate Naoto Matsukura in 2nd, while Marc Rheinard would end up in 3rd. In the final it was more of the same from Volker who won the first two legs of the A-main to secure the win while Naoto took the Leg 3 win to take the runner up spot ahead of Rheinard. Current World Champion Groskamp would recover from a 7th place on the grid to take 4th overall.

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November 24, 2012

Daniel Vega wins Madrid Championship 2012

The Tarancon race track and C.A.T.A.R club played host to the fourth race, of five, of the Central Championship Region of Madrid. For this race various drivers from other regions were in attendance including Ignacio Candel, vice-champion of Spain, and some other drivers from Levante such as Marcelino, Daras and Bernabe. Also many drivers from Madrid or Toledo such as Ignacio Gutierrez and Ignacio Candel. The race was very difficult in the morning due to the thick fog, the bottom of the track difficult to see and control the car, doubly difficult in that it is not allowed to practice on Saturday.

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November 21, 2012

Maifield, Denney & Kinwald win AZ State Champs

SRS Raceway in Scottsdale, AZ hosted the 27th annual Arizona State Championships. A fresh layout was built and a highly prepared surface made for one of the best State races in recent memory. 170 entries came out to compete at one of the largest 2-day state championship events ever at SRS. With the green inspired JConcepts Events T-shirts on-hand the spirit was great in the pit area and everyone was ready to race on the famous high-bite dirt.

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November 20, 2012

Tebo dominates JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout

The JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout was held this past weekend at Fastlane R/C Raceway in Kansas City, MO. This would be the home track for Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo. For this event, Tebo designed the track layout and helped with track maintenance all weekend long. This years event brought in an impressive 248 entries. In the Modified Truck Class, it was Kyosho/Team Orion’s Jared Tebo who would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all 4 rounds to take the overall TQ.

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November 17, 2012

Mibosport Cup Rd2 report

The second out of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup attracted 117 drivers from five countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Bayer, Zdenko Kunák and Marek Černý. The Mibosport Cup takes place in the same place as the ETS in January. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 33 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Zdenko Kunák, Zdeněk Hamák, Jiří Mára and Marek Černý . In the second and third final Zdenko Kunák was able to secure the top position on the podium followed by Zdeněk Hamák and Jiří Mára.

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November 14, 2012

Off Road Wars Winter Champs Rd2 report

Last weekend the second round of the Maritime Off Road Wars Winter Championship sponsored by TLR and Horizon UK take place at the popular Chatham Dockyards indoor venue. Once again, a near full house entry with nearly 100 drivers, spanning 12 heats were greeted by a revised track layout that featured some high speed sections along with some tricky, low grip corners. A star-studded entry list saw TLR’s top European driver Darren Bloomfield take on the likes of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots and X-Factory’s Ellis Stafford. Schumacher’s established Off-Road driver Grant Williams was joined by his Top Touring Car team-mate Chris Grainger, who was once again trying his luck in the unfamiliar surroundings of electric Off-Road racing alongside 1/5th scale Champion Dave Bowen.

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November 14, 2012

Miguel Haasbroek wins South African Nationals

The 2012 South African off-road nationals was held at the Meyerton track just outside Johannesburg. Current SA champion Miguel Haasbroek (Mugen) won the final from the TQ spot followed by Mugen team mate Warren vd Merwe and Shaun Haasbroek (Associated).

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]