The NSR opening race took place at a new off-road track near the Shenzhen Gymnasium in China. More than 40 drivers attended in the 1/8 nitro and electric buggy classes that saw Team C driver Tommy taking TQ. In the 45 minutes final the win went to Tommy’s team mate Wai who drove an Angus-power T8.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
Kyosho America have announced the Kyosho Fall Classic 2012 on the 3rd of November 2012 at the prestigious Revelation Raceway in Ontario, California. Come by and check out Kyosho’s latest products and also test run the newest XXL Scorpion Buggy and a full line of Mini-Z products. If you need a tip or suggestion from the pros, Kyosho will have current 1/8th Off Road World Champion Cody King and former National Champion Derek Furutani on hand to help you out. For more information visit the event site here.
The first round of the HNMC Winter series at the Herts Nitro Model Club saw wins of Elliot Boots in the nitro buggy and Harry Phillips in the nitro truggy class. Kevin Brunsden and Simon Reeves are the names of the second and third placed buggy driver while Simon Miller and Colin Drummond took two and three in the truggy class. The next round of the nitro series is set for the first weekend of November.
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The French Cup 2012 took place in Maisons-Alfort near to Paris at AEC Model Club this weekend. Tom Cockerill and Lloyd Storey came over from England to support the French Schumacher Team. Tom and Lloyd also took first and second place in 4WD with Armand Lantheaume completing the all-Schumacher podium. In 2WD, Ludovic Valtier (Team Associated) won the title follow by Ahmed Kerfati (Kyosho). Thomas Vogel completed the podium with his TLR22.
Dustin Evans showed why he is a US National Champion, Reedy Race winner and Worlds finalist as he completed the perfect weekend at the Fall Indoor Nationals successfully defending all three 2WD titles at the RC Excitement track in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Starting the 8-minute single Buggy, Short Course and Stadium truck A-Mains from pole having topped every round of qualifying, the factory TLR driver cruised to three convincing wins.
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Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans completed a clean sweep of 2WD qualifying at the JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals, the World Championship finalist picking up where he left off yesterday to TQ the third & final round of qualifying in Buggy, Short Course and Stadium Truck. With no one able to out pace Evan’s TLR cars around the RC Excitement track the 2011 US National Champion looks to be firmly on target to defend the three titles he won here last year in Fitchburg however the Colorado driver says he is taking nothing for granted as with single A-Mains one mistake can easily cost you the win.
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13-year-old Alex Kosciuszek has TQ’d the final round of qualifying at the JConcepts ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, the young up & coming talent setting a run of 20/5:05.038 to top the time sheets ahead of Jason Ruona and last year’s Top Qualifier Mike Gay. Fastest in Q1 & Q2, it was a bad round for Steven Hartson however in 4WD Short Course the factory Associated driver managed to pull off his first TQ ahead of Matt Olson who took both of yesterday’s qualifiers.
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Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans has dominated the first round of 2WD qualifying at the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, the Colorado driver setting the pace in Buggy, Short Course and Stadium truck all classes of which he is defending champion. In 2WD Buggy, the biggest class among the record entry at the R/C Excitement hosted event, Evans’ closest rival was 4WD Q1 pace setter Steven Hartson whose Associated was 3.8 seconds off the 19/5:01.640 set by the 2011 US National Champion.
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