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October 11, 2012

2012 Southern Nationals – report

The 2012 Southern Nationals took place in a cavernous temperature-controlled facility in Monroe, Louisianaperfectly suited to a major RC race. The event draw around 300 participants including pros like Ryan Lutz and Josh Wheeler. Jason Branham was strong all weekend in Pro buggy and truggy. He narrowly missed the Pro truggy win after a pitched battle with eventual winner Josh Wheeler. Branham would get the job done later in Pro buggy. With cool consistency he outlasted the field and took the crown. He was joined on the podium by Jake Dellinger, who added to his recent string of impressive finishes with 5th place run.

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October 10, 2012

Video – Pro Pit Tip with Steven Hartson

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While at the recent Fall Indoor Nationals at RC Excitement in Fitchburg MA, we teamed up with Jason Ruona of JConcepts to talk to the pro drivers at the event to get some insight into their indoor clay setup. First up is Team Associated/Reedy/JConcepts factory driver Steven Hartson and we will follow up later in the week with TLR driver Dustin Evans.

October 9, 2012

Team C successful at NSR opening race

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]

October 9, 2012

Kyosho Fall Classic 2012 – Announcement

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.

October 8, 2012

Boots & Phillips win HNMC Winter series Rd1

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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October 8, 2012

Cockerill & Valtier win French Cup 2012

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.

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October 8, 2012

Perfect weekend for Evans at ‘Fall Indoor Nats’

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.

View our complete event coverage here.

October 8, 2012

Evans completes clean sweep of 2WD Qualifying

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.

View our complete event coverage here.