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May 20, 2012

Scotty Jones joins Venom Australia

Venom Australia have signed experienced off road driver, Scotty Jones, to drive for them in the 2012-2013 seasons. Scott has a lot of experience in off road racing, having competed solidly at highest levels in both 1/10th and 1/8th categories over the last 10 years. He is always ready to lend a helping hand with set up advice and to help out his fellow racer and this kind of great attitude and professional driving standard make Scotty the perfect driver for their new team. Scott had the following to say about his new deal:

I’m really looking forward to representing Venom Group Australia. I will enjoy being able to use their great range of products, as well as the new Kyosho TKI3 Buggy and STRR Evo Truggy. I can’t wait to see the results we can achieve together in the upcoming season. Massive thanks to Venom Australia for all the support and I look forward to hitting the tracks soon!

Source: Venom [venom-group.com]

May 17, 2012

Tomi Salonen wins Rd1 of Finnish Nationals

Round one of the Finnish Offroad Nationals was held in Turku under tricky conditions. In the morning they had some rain and heavy wind and in the afternoon weather cleared up, but the wind got stronger which made driving over the jumps very challenging. After 3 rounds of Qualifying Tomi Salonen was 1st, followed by August Poutiainen and Ari Heinonen. Following the semi-finals the top six was Salonen followed by Poutiainen, Heinonen, Leino, Ahoniemi and Siltanen. In the A-final we saw a tight battle between Salonen and Poutiainen, the pair managing to pull away from the rest of the field. After 13 minutes Poutiainen was leading by several seconds until he had a crash with another car and broke his Xray and was forced to retire. Mugen/Novarossi driver Salonen took the lead and controlled the rest of the final easily. Many drivers suffered from flame outs and crashes during the hard 45 minute windy final.

View the final results here

May 16, 2012

JConcepts Summer Tour – Announcement

JConcepts will keep the racing going this summer in Florida with the announcement of the Summer Tour. These 3 standalone events will kick off on June 2nd at FZRC in Sarasota, Florida before a July 7th stop at eXtreme Hobby Zone in Winter Haven, FL and ending on July 28th at Shiverville in High Springs, FL. Come out and race these laid back events to help keep the Summer time blues away. More information can be found on the official event site here.

May 16, 2012

Adam Drake triple at JBRL Nitro Rd2

The 2012 JBRL Nitro Series is in full swing and the second stop on the series took place last weekend at Revelation Raceway with over 200 entries. Many of the world’s best were on hand including the current World Champion Cody King, Ryan Cavalieri, Adam Drake, Mike Truhe, Ryan Maifield, Travis Amezcua, Dylan Rodriguez, Richard Saxton and Steve Hartson. The layout started out smooth and high speed, but by the end of the weekend is was very technical and rough. It was Adam Drake who dominated the event by winning three classes.

Continue reading the report here

May 16, 2012

JJ Wang joins Thunder Power RC

Better known as a gas onroad racer new Thunder Power RC signing JJ Wang is making a name for himself throughout China as one of the rising stars of modified touring car and EP offroad. The 14 year old has launched his EP career with a 4th place finish in the FWD class at this year’s TITC race. Stepping up his game, powered by Thunder Power RC, JJ recently won the EP 4WD Short Course Truck and 2WD Buggy classes at the Horizon Hobby Cup. JJ will run Thunder Power RC Z3R motors and batteries to power his 2012-2013 racing season in China and at various International and US electric/LiPo events. JJ had this to say:

I’m very motivated and excited to join the Thunder Power RC team. I think their products have very high quality and I’m looking forward to using them in the upcoming season.

Source: Thunder Power [thunderpowerrc.com]

May 15, 2012

Double win for Patrick Hofer at Swiss Nationals

Round 2 of the 2012 1/10 Off Road Swiss Championship too place at Hohenems last weekend and it was Patrick Hofer who dominated all classes with his Team Associated B4.1 and B44.1 cars. Following a wet Saturday, Sunday was dry but the temperature did not reach more than 14°C. Patrick again showed his performance by placing his B44.1 and B4.1 on TQ in 4wd and 2wd modified. In the 4wd class Hofer won from Durango driver Michel Buschor in 2nd and Kyosho driver Sven Zünd in 3rd, while in 2wd Patrick won ahead of Yokomo racer Peter Forster in 2nd and again Sven Zünd in 3rd.

View the 2wd podium here

May 15, 2012

Joern Neumann wins German West Rd2

The 2nd round of the German West division Nationals was held in Hürtgenwald on an astroturf track and the weather was great all weekend. On Saturday there was open practice for a couple hours and then 3 rounds of controlled practice. JConcepts Driver, Jörn Neumann was in attendance and coming off his first round victory was ready to dominate again in round 2. Jörn tried a few different shock setups and a 3mm front sway bar during practice which he noted that it made is car a lot faster. He stuck with the same setup for the 1st Round of qualifying, finishing 2nd. On Sunday there were two more Rounds of qualifying. In Round 2 Jörn was on a good pace, but had a problem after 2 minutes and had to sit out the rest of the qualifier. The last Round worked really well and Jörn came back with a TQ in that round which was enough for the overall TQ.

Continue reading the report here

May 15, 2012

Andreas Daving double at Norweigian Nats Rd2

The second round off the Norwegian Cup took place at Gjoevik Raceway in cold and windy weather. Practice on Friday was called off due to a lot of rain, but Saturday started with no rain. Following qualification it was the former Norwegian champion Martin Soerlie that took TQ ahead of Centro C4.1/Vampire driver Andreas Daving in second. Andreas took full control and won all the three A-mains with good margins, with Marius Johansen in 2nd and Tommy Langaard in the final podium place. Winner of the B-final was 7 years old Daniel Kobbevik with his C4.1, so a great day for Centro C4.1. On Sunday, it all started even better for Andreas and he took the TQ by over 20 seconds on 2nd. It was an easy win for Andreas in the final as he dominated up front to win easily ahead of Roy Gemble with the DEX410 v3 and Mats Oestlie running the B44.1 in 3rd.

Thanks to Magne Kobbevik for the update.