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July 24, 2012

Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout 2012 report

For the 15th year in a row, Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, CA played host to the Off Road Shootout. As has become the custom, racers were greeted with the desert heat and triple digit temperatures throughout the event. However, given the track layout, surface and competition it didn’t seem to damper the racing any. With entrants from across the Nation and World, many of the top 1:10 electric off-road racers challenged for the wins.

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July 20, 2012

Tresrey Off-Road Festival report

The Tresrey Off-Road Festival, incorporating Round 9 of the Tresrey Off-Road Race, were held last Sunday and Monday at the Akashi Buggy Course in Akashi-city, Japan and it attracted 125 cars including 38 cars of 1/8 GP buggy. Nitro 1/8 Off-road buggy class was held on Sunday and Ryuya Kato (D8) took the TQ but Daisuke Endo (MBX6) won the 30min final, with Oike (MBX6) 2nd and Kato 3rd. The EP Off-road 2WD/4WD class were held on Monday. In 2WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (B4) took the TQ and won the race, while Kenji Tsuruta (DEX210) took 2nd and Takashi Nobuhara (DEX210) 3rd. In the 4WD class, Noriyuki Kawashima (DEX410) won the race again, Kenji Tsuruta (DEX410) was 2nd and Naoyuki Mimura (DEX410) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a DEX410R kit, Speed Passion ESCs & motors, Viper RC ESCs & motors and Highest servos.

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July 20, 2012

Wouter Wynen joins X Factory team

X Factory announces that Wouter Wynen, recent winner of the Belgian GP, has signed to drive the American company’s unique products through the end of 2013. “I’m so happy to have Wouter on the Team at last,” said company spokesman Chazz Sinclair. “He has been a top competitor in the BeNeLux series and all over Europe for many years, and we are glad to have his knowledge and experience working for us. We have wanted him to join us for more than a year, and expect him to be a great help developing and testing new products.” Wynen said,

I tested several different cars this spring in preparation for the BeNeLux series and the GP, both mid-motor and rear-, on both astro and dirt. The X-6 Squared is not the newest of them, but is clearly fastest on all surfaces. Smooth and collected, very easy to control, especially in corners and over bumps. I was truly amazed at the difference.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com] / Image: oOple

July 19, 2012

Drake & Lutz domination at Bring the Heat race

The second Annual Bring The Heat race at The Fabulous Flowood R/C Indoor Park was held this past weekend. There were 246 entries that ran three qualifiers on Saturday and the Mains were held on Sunday. The layout designed by Marc Beck was awesome and fun for everyone. The track held up beautifully for the entire race with very few rough spots on the track. Marc Beck along with Richard and Kris Harris did a fantastic job building the track for the second annual Bring The Heat.

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July 18, 2012

JConcepts Summer Indoor Nationals report

The third stop of the JConcepts Indoor National series made the trip to Outback Raceway in Chico, CA. The facility, otherwise known as A-Main Hobbies, is a 1:10 scale racers’ paradise. The dirt surface is amazing, there is minimal tire wear, the layout was flowing and the traction was hooked up. Then to top if off, all of A-Main Hobbies’ massive inventory is available at the click of a mouse. Team Associated made the trip up north with Steven Hartson and Brent Thielke and was joined by Jason Ruona and Tanner Denney for JConcepts. In the 2011 edition of this race, NorCal local Eric Albano was just a privateer. Fast forward to 2012 and he’s now a Reedy Race Touring Car Open Class champion for Team Associated and with a year under his belt with off-road vehicles making consistent top regional a-main events. Not to be forgotten is a return to RC for Seattle native, John Walentia.

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July 17, 2012

Chinese manufacturer Shootout report

Last week in Hong Kong, Gen Ace, Team C, Sky RC & Tenshock Motor Hosted a Chinese manufacturer Shootout in the newest indoor facilities called Lali Warehouse. This world class indoor RC track has state of the art facilities such as water sprinkler built into the ceiling, AC room for the pits and a VIP rest area. Lali Warehouse has only been open for 2 months and so this race was considered the grand opening race for them. Many drivers came from mainland China & Taiwan also made the trip to attend this race. Due to the popular 1/8th E- Buggy & 1/10 4×4 Short Course classes, the Event only focussed on these 2. With a total of just about 90 entries in only 2 classes it this one of the biggest off road races in Hong Kong since the early 90s.

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July 16, 2012

Ty Tessmann triple win at ARCOR Series Rd2

The first weekend of July saw Pro-Line Driver and recently crowned double ROAR National Champion Ty Tessmann race at the Medicine Hat Shootout which was the 2nd leg of the ARCOR Series, held at his home track in Medicine Hat, AB. The weekend was the hottest one they’ve had yet with temperatures hovering around 35C. Ty TQ’d all 4 rounds of Pro Buggy, as well as 3 rounds of Pro Truck that he ran and took the win in the 30 minute Pro Buggy main, 30 minute Pro truck main and the 8 minute 4WD Open SC main. It was a great weekend and all of Ty’s equipment ran flawlessly.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

July 15, 2012

Joern Neumann defends 4wd European title

Jörn Neumann defended his 4wd 1/10th off road European Championship title after taking a perfect score in qualifying and winning the opening two legs of the A main for the overall win in this years event held in Fehring, Austria. Jörn was chased all the way by his Austrian Team Durango team mate, Hupo Hönigl, who took second overall for a Team Durango 1-2. TLR driver Darren Bloomfield completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com] / Image: RC Devil [rcdevil.gr]