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April 10, 2012

Jared Tebo continues clean sweep at Neo12

Kyosho factory driver Jared Tebo has taken his 4th Neo title from 4 starts with a dominant showing at the Indoor event at Harper Adams in the UK. Starting from pole position he was kept honest by Canadian Hot Bodies star Ty Tessmann, who despite being faster on track, couldn’t make up the extra fuel stop he had over Tebo. Tebo would eventually take the victory by some 18 seconds over Tessmann with Associated driver Ryan Maifield in 3rd, just in front of team mate Ryan Cavalieri. Full coverage on Neo Buggy here.

Source: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

April 8, 2012

Kota & Matsukura take FEMCA EP Offroad titles

Today was finals day at the Yatabe Arena in Japan for the FEMCA Championships to decide the 2wd and 4wd electric buggy champion. With bump ups being used the final starting order was to be decided and it was Naoto Matsukura who couldn’t participate in qualifying due to school commitments, that was on the move. He would bump his way up from last in each class to take his starting spot on the grid for both A-mains in 7th and 8th for 4wd and 2wd respectively. In 2wd pole man and Kyosho driver Akimoto Kota would take the win from Yokomo driver Kikuchi Kai in 2nd, with Naoto taking 3rd. Akimoto would repeat the win in the 2nd leg to warp up the title with Kai once again taking 2nd and Meen Vejrak finishing 3rd. The last leg would decide the final podium positions and it was Naoto who would come through to take the victory to claim the runner up spot bumping Kai to 3rd despite being even on points.

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April 7, 2012

FEMCA EP Offroad Champs – Day 2 update

Day 2 of the FEMCA champs is in the bag and in was the turn of the 4wd class to get some practice at the Yatabe Arena followed by 5 rounds of qualifying with 3 to count. A notable absentee is reigning Japanese National Champion and factory Yokomo driver Naoto Matsukura who is missing both qualifying days, having an important school exam this weekend, but will show up on Sunday and hope to bump up from the lower finals into the main. In today’s qualifying it was Thai Yokomo driver Meen Vejrak that sits on pole position with 3 round victories and will start ahead of 2wd top qualifier Akimoto Kota in 2nd driving for Kyosho, while Sugiura Yusuke completes the top 3 also driving for Kyosho. Kikuchi Kai (Yokomo), Maezumi Satoshi (Tamiya), whose wife just gave birth to their 2nd child overnight, and Kono Takayuki (Tamiya) complete the top 6 direct qualifiers. Tomorrow is finals day for both the 2wd and 4wd classes to determine the 2012 FEMCA champion.

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April 6, 2012

FEMCA EP Offroad Champs – Day 1 update

The FEMCA Championships for electric offroad are currently being held in Japan at the Yatabe Arena. The event is open to racers in the FEMCA region which includes all of Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Friday saw the first action on the track for the 2wd class with 5 rounds of qualifying with the best 3 to count. The top 6 go direct to the main final and the remaining 4 drivers bump up from the lower final. Following the 5 rounds of qualifying it was Akimoto Kota that took the pole position for Kyosho ahead of Kikuchi Kai driving a Yokomo with Sanpei Tatsuya in 3rd for Kyosho. Meen Vejrak from Thailand is the only non Japanese driver in the top 16 sitting 4th with a Yokomo, Maezumi Satoshi (Tamiya) and Enomoto Keisuke (Yokomo) complete the top 6 direct qualifiers. Tomorrow sees the 4wd qualifying run before the finals are run on Sunday to decide the FEMCA Champion.

View the top 10 after qualifying

April 6, 2012

Off-road Grand-Prix of Russia – Announcement

The organisers of the biggest annual Indoor Off-Road Race in Russia were in touch to tell us about their event. It will take place from the 13th to 15th of april as a part of the major Toy fair ‘Hobby Expo 2012’ in Moscow and attracts top pilots from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to battle it out in 11 classes covering OffRoad 1:18, OffRoad 1:10, OffRoad 1:8. The carpet covered track is 30X18 meters size and specially designed for this event and has so far attracted 170 entries, which is around 120 people. There are still places available so if you are interested you can enter here.

April 3, 2012

Adam Drake dominates JBRL Rd1

This past weekend kicked off round 1 of the JBRL Nitro Series in Beaumont, CA at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway. There was a huge turnout with a total of 235 entries that came from all over California, Arizona, Nevada and even a few from Illinois. TLR had many of their top level drivers including Adam Drake, Mike Truhe, Matt Castellano, Drew Moller, Matt Schreffler, Colby Poh, and Jacob Hass along with many other TLR drivers in attendance to contest for the 2012 JBRL Nitro Series championship.

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March 28, 2012

Drake crowned Dialed Inc. Invitational Champion

The 2012 Dialed Inc. Off Road Championships is an all-new event that was held last weekend Shreveport, Louisiana at T&T Speedway. The classes consisted of 2wd/4wd Short course, 1/8th electric buggy/truck, 1/8th nitro buggy/truck, and a special invitational class based off the Reedy Race format, six heats of 10 minute duration, truck on Saturday and buggy on Sunday. They also used gates starts to add a little excitement to the invitational class. The track was built by Joey from The Dirt and a crew of helpers from the local area.

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March 28, 2012

Nilsson & Ronnefalk win Swedish Cup Rd1

Last weekend saw the first of five rounds of the Swedish Cup in 1/10 electric buggy 2WD and 4WD class. The first race was hosted by Tomelilla MK at their indoor track, this time using the same layout as the last year’s EOS Pilot race. For this series, the AKA 1/10 Rebar tires together with the red AKA insert was used as a regulation tire for the first time in Sweden. On Saturday the race started with 2WD and practice and four rounds of qualifying. Local TLR driver Henrik Nilsson opened strong and won the two first qualification rounds and David Ronnefalk the other two. On equal qualifying points Henrik took the TQ on better time and started from pole position in the A-main.

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