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December 6, 2011

Steven Hartson triple at ROAR Region 12

ROAR Region 12 has always been a hot bed for some of the best racers in the world. For 2011, the prestigious Region 12 event was held at the world famous West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, CA. JConcepts / Team Associated driver Steven Hartson quickly rose to the top of the field in the 2wd, 4wd and SCT modified classes taking the early and late TQ runs. Josh Numan also continued a strong pace during qualifying taking several 2nd round finishes and took 2 TQs during qualifying, placing himself 2nd on the grid.

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December 6, 2011

King & Pavidis win at 2011 Toys for Tots

The 7th annual Toys for Tots was hosted once again at its original home track, Palm Desert RC Raceway in California. This has been a popular race for a good cause for many years and this year did not disappoint, with 133 entries and over $1200 being raised by the raffle alone. In the Pro class, the day was shaping up into a show down between 2006 World Champion Mark Pavidis, and the current World Champ, Cody King. Pavidis would capture the Truggy TQ, with King getting TQ in the buggy class.

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December 5, 2011

Miguel Matias dominates Rd3 in Portugal

Last weekend saw the Portuguese Off-Road series travel to Póvoa da Galega for the 3rd round of the Championship. A massive entry of 86 cars and 66 drivers gave a great atmosphere to this big event. Again Miguel Matias dominated both 4wd and 2wd buggy classes with his Durangos both performing really well all weekend, transforming his TQ performances into 1st in both classes. Team Durango showed really well also with Nuno Roque following Miguel performance and achieving both of the 2nd places in 2wd and 4wd.

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December 2, 2011

Jonathan Bacro joins Serpent team

Serpent have welcomed French driver Jonathan Bacro to their international Team. The former Agama/RB driver is one of the most promising talents around, winning last year’s European B Championships, and Serpent wanted to work together to help him to reach the highest international level. Having already raced the car Jonathan has shown how fast he is with his Cobra/Novarossi combo and mentioned how strong the car is. Jonathan will attend the Padova Dirt Challenge 2011 in Italy in December as well as do the Neo12 early next year.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 1, 2011

Chris Pace takes the NC Invitational

The second year for the NC Invitational was held at Zoo City Raceway in Asheboro, North Carolina. Jamie Tucker, Race Director/Organizer of the whole event, invited people from each manufacturer to represent their company. AE drivers Chris Pace, Max Fluer, and Jamie Grayek were present for Team Associated. The format for the Invitational class was five rounds of qualifying on Saturday and a 45-minute A Main Sunday. Pace and Fluer TQed the first three rounds of qualifying, securing TQ in three classes. Pace and Fluer were not done there – in the Invitational class, Pace ran the only 13-lap run of the event in the fourth round. With a slight bobble on the back section, Pace was quickly marshaled, but the marshal flamed his car, killing his chances for the fourth round. Max took second for round 4 in E-Buggy and TQ 4WD SCT.

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December 1, 2011

Daniel Vega joins Reds Racing

Reds Racing have announced top Spanish Agama driver Daniel Vega as their new official team driver. Reds Racing expects some great results in 2012 with Daniel, but apart from driving he will also manage distribution and build a Factory Race Team for the Spanish and Portuguese off-road markets.

Source: Reds Racing [redsracing.it]

December 1, 2011

Fall-Brawl Trophy Race report

Critters Raceway & Hobby Shop of Fairfield NJ recently held its first Annual Fall-Brawl Trophy Race. Classes consisted of Sportsman, 2WD and 4WD Mod Short Course, 2WD and 4WD Mod 1/10 Buggy and 2WD truck. This was the second trophy race since the track was opened in May 2011, surviving the horrific flooding in NJ in August 2011. The turnout was great with almost 100 entries with the most popular classes being 4WD Short Course and 2WD Buggy with all Mod mains being 8 minutes in length.

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November 30, 2011

JConcepts Super Cup Rd4 report

The 4th round of the JConcepts Super Cup 2011 season was host at Daytona, FL during the Thanksgiving weekend. In 2wd Stock buggy, the young Daimon Borkowicz did an amazing 15 laps run in qualifying, one of only 4 people to do a 15 lap run during the entire event, to TQ the stock buggy class. In the main, without any real competition, Daimon was able to pull away & lap the field with Ruffy Rios finishing 2nd & Kory Ferguson finish 3rd.

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