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November 21, 2011

Cavalieri double at Kyosho Fall Classic

The 2011 Kyosho Fall Classic was held last Saturday at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. This annual event has been known to bring in some of the best nitro drivers from all over Southern California. This years event would be no exception. Drivers such as current 1/8 Buggy Nitro World Champion Cody King, Current ROAR 1/8 Buggy National Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Ty Tessman, Richard Saxton, Dylan Rodriguez, Drew Moller, and Jessie Robinson were all in attendance. The weather was great all day long staying in the 60’s.

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November 19, 2011

Root double at Thanksgiving Throwdown Rd2

TLR and Losi’s Frank Root, Cody Turner, and Matt Castellano were on hand at the second round of the Thanksgiving Throwdown Series Saturday at West Coast R/C Raceway (WCRC). The track had fantastic traction, and a really fun and technical layout. The entry count was very strong with 19 full heats and a great day of racing was had by all.

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November 18, 2011

Tasos Paparegkas wins Greek Nitrofest 2011

The new Top RC track in Thesaloniki, Greece was the host of the 2011 Greek Nitrofest. A total of 30 drivers attended at the three day event that not only attracted lokal drivers but also one Joseph Quagraine from far Finland. Tasos Paparegkas took TQ with his Xray XB808 ’11 followed by John Paparegkas (Xray XB808 ’11) and Joseph Quagraine (JQ THE Car). The 45 minutes long final was a close affair with many lead changes between Paparegkas and Quagraine with the better end for Tasos who won the race by 9 seconds in front of Joseph and John.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 16, 2011

Travis Amezcua wins JBRL 1/8 electric buggy class

Travis Amezcua has won the 2011 Electric 1/8 Buggy Class at the prestigious JBRL Nitro series. The series visited multiple tracks across southern California over eight months. His Mugen MBX6 Eco powered by LRP equipment proved to be unbeatable. Travis would also finish out the series third in expert gas buggy with his MBX6R powered by the new Ninja JX21-B02 engage. Both rides where rolling on AKA rubber. Travis would like to thank the entire JBRL and Hot Rot Hobbies staff for making the 2011 JBRL series such a huge success.

Source: HandleIt Hobbies [handleitrc.com]

November 15, 2011

Adam Drake Sweeps JBRL Nitro Series finals

The final round of the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series was held last weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies. The event was scheduled to be run dry and blue groove, but Mother Nature had a different plan. A rain storm hit late Friday night, but the Hot Rod Hobbies crew did an amazing job to pump off the water and start racing at 10am. The JBRL series consists of eight races with five counting towards your point total over the course of eight months. In the Expert 1/8th Truck class Adam Drake had the championship wrapped up, but still competed in the final race to get more track time. Drake TQ’ed both rounds of qualifying and won the final by a large margin. Second went to Jesse Robinson and third place was Matt Schreffler. Adam Drake is the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series Champion, Cody King second, and Jesse Robinson finished third.

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November 15, 2011

Hu Way-Ping wins KRC Manufacturer Cup

S-Workz Asia Team driver, Hu Way-Ping has won the 2011 KRC Great China Group Manufacturer Cup. The race was held in Beijing with 110 drivers from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, HongKong and China attending. During the 60 minutes final Hu was able to keep the competition behind winning the race in front of Liu Hou-Tsai and Chan Way with Lee Tsung and Mai Ya finishing fourth and fifth respectively.

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November 14, 2011

Cody Jandrakovic wins ROAR Region 8 off-road regionals

Hobbytown in Omaha Nebraska was the setting for this year’s ROAR Region 8 Off-Road event. There were nearly 150 racers at the newly enclosed HobbyPlex to battle out for Midwest bragging rights. JConcepts Team Driver Cody Jandrakovic took the 2WD open class with his Finnisher/Bar Codes equipped Associated B4.1 and he also TQ’d and finished 2nd in open stadium truck with a Team Associated T4 decked out with a JConcepts Hi-Flow body and blue compound Bar Codes.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 14, 2011

Portuguese Off-Road Series Rd2

On the Weekend of 5t and 6th of November the second round of the Portuguese Off-Road Series was held. 60 Drivers attended in the four classes Buggy 2WD, Buggy 4WD and Short Course 2WD and 4WD. Among them was Miguel Matias, the multi-times World and Euro Finalist made his appearance at this round and could not wish for a better debut as he was dominating the 2WD and 4WD buggy classes. In 4WD Nuno Roque took the runner-up spot just befind Miguel with Hugo Miguel grabbing the last podium spot (all three Team Durango DEX410). In 2WD it was again Migual who took the race victory followed by Nuno Roque (both Team Durango DEX210) and Nuno Rola (TLR22).

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