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September 2, 2011

Tessmann wins 4wd & 1/8EP at Surf City Classic

Last weekend Ty Tessmann attended the Surf City Classic race in southern California and was entered in invite 2wd, invite 4wd and invite 1/8 electric buggy. The Tessmann team sent us this report. Practice went very well for Ty, we established a good baseline setup for all three cars and felt confident going into qualifying on Saturday. Overnight the track dried out so by Saturday morning the locals determined that slicks would be the best tire to run, though traction came up very quickly throwing a bit of a twist into things. First up for Ty was the 2wd invite class, even though Ty’s car wasn’t quite perfect he qualified a respectable 3rd in the first round, he TQ’d the first round of invite 4wd and TQ’d the first round of invite 1/8 electric. It was obvious though that our setups needed to be changed, the traction was much higher than it had been the day before during practice. Every round we made setup changes to the car to keep him on pace. In 2wd we struggled with setup but Ty managed to qualify 5th overall, in 4wd Ty TQ’d every round putting him on the pole for the main Sunday, 1/8 electric went the same way with Ty tq’ing every round and starting on the pole.

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September 1, 2011

Reedy Offroad Race of Champions – Announcement

The 2012 Reedy International offroad Race of Champions will once again be held at West Coast R/C Raceway in La Mirada, California on January 26th – 29th. Entries open September 1st at Noon PST on www.RCSignup.com and with 200 spots for the open classes and 30 Invitational drivers, spaces are limited. The event continues its traditional 2wd Open and 4wd Open class along with the Invitational 2wd/4wd format. To allow everyone an opportunity to be a part of this historic event, a lottery drawing will be conducted on October 21st with the first 200 open class entries selected securing a place in the event. Entry fees are due for the selected entries and Invitational drivers by November 20th.

More information can be found here

September 1, 2011

Ari Heinonen secures Finnish National title

Last weekend the last two races of the 4-race Finnish National Championship series were held in Vantaa. Ari Heinonen (JQ/JQ) was able to secure the Championship win ahead of Teemu Leino (Xray/LRP) and Jarno Siltanen (Mugen/Ninja), by finishing 2nd in the 3rd race, and winning the final race on Sunday ahead of Teemu Leino. This means that JQ Products have won the championship 2 years in a row now, with Joseph Quagraine winning the championship last year with the pre-production car. JQ couldn’t attend this year’s race due to being in hospital with appendicitis.

Source: JQ [jq-products.com]

August 31, 2011

Kervola wins Rd2 of Finnish EP Offroad Nats

The weekend of the 21st August saw the 2nd round of the Finnish Championships series being held at Kiiminki. Team Durango DEX410 buggies took the overall TQ spot with Janne Aspinen leading the charge closely followed by fellow Team Durango racer Harri Kervola in 2nd. The A-Main was taken by Harri Kervola as he took the opening and 3rd leg to claim the overall victory. Janne Aspinen took the 2nd spot on the podium for a Team Durango 1-2 finish with Henry Salmen in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com]

August 30, 2011

Evans continues top form at Surf City Classic

The 4th Annual Pro-Line Surf City Classic was held this past weekend at OC R/C Raceway in Huntington Beach, CA. This event has grown every year and sold out in only a few days after being open to the public. Big name drivers in attendance included current 2wd/4wd World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, Current 2wd ROAR National Champion Dustin Evans, Mike Truhe, Brian Kinwald, Ty Tessman, Steven Hartson and Josh Numan.

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August 29, 2011

Jonas Kaerup wins Rd3 of Danish Nationals

The weather in Denmark has been awful this year, at least if you race 1:8 scale buggies. Most races have been wet, and the 3rd round of the Danish DRCMU championship would be no different. Drivers were greeted by a wet and muddy track on Sunday morning, however the rain did stop and out came the sun. Most drivers skipped the practice and the first round of qualifiers and so the track was very sticky. Jan D. Hansens (Durango/RB) was on fire in qualifying and he duly took TQ and along with it 3 points for his championship campaign. As Jonas Kaerup used to be known as the sticky bandit, he took full advantage of the muddy conditions to win the semi A and line up 2nd for the final, behind Hansens, who won his semi B by a big margin. The Final was luckily run in the dry and as the race went on the track got a lot better. Jonas Kaerup’s Team Associated with some of the 8.2 updates, shot out in the lead from the sound of the tone. He never looked back, and thereby took his Team Associated RC8/HeadRC.com/O’Donnell car to the win in the 45 minute final in front of Morten Kroghs (Losi/OS) and Michael Gundersen (HongNor/RB).

August 29, 2011

Cody King does JBRL Rd5 double

The JBRL was back in action last Saturday, after nearly a two month break, with round 5 being held at Green Flag raceway in Hesperia, California. It seems the JBRL can’t get a break from the heat, as temps soared to over 100 degrees. Round 4 was in Palm Desert, where the temps reached nearly 120 degrees, now the JBRL patrons would have to endure another steam bath at round 5. The heat was also up on the track, as the points totals were very tight between Adam Drake and Cody King. After campaigning his 1/10 electric cars at the Worlds and Nats, Cody was back to nitro and hit the ground running.

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August 29, 2011

David Kukla wins Rd4 in Czech Republic

The 4th round of the Czech national championship was held last weekend in Skripov, near to the border with Poland, in perfect hot weather. The track surface was rough and tricky, so it was not easy to find a right car and tyres setup. In the final it was David Kukla who won the race by 1 lap ahead of his Serpent team mate Petr Klatovsky, with Tomas Kubica in 3rd for Xray.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]