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May 4, 2011

Nordic EP offroad Championships – Announcement

The Nordic Championships for electric offroad will take place this year on the newly resurfaced Astroturf track in Odense, Denmark. Taking place from the 2nd to the 5th of June, the race is of course open to both 2wd and 4wd and drivers wishing to attend must have a national license. Run to EFRA rules, the race uses a controlled tire, Schumacher mini-pin yellow for both front and rear in 4wd and only the rear in 2wd. Entry is now open and closes on the 20th of May and you can find more information on the official event site here.

May 4, 2011

Norwegian 1/10th offroad EFRA GP – Announcement

Norwegian club Radøy RC would like to welcome all racers to attend the 2011 Efra GP for 1/10 offroad on their track from the 24th to the 26th of June. The track is Marås Raceway and it is located just 50 minutes from Bergen city. The race is of course open to 2wd and 4wd buggies and all drivers need to hold a paid national license for 2011, with the race run according to the EFRA rulebook 2011. It is a 3m wide astroturf track and the rear tires are controlled, which will be the Schumacher Minispike 2, while the front tires are open in both classes. Entry is now open and you find out more information here.

May 3, 2011

Cody King does double at JBRL Rd1

Current IFMAR World Champion Cody King attended the first round of the 2011 JBRL at ARC Raceway in Temecula, CA, USA just 3 days after arriving back from the Neo11 race in England. As the 2010 JBRL Buggy and Truggy Champion, Cody didn’t miss a beat starting off 2011 with a TQ in buggy and winning both Buggy and Truggy by a wide margin. Cody trounced the field in Truggy and in Buggy had an early challenge by JQ’s Chad Bradley and held off a late push by Team Losi’s Matt Castellano near the end to take the buggy win with Mugen driver Travis Amezcua taking 3rd. With the ROAR Nationals just a matter of weeks away, and the ARC surface similar to the Nationals venue, this looks to be a logical warm-up leading into the biggest race of the year for US drivers. JBRL Round 2 is just 2 weeks away, right across town at Revelation Raceway, The Drakes home turf. It should be interesting to see what happens there with drastically different track conditions compared to ARC.

May 2, 2011

Mike Applegate wins Truck at JConcepts Supercup Rd4

The final round of the Jconcepts Supercup Championship Series took place at Bashers RC Raceway, a beautiful indoor RC palace, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The modified truck class was competitive as ever with TLR Team Driver Mike Applegate getting the TQ. The mod trucks took to the track for the main event with Mike getting the hole shot and leading the first few laps. Applegate made a few mistakes which made for some great racing, but he battled back and took the win, with Dan Borkowicz taking 2nd and Jader Lopez 3rd.

April 30, 2011

Competition Heat signs Adam Drake

Competition Heat, makers of the unique engine warming system have announced the signing of Team Losi Racing / Novarossi driver Adam Drake to their team. Adam had this to say:

I’ve been using the Competition Heater for just over a year now. It makes engine break-in easier, but it also increases your engines performance and life. The products from Competition Heat are amazing and I’m proud to have them as a sponsor for 2011!

Source: Competition Heat [competitionheat.com]

April 29, 2011

Paul Coleman joins TQ Racing

TQ racing is proud to announce that Paul Coleman has joined their team. Paul, who was instrumental in developing the Hyper 7 race platform for OFNA in the past, has worked with such great drivers as Josh Wheeler and Former World Champion Greg Degani to help them compete on the highest levels. With TQ Racing having just released their new 1/8 Evo series of nitro and electric buggies and with a Truggy design in the works to be released later this year, Paul will be attending events around the country exposing TQ product to new and exciting markets. At these events Paul will be sharing his years of nitro knowledge in driving and preparation seminars for fellow racers.

Source: TQ Racing [tqracing.net]

April 28, 2011

Henry & Kvidera take Canadian Indoor Champs

This past weekend was the 5th Annual Canadian Indoor Championships for 1/8th nitro buggies and truggies in Tillsonburg, Ont, Canada. In the pro buggy class it was a TLR sweep of the top three with Dave Henry taking the win with teammates Daniel Yachnin 2nd and Frank Calandra 3rd. In pro truggy TLR would take to top two spots with Jimbo Kvidera taking TQ and the overall win with teammate Daniel Yachnin taking 2nd.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

April 27, 2011

Matt Sistrunk takes all at I-20 series Rd1

Last weekend was the first round of the I-20 series in Monroe, Louisiana. Racers from all over the area came to a freshly built track at Full Throttle Raceway. With the rain during the week the Track crew had some work ahead of them. By the time qualifiers started the track was in great shape. The Battle for TQ was close but TLR driver Matt “Puddin” Sistrunk took the top spot in buggy followed closely by TLR privateer Denver Houghton. Following the start of the main it was a three car battle with Denver taking the early lead followed by Matt and Allen McCoy. Matt and Denver battled for the lead the entire race with Allen in the shadows waiting for them to mess up. Matt passed Denver on the last lap of the race and they crossed the line .05 apart with Matt taking the win, Denver in 2nd and HB driver Allen McCoy in 3rd. In Truggy Matt started 3rd with Steve Traxler taking TQ. Matt took the lead in early going and never looked back, winning from the HB pairing of Jeff Gray in 2nd and Steve Traxler in 3rd.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]