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November 12, 2014

2014 Time Zone II GP – Race Report

The Timezone II Grand Prix was held at La Center, Washington last weekend and has to be one of the “funnest” indoor on-road races of the year. With 120 entries and the fact that most of racers being longtime friends, the shenanigans were out of control. With a bag full of bananas, special guest and world famous announcer, Charlie Suangka, delighted the audience with his comedic style all throughout the weekend. Another guest fresh off his 2nd place finished at the IIC in 1/12 modified and his win 13.5 TC in Vegas, was non-other than Team Associated’s Keven Hebert making the long journey from Quebec, Canada. Also, on hand to race as well as assist Keven was Team Associated’s engineer Bob Stellflue. Another great driver making the journey from New Mexico was Max Kuenning, who just won the World GT class at the IIC in Vegas.

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November 12, 2014

Hagberg TQs opening qualifier in Thailand

Alexander Hagberg took a somewhat surprise TQ run in the opening qualifier of the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, the round seeing all of the Top 10 from practice having difficult runs. Running in the second fastest heat having been 11th in practice, the Xray driver set the fastest 5-minute time by just under a second from the Serpents of Dominic Greiner and Tadahiko Sahashi, the Top 6 for Q1 all running in the same group. An incident filled top heat would go to Mark Green but suffering a body tuck after contact with Teemu Leino, the Serpent driver’s time would only be good enough for 11th. The top seed for qualifying having topped timed practice, Leino would end up 13th. Defending Champion Meen Vejrak would roll his KM resulting in tyre damage that left him struggle to 36th.

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November 11, 2014

Leino top seed for qualifying

Teemu Leino will be the top seed for qualifying at the 200mm World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand tomorrow after the fourth & final practice at the Huge RC Circuit showed no improvement on the HB driver’s CP3 pace. Bringing 5-days of practice to a close, it was Dario Balestri would would top the round but with JJ Wang the only Top 10 driver to better his time the line up for the top qualifying heat remains unchanged. Behind Leino it was Nicholas Lee who ended the day second fastest, followed by Balestri and Mark Green making it four different manufacturers represented in the Top 4.

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November 11, 2014

Maurice Lüscher wins at ART Racing Team Cup

The Winter season of the ART Racing Team Cup kicked off in Münsingen, Switzerland on a high-grip indoor track. Maurice Lüscher took the TQ in the 1/12th class after the qualifiers and he also brought home the win in the triple A-finals to end the day in 1st place. Manfred Ebener came in 2nd while Michael Schäfer completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 11, 2014

Leino improves pace in Bangkok

Albeit by just 0.004 of a second, Teemu Leino improved on his opening practice pace in the penultimate round to stay on top of the ranking ahead of Nicholas Lee and Dario Balestri. Running a 3-consecutive lap time of 42.326 in CP3, the Finn topped the round ahead of Serpent’s Mark Green and defending World Champion Meen Vejrak, both drivers also producing their best times so far. Overall the round made for little change at the top with Leino continuing to hold P1 from Nicholas Lee and Dario Balestri with Green the biggest mover, breaking into the Top 10 to go fourth overall.

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November 11, 2014

Lee heads second practice to go P2

Although hotter conditions made for generally slower track with Teemu Leino remaining fastest with his time from the morning’s opening practice, Xray’s Nicholas Lee set the pace in the second timed practice to improve to 2nd in the overall seeding order. Improving on his opening time by 3/10ths, the Singapore driver headed the times from Serpent’s Yuya Sahashi by 1/10th. Having struggled to find form, the round would see defending World Champion Meen Vejrak make a huge performance leap as he posted the 3rd fastest time ahead of Leino to move himself into 6th overall.

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November 11, 2014

Leino tops first timed practice

Teemu Leino topped the first round of timed practice this morning as things got official at the 1:10 200mm World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. The HB driver took his R10 around the Huge RC Circuit in the fastest 3-consecutive laps to head the times from open practice pace setter Dario Balestri by 0.255 of a second with Kyle Branson completing the Top 3. Again defending World Champion Meen Vejak found himself somewhat off the pace with the KM driver posting only the 19th fastest time.

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November 10, 2014

Team Durango TC Winter Series Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Team Durango Touring Car Winter Series was held at the Hinkley Model Car Club this past weekend. With local competition from regular club attendees fierce, the attending national “A” finalists had a battle ahead of them, as everybody was keen to show early pace on the flowing carpet track. At the end Ben Cosgrove was able to secure first overall in the Modified class ahead of Zak Finlay and Harley Eldridge. Chris Ashton and Jamie McDonagh rounded out the top 5.

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