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August 17, 2014

Essex Summer Series – Update

Essex Summer Series - Update

The EWS Events team have today announced that their first outdoor event, the 2014 Essex Summer Series, has been moved to the Adur circuit on the outskirts of Brighton, Sussex. The event was set to be held at the Brookland Raceway circuit in Kent, but regrettably the facility ran out of time to make the track upgrades and changes necessary to host an event on this scale. Thankfully, the Adur Model Car Club offered their facility as an alternative, which the organising team were more than happy to accept. The race will remain on the same date of 13th and 14th September. You can check out the EWS Events Facebook page for regular updates and to ask any questions here.

August 14, 2014

DKI Jakarta Region Championship Rd3 report

Last weekend at the North Jakarta Sunter Circuit was the final round of the 3 round series organised by Jakarta EP Touring Committee. The air temperature was between 31 to 35 degrees Celsius with the asphalt temperature reaching 56 degrees Celsius and there was three classes run at this race; Touring Super4wd, Touring Stock 13,5 and Touring FWD 13,5 non boost. Less drivers attended compared to the previous rounds however it didn’t make it any less competitive. Major teams such as XCampus participated, along with drivers from Pegasus (Associated team), Tamiya, Yokomo and Team Magic. The race was dominated by Touring Stock 13,5 class, the largest class in Indonesia.

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August 13, 2014

Victory for Kyle Rhodes at Nitro X

This past weekend Kyle Rhodes attended the 2nd annual Nitro X race which took place at Wolcott Hobby and Raceway in Wolcott CT and sent us this report. ‘I would be competing in 1/8th nitro buggy. Friday was scheduled for practice. I spent most of the day prepping my car and ran a few times to get the layout down and shake my MP9 TKI3 down. The event pulled in close to 100 entries.

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August 13, 2014

Short Course Showdown NWT Rd5 report

Round 5 of the Short Course Showdown Nation Wide Tour brought us to Phoenix Arizona to Warehouse 3. Warehouse 3 is absolutely beautiful facility. Located in a very new building in a multi-business strip mall, it has the perfect location to have a track and full RC Hobby shop. The schedule for the weekend consisted of practice on Friday, 3 Quals on Saturday, 1 Qual on Sunday and 7 minute finals for all classes with bump ups. Some of the areas fastest drivers were in attendance from both Team Associated as well as Team Losi Racing. Team Associated had Brian Kinwald one of the greatest Champions our industry has ever had join us as well as their up and coming young guns, Spencer Rivkin and Tommy Hinz. From Team Losi Racing we had Chris Wheeler, Chuck Hicks and Rocco Epler. The track went live at 10am sharp with the unique heads up qualifying style that is very popular in the Showdown and we had some great races. Qualifying went well both Saturday and Sunday and set the stage for some very thrilling finals. But before the finals could begin, we had our racer raffle to thank all our racers for joining us. Our great sponsors support the showdown so very well and give so much back to the racers, all the participants received some wonderful door prizes to help make the experience at the Showdown special.

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August 13, 2014

Patrick Hofer dominates rain affected Rd5

The fifth round of 2014 1/10 Off Road Swiss National Championship was held at Dielsdorf (EOCD Club) this past weekend. The weather conditions were changing, with rain, meaning the surface of the track remained slippery with the club making huge efforts to keep conditions as good as possible. The qualification runs were very interesting and difficult for the drivers due to weather changes and track conditions changing from wet to dry. Patrick Hofer, running his B5M and B44.2 powered by Reedy motors and batteries, managed these conditions best in both 2WD and 4WD categories, taking TQ in both classes. During the finals, Patrick focused his attention and concentration on the track conditions to take the win in every run on each category ahead of Peter Forster and Gregi Gassman in 2wd and Nico Schmitt and Peter Forster in 4wd.

Source: HRC [hrcdistribution.com]

August 13, 2014

Olivier Bultynck wins Rd5 of Belgian TC Nats

The fifth round of the 2014 FBA Electro on-road championship was held at the RCR track in the town of Roeselare this past weekend. After a very wet weekend at Bierset and a half wet weekend at Rucphen the weather forecast predicted a lot of rain during this race. On Saturday the sun was shining. On Sunday morning the day started dry but the weather conditions proved to be very difficult for all drivers with heavy rain fall during the day.

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August 13, 2014

Drake wins Truggy at Battle of the Sikest

Team Losi Racing’s Adam Drake won Pro Truck at the 2014 Battle of the Sikest at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway last weekend. Drake TQ’d all four rounds of qualifying and won the first two A mains to take the overall victory with his Novarossi powered TLR 8ight T 3.0 equipped with Pro-Line M3 Holeshot tires. Drake also TQ’ed Pro Buggy and finished second behind Ryan Lutz.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

August 12, 2014

Tim Altmann wins Rd6 of RC Lemans Series

The 6th Round of the Pro10 RC Lemans series was held at the MCC Rhein-Ahr in Bad Breisig, near Koblenz/Germany last weekend. After 3 Rounds of qualifying Tim Altmann took TQ ahead of his brother Kai and Tobias Weist with Sven Stoffels and Marcel Ellissen completing the top 5. Tim took an easy win in the first 2 legs to wrap up the overall win while behind him it was Sven and Kai with a 2nd and 3rd place each. The 3rd final was totally wet and only 3 drivers started and so with a win for Tobias and his 4th place from the first final he could secure the runner up spot while 3rd place went to Kai Altmann on tiebreak against Sven. The final race of the series will take place at the legend track in Oberhausen/Germany in October when the overall series win will be decided between Tim and Tobias.

Thanks to Tobias Weist for the report.