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March 5, 2014

Bernal & Albano win at Outback Shootout

A Main Hobbies would host their 4th annual Outback Shootout at their indoor track, Outback Raceway in Chico, CA with a total of 281 entries. Qualifying would consist of 4 rounds of heads up qualifying taking your best 2 runs. 4WD Open Buggy would see Albano taking the TQ with Strange starting 2nd and Bernal 3rd. Matesa would take the TQ in Open Stadium Truck. In 2WD Open Buggy, going into the 4th round, Matesa, Strange, and Albano would all three have one win. Albano would claim the win and overall TQ with Strange 2nd, Matesa 3rd, and Bernal 4th.

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March 5, 2014

Ferrell wins at Pacific NW Showdown Rd4

The Marty Barnes’ Pacific NW Showdown Tour made its way to Albany, Oregon last weekend. Conveniently located just off the I-5 freeway, NW Hobbies hosted round 4 of the 5 race series on an all clay, super high bite, tacky indoor race arena. Practice was held on Saturday with 1 qualifier in the evening and 2 on Sunday with mains to follow. The layout was technical yet easy, but at the same time extremely challenging. The most challenging part was deciding which tires to go with and playing with the amount of grip that was available. There was a fine line between speed and too much speed that would make the car very twitchy and edgey to drive resulting in increased chances of roll-overs and crashes. The window was very small and tire combo was definitely the key to your success.

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March 4, 2014

Alberto Garcia wins Madrid Championship Rd1

The first round of the 2014 Madrid Championship took place last weekend with around 80 drivers in attendance. The event was a perfect warm up race for the European Championship “B” and the Spain Nationals which will be held at the same track this Summer, therefore many of the top Spanish drivers where in attendance. During practice rain made things slippery and it was S-Workz driver Albert Garcia (S-Workz/RB/JConcepts) who was able to make the best out of the slippery conditions. Just before the main final rain started to fall again but this did not keep Alberto from taking the win in front of Juanma Guillen (JQ/Alpha/ProCircuit) and Dani Vega (Agama/Reds/Beta).

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

March 4, 2014

2014 JCP-RC Winter Cup – Report

JCP-RC Raceway located in Indianapolis Indiana, played host to the 1st annual JCP-RC Winter Cup. The 3 day event brought in just over 160 entries from across the tri-state region to try and claim a title in what will be a must attend event in the years to come. Consistency was the name of the game for the event as drivers competed in a practice seeding round on Friday. Using the drivers full 5 minute practice run laps and times to seed the drivers for qualifying for the remainder of the event. Once seeding had been determined, the event used 3 rounds of qualification Saturday, and 1 round on Sunday using qualipoints to set the main events. Triple A-mains would then determine the winners on Sunday in the 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy, Mod Truck, and 1/8 E-Buggy classes, while 10 minute A-mains would determine the winners in the 2WD SC, 4WD SC, 17.5 2WD Buggy, and Novice classes with bump-ups in all classes.

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March 4, 2014

Colton Kiefer wins E-Buggy at Chi-Town Shootout

Mike Colton wins E-Buggy at Chi-Town Shootout

Colton Kiefer has won the 1/8th E-Buggy class at the 2014 Chi-Town Shootout. He took the win in front of Tekno’s Randy Cathcart while Mike’s Serpent team mate Joe Sorwell completed the podium. Adam Cholka and Pinky McCarty finished 4th and 5th respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 4, 2014

Manuel Dressler wins Paraguayan nats Rd1

The first round if the Paraguayan national 1/8th off-road championship attracted drivers from Hohenau, Capitán Meza, Ciudad del Este and Asunción. The schedule saw three 10 minute qualifiers, 30 minute semifinals and a 45 minute main. The race then was won by Manuel Dressler, Michael Mende and Fabio Lang (all Serpent).

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 4, 2014

Knudtson & Klingforth win at ROAR Carpet nats

Knudtson & Klingforth win at ROAR On-Road Carpet nats

Beside 1/12th scale pan car racing the 2014 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals, held at the HobbyTown USA HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska, also had a lot of touring car action to offer. Paul Lemieux (Xray) would TQ the Modified class by less than 0.5 seconds over Kody Knudtson (Awesomatix). Filling out the top five would be Keven Hebert (Associated), Josh Cyrul (Awesomatix) and Andrew Doherty (Xray). In A-main 1 Paul Lemieux would run away with the win, allowing for a tight battle between Kody, Keven and Josh for 2nd. Paul would cruise to the win, with Kody and Keven following.

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March 3, 2014

ENS announces 2014 tyre format

The organisers of the 1:10 & 1:8 Nitro Onroad based Euro Nitro Series are pleased to officially announce the tyre format for its inaugural four round championship. Following a recent meeting with industry representatives at the ETS in Germany, the decision was taken that the championship will continue to operate a hand-out controlled tyre system similar to that used during last year’s two race ‘Pilot Series’.

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