February 10, 2014

Dustin Evans wins at Rumble in the Rockies

Dustin Evans wins at Rumble in the Rockies

The 2014 Rumble in the Rockies were held this past weekend at MHOR Raceway in Denver, Colorado, the home track to TLR/Team Orion super star driver Dustin Evans. This year’s event would bring in a total of 210 entries making for a great weekend of racing. In 2WD Modified Buggy Evans was on fire during the first day of qualifying and would TQ the opening three rounds of 2WD Modified Buggy to guarantee him the overall TQ. Evans would have a great battle with Team Associated’s Kody Numedahl who qualified 2nd overall in all three A-Main Events. Evans would come out on top and take the overall win by winning the first and third A-Main.

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February 10, 2014

Hayato Ishioka wins F1 at Snowbird Nationals

Hayato Ishioka wins F1 at Snowbird Nationals

Every year, the Snowbird Nationals provides a record number of entries as well as incredibly tough competition. The 2014 version of the Snowbirds again attracted drivers all over the World including China, Japan, UK, Germany, Canada and France. In the F1 class CRC’s new WTF-1 car dominated, taking a strong 1-2 finish with Hayato Ishioka and Brian Wynn qualified and finished 1st and 2nd respectively.

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February 10, 2014

Denney & Mitch win at JConcepts Indoor Nats

Denney & Mitch win at JConcepts Indoor Nats

Team Associated’s Tanner Denney and Team Losi Racing’s JR Mitch claimed the big wins at the opening round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in St.Louis.  Winning the third A-Main of 2WD Buggy, having won A2, Top Qualifier Denney claimed an important win for Associated’s all new B5 on its debut race weekend while Mitch also backed up his A2 win in 4WD Buggy to claim the overall win with his TLR22-4.  Joining them on the podium Steven Hartson & TLR’s JP Richards finished 2nd & 3rd respectively in 2WD while Denney claimed second in 4WD with Xray’s Josh Wheeler completing the overall Top 3 on the fifth running of the Winter Indoor Nationals at the SmacTrac.

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February 10, 2014

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd5 – Report

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd5 – Report

The 5th round of this Winter’s Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup took place at the Hudy Racing Arena this past weekend. The race schedule saw 3 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals. In the Modified Touring class Xray’s Martin Hudy took the winning honours in front of Marek Cerny and Jirka Vysin. Adam Janovic and Mateusz Ogonowski completed the top 5.

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February 10, 2014

Wesley van Helmond wins at Indoor Off-Road Cup

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The 4th round of the International Indoor Off-Road Cup took place at Model Indoor Oss in the Netherlands. Wesley van Helmond walked away with the win in the 2WD class in front of Wouter Wynen and Jordy Velder. Chris van der Hagen and Bruno Heremans completed the top 5 result. The win also handed Wesley the overall championship title with one race still to go.

Image: Joey van Helmond


February 10, 2014

Hartson & Denney win opening A-Mains

Hartson & Denney win opening A-Mains

Steven Hartson and Tanner Denney took easy wins in the opening A-Mains of the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals in St.Louis but not in the expected order with 4WD Top Qualifier Hartson taking the 2WD win while 2WD Top Qualifier Denney won the first 4WD encounter.  The first of the A-Mains to be run Denney built up an early lead with his new B5 and looked set to cruise to an easy win but starting from 4th on the grid and avoiding an early pile up Hartson reeled in his younger team-mate.  With Hartson right on his motor Denney would survive his first mistake at the log section but the former series champion would capitalise on the second mistake to go on and take the win by over 4 seconds with Team Losi Racing’s Taylor Larsen completing the Top 3.

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February 9, 2014

Hartson TQs 4WD in St.Louis

Hartson TQs 4WD in St.Louis

Steven Hartson is Top Qualifier of 4WD Buggy at the JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals at SmacTrac, St.Louis, the Associated driver securing the honour as team-mate Tanner Denney topped the fourth & final qualifier.  Running in the C heat, Denney posted the fastest qualifier of the weekend finishing 1.4 seconds up on Xray’s Josh Wheeler.  The only driver who could challenge Hartson for pole in  the Main, JR Mitch looked on target to take Q4 but a late mistake dropped the Q3 Top Qualifier down the order with the Team Losi Racing driver only able to recover to take third just in front of Hartson.  As a result Mitch will start third on the grid behind the B44.2’s of Hartson and Denney while Wheeler’s XB4 starts fourth.

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February 9, 2014

Denney claims first TQ for new B5

Denney claims first TQ for new B5

Tanner Denney has claimed the first major TQ for Team Associated’s all new B5, the 18-year-old taking the honour of Top Qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the opening round of the JConcepts Indoor National Series in St.Louis.  Having TQ’d Q2, the Arizona driver backed up his 21-lap run with another in Q3 to put the pole position beyond reach of his only potential rival for the top spot, team-mate Steven Hartson.  Despite a late decision by the organisers of the Winter Indoor Nationals to add a fourth round of qualifying at the SmacTrac, Hartson’s 20-lap topping Q1 pace means that if if he was to TQ the final qualifier he would loose on tie break a 22-lap run needed is beyond even the World Champion.

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