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January 10, 2014

Neumann & Bayer top Offroad practice at DHI

European Champions Joern Neumann and Martin Bayer have topped their respective title classes in practice at the DHI Cup in Denmark. The third year the event has featured offroad competition, Neumann took his Durango to the fastest three consecutive laps in 2WD Buggy ahead of Schumacher’s Tom Cockerill and new Team C signing Oskar Levin. In 4WD it was Xray’s Bayer who set the pace from Neumann who comes into the event looking to complete a DHI hat trick of wins in both classes.

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January 10, 2014

Volker sets early pace at DHI Cup

Ronald Volker has set the early pace on the opening day of the DHI Cup in Denmark, the Team Yokomo driver topping the first timed practice from last year’s event winner Adrian Berntsen. A three time winner of the event, Volker posted a time of 37.377 for his 3-fastest consecutive laps compared to Berntsen’s 37.423 with Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard third over 3/10ths of a second further a drift.

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January 10, 2014

Birinyi & Kálnay win in Budapest

The 4th round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challenge was held in Budapest racing Stock 13.5T and Modified touring car. The 13.5T Stock class had Xray driver János Birinyi taking TQ after winning all of the three qualifying rounds. He then went on to win the first and second A final to take the day’s win early. Gábor Forrai and Péter Taál completed the top 3 result. In the Modified class Barnabás Tóth and Zsolt Kálnay where fighting for the pole position with the better end for Barnabás but come the finals Zsolt was able to grab the win in A1 and A2 after the leader made early mistakes allowing Zsolt to pass. This handed him the overall win in front of Barnabás Tóth and Christian Faur.

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January 8, 2014

JConcepts Indoor National Series ’14 – Announcement

JConcepts Indoor National Series '14 - Announcement

JConcepts, together with many fine sponsors and race tracks, have organized a first of its kind, a true Indoor National Series. The first 3 years combined attracted over 3000 entries. 2014 is scheduled as a 5 race series across the United States, drivers now have the opportunity to showcase their abilities on a national and regional level. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall nationals make up the seasonal events at fixed locations while the finals will serve as the end of the year bash for the awards and series championship. The series will be awarded based on points participation in 3 out of the 5 events.

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January 7, 2014

John Cravotta doubles at Maine State Champs

The weekend of January 4 saw the running of the Maine State Championship at Maximus RC. The weather was cold outside, but nice and warm inside for racers from all over New England. X Factory sent Team driver John Cravotta up from Massachusetts, and he did not disappoint, winning both buggy and SC. In mod buggy it was all X-6 cubed as Cravotta TQed both round of qualifying, setting a blistering 17 laps 5:08 on the small Maine track. John checked out in the A main with a tone-to-tone dash, improving his qualifying time by a second.

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January 7, 2014

JConcepts Super Cup Rd4 report

At the end of December, Florida’s top 10th scale racers descended upon Shiverville Raceway for the final round of JConcepts Super Cup Series Fall session. Most classes were still up for grabs as some classes were in a tie for the title of Champion. Racers arrived to the track in High Springs Florida early on Friday to work on setups. On Saturday everyone was at the track by daylight for the last hours of practice before racing began at 9:30am. Racers had to adapt to a more “old school” track condition with a loamy surface as sunlight was in short supply and moisture was plentiful.

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January 5, 2014

2014 Asia Contest – Announcement

2014 Asia Contest - Announcement

Bittydesign together with distributor Team RC Pro & PRC staff have announced the 2014 Asia Contest, an event born in 2013 with a successful race format that saw the participation of racers from all neighboring countries and known for its fun atmosphere. The International Pattaya RC Power Boat World track continues as the venue for the event which is set to take place from the 2nd to the 4th of May 2014. Limited to 192 drivers nitro buggy, split between Pro and Open class it will again be a 3 day format running from Friday with free practice, Saturday qualifications and the special one-off race ‘Thai VS Foreigners’ for the top qualifiers. Sunday will be the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) followed by Superpole and finals. More information can be found here.

January 3, 2014

Motter wins Top Notch Winter Series Rd2

This past weekend was the second round of the season for the Top Notch Winter Series. Averaging about 200 entries at each event, the TNS is continuing to grow and be very successful. Round number two was held at Coyote Hobbies in sunny Victorville, CA. With just under 300 entries and 33 heats this would be a very competitive and fun day of racing. Team Associated/Reedy’s Kevin Motter and his B4.2 Factory Team with Centro conversion were on point in the first round of 2WD Modified Buggy qualifying. He set the early TQ and the time to beat. As the first round went exceptionally well for the young driver, the second round brought a a couple bobbles and Motter lost the overall TQ. Starting from second on the grid, Motter had his work cut out for him.

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