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December 15, 2013

Maifield is 4WD Top Qualifier at JConcepts Finals

Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield pulled off another overall TQ at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals posting the fastest time in the third & final round to secure pole position for tomorrow’s 4WD Buggy A-Mains. His second TQ of the day, having earlier wrapped up the honour in 2WD Short Course in Q2, the Arizona ace will start the triple Main ahead of fellow Associated driver Nick Gibson who starts from the no.2 spot.

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December 15, 2013

Maifield from Larsen in 2nd JConcepts 2WD qualifier

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Having suffered a ‘hurting’ opening qualifier in 2WD Buggy at the JConcepts Indoor National Series, Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield produced the fastest time of the day around the HobbyTown USA Hobby Plex track in Omaha to top Q2 from Q1 Top Qualifier Taylor Larsen. Having failed to make the Top 10 in Q1, Maifield topped the second round by 2.365 seconds with team-mate Hartson completing the Top 3 who were the only drivers of the weekend’s biggest class to run 14-lap times.

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December 14, 2013

Larsen tops opening 2WD Buggy qualifier in Omaha

Team Losi Racing’s Taylor Larsen TQ’d the opening round of 2WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha, setting the fastest and only 14-lap run around the HobbyTown USA Hobby Plex track in front of team-mate JR Mitch. Once again it was not a good round for the series main contenders with Dustin Evans only able for fourth, Steven Hartson seventh and Ryan Maifield not even making the Top 10.

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December 14, 2013

1st annual U.S. World Nitro Cup – Report

U.S. World Nitro Cup – Report

The 1st Annual US World Nitro Cup took place at Full Throttle R/C Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. The racing format ensured excitement from the qualifiers to the mains. For the larger classes, only the top four qualifiers are guaranteed a spot on the grid, while all of the other spots are filled by bump-ups from the lower mains. The triple A format also changed the strategy that is common in regular racing formats. In the 1/8 Open class, Paolo Morganti held TQ honors for most of qualifying until an amazing run by Daniele Ielasi in the final round on Saturday morning put him in the top spot. Alberto Picco cemented his spot in the top for in the first round of qualifying, while Vincent Jackson struggled thorough the first two round until finally setting his fourth position run in round 3.

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December 14, 2013

Gibson takes first JConcepts 4WD Buggy qualifier

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17-year-old Team Associated driver Nick Gibson was a surprise pace setter in the opening round of 4WD Buggy qualifying at the JConcepts Indoor National Series in Omaha, Nebraska, setting the pace from TLR’s JR Mitch with young talent Aydrin Horne completing the Top 3. For the series main contenders it was a bad start to the day as World Champion Steven Harston broke, Ryan Maifield suffered a drive train failure and Dustin Evans had the ‘worst first lap of (his) life’ that cost him 9-seconds.

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December 14, 2013

JConcepts Indoor Nats arrives in Nebraska for ’13 Finals

JConcepts Indoor Nats arrives in Nebraska for '13 Finals

The JConcepts Indoor National Series has arrived at the fifth & final stop on its 2013 calendar with HobbyTown USA Hobby Plex in Omaha, Nebraska, playing host to the ‘Finals’ of the popular electric offroad championship. Attracting a competitive entry, including newly crowned World Champion Steven Hartson, day 1 of the 3-day event is an opportunity for drivers to work on set-up with open practice being split between open wheel cars and Short Course. With most of the top drivers focusing their attentions on running their 2WD buggies, it is tyre choice and preparation that is keeping them busy so far.

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December 13, 2013

Birinyi & Tóth win at RCProf Speedpassion Challange

The 3nd round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challange was held in Budapest. In the 13.5T class János Birinyi took the overall TQ after winning the first and third qualifier. In the finals János made a clean sweep by winning all three legs although he had to fight in the second A as he made a setup change that did not suit the changing track conditions well. Finishing second behind the Xray driver was Péter Taál followed by Simon Ciudan. In the Modified class Barnabás Tóth took the win from Zsolt Kálnay, Christian Faur completed the podium.

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December 13, 2013

Bullivant wins 4WD at West Bridgeford Winter Series

The third round of the Schumacher West Bridgeford Winter Series took place at the indoor carpet track located just outside of Nottingham. The format of the day was two 3 minute practice rounds in heats followed by four rounds of qualifying of which two count and at the end one final leg. In 4WD the top 4 cars all took a round of qualifying, with James Bullivant (Xray) taking TQ with a quicker time over Daniel Austin (Team Durango) in second, Mark Thornewill (Xray) in third and Abi Bullivant (Xray) in fourth. The final was a close affair at the start, a couple of small mistakes by the front runners allowed James to put the hammer down and drive away tone to tone. Behind James, Abi had taken up 2nd position to which she would hold followed by Marc and Daniel who had a close race towards the end.

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