The 2014 Silver State Nitro Challenge will take place on the weekend of the 13th of April at the Boulder City track in Las Vegas. The race running from Friday to Sunday with the practice taking place on Thursday. The event also marks the second race of the 2014 USProCup. More details will become available soon.
The 2013 version of the U.S. Indoor Championship marked the 34th Annual running, this event held at the Holiday Inn in Strongsville, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The central location of the event has consistently attracted racers from all the Northern hot spots of indoor carpet racing. With strong club racing programs in neighbouring states, all forced indoors due to inclement weather, the Ohio location has proven a hub of great indoor carpet road racing. This year, the event had around 220 entries.
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Round 1 of the JConcepts Top Notch Winter Series was hosted at IERC Raceway in San Bernardino, CA. The Top Notch Series (TNS) is an 8-race points based series, run at various tracks throughout Southern California. Last season, TNS averaged 230 entries per round and features race announcer “Notch” Johnson. IERC Raceway is one of Southern California’s largest indoor RC tracks and the series attracts top drivers from all the main race teams such as TLR’s Brian Sullivan, Shawn Blackwell and Ronda Drake, Tekno RC’s Rudy Rico and Chad Panek, Hobby Pro’s Andrew Smolnik, Tamiya’s Jimmy Wright, Mugen’s Scott Wolf, Kyosho’s Cody Turner and Lucas Sanford, and a number of very fast local racers. There would be two rounds of 5 minute qualifiers, followed by 5 minute A Mains.
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The 2013 US World Nitro Cup took place in Kissimmee, Florida. Serpent’s Paolo “Paulie B” Becattini brought home the win after the triple A-mains in the 1/8th Masters class. Following some technical issues in the first A Paolo was able to wrap up the victory in A2 and A3.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The fourth round of the 2013 Hong Kong based HKRCSA GP Series took place at the TRC Racing track in 1/8 and 1/10 200mm nitro on-road. KM team driver Hung Cheung Hang took the TQ in both classes and later went on to win the 10 minute finals. In 1/8th he was sidelined by T. Myashita and Luk Chi Hung who completed the podium coming in one lap down. In the 200mm class Luk Chi Hung came in second, one lap down on Hung Cheung Hang, while Faiho came in 3rd another lap down. The class wins also handed Hang the overall 2013 championship titles in 1/8th and 200mm.
Source: KM [km-rc.com]
Last weekend saw the running of the Guadalcacin electric buggy indoor race in Spain. Current 1/8th IFMAR Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle attended along other top Spanish drivers like Alex Daras, Hector Albarracín or Zacarías Villalba. In 2WD Robert (Y0komo) took the win in front of Zacarías (Team C) and Alex (Yokomo) while Kiko while Kiko Navarro and David Bustos filled the remaining podium spots in 4WD for a Yokomo 1-2-3.
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The Hudy Racing Arena hosted the third round of the Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup. As usual practice started Friday afternoon and went on till midnight to allow plenty of track time to get the cars dialled in for the high grip surface. Again the 17.5T Stock touring car class attracted the most drivers and it was David Nemcek who took the win from Michal Vitamvas and Ales Pelikan, who completed the podium in third place. Pavel Martinec and Martin Zvara came in fourth and fifth respectively. David then went on to win the Modified touring car class also. This time ahead of Jiri Vysin and Tomas Liptak. Jiri Janousek and Juraj Hudy completed the top 5 result.
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Last weekend the final round of the Czech national 1/10 electric off-road championship was held at an indoor track in Bilovec. In 4WD Martin Bayer, coming from second on the grid, won in front of Ales, Jiri Mara took the 3rd place. The win secured Martin the overall title in the 4WD class, Jiri Mara ended the season in 2nd place followed by David Kukla.
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