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December 4, 2013

Reino & Kirkwood win at 2013 Turkey Classic

110 racers entered into competition at Reo Raceway’s 2013 Turkey Classic during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. Reo Raceway opened in 2006 and has since offered a unique racing surface that differs from the norm of highly packed surfaces found at most tracks in the region. In the 1/8th E-buggy class Serpent USA driver Dan Reino took the second place after qualifying and ended on top of the field after the finals. Elsewhere in 2WD Serpent USA’s Jared Kirkwood made use of the tight and tricky track and took the TQ and win with his rear motor Serpent Spyder buggy.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 4, 2013

Falcon wins 17.5T at 2013 Minnreg Turkey Shoot

The 2013 Minnreg Turkey Shoot was held by Mike Boylan and company in Florida. It is a three day race featuring oval racing Saturday and Road Racing on Sunday and is one of the few times over the year that Florida road racers go indoors and compete on carpet. In the largest and most competitive Road Racing class, 17.5T Rubber Touring, Roberto Falcon, in his first outing with the Awesomatix car, hung tough through qualifying learning how to tune and setup his car while battling round after round for TQ in the class. When qualifying was finished TJ Bradley was the top qualifier, with Mark Burt 2nd and Roberto Falcon 3rd. All three drivers were separated by less than 1 second. Prior round TQ, Cory Parsons, would end up 4th qualifier after the final rocket round. In the A-final, TJ, Mark and Roberto got out front and started to break away from the back. Roberto got by Mark and started chasing TJ. Half way through the race TJ piped it and the top 4 cars all collided. Roberto was the first out of the pile with Cory in hot pursuit. Roberto held up to one minute of pressure from Cory until he tapped out too allowing Roberto to cruse to the win, followed by Mark and finally Cory taking 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com] / Image: GregRojna.com

December 3, 2013

Kyosho Mini-Z Masters – Announcement

Kyosho Germany announce the International Kyosho Mini-Z Masters 2014 to be held on the weekend of the 9th of Februar at Catz Sports in Hamburg/Germany. After hosting the event in Fellbach for several years the new location will bring the race to one of the most beautiful cities in Germany. Catz Sports has already hosted the PN World Cup and is Guinness World Record holder for the largest Mini-Z race track. Open to all Mini-Z racers the race is offering different classes for all types of cars from Kyosho’s range of Mini-Z models. As special guest Kyosho Japan Mini-Z guru Hiroyoshi Ishikawa will offer support to all attending drivers. Registration is already open and you can enter the race at myrcm.ch. More information about the race can be found here.

December 3, 2013

International Indoor Race series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the International Indoor Race series took place at the demanding Model Indoor Oss carpet track in the Netherlands. The track was made up from carpet combined with plastic floor and thick astro turf sections making for a good challenge for the drivers from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In qualifying current 2WD European Champion Jörn Neumann was in control of things setting the fastest times and taking TQ in both the 4WD and 2WD class. In 4WD Jörn was able to conserve his form for the finals and therefore it was more of a race for second and third place as the Team Durango driver simply was too fast for the others. At the end Arie Vos was able to grab the runner-up spot in front of David Pauwels who secured himself the last remaining podium spot.

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December 2, 2013

Patrick Hofer wins at MRTO Challenge

The MRTO Challenge took place last weekend in Armiswil, Switzerland. The event saw 120 entries in the SC 4×4, SC 2WD, modified Buggy 2WD and modified buggy 4WD classes. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer took TQ in the 2WD and 4WD buggy and later went on to win both categories. In 2WD Markus Metsch (Kyosho) finished 2nd in front of Luca Rau (Kyosho) while in 4WD Milan Steiner (Team Durango) and Max Stölzl (Kyosho) filled the remaining podium spots.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

December 2, 2013

Cham Dassayanake wins 2WD at SIORC Rd2

The second round of this Winter’s SIORC series at the ERMC club in Geneva, Switzerland took place this past weekend. In the 2WD class Cham Dassayanake (Yokomo) took the win from “old dude” Jean-Marc Betticher (Team C) and Adrien Bertin (Kyosho) who had one of his very few electric off-road outings.

Image: ERMC Grand Saconnex

December 2, 2013

Xray Challenge Italy – Announcement

The highly popular Xray Challenge Italy will return to Scandiano on the weekend of the 19th of January 2014. Registration for the race that will see a touring car modified, stock and a 1/12th scale class started yesterday on myrcm.ch. Entries are limited for the race so make sure to register in time.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 1, 2013

Marc Rheinard wins 2013 BIRC

The first annual Bangkok International RC Car Championship took place this weekend at the new Huge RC track in the Thailand capital. With a number of top drivers in attendance over the many classes, it was reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who took the TQ spot in the modified Touring car class ahead of 3-time Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd with Nicholas Lee completing the top 3 for Tamiya. With Jilles flying back to the Netherlands on the Sunday for filming duties, Marc would take over the pole position for the A-main and made the most of his starting position by taking A1 and 2 to seal the overall win early. Andy Moore would come through from 5th on the grid to 4th in A2 and to take the win in A3 to claim the runner up spot, while Nicholas Lee would take 3rd overall.

Image: Marc Rheinard