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November 2, 2013

Asia Offroad Championships – Day 1 update

The Asia Offroad Championships for electric offroad are currently being held in Japan at the Yatabe Arena. The race, that is announced by Novak’s one and only Charlie Suangka, sees the 2WD Modified and 17.5T Stock classes being run on day 1 with the 4WD Modified, 17.5T and Short Course Modified class being run tomorrow. At the end of the 2WD qualifying Kouta Akimoto leads the Modified class quite dominantly as he leads the score board with a 17/5:15.790 run. Masatsugu Ido comes second with a 16/5:00.722 and Shin Adachi completes the top 3 with a 16/5:01.212. In the Stock class Yusuke Kobayashi can be considered the hot favourite of the class with a 15/5:06.164, some 12 seconds faster than the runner-up. He also is the only driver able to pull 19 seconds laps. In second comes Yoshiaki Amasaki with a 15/5:18.291 run. Eiji Chiba is sitting in third with a 14/5:02.280.

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November 1, 2013

Volker stamps authority on Day 1 of ETS

Volker

Defending champion Ronald Volker stamped his authority on the opening day of the new season of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series by topping the opening round of qualifying in the Czech Republic. Having set the pace in both free and controlled practice, the Team Yokomo driver capped off the perfect day by taking Q1 from Freddy Sudhoff and Naoto Matsukura in what was a very close battle which saw a number of drivers set the lead pace.

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November 1, 2013

Volker No.1 for Qualifying at Czech ETS

Ronald Volker

Ronald Volker backed up his early free practice form by topping the two rounds of controlled practice at the ETS season opener in the Czech Republic to secure himself the top seeding for qualifying. The Team Yokomo driver set the fastest time over 3-consecutive laps in the final practice by a convincing 3/10ths of a second from team-mate Naoto Matsukura. Behind the two Yokomos, Alexander Hagberg took his Xray to the third fastest time ahead of Freddy Sudhoff while Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard ended up only 9th fastest.

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November 1, 2013

Hébert wins at 2013 Helloween Classic

The Halloween Classic has become one of the premier events of the carpet racing season. As the first event of the 2013/14 Midwest Grand Slam Series, interest in the event was at an all-time high. Hosted by the Gate and NORCAR, the event created such a buzz that it sold out two months in advance. Over 200 entries featuring 110 racers from 10 states and Canada were on hand to battle it out at the newly upgraded Gate facility. Friday was set aside for practice followed by three rounds of qualifying on Saturday. A fourth round of qualifying on Sunday morning was followed by the main events. Rocket round qualifying and single A-Main format, typical for on-road carpet racing, was once again utilised. Team Associated Reedy driver Keven Hébert was once again concentrating on the Modified TC and 1/12 Modified classes. Coming off his 1/12 Modified win at the IIC, Hébert was seeking to continue his winning streak in what is considered the F1 of electric on-road racing with his Reedy-powered 12R5.2. In complete contrast, teammate Myron Kinnard was competing in the power-limited, yet highly competitive, VTA (Vintage Trans-Am) class.

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November 1, 2013

Volker tops free practice at ETS Season opener

Reigning Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker has kicked off the defense of his 3rd consecutive title by putting his Yokomo top the times sheets in free practice. Drivers had two rounds of free practice this morning for the Czech Republic event, with the German fastest from team-mate Yannic Prumper. Volker’s main title rival for the past three seasons, Marc Rheinard was third fastest around the track which is proving popular with the drivers with Marc Fischer, Andy Moore and Viljami Kutvonen completing the Top 6.

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October 31, 2013

2013 JConcepts Southwest Indoor Grand Prix – Report

Competition Hobbies of Tucson, AZ, hosted some of the country’s best racers for their 10th Annual Southwest Indoor Grand Prix. Drivers were sent out from all the big camps, and Team JConcepts made sure to have some of their best drivers on hand as the competition was sure to be tough. Ryan Maifield led the team at the SIGP, along with him was long time RC Legend Brian Kinwald and one of the local Young Guns, Spencer Rivkin and Tanner Denney. In 2WD modified buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri was going to wrap things up as he locked down the TQ in the this class.

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October 31, 2013

Wynn and Gerber double at Halloween Classic

The Halloween Classic race in the Cleveland, OH has been a well attended event for over 20 years. The 2013 version had an impressive 205 entries from all over the USA. Most all of the carpet road course specialists were in Ohio for a weekend of ultra-competitive racing. In the Formula 1 class, Brian Wynn wanted a bit of revenge after dominating the Vegas race a few weeks before. At that race, after winning every round of qualifying with his new CRC WTF-1 car to set TQ, an incident in the A-main with a lapped driver cost him the win. During the Halloween Classic Brian again set the fastest time in qualifying to take TQ. In the USF1 triple 15 minute A-main format, Brian won all 3 mains and took the overall victory. CRC driver and Ohio native Wayne Gerber received his CRC WTF-1 at the event, never having a chance to try the car until practice on Friday before the mains. Wayne took second to Brian in each of the 3 A-mains to secure the second position overall. In the World GT class Brian went on to TQ and win with his CRC Gen-X 10 SE car topped of by the new Black Art GT86 body. Teammate Wayne Gerber again took the runner-up spot.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

October 31, 2013

Karl Hoffmeister wins Halloween Classic 17.5 TC

The Halloween Classic at Norcar at The Gate is a yearly race held in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has some of the tightest competition of the year so much so that this year’s event sold out 2 months early. In the highly competitive 17.5T touring car class the first three rounds went to Larry Fairtrace (Awesomatix) who set and re-set TQ each round. In the final round of qualifying Awesomatix drivers Larry Fairtrace, Mike Gee and Karl Hoffmeister were all battling for TQ against the competition. At the end Karl took the pole position by 0.7 seconds over Larry and then Mike. In the A-main, Karl, Larry and Mike all successfully got away from the pack and ran away into the distance allowing everyone else to battle for 4th. Karl took home the win by 0.2 seconds from Mike with Larry 2 seconds behind in 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatixusa.com]