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September 9, 2013

Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 – Report

The Mini-Z Indonesia Open 2013 was held in Mangga Dua Square, Jakarta in last weekend. With a competitive 70 entry from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. the meeting was run in a Stock 50T and a Modified class. Saturday saw two qualifying rounds with a single controlled practice before qualifying. The Stock class was TQ’ed by American Mini-Z Legend, Grant Matsushima who recorded 22 laps in 5:01. Local ace, Bowie Ginting was the closest to Matsushima and only 4 seconds behind. Malaysian Jason Wong secured the 3rd spot, 5 seconds behind Bowie. Alvin Lim (Singapore) and Jeff Cheong (Malaysia) followed closely to complete the top 5. The Modified class TQ went to Dave Tang from Singapore who outperformed Grant Matsushima with Bowie, Tri Hariyanto (Indonesia) and Philip Ng completing the top 5.

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September 9, 2013

Lee Martin wins BRCA 1/8th buggy title

The fifth and final round of this year’s BRCA 1/8th nitro buggy nationals took place at the Slough RC track, oldest on the calendar for the BRCA national series. A few drivers could still win the championship, and Mugen’s Lee Martin was the one driver who had it in his own hands. Regardless of any result, if he finished 5th or higher, he would win the series in 2013. The track was prepared in the weeks before the race and early on the track was dusty and loose, with contrasting smooth and bumpy sections. Due to the abnormally good summer weather in the UK, it had caused the tracks surface to be very dry and it needed a lot of water. The track had a couple of new features and corners to make it a little different from normal.

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September 9, 2013

Steven Brown wins 2WD at Apex Models Grand Prix

The Apex Models Grand Prix was run last weekend at the Surrey and Hants Radio Control Car Club in a Reedy Race format in wet and dry conditions. RudeBits Kyosho DB2 driver Steven Brown took the win from Tony Evdoka (RudeBits Kyosho) and David Burton (RudeBits Kyosho) who finished third in the 2WD class.

Source: RudeBits [rudebits.co.uk]

September 9, 2013

Scholz & Morgenstern win German 2WD titles

The German 2WD buggy nationals took place last weekend at the permanent astro turf track of the MAC Burgdorf, the host of the 2010 1/12th and ISTC World Championships. Saturday’s practice and qualifying started dry but come Sunday the rain was there. In the 2WD Modified class Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann made a clean sweep by winning all three qualifiers on Saturday followed by Team C’s Oliver Scholz who was tie on point’s with Christopher Krapp (Kyosho). Björn Prümper and Luca Rau completed the top 5. In the Standard class Mirko Morgenstern (Team C) won the first and second qualifier with the third run being TQ’d by Tom Bujara (Team C). Third placed Eugen Stand (Team C) scored two second places during qualifying and ended third on the grid. Thomas Oehler and Marcel Felzmann put their buggies in fourth and fifth place respectively.

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September 9, 2013

Nelson Lee & Leigh Dytor win Singapore Open 2013

This year’s Singapore Open for 1/8th and 1/10th on-road cars Singapore Open was more adrenaline and anxiety filled than usual due to frequent rain that made practice virtually non-existent and qualifying, sub-final and final duration uncertain. In the three days prior to the race, only on Friday afternoon was the track dry enough for a three hour practice. With 64 drivers signed up for the 1/8 class and 34 drivers signed up for the 1/10 class this led to a kamikaze practice session and many cars and engines were simply not ready for the racing that was to begin on Saturday morning.
After another overnight rain, Saturday morning was spent drying the track but thanks to the effort of the many club members the track was ready to race in now time both on Saturday and Sunday.

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September 9, 2013

Maifield does Buggy double at JConcepts Clash

Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield has done the double in electric buggy at the 7th running of the JConcepts Clash, the Arizona driver successfully defending his 2WD title and adding the 4WD title after winning each of the deciding third A-Mains over Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans. Having also successful defended his 2WD Short Course title after A2, the first buggy title to go to Maifield was 4WD as he took his Reedy powered B44.2 to an easy win after Evans rolled on two occasions coming on to the straight, his XXX-4 struggling in the high traction conditions at the Flowood RC Indoor Park track. The closing race of a packed race program and the blue ribbon class of the event, A3 of 2WD Buggy saw a blistering opening lap from Maifield with him getting his C4.2 passed Top Qualifier Evans’ also mid motored TLR 22 2.0. While Evans fought back, a mistake on lap 3 would ultimately end his chances allowing Maifield to post the only 15-lap run of the finals.

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September 8, 2013

A1 Buggy win each for Maifield & Evans

Ryan Maifield and Dustin Evans took one buggy win each in the opening round of A-Mains at the JConcepts Clash in Mississippi but it was in the races they started from second on the grid after both drivers made mistakes while leading the way from their TQ starting positions. First up was 4WD Buggy in which Maifield started from the pole but clipping a pipe after 5 laps it popped a ball cup allowing Evans’ TLR to the front from where he would cruise to victory. With the marshal quickly fixing Maifield’s B44.2, he would rejoin in 6th position from where he worked his way back up the field snatching 3rd two corners from finish when Cody Hollis put his TLR in the pipe. Hollis had been involved in the battle of the race as he and young talent Damion Borkowicz fought over 2nd. A mistake by Borkowicz at the triple on the penultimate lap allowed Hollis up to second but the 13-year-old pulled off a great pass at the very same spot next time round to claim 2nd ahead of Maifield and Hollis.

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September 8, 2013

Evans TQ’s 2WD Buggy at JConcepts Clash

Evans TQ's 2WD Buggy at JConcepts Clash

Dustin Evans is the Top Qualifier of the main class at this year’s JConcepts Clash after the Team Losi Racing driver posted a third TQ run in the fourth & final 2WD Buggy qualifier at the Mississippi event. Having set the pace in the two earlier qualifiers of the day, Evans’ only challenger for the top spot on the grid was Ryan Maifield, who topped the opening qualifier last night. A number of bad laps from the Associated driver meant Evans topped the timing monitors throughout the 5-minutes, setting the fastest time of the weekend with what he described as the ‘perfect run’.

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