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September 21, 2020

Maifield & Phend win big at Southern Nationals 2020

The Southern Nationals 2020, run by Racetime Entertainment, were held last weekend in West Monroe, Louisiana on a beautifully presented dirt track at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center. Attracting most of the US 1/8th scale top guns, the blue ribboned Pro Nitro buggy class saw Mugen/JConcepts driver Ryan Maifield lead the field in qualifying, doing a clean sweep in all 3 rounds. Behind, Spencer Rivkin (Associated) would line up in 2nd with Dakotah Phend (TLR), Ryan Lutz (Agama) and Jared Tebo (Tekno) completing the top 5. Getting his head down early in the race, Maifield was able to convert the top starting spot into the win to bring it home just over 7 seconds ahead of Tebo who took just some 7 laps to move up from 5th into the runner up spot. Dakotah Phend would take the 3rd spot, having dropped back early, finishing where he started. Ryan Lutz would bring his Agama home in 4th with HB driver Cole Ogden 5th of the 18 starters in the 30 minute main.

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September 21, 2020

Frehner & Schmid take Rd4 of Swiss EP Offroad Nats

The Kaiju Racing R/C track played host the fourth and final round of the 2020 Swiss EP Offroad Championships. In the 2wd buggy class it was Associated driver Kay Frehner who took the top spot in qualifying and was also easily able to win the opening A-main. The 2nd a-main wasn’t so straight forward as Frehner had to battle with Fabian Luca Widmer (Yokomo) for the win, but was again able to come out on top to take the overall along with the Swiss National title. Fabian Luca Widmer could take the 3rd A-main to secure the runner up spot for the round with Nico Schmid (Xray) completing the podium in 3rd.

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September 18, 2020

2020 GenevaModelCars Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the GenevaModelCars Series 2020 was held recently at the GEMC track in Meyrin, Geneva. With 47 drivers attending in three classes, Touring 13.5T boosted, FWD 17.5 zero timing and Formula 21.5T zero timing all run under perfect weather conditions. The layout chosen for the this round was challenging, as it was both technical and fast at the same time. In the Touring 13.5T boosted class, that is run on Hudy A1-36 spec tyres and without traction compound, Xavier Deparde (Xray) secured the pole position followed by Bastien De Marco (Awesomatix) and Alexis Banderier (Awesomatix). After three entertaining A-mains, Xavier took the overall win, in front of Bastien and Sébastien Leuenberger (Xray).

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September 18, 2020

2020 Kinwald Klassic – Cancelled

Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler Arizona got in touch to let us know the disappointing news that the 2020 BKlassic has had to be cancelled. You can read the announcement here:

Hello everyone, 2020 has been a crazy time in the world and the RC industry has had to make adjustments on the fly. As you all know the Covid-19 virus has caused us to make some difficult decisions this year and we are at that point again. As of September 17, 2020, the State of Arizona is classified in the “Moderate” zone for the potential community spread, under this level the Arizona Department of Health Services restricts gatherings on indoor assembly. With the current recommended limitation on public gatherings, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 Kinwald Klassic scheduled for October 17-18, 2020. It is an honor to for Hobby Action RC Raceway to host this event and we will again honor Brian in 2021. Thank you to all those that support us and our hobby. LT

September 16, 2020

XRS Italy 2020 – Report

The XRS Italy event was held this past weekend at the marvellous facilities of Club Automodellistico 5 Colli in Gubbio, Perugia. The race saw 110 entries in 6 different categories. In the TC Modified class, it was the current World Champion Bruno Coelho who lead the way, in front of Alexander Hagberg, and Alessio Menicucci. The top two would finish in the same order after the triple A-finals, but Alessio Mancini moved up to 3rd, and snatched a podium spot from his team mate, The modified class was a blast to watch, with the cars reaching 125 km/h on the long Gubbio straight.

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September 15, 2020

Kurzbuch & Greiner make it 2 from 2 in 2020 ENS

The winners of the 1:8 Scale and 1:10 Scale Class of the opening round of the 2020 Euro Nitro Series last month were once again the drivers to beat in their respective 45 minute long finals at Round 2 of the shortened series, which took place at the famous Apeldoorn circuit in the Netherlands. Due to the seemingly ever-changing travel restrictions in place, it was unfortunate that some drivers had to make a last-minute cancellation to their entry – perhaps the most notable being the Italian Infinity pairing of Dario Balestri and Carmine Raiola. However, their role to lead the 1:8 Scale Class for the team was taken up by the Dutch pairing of Jeffrey Rietveld and Rick Vrielijnck, who performed admirably – Rietveld even topping the Controlled Practice to be the top seed for Qualifying. Teemu Leino was again absent due to the conditions imposed by his native Finland, so once again Milan Holthuis slotted into the front of the Infinty team’s 1:10 Scale assault.

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September 14, 2020

Frehner does double at Rd3 of Swiss EP Offroad Nats

Last weekend the EOCD club of Dielsdorf hosted Rd3 of the Swiss Nationals in 1/10th Offroad Buggy. The nicely prepared dirt-track demanded everything from the drivers in terms of setup. In the 2WD class it was Florian Schmid (Xray) that took the top spot ahead of Kay Frehner (Associated) in 2nd however in the mains the positions were reversed as Kay could get out in front and withstand the pressure of brothers Florian and Nico Schmid to take the overall win. In the 4wd class Kay Frehner (Associated) would secure pole position ahead of Florian Schmid (Xray) and could convert his TQ into a win by easily taking the first two mains. Fabian Widmer (Associated) would come through to win the final A-main to secure the runner up spot while Florian Schmid would have to settle for 3rd. In the Truck class, top qualifier Stefan Sidler (Associated) won the race to secure the Swiss title.

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September 14, 2020

Dakotah Phend double at JConcepts Turf Nationals

Last weekend saw the JConcepts Turf Nationals held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut. Held on their very nicely presented astro turf track, the event attracted a quality field. Qualifying saw TLR/JConcepts driver Dakotah Phend take the top spot in both mod 4wd and 2wd, with the Team Associated pairing of Alex Kosciuszek and Dustin Evans completing the top 3 of the grid in 2wd, while in 4wd it was Alex K and TLR driver Aaaron Kothman. In the most popular class 17.5 2wd, Andrew Bishop came out on top from John Cravotta and Kaiden Voss, and in 13.5 4wd it was again Bishop on top, this time with Mike Rowley completing qualifying in 2nd and John Cravotta in 3rd. With the mod classes getting triple mains, Dakotah Phend was unchallenged and could take the overall win early with victories in both classes in the first 2 mains. In 2wd it was Alex K that took the runner up spot with Aaron Kothman completing the podium in 3rd, while in 2wd Kothman could go one better and get 2nd place behind his TLR team mate, with Dustin Evans in 3rd. The 17.5 2wd class was a single main that was won from 4th on the grid by Robert Smith, ahead of 9th placed starter Tom Bishop and 8th placed starter Aaron Rowley in 2nd and 3rd respectively as the top 3 starters ended the race in the final 3 positions. 4wd 13.5 was better for pole man Andrew Bishop as he won from Mike Rowley, with Brandon Campbell a man on the move to come from 6th to take 3rd at the flag.

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