The first-ever R/C onroad race event at the famous Circuit of the Americas F1 track in Austin, Texas took place over last weekend. Coordination on the part of HobbytownUSA Austin, the SouthWest Championship Series Committee, and several R/C racing enthusiasts at the Circuit of the Americas made this event possible. Both nitro and electric classes were run, which made for an exciting and unique experience.
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Last weekend saw the final round of UandesRC Opening Championship 2013. The UandesRC’s track is inside the University of Los Andes, located in the capital of Chile, Santiago. The final stage of the UandesRC Opening Championship started as a nice day, but the really low temperature conditions would made the correct choice of tyre compound crucial. The ranking previous to the final stage showed the first five positions with huge possibilities for anyone to become the new UandesRC’s Opening Champion. After a hard time in qualifying Alejandro Perez (Team Magic) TQ’d the 13.5T class with 15 laps at 5:12.349s, a new track record, followed by Tomás Ramírez (Xray) in 2nd and Nicolás Becerra (Hotbodies) in 3rd.
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JConcepts announce the 2013 Southwest Indoor Grand Prix for the weekend of the 20th of October. The 10th Annual event held at the famous Competition Hobbies track in Tucson, AZ, will feature the very best indoor off-road racing in the Southwest, drawing from a deep pool of Arizona, California and national drivers coming in to wage battle. Racers will compete on a freshly built layout at the direction of Richard “Zippy” Lake on the grippy, smooth indoor surface. The race will be held in several 1/10th 2WD, 4WD and Short Course classes and will see the attendance of World-class drivers like Ryan Maifield, Dustin Evans, Brian Kinwald and more. Find more information very soon on JConcept’s website and sign up for the race here.
Racers from around the area travelled to Union City, CA for the 5th Annual Offroad Champs at Norcal. The meeting was run on two different tracks for each scale making it a unique experience for the drivers racing both 1/10 and 1/8 at the race. Tekin factory driver Austin Blair took the opportunity to shake down his Tekin-powered Tekno rides prior to the upcoming ROAR nationals being held later this week. Blair would take the win with his Tekno SCT410 in the 4WD short course class and also brought home the win in 1/8th E-Buggy.
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The well-known Rhein-Main-Circuit in Bischofsheim played host for the German EFRA 1/8th nitro buggy GP. The race was set as a pre-warm-up for the club and the German RC car association as the track will be the place of next year’s EFRA European Championship. Just before the meeting the track received some make-overs here and there in the form of a new pit exit and some updated curbs but overall the Rhein-Main-Circuit was well known for most of the driver that came from all over Europe including Finland, the UK, Switzerland, Austria and of course Germany. Friday was set a the practice day and most of the drivers made good use of the chance to adopt their cars, engines and tyres to the scorching hot temperatures. Saturday saw the qualifiers and at the end it was JQ Products’ own Joseph Quagraine who took TQ in front of Kyosho’s Martin Hansen who had Simon Esser (Xray) and Carsten Keller (Kyosho) in tow.
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Nor-Cal Hobbies hosted their fifth annual Northern California Off-Road Championship in Union City, California. Nor-Cal’s best drivers battled for the chance to win the belt. The track was designed and built by Kevin Jelich, who provided a fast and technical, sugared-prepped track. The race consisted of three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, with a fourth round and triple A Mains on Sunday. Albano TQ’d overall in the 2WD Modified class with his Reedy/ProTek-powered, Centro-converted B4.2 by less than a second over A Main Hobbies driver Tyler Vik. A1 went to Vik because of a bobble out of Albano early in the race. In A2, they battled again for most of the race until a small gap was made towards the end that allowed Albano to take the win. With the overall going to A3, the pressure was on. The start was marked with the two again battling for the one spot until Albano got a good lead over the rest of the field and took the overall.
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The past weekend saw round 4 of the NCT Series in Burlington, WA. With perfect weather and over 175 entries it was not a race to miss. In the 1/8th Electric Buggy class Tekin’s Jayson Tjepkema, Nate Clark, and Nick Buechler battled it out. They all ran a pace on the exact same second in Q1 with Clark taking the round. Buechler would take Q2 and Q3 to secure the pole position for Sunday. A1 would be a close battle for all 10 minutes between Clark and Buechler but Nick would take the win. A2 would go to Clark with Buechler 2nd coming down to A3 to decide the overall. After getting off to a rough start and dropping to 3rd, Buechler was able to work his way back up to the lead and pass Tjepkema to take the win by about one second securing the overall win. This weekend’s results gives Buechler the points lead in 1/8 Electric Buggy and going into round 5 in Lewiston, ID next month.
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The second half of the Nitro-West-Masters 2013 will start with round four held at the Velp track in the Netherlands this coming weekend. Located close to the German boarder the Velp track is of a challenging layout and 260 metres long. It is the fifth year of this popular championship mainly run in Western Germany and it is only the second time this nitro series is going abroad of Germany. With no official licence being needed the Nitro-West-Masters is a class for everybody and the tyres are open with additives strictly forbidden. The racing format is the same as in previous years with three seven minute heats and the three best consecutive laps to count for the qualifiers. The race format sees four direct qualifiers and the race is run in Sunday with the Saturday being the official practice day.
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