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December 7, 2012

Steven Weiss wins Hong Kong SAREDC Race

The 15th Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day Celebration Race was held at Hong Kong’s Jordan Valley Park recently. The weather forecast was set to be rainy during the race weekend and there were around 80 local drivers, as well as former World Champion Surikarn C. from Thailand, Derek Hung, Antonio Caroli from South Africa, Steven Weiss from Germany, Lobo Lo and E.J. Evans from the USA who took part in this race. There were three different TC classes and the spec tire was from Solaris. Saturday was the first day with 3 practice rounds and 2 qualification rounds and the track was dry and the traction was pretty good. Steven Weiss with his T.O.P. Racing Photon EX was the quickest in the last controlled practice round 6 seconds in front of Derek Hung. Steven led the first round of qualification, behind him was Derek Hung and EJ Evans however Steven lost 4 seconds in the last minute and Derek Hung won this round by a second in front of Steven with EJ in third. Steven won the second and last round of qualifying with the fastest run, 4 seconds behind him was EJ Evans with Derek in third. Rain on Sunday stopped the race and so T.O.P. driver Steven Weiss won the race with his TQ time from the day before. Derek Hung finished in second and T.O.P. Driver EJ Evans in third.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

December 6, 2012

Final qualifier cancelled, Boots is Top Qualifer

Kyosho’s Elliott Boots has claimed the honour of Top Qualifier for the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championship after the much anticipated and talked about heavy rain arrived over night in Argentina forcing the cancellation of the sixth & final round of qualifying. Waking to a wet morning in Buenos Aires drivers made their way to the track in the hope that they may get to run today but shortly after 09:00 local time even more torrential rain along with thunder & lightning arrived leaving organisers little option but to cancel today’s racing.

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December 6, 2012

Mibosport Cup Rd3 report

The third of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup presented by Yokomo attracted again over 100 drivers from 5 countries including some of Europe’s top drivers such as Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunak, Dominic Vogl, René Trauner and Michal Orlowski. The Mibosport Cup organisation is Michal Bok and takes place in the same place as the ETS in January.The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class over 30 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Martin Hudy, Zdenko Kunák and Patrick Gollner. TQ Martin about 0.07s before Zdenko. Big battle in final and Zdenko win, before Martin. Third place secure Patrick Gollner. Very good race in this category also for Dennis Fadtke and Igor Liptak.

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December 6, 2012

Lemieux & Hardman win US Indoor Champs

The Indoor Champs were held recently in the ballroom of the Strongsville OH Holliday inn hotel. The “champs” is one of the worlds longest running races and a Thanksgiving tradition for well over 30 years. The track was a medium size carpet surface with wood sub floor and the Xray team for this race was Andrew Hardman, Blake Keulen, Eric Schneeweis and Paul Lemieux.

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December 6, 2012

Sensational Boots produces another TQ run

Kyosho’s Elliot Boots backed up his TQ run from this morning’s Q3 with a blistering performance in the penultimate round of qualifying this evening at the 1:8 World Championships in Argentina to take Q5 by a massive 13 seconds from Team Associated’s Ryan Maifield with Mugen driver Davide Tortorici third fastest. The slowest TQ run of the five rounds due to the track having become very bumpy & unpredictable, the result puts the 19-year-old Brit top of the more qualification ranking scenario of counting 3 rounds from 5. Officially there is one round of qualifying still to run although the weather forecast for tomorrow could very well see no action in Buenos Aires with very heavy rain expected later tonight, although that said previous rain predictions earlier in the event were to prove wrong. Under normal circumstances 4 of 6 rounds count but to cover all eventualities race officials published both rankings with Robert Batlle provisional Top Qualifier from Boots.

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December 5, 2012

Surprise Q4 as Wheeler TQs round

The fourth round of qualifying threw up a surprise with Xray driver Josh Wheeler setting the pace ahead of the Kyosho of A-Main Hobbies team driver Dylan Rodriguez with Jared Tebo third fastest. Running in the 5th group of 12 which was the opening group of Q3 & 4, Wheeler benefited from the timing of his run with the second of today’s runs really taking a toll on the track. The former World Championship Finalist admitted he got lucky with track conditions but said having followed in the same direction with his set-up as Xray team-mate Martin Bayer his OS powered XB9 worked really well for the run. Running medium compound AKA iBeam tyres he said other than going for a longer rear arm he will leave everything else as is for the final run of the day.

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December 5, 2012

Boots fastest in Q3

Elliot Boots became the third driver to post a TQ run at the 1:8 Offroad World Championships with the Kyosho driver getting Day 5 in Argentina off to a perfect start by topping Q3 ahead of Q1 pace setter Robert Batlle and Ty Tessmann who was fastest in Q2.

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December 5, 2012

Lee Martin confirmed for EOS Round 2

Tamiya Racing Factory’s Lee Martin has been confirmed as an entry for the second round of the ‘TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby’ in Langenfeld, Germany on January 4-6. The reigning 3-time back to back European 2WD Buggy Champion was the only driver during the inaugural season of the EOS to beat the champion elect Joern Neumann when he took the 2WD buggy win at the second round in Belgium.

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