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July 17, 2012

Chinese manufacturer Shootout report

Last week in Hong Kong, Gen Ace, Team C, Sky RC & Tenshock Motor Hosted a Chinese manufacturer Shootout in the newest indoor facilities called Lali Warehouse. This world class indoor RC track has state of the art facilities such as water sprinkler built into the ceiling, AC room for the pits and a VIP rest area. Lali Warehouse has only been open for 2 months and so this race was considered the grand opening race for them. Many drivers came from mainland China & Taiwan also made the trip to attend this race. Due to the popular 1/8th E- Buggy & 1/10 4×4 Short Course classes, the Event only focussed on these 2. With a total of just about 90 entries in only 2 classes it this one of the biggest off road races in Hong Kong since the early 90s.

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July 16, 2012

Ty Tessmann triple win at ARCOR Series Rd2

The first weekend of July saw Pro-Line Driver and recently crowned double ROAR National Champion Ty Tessmann race at the Medicine Hat Shootout which was the 2nd leg of the ARCOR Series, held at his home track in Medicine Hat, AB. The weekend was the hottest one they’ve had yet with temperatures hovering around 35C. Ty TQ’d all 4 rounds of Pro Buggy, as well as 3 rounds of Pro Truck that he ran and took the win in the 30 minute Pro Buggy main, 30 minute Pro truck main and the 8 minute 4WD Open SC main. It was a great weekend and all of Ty’s equipment ran flawlessly.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

July 16, 2012

Chris Grainger wins Rd3 of BRCA TC series

Round three of this seasons BRCA National touring car championship saw victory for Schumacher’s Chris Grainger ahead of Colin Price and Andy Moore, the event proved to be one of the most intriguing for many seasons. Halifax is renowned for being quick on new tyres and tyre strategy proved to be the big talking point at the head of the field, while Chris Grainger and Tamiya’s Elliott Harper slogged it out fighting for TQ other drivers including Andy Moore and Olly Jefferies were saving their fresh rubber and attempting to qualify on just one set.

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July 15, 2012

Joern Neumann defends 4wd European title

Jörn Neumann defended his 4wd 1/10th off road European Championship title after taking a perfect score in qualifying and winning the opening two legs of the A main for the overall win in this years event held in Fehring, Austria. Jörn was chased all the way by his Austrian Team Durango team mate, Hupo Hönigl, who took second overall for a Team Durango 1-2. TLR driver Darren Bloomfield completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Durango [team-durango.com] / Image: RC Devil [rcdevil.gr]

July 13, 2012

2012 ROAR Nationals event trailer

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Its a few weeks since Ty Tessmann took his ROAR nationals double, but good work takes time and the crew at A-Main Hobbies have finally finished their event video from the event in Pennsylvania. Nothing more to say then to check it out.

Source: A-Main Hobbies [amainhobbies.com]

July 13, 2012

Another Drake triple at JBRL Rd4

Round four of the JBRL Nitro Series made its way to Green Flag Raceway in Hesperia, CA last weekend. The conditions were hot and the elevation at the track was 3,200 feet above sea level which made engine tuning difficult. The Green Flag track crew put in a technical, but fun layout and did a great job maintaining the track. TLR/Novarossi/Pro-Line driver, Adam Drake headed to round four of the JBRL nitro series as the points leader in 1/8th nitro buggy, 1/8th nitro truck and electric buggy.

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July 12, 2012

Wouter Wynen wins 2012 Belgian GP

The Belgian GP is held each year in early July at the beautiful outdoor astro track in Kampanhout, Belgium. Club manager Willy Heremans and his crew always put on a relaxed, fun, yet competitive race. The track is inside a park and the GP is presented the same weekend as a big festival, so there is plenty of food and Saturday night features lots of loud music well into the night. Privateer Wouter Wynen TQed the first three rounds of qualifying to take pole position for the triple-A mains. 2WD qualifying and mains were held on Saturday, July 7th, with 4WD the following day. Wynen took Q-1 by just 0.06 seconds over U.K.’s Grant Williams, and put in the only 12-lap run of Q-2. In Q-3 it was Kim Nielsen’s Durango chasing about a second behind Wouter’s X-6 Sq.

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July 12, 2012

Toennessen wins Rd3 of Western German Champs

Mugen racer Daniel Toennessen was walking on water on his way to winning round three of the Western German Championship in the 1/10 scale nitro on-road class at Velp. Toennessen became the third winner in the third race with René Puepke winning round one at Dormagen and Michael Salven winning at Dueren. Bernd Rausch has been the main challenger at every race but is still waiting for his first victory. Nevertheless, the Kyosho hotshot is leading the championship ranking.

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