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February 21, 2012

Patrick Hofer takes Swiss title with Rd4 win

Patrick Hofer, Team Associated / Pro Line factory driver has won the 4th round of the 2011-2012 SIC Swiss Indoor Championship in the 1/10 Modified Touring Car category. The 4th round was held on the fantastic RC facility of ModellTech in Sion.Patrick managed to takes the pole position during the qualification rounds. For the finals, Corally ace Philipp Huber and Team Magic Driver Matthias Meier found a very strong setup and tried to pass Patrick on every corner. Philipp won the first final, showing his potential to the other competitors. In the second and third legs, after very hard battles, Patrick managed the overall victory by winning both of the 2 final with his TC6.1 touring car with Huber taking 2nd and Matthias Meier completing the podium with his Team Magic E4RS II. This win gave the Hofer, an Champion offroad racer, the Swiss Indoor title having never driven a touring car 4 months ago.

Source: HRC [hrcdistribution.com]

February 20, 2012

Drake & Moller wins Rd1 of TLR Winter Series

Round 1 of the TLR Winter Series was this past weekend at Revelation Raceway and the event had 10 heats. TLR, Novarossi, Pro-Line driver Adam Drake TQ’d both rounds of qualifying in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class. JQ was the only other driver to turn 8 laps in qualifying, but was 7 seconds behind Drake. In the 30 minute buggy final Adam checked out on the field and won by more than one lap over JQ and Drew Moller. Drew Moller would win the 20 minute truck final, Drew and Adam had a good battle until Drake ran out of fuel. Moller cruised to the victory followed by Cody Smith and Adam Drake.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

February 20, 2012

Jefferies wins Rd5 to take BRCA 12th Mod title

After a meeting at which he dominated all rounds of qualifying and the finals Olly Jefferies was crowned BRCA 1:12 modified champion. In qualifying the Associated 12R5.1 in the hands of Jefferies was untouchable and secured TQ by a lap over the chasing pack, in the final Olly eased a gap over Andy Griffiths and maintained it to the end of the race tasking a comfortable victory, Andy Griffiths took second for V-Design and coming through the pack from sixth on the grid to take third for CRC was Mick Farrell.

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February 18, 2012

Rumble in the Rockies report

This past weekend was the Rumble in the Rockies hosted by MHOR R/C Raceway in Denver, Colorado. There were nearly 200 entries with drivers from many parts of the country which would make for some good racing. The layout for the event was very high speed and combined with a small track size, the lap times dropped into the 11-12 second range. Dustin Evans would take TQ honors in the Modified 2wd buggy class by taking rounds 2, 3 and 4. Kody Numedahl and Michael Schoettler would qualify 2nd and 3rd respectively. Kody took A-1 and Michael took A-2 which meant that A-3 would determine the winner. Kody bobbled on the first lap but made his way back up to second only behind Dustin. A three way tie would go in Kody’s favor by .2 seconds giving him the overall win.

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February 17, 2012

Lee Martin confirmed for Belgian EOS encounter

Having been forced to miss the opening round of the inaugural TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series presented by Horizon Hobby due to 1:8 Offroad commitments, Tamiya Racing Factory’s Lee Martin has confirmed his entry for the second encounter of the exciting new 1:10 electric offroad series that will take place in Belgium over the weekend of March 9-11. The current back to back European 2WD & British 4WD Champion will go head to head with factory driver line-ups from TLR and Team Durango on the indoor astroturf track in Charleroi where he will be aiming to deny Jörn Neumann a repeat of his domination of the opening race in the Czech Republic last weekend. Entry is currently open at MyRCM, so if you want to compete against the best in the World at an awesome venue with a great atmosphere then sign up now. For full event information please visit the EOS site here.

February 15, 2012

Hartson & Thielke victorious at JC Indoor Nats

Now in its second year, the JConcepts Indoor National tour makes its first stop in St. Louis, MO, at the popular SmacTrac facility. Greeted by 370+ entries for the two-day event, racers were pumped to get the series underway at the competitive indoor clay facility. With a track size of roughly 90′ x 40′, the racing was tight and heated throughout the classes. Team Associated/LRP/Reedy driver Steven Hartson made his first trip to St. Louis and quickly proved he had the speed to sit at the top of the field. Taking the top qualifying position in 2WD Modified, 4WD Modified and 4WD Short Course, the California native was in prime position for an event sweep. Also joining him at the front of the field was Brent Thielke and his Reedy/LRP-powered T4.1 and RC8.2e in the Truck Modified and 1:8 eBuggy classes.

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February 15, 2012

Kevin Lee wins BRCA Winter off-road champs

Last weekend the BRCA Winter off-road championship was run and Kevin Lee sent us this report. After an ok result in 2wd on Saturday, I started Sunday with the Lazer with some confidence, It felt really good from practice and I was right on the pace straight away. I didn’t change anything from the previous week at EIR Belgium except for the tyres being mini pin rather than spikes.

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February 15, 2012

Rodriguez & Zayas win at NOS Rd2

The second round of the Puerto Rican Nitro On-Road Series took place last weekend at the Barceloneta RC Track and it was Andy Báez with his MTX5 who set the TQ with 14 laps in 5:09.382. In the 45 minutes race the battle for the first position started early when Juan Rodríguez, Andy Báez and Guillermo Camacho started to swap positions in the first 15 minutes of the race. A bad pit stop for Camacho took him from the lead, bumping Fernando Méndez and his MTX5 into third. RC America driver Juan took the lead from that point and was followed home by Andy and Fernando.

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