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November 30, 2011

JConcepts Super Cup final round report

The final round of the JConcepts Super Cup 2011 season was host at Daytona, FL during the Thanksgiving weekend and was the decider of the series winner in many classes. Due to the interesting characteristic of the Daytona track it causes many drivers to struggle. The track quickly builds up a groove during the practice day but still didn’t have traction like other FL track, due to the amount of sand. Many drivers were fighting for traction while eating tires like sandpaper. Drivers needed to adapt quickly in order to finish races making this one of the hardest track conditions to race on.

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November 30, 2011

Kawashima wins Tresrey 2wd Challenge Rd7

Round 7 of the Tresrey Off-Road Race 2WD Challenge was held last Sunday at the TRS circuit in Matsusaka-city, Japan and it attracted 57 racers. In the first qualifying round, it was TRF driver Satoshi Maezumi who managed to take top time for this round. In round 2 and 3, it was Tresrey factory driver Kenji Tsuruta who managed to take the top time for both rounds and took the overall TQ with his DEX210. Maezumi (TRF201) took 2nd with Noriyuki Kawashima (B4) taking 3rd. There were 18 Durango DEX210s in the race and 4 of them made the A final. In the final Kawashima got the best start and passed the two cars ahead and won the race, with Hideki Nakajima (B4) 2nd and Maezumi (TRF201) 3rd. After the award ceremony, Tresrey held a big lucky draw prize which included a DEX210 kit, Speed Passion ESCs and motors.

Source: Tresrey [tresrey.com]

November 29, 2011

Su & Yip win PMTC race in China

The PMTC 1/10th 2011 was run last weekend in Guangzhou, China. It was a fair day, humidity was low, and the air temperature was between 20 and 24 degrees and the event attracted about 100 entries. In the RR class, from the qualifiers to the finals, it was a tight race between K. Lee and Tony Su, with Tony TQ’ing. During the finals, K. Lee was as fast as Tony but couldn’t find a way to pass him in all 3 finals so Tony won the race. In the 2WD Mini Class, Penny Yip was leading from the qualifiers to the finals by half a lap, so he TQ’d and won the race. The battl was for second between Anson Lee and Vincent Yip with Anson getting the runner up spot.

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November 29, 2011

Michal Bok wins Czech 4wd buggy Nationals

Following Naoto Matsukura’s recent Japanese offroad title, Yokomo has scored another title, this time on Eastern European soil in the Czech Republic. The Czech Offroad Nationals were held in Hrotovice this past weekend, at the same indoor venue where the Euro Touring Series has been previously held, and also the upcoming Euro Offroad Series event taking place in February 2012. Multiple Czech Champion Michal Bok piloting his Yokomo B-MAX4 II Worlds Edition, finished strongly ahead of Martin Bayer (Durango) and fellow Czech teammate Radek Flek, also piloting a Yokomo B-MAX II Worlds Edition, to capture the National title.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

November 28, 2011

Neo12 – Entry now open

Neo12 - Announcement

The organisers of the Neo12 indoor event have asked us to remind everyone that entry for the event is now open. You can place your entry at the RC411 website here. For further information you can visit the official event site here.

November 26, 2011

Heri wins Indonesian Year end race

The annual Indonesian Year End Race was held recently at the Sunter International Speedway (SIS) in central Jakarta, Indonesia. With over 90 entries registered from all over Indonesia the race would see 3 classes be run, stock touring 11.5T boosted, front wheel drive 13.5T handout and mini 2wd. The most popular class stock touring 11.5T boosted would go down to F-Main, while competition for the Indonesian national title was still ongoing. The track layout was newly designed by track manager Suwardi Suliandy with a superb layout and surface, as well as an air conditioned pit and viewing room.

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November 24, 2011

Hang wins KM World Cup selection Rd3

The 3rd round of the 2012 KM World Cup selection series for Hong Kong and Macau was held last weekend. KM Racing driver Hung Cheung Hang raced only the first qualifier making 32 laps. He didn’t race the 2nd and 3rd qualifier as he needed to help his team mate to setup his car. After 3 rounds Hang was still TQ with the 2nd qualifier only making 30 laps. The start of the A-final was pretty clean with Hang leading away until the end, making the best lap of the day with a amazing lap time of 19.062 sec which is also the new track record for the current track layout. Hang was testing the H-K1 new air-wing type side battery main chassis & the front swing upper deck which given him a really great feelings in handling because left & right side of the car are completely balanced. There was tough battle between 2nd place Luk driving the new Mugen and KM driver Ray, they were fighting and chasing from the 15 minute mark until the end, with Luk holding on to the 2nd place only 3 seconds ahead of Ray in 3rd.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

November 24, 2011

Maifield & Fischer takes wins at AZ State Champs

The 26th annual Arizona State Championships presented by JConcepts was held at the World famous SRS Speedway in Scottsdale, Arizona. With a new challenging track layout, drivers were scrambling to get things figured out, as the track didn’t have the traction that some of the drivers were expecting. Perfect weather greeted racers as Saturday’s qualifiers got under way. One hundred and seventy five entries made up the 23 heats of racing. Three rounds were run on Saturday, at the direction of race announcer Richard Lake. Sunday started with one more round of qualifiers, then it was on to the mains.

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