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September 17, 2011

Evans TQs first 4WD qualifier

Having TQ’d the opening round of 2WD qualifying this morning at the Short Course Showdown Nationwide Tour in Dallas, factory Losi driver Dustin Evans carried his form through to the premiere class putting his TEN-SCTE top of the 4WD time sheets. The largest grid of the five classes running this weekend at Mikes Hobby Shop, Evans once again displayed why he is one of the top electric off road drivers in the world as he finished a lap up on fellow Losi drivers Josh Glancy and Quincy Hughes.

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September 16, 2011

Record ‘Showdown’ for Short Course in Dallas

It is fair to say that as a sport rc racing has not been great at finding ways to open itself up to new audiences but over in the US one class that is changing all that is Short Course. As a full size motorsport this form of off road truck racing enjoys huge popularity and TV exposure in America and in a trend started by Traxxas the r/c industry has been able to create a partnership with full size teams that has benefited both the team’s big brand sponsors and more importantly hobby shops across the States who now have a product that the general public can instantly recognise.

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September 16, 2011

Mazzara dominates 11th Annual Race against Cancer

This past weekend TLR driver Anthony Mazzara attended the 11th Annual Race against Cancer at McCulloughs Raceway in Sarver, PA. There were over 150 entries that included racers across six different states. Anthony TQ’d and Won the 1/8 Electric Buggy class with his TLR 8ight-E 2.0 while qualifying second in both 1/8th Nitro buggy and truggy. After the 30 minute A-mains in the nitro classes Anthony was able to pull off the win in both 1/8th Nitro buggy and truggy with his TLR 8ight 2.0 and 8ight-T 2.0 respectively. This gave Anthony the podium sweep in all three 1/8th classes. This was the 11th year of the event and their goal was to raise at least $10,000 dollars donating all proceeds to the American Cancer Society. Something that makes this more special is each year Anthony Mazzara raffles off his TLR 8ight 2.0 that was raced during the event and donates the proceeds to the event. Anthony raffled off his TLR 8ight 2.0 to the winner of the raffle Mike Lloyd (seen in the photo holding his new TLR 8ight 2.0) adding an additional $400 to the $11,000 dollars for the weekends race.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com]

September 16, 2011

Casey Peck does the double at Tumbleweed Classic

TLR was out in full force for the 18th annual Tumbleweed Classic hosted by the ARCOR R/C Club in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In recent years the club has raised enough money to add a separate Nitro only track. This keeps the heavy 1/8th cars off of the super high bite surface of the electric track. A mixture of loamy dirt and 600 pounds of sugar is known for its smooth high traction and 2 ROAR Electric National events. The two separate tracks make for an event that offers a challenge to any driver on the two opposite ends of the race surface spectrum.

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September 15, 2011

Glyn Beal defends BRCA Sports GT title

Glyn Beal has successfully defended his BRCA Sports GT title after victory at the Colchester circuit last weekend. Round 7 of the British Nationals were at the Colchester circuit with the weather for the weekend mainly dry and sunny. In qualifying Glyn took a comfortable FTD with his 220mm Serpent 733 and in the final Glyn got an excellent start off the line and soon opened up a decent lead. At the end of the 30 minute race Glyn took the win several laps ahead of second place. With this result Glyn has now retained the title for the seventh year in a row.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 14, 2011

Clean sweep for Bruno Coelho in Portugal

Last weekend saw the last round of the Portuguese gas on road nationals at the Vila Real track where the European championships will be held next year. The race was all about Bruno Coelho, having found a good setup in Saturday’s practice session, he went on to TQ both the 1/8th and 1/10th scale class. In the 1/8th final he would go on to win with his Novarossi powered Mugen by 8 laps over José Felix in 2nd with José Pequito in 3rd. In the 1/10th class it was an equally dominant win for Bruno, taking his Mugen to the win by 4 laps over 2nd placed Fabio Romas with Antonio Silva in 3rd. The wins in both classes was enough to give Bruno the 2011 National titles in both 1/8th and 1/10th.

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September 14, 2011

Bruno Heremans wins Rd6 of Benelux Championship

The penultimate round of the BeNeLux Championships was run last weekend at Liege, Belgium. X Factory’s Bruno ‘Elvo’ Heremans and Stefan Mesker dominated the event with their X-6 Squareds. Mesker TQ’d the Liege event with Heremans took second on the grid and the pair dominated the three A mains with Elvo taking the first two and Stefan the third to finish 1st and 2nd respectively with Wesley Van Helmond in 3rd. After six of seven rounds, with five to count, Stefan Mesker leads the Championship one point ahead of Heremans. Elvo was forced to miss the first race due to a skiing injury, so the pressure is on him to do well in the final race. Nobody else is within 5 points of Mesker, so Stefan can only lose the Championship if Elvo TQs and wins and Stefan finishes 4th or below.

Source: X-Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

September 13, 2011

2011 JConcepts Southern Nationals – Announcement

The organisers of this year’s JConcepts Southern Nationals & R/C Expo in West Monroe, LA that takes place on October 21-23 got in touch to tell use about their event. Last year they had 260 entries and this year they will have over 325 paid entries, more have entered but entry is capped. The event will take place in a 5000 seat arena with a 300’x190′ dirt floor that they will build a 100’x200′ track in the center with a 15′ tall drivers stand. Adam Drake said last year that stand was the 2nd largest that he’s ever seen after the one at the World’s in Las Vegas. The facilty is air conditioned along with an exhaust system so that the race environment is second to none. Ryan Lutz, Barry Pettit, Jason Rouna & Jason Branham are some of the marquee names that are confirmed to race at this years event and they are waiting on more confirmations for more nationally recognized drivers. You can view more information and place your entry for the event here.