Last weekend saw the heavy weight racers from Singapore and Malaysia congregate to race at the inaugural Minyak Beku Agrotourism Resort Race (MBA CUP). The inaugural race for this venue is also a very unique venue as the track is right in the Resort compound, right beside the sandy beach. The weather was very good from the morning with the sunny sky shining down on the track right until the end of the day.
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Round 2 of the North Carolina Championship Series drew 159 entries to King R/C in King, NC this past weekend. Racers showed up from Maryland to Georgia to see who would have ‘King’ status at the end of the day. The track was in prime condition after being worked over Thursday by the King track staff. JConcepts driver Jason Smith made the trek from Myrtle Beach, home of the series finale at the Badlands R/C later in October. Although it didn’t come easy, Smith was able to capitalize on a “double down” win, showing that although he missed the first round, he will be a major player in the overall standings.
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702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada provides the setting for the annual Silver State Short Course Championships. For the 2nd annual event the crew put on a fantastic show with a brand new first class layout and together with race director Notch from West Coast Raceway, provided non-stop racing all weekend long. The Short Course 4×4 class was highly contested all weekend long. Kyle Johnson with his Losi SCT-E truck with JConcepts Subcultures tires took TQ in the first round and held onto the fastest time throughout the weekend placing the truck on the pole position for the A-main. As the last race of the day lined up and the tone sounded it was Kyle taking a quick start ahead of the 2wd champion Steve Antill. Just as it looked all weekend long Kyle’s truck was hooked up with the Green compound Subcultures and he was out front and maintaining a great leaders pace. Steve applied pressure for the first half of the race and looked to the inside on several occasions but Kyle remained sharp. A mistake and problems with traffic in the 6-pack section by Antill allowed Kyle to open a large lead. Crossing the finish line in style, Kyle celebrated with a well deserved victory earning the Silver State title. Rounding out the top 3 Steve Antill Finished in 2nd with Daniel Fry in 3rd.
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The organisers of this year’s European Electric touring car championships, which takes place in Traiskirchen, Austria in August, were in touch to tell everyone about the EFRA GP / official warmup event which will be run from the 27th to the 29th of May. Your standard warmup event, it will be run to EFRA rules and will give those racers planning to compete in the main event in summer some track time prior to the event. Entry is open and you can find more information at the official event site here.
TLR’s Frank Root, Aaron Lane, Cody Turner, Matt Schreffler, Ryan Dunford, Casper Nielsen and Keith Whisler attended the 3rd Round of the 2011 Jimmy Babcock Racing League (JBRL) hosted by Palm Desert R/C Raceway this past weekend. The track layout was fast and fun with really high grip levels setting up for an awesome weekend of racing. TLR took home several TQs, and A-Main wins.
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Round 2 of the British 1/8th scale buggy nationals took place this past weekend at Coventry in the midlands. The weather started out not very nice with rain leaving puddles around the track but the club did a magnificent job getting the track ready for racing. Qualifying would be difficult with unexpected showers at times and it was Associated driver Neil Cragg that would claim the top spot ahead of Durango driver Elliot Boots and TLR team driver Darren Bloomfield. Darren would show great patience in the main by following the front two runners around waiting for them to make mistakes. Moving into second around the half way point of the race he would have a lot of ground to make up to catch the leader with not much time left. Closing the gap to Boots with only a couple of minutes to go, a mistake by the young Durango driver would allow Darren to get by and take the win. Elliot Boots took second and Simon Willets 3rd.
Team JuC Racing Driver, Joe Hwee from Singapore has won round 2 of the Thunder Tiger Buggy Cup. Using a Hotbodies D8 Hara Edition and HB Beams tires, Joe qualified 2nd out of 60+ drivers and in the final managed to get the hole shot and overtook Top Qualifier David Lim driving a Kyosho MP9. Despite some challenge in the beginning, he managed to pull away from the field with the help of some fast fuelling by his pit crew and crossed the line at the end of the 45 minutes in first place.
The third running of the Midwest Nitro series kicked off with round 1 at Leisure hours raceway in Joliet, Illinois. Despite poor weather relegating the event to the indoor track, that did not dampen spirits with a record 142 entries participating. Heated competition was found in all the classes. Pro Truggy started as a classic Jimbo vs. Sonny’O show as the two battled for top spot. With 5 minutes left in the main event Jimbo Kvidera, after retaking the lead from Ochoa, pits for fuel only to experience a spectacular fuel gun malfunction, leaving the top qualifier of the race a DNF with debris in his fuel tank. Letting Sonny Ochoa continue on with an easy win. Meanwhile Scott Shin, working his way through the field from a bump up starting spot, gains an impressive 2nd place. Kevin Bronner driving a solid race with only a couple bobbles late in the game which would drop him to 3rd.
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