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May 5, 2009

Darmadi wins Indonesian Regionals Rd3

Last Sunday saw the 3rd round of the Indonesian regionals take place at the huge WTC RC track in Jakarta. The final saw Kyosho driver John Agus start on pole, but problems for him later in the race meant he wouldn’t finish. At this point it was Jammin driver Darmadi who was leading and he eventually managed to pull out a laps advantage, over a minute, by the end of the race on eventual 2nd placed finisher Wijaya H driving a Kyosho, with Indra L rounding out the top 3, a lap further back.

Source: HongNor [hongnor.com.tw]

May 1, 2009

Associated to demo at LOORRS Rd2

This coming weekend marks the second race of the Lucas Oil Offroad Racing Series in which Team Associated is the official R/C car. This week’s event takes place at the Speedworld Motor Complex in Wittmann, AZ and just across the property from the famous R/C facility, The Nitro Pit. Team Associated will be on hand displaying products, conducting demonstrations and cross promoting the hobby of R/C to a whole new crop of people. Part of the AE campaign is the new enclosed trailer freshly wrapped by Signpros. With thousands of spectators expected to attend the event the opportunity for new R/C enthusiasts is high. If you’re one of the lucky people able to attend the event in person be sure to stop by the Team Associated booth and check out the display and R/C track.

Click here to see the new Associated trailer

April 29, 2009

JConcepts Rage Race report

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Fun and spirited competition at the JConcepts Rage as the JConcepts crew took a trip north to the beautiful state of North Carolina for the 1st Annual JConcepts Rage, with Jason Ruona and Rob Meyer taking home the wins in the modified classes. The big news at the JConcepts Rage was the spectacular Carolina’s R/C indoor track and racing surface. JConcepts Events race director Fred Reep put on a flawless high energy program with 5 rounds of qualifying and triple A-mains in the modified classes and 10 minute A-mains in all other classes. Several local drivers put on great driving performances while TQ’ing and winning many classes. Jason Ruona, Rob Meyer, Max Fluer, Jon Noon and Zach Mote continually turned the quickest lap times and qualifying runs in the modified classes. Jason Ruona with his JConcepts outfitted Associated B4 and B44 rained supreme in qualifying by TQ’ing 7 out of the 10 rounds of qualifying and winning the first 2 A-mains in both classes. Rob Meyer with his JConcepts outfitted Associated T4 TQ’ed and won the 10 minute A-main event in the modified truck class. Carolina R/C’s own Alex Birmingham won the Stock Truck class while Steve Woody won the Short Course Stock class and Todd Walters won the Short Course Modified class. Brandon Ouellette took his freshly prepared Losi 8ight-e to a well deserved 1st place in the electric 1/8th buggy class.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

April 29, 2009

King & Cavalieri clean up at JBRL Rd1

Team Orion team mates Cody King and Ryan Cavalieri cleaned up at the opening round of the JBRL series this past Sunday. Cavalieri saw some issues in qualifying, but sorted it out and bumped all the way from the bottom main to win truggy from King in 2nd and Pavidis in 3rd. King took the exact opposite route, TQ’ing both classes and capturing the buggy crown from team mate Cavalieri, with Ryan Lutz taking 3rd. With 340 entries for a one day event, it was a miracle they finished before midnight.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

April 27, 2009

F1 RCGP Round 4 report

The 4th round of the Japanese F1 RCGP series was held at the RC Stadium Seiki indoor circuit recently. This indoor track allows drivers to concentrate on setting up the car without worrying on the weather conditions which had caused problems at previous rounds. For this round of the championship Japanese gas racing Champions Tadahiko and Yuya Sahashi entered the race. In the F1 GP class pole sitter Kamibayashi Hiroshi took the 1st corner and led the race followed closely by the Sahashi brothers. Tadahiko started to put pressure on the leader but was passed by brother Yuya after he made a mistake at the chicane. The tail to nose battle between Kamibayashi and the Sahashi brothers lasted for a while with Kimura Shinya sitting in 4th. Kimura waited his time and then sensationally got passed both brothers and almost managed to take the lead but for a small mistake in the last corner of the last lap. So Hirosho Kamibayashi took the win from Kimura Shinya in 2nd and Tamura Hideki in 3rd driving the brand new Tech F125.

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April 27, 2009

Grainger & Musgrove win BTCC Rd2

The second round of the Schumacher BTCC at West London Racing Centre saw the debut race for the prototypes of the soon to be released Mi4. With a massive 13 heats the race was seen as a warm up for the up coming national at the same venue in a few weeks time. The race proved to be a massive success for the car taking TQ and win in the modified class for Chris Grainger in an almost national grid line up and 3rd placed qualifier and a win in the Pro Stock Class with Schumacher’s own Mark Musgrove. The cars proved to be extremely well balanced with great corner speed and traction with Chris winning the last final by a massive 6 seconds over his rivals.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

April 26, 2009

Josh Pain takes NT Nitro buggy Champs

The Australian Northern Territory Nitro buggy Championships held this weekend at OCR Raceway. Following his win at the AINC09 last weekend, Team Associated driver Josh Pain picked up the TQ, setting up a huge battle with dual Australian Champion Wayne Walker, and no one was disappointed with what ensued. Despite some drama on the start line with Pain flaming out, the very talented driver had it all to do to chase down Walker in the 45 minute Main, and on lap 55 managed to take the lead when Walker himself had a flame out. The super quick driver never relinquished the lead for the next 38 laps finishing 8 seconds ahead after a grueling 45 minutes on the super fast circuit, both Pain and Walker the only drivers getting into the 26 seconds bracket. With such an exciting battle going on at the front, the rest of the field was left in their wake, Andrew Dun driving the Mugen MBX6, visiting from Queensland, put up a big fight to hold onto 3rd place.

Click here to see a video from the race

April 25, 2009

The Drake wins RCX Truggy

The Drake was in touch to tell us about his success at last weekend’s RCX show put on by U.S. magazine RCCA. Presented by ‘The Dirt’, a small but challenging track was built to allow some of the best off road racers put on a show for the crowds at the show and in the truggy class it was Adam Drake, driving his Novarossi powered Losi 8ight T 2.0, that took home the win and with it the $500 cash prize.