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December 10, 2016

Nothing in it as Tebo tops 2WD seeding from Rivkin

Having topped 4WD seeding at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals, Jared Tebo went on to complete the double when he topped the 2WD times but only just from Spencer Rivkin. Tebo set the fastest three consecutive laps in a time of 50.804 while Rivkin posted a time of 50.809. The only other driver to manage a 16-second lap around the Speed RC track, Brent Thielke would complete the Top 3 with the Team Associated Team Manager outpacing his team driver Alex Kosciuszek and Serpent driver Will McIver.

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December 10, 2016

Tebo tops 4WD seeding at JConcepts Finals

Jared Tebo topped seeding practice at JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Mooresville, North Carolina, the Kyosho driver fastest over 3-consecutive laps of the Speed RC track. With just a single round of seeding practice, the Kyosho driver was over a 1-second fastest than his close rivals with Spencer Rivkin and Alex Kosciuszek recording an identical time of 49.660. The JConcepts Indoor National Series’ first visit to the track of ex Formula 1 and Nascar racer Scott Speed, the event is set to decide this year’s overall 4WD champion with the three winners from the season’s previous four events, Rivkin, Kosciuszek and Max Flurer. Winner of the 4th round in Boston back in October, Flurer would struggle in his seeding round setting the 5th fastest overall behind Matt Cline with Daimon Borkowicz completing the Top 6.

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December 9, 2016

2016 Serpent Asia Cup – Report

The recent 2016 Serpent Asia Cup was run along side the season finale of the Serpent GT Cup and held at the Hong Kong based TRC track. 52 drivers signed in for GT Modified class while over 100 entries were received for the GT RTR category. The Serpent Asia Cup then added two more classes to the special event in the form of the 1/10th Nitro Touring class and 1/8th Nitro on-road class. Current 1/10th Nitro Touring World Champion, Dominic Greiner as well as former IFMAR A-main finalist Takumi Matsuda made the trip as special guest as did Serpent’s Michael Salven and Billy Easton who raced in the 1/8th on-road and GT Modified class respectively. The Asia Cup also attracted driver from America, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippine, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. With more then 100 drivers all on Serpent chassis, the races were intense with a friendly atmosphere around the pit area.

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December 8, 2016

Jacqueloot & Van Katwijk win at MIO Rd2

The second round of the MIO race series was held last weekend and in the 2WD Buggy class it was Team Associated driver Thibault Jacqueloot that came out on top after the triple A-mains. The Xray duo of Jarno Pijpers and Bart Wubben would complete the top 3 result in second and third respectively while Sander Van Genechtenen and Stephane Roufosse rounded out the top 5 result.

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December 8, 2016

Vesa Yli wins at Finnish 12Track Tour Rd1

Aanekoski R/C center, near Jyvaskyla, Finland, hosted the first round in a series of four national championship races, the 12Track Tour. The hosting club did a great job organizing their first-ever 1/12th nats to showcase the 30x16m track’s technical layout. Classes were 1/12th Mod 6.5 blinky, Stock 13.5, run with GT bodies, and a Formula class. Vesa Yli took three out of four qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Ari-Pekka Kyykka, followed by Panu Vehniainen in third. Vesa managed to lead from wire to wire in all three mains to take the victory home from the opening round. The order remained the same in top three as in qualifying. The series will continue the first weekend of February in Eurajoki, with rounds three and fourto be raced at a double event in Oulu at the end of February.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

December 8, 2016

EWS International 2017 – Announcement

The Essex Winter Series team have announced the 2017 EWS International event. Formerly known as the ICC, now re-named in line with their well-known EWS series of races, the event will take place over the weekend of 31 March to 02 April 2017, at EWS’s popular venue in the south-east of the UK. An ETS-carpet track covering 24×34 metres will greet racers, with classes for Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Touring Car, plus a Formula class. The event looks to grown on previous years, with race teams and international drivers from Infinity, Tonisport and Awesomatix already confirmed to attend. Entries are open now, and will only remain open until 23 December. Race entries, along with details of hotels, travel tips and full event rules, can be found on the EWS Website here, or by emailing Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).

December 7, 2016

Ryan Lutz wins Pro Nitro Buggy at 2016 Fall Brawl

The 2016 edition of the popular Fall Brawl race was held this past weekend at Badlands in Myrtle Beach with over 550 entries. The track was very fast overall with lap times dipping to 21 seconds and the surface stayed very smooth. The conditions however were ever changing and the paramount tire choice was the hardest part of the racing. In Pro Nitro Buggy Mugen’s Cole Ogden would take the overall TQ from Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz. Main day Sunday started at 7am and the program was shortened throughout with shorter mains so the organisers and driver could try to beat the incoming rain. The A-main started and Ryan Lutz crashed after shorting the first double and fell to 9th on the first lap. He quickly moved up to 4th and then both third and second let him by as he came up on them and Lutz set his sights on Ogden who was 5 seconds up. A couple laps later Cole got into a crash and Ryan just moved past him into the lead. Ogden eventually had to come in for a tire change as his was coming unglued so now Ryan worked up a 5 second lead ahead of Noah Dickerson about 7 minutes in and that seemed to be the same cushion for the next 10 minutes as Noah stayed on Ryan’s pace. After the last stop though Ryan suddenly had a 14 second lead and eventually he found himself right behind Noah on the last two laps. Lutz wanted to put him a lap down and he knew Noah wanted to stay on same lap and Dickerson fought him off hard and Lutz couldn’t get past and so Ryan Lutz came home with just under a lap victory from Noah Dickerson (Mugen) second and Griffin Hanna (Serpent) third while top qualifier, Cole Ogden had to settle for fourth overall.

Source: Ryan Lutz [facebook.com]

December 7, 2016

Daniel Kobbevik successful at VBC Cup Rd2

The Boraas RC Club played host to the second round of the popular VBC Cup this past weekend. The race was held on a tight yet fast track and after reseeding it was Yokomo driver Danuel Kobbevik that had scored the three fastest laps in a row and he would continue to dominate the qualifying of the 4WD class, taking three round TQs and being the only driver to put in a 19-laps qualifying run while also scoring the fastest lap in the process. Behind Daniel, Hampus Berg (HB Racing) and Alexander Landen (Xray) made up the top 3 result. In the finals it was again an all-Daniel show, the young man would score wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall win early. Behind him the race was on for the remaining podium spots with Hampus and Alexander confirming their qualifying performances.

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