Welcome to another edition of the LiveRC.com Weekend Round-Up!

 

Here you will find all of the latest race results, race reports, and photos from the greatest racing all around the world!

 

 

 

ROAR Region 2 Offroad Championship - LCRC Raceway Report
 

 

LCRC Raceway in Oakland Mills, PA hosted the ROAR Region 2 Offroad Championship race early this month and there was nothing short of excitement and great racing. It was a full day of racing on a great track! Full results available on LiveRC.com Live Broadcast Results page.

 

1st PLACE - Jason Schreffler - TQ and 1st Place - TLR (RIGHT)
2nd PLACE - Justin Allison - JJLT racing, First Turn Racing (CENTER)
3rd PLACE - Brandon Hester (LEFT)
 
 

 
Alberto Garcia takes Madrid Championship - Proline Race Report
 

 

At the end of October was the 5th round of the competitive Madrid Championship, held at ARAH track.

Alberto Garcia was using Sniper M3 for qualifications, and Revolver for the main final!
 

 

 

Nillson wins Indoor Nats - Serpent/RedRC Race Report
 

 

The second round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held on an indoor track in the middle of south Sweden. About 30 drivers attended the race on a newly endowed carpet track which had a new layout that was really nice and flowing. The first round of qualifying was taken by Michael Nilsson who had a solid run, he was a few seconds ahead of the home driver Markus Hellquist followed by the Rd1 winner Daniel Carlsson. Q2 was once again taken by Michael and this time he drove perfectly without any kind of mistakes, he was followed by Daniel who was 3 seconds behind and third place did go to Markus. Q3 looked out to be a close finish between David Ronnefalk and Michael, this was “Buggy” David’s first race this season and his gear diff equipped TF6 was going really well. Michael was under pressure but he stayed calm and was able to hold David behind, at the end they were separated with 0.5 seconds, so Michael took TQ followed by David and Daniel.
 
The final looked out to be a three horse race between Michael, David and Daniel. The first A-final saw a good start of the top three and they were able to pull away from the others. Halfway in the main David started to lay down some pressure on Michael but was at the same time needed to look in the mirrors to see what Daniel was doing. David tried to go on the inside of Michael out on the straight but touched the curb and rolled, this let Daniel pass David. Michael took A1 followed by Daniel and David. In A2 once again a tight battle between the top three arose, Daniel was losing just a bit of ground on David and Michael as had a great race. David once again laid some pressure on Michael to get him nervous but he was an iceman and hold on to the finish, the separation was 0.6 sec and Daniel finished on a solid third. With Michael already being the winner after the second run the focus for David was to hold Daniel behind. Michael raced the last one for fun. David decided just to follow Michaels pace, Daniel had made some changes on the car for the last one and didn’t feel good with it, but a mistake by David made it possible for Daniel to close in. When it was one minute left David had a gap of 2 sec. and just tried to not make any more mistakes. Daniel pushed hard to pass but it was a bit too late. David was able to hold him behind with a separation of 0.7 sec. It was a great race, fun track and good racing.
 

Top 3 Result
1. Michael Nilsson – Serpent/Viper/Dynomax/Intellect
2. David Ronnefalk – Kyosho/Orion/Orion/Orion
3. Daniel Carlsson – Yokomo/LRP/LRP/LRP

 

 

 
Amezcua wins JBRL E-Buggy! - Mugen Race Report
 

 

Travis Amezcua wins the 2011 Electric 1/8 Buggy Class at the prestigious JBRL Nitro series. The series visited multiple
tracks across southern California over eight months. His MBX6 Eco powered by the new LRP Dynamic 8 brushless motor combined with the LRP iX8 brushless speed control and Reedy 5500 60C lipos, proved to be unbeatable.  Travis would also finish out the series third in expert gas buggy with his MBX6R powered by the new Ninja JX21-B02. Both rides were rolling on AKA rubber.
 

Thanks to the entire JBRL and Hot Rot Hobbies staff for making the 2011 JBRL series such a huge success.
 

 

 
Frank Root wins the Turkey Cup - JConcepts Race Report
 

 

 

Losi’s Frank Root was on hand for the second annual Turkey Cup at Thunder Alley Raceway. The track layout was modified from the normal nitro configuration and was perfect for 1/10 Short Course trucks and a great day of racing was had by all.

Pro4 – Frank Root had a quick run in the first round to take the early TQ, choosing Green Subcultures for the loamy conditions. As the track started to settle in and most of the loamy dirt was moved out of the line, Frank moved to Green Double Dees front and rear for the 2nd and 3rd qualifiers. Frank had a good run in the second round, but did not improve his run until the 3rd round when he became the only vehicle to run 11 laps! Happy with the Green Double Dee tire choice in qualifying, Root decided to stick with the hot hand for the main events. When the tone went off for A1, Root got off to a great start and put in a clean lap while being chased by a 3 car freight train. Eventually, Frank would pull out a healthy lead, and cruise home for the win. A2 was much of the same, as Frank got a clean start, and stayed mistake free throughout taking the win in A2 by over 15 seconds!

Pro2 (Modified SC) – Frank’s Losi XXX-SCT equipped with the JConcepts tires was strong all day. Frank would take the TQ in the first round with a strong run on Green Double Dees front and rear. The second round saw Frank choose to run Green Subculture expecting loamy conditions being up soon after the track was watered and it worked, providing a new TQ. With the track getting better throughout the day, Frank chose to run Green Double Dees for the main events. In A1, Frank struggled with a few mistakes early in the race, falling well behind, but with some fast, clean laps, Frank would catch back up and take the win by a slim margin. Frank had a much better run in A2, leading from wire to wire and taking the overall victory!
 

 

 
TLR dominates JBRL Finals -TLR Race Report
 

 

 

The final round of the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series was last weekend at Hot Rod Hobbies.  The event was scheduled to be run dry and blue groove, but Mother Nature had a different plan.  A rain storm hit late Friday night, but the Hot Rod Hobbies crew did an amazing job to pump off the water and start racing at 10am.  The JBRL series consists of eight races with five counting towards your point total over the course of eight months.  When the series came to an end and the points were added up all six winners of the nitro series were using TLR vehicles.  Congratulations to all the winners and thanks for the support!
 
Class / Driver                         Chassis          Engine                        Fuel                             Tires
1/8th Sportsman Buggy
Steve Burnside                      TLR
 
1/8th Intermediate Buggy
Jacob Hass                           TLR                 NOVAROSSI             Nitrotane                   
 
1/8th Expert Buggy
Adam Drake                          TLR                 NOVAROSSI             Nitrotane                    Losi Tires
 
1/8th Sportsman Truck
Jesse Carrillo                        TLR                 NOVAROSSI             Nitrotane
 
1/8th Intermediate Truck
Jacob Hass                           TLR                 NOVAROSSI             Nitrotane                   
 
1/8th Expert Truck
Adam Drake                          TLR                 NOVAROSSI             Nitrotane                    Losi Tires
 
Round 8
 
In the Expert 1/8th buggy class Adam Drake and Cody King were tied in points, but Drake had the most wins and better throw outs.  Former World Champion Atsushi Hara also attended the finals and TQ’ed the buggy class followed by Drake, Amezcua, and King.  With the grid set for the final and the championship on the line, current World Champion Cody King would need to win the race due to his throw outs being worse than Drake’s.  Hara lead the field of talented drivers, but Drake made a jump pass on the back triple to take the lead on lap one.  Drake battle with Hara in the opening minutes, but was able to put a comfortable distance of about 8-10 seconds between himself and Hara.  Hara had a servo problem at about the half way point.  Drake continued to pull away and checkout on second place Amezcua and third place King eventually putting a lap on the field.  The finishing order remained the same with Drake taking the win followed by Amezcua and King.   Adam Drake is the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series Champion, Cody King second, and Travis Amezcua finished third. 
 
In the Expert 1/8th Truck class Adam Drake had the championship wrapped up, but still competed in the final race to get more track time.  Drake tq’ed both rounds of qualifying and won the final by a large margin.  Second went to Jesse Robinson and third place was Matt Schreffler.  Adam Drake is the 2011 JBRL Nitro Series Champion, Cody King second, and Jesse Robinson finished third. 
 
Thanks to the entire JBRL and Hot Rot Hobbies staff for making the 2011 JBRL series such a huge success for TLR!

 

 

 
Joor is the RC Pro Series E-Buggy Champ - Tekin Race Report
 

 

Mike's Hobbyshop in Houston Texas hosted the 2011 RC Pro Finals with great success. The track and pavilion were extended a few months ago in order to host this event and it definitely paid off.

I would be defending my electric title this year. However, you know how once in a while you just have those races where nothing connects, you break in back to back qualifiers before the buzzer goes, the track feels so good that you just can't help driving like a maniac, and your leading by a large margin with a few laps to go and the car just stops? Yup, that was me at this race. So no matter how hard you try things can still go wrong to the best of us.

I put in a few good runs in electric to get myself into the 3rd qualifying position behind Lutz and Dellinger so I was feeling good about a shot there. Lutz had amazing pace and I could match his average laptimes but he would have 3 or 4 laps that were around a half second faster than his average. So for the mains the RC8.2e was amazing and I had chosen AKA SS Impacts that were almost worn completely down because I had adjusted my setup to remove as much traction as possible. My goal was to get up to Ryan right out the gate and put in my best laps hoping if I could stay in his sights he may make a bobble before he could get into his time warp zone. A1 I had a great start but came up an inch short on the triple right in front of a marshal but another car had wrecked on an earlier jump that had been forgotten so he was trying to yell at another marshal to get him while every car went by. Now in 12th and 13 seconds down from the leader I made it back up to third by 5 minutes in and I was pleased with this because Dellinger was the only one I was in contention for the title with and I had enough lead in points to finish 2 positions overall below him to win. As I get lapped by Lutz, yeah I know! He begins to have some form of electrical issue with his car so I got my embarrassing lap back and start charging to find that Dellinger had lost a rear turnbuckle so with 2 laps to go I take the lead and boy did I need those points and I was glad to take them! In A2 I had a good start and got into second on the first lap but my game plan failed again because Lutz immediately dipped into the 27 second laps but this time our fastest lap were just 3 tenths apart so I was feeling confident I could put pressure on in A3 and finishing 2nd in A2 I had already won the title s o it was all or nothing. A3 I get a great start, move into second on the first lap and hold onto Lutz for the first 3 laps before I wrecked again on the triple losing 10 seconds. From that point I just wanted a 27 second lap and every time I got close I would have to pass someone so I settled with 28.0 again!

Winning the Electric National Title again!!!!

Thank you to all my sponsors: Team Associated, Reedy, AKA, KO Propo, Tekin, Avid, Upgrade, FTW, BCE, EB Mods, Paint by Smiley


Words by David Joor

 

 

 
Neumann wins Longfield Six Days - Team Durango Race Report
 
 
 

This past weekend saw the second round of the ‘Longfield Six Days’ championship, held in Langenfeld, Germany.  Jorn Neumann reports on his weekend:

For Sunday I changed nothing. In my first qualifier I had bad traffic and made a few mistakes because of it. I changed nothing but drove much better to TQ the 2nd and 3rd Rounds for the overall TQ. In the 1st final I touched with another driver on the end of the straight and retired early after a very hard crash and flying into the wall. I won the 2nd and 3rd leg to get the overall victory in front of Björn Prümper in 2nd and Alex Hardt in 3rd.
 

Miguel Matias dominates  in Portugal - Team Durango Race Report
 
 
 

The second round of the Portugese 1/10th off road series was held over the weekend of 5th & 6th November 2011.  Miguel Matias driving a privately funded DEX410 lead a Team Durango 1-2-3 podium lockout in 4WD on his way to thw win.  Miguel put in the same form in 2WD as he had in 4WD, taking the TQ and win with his new DEX210 ahead of Nuno Roque with another DEX210.

Thanks to Redrc.net for the use of the photo.
 

 

 
Shay Brand is the SCT Top Dog! - JConcepts Race Report 

 

The all short course truck race was held at Loganville RC Speedway this past weekend. The SCT Top Dog Race brought in 87 short course truck entries, within the classes of stock, mod, and 4×4.

JConcepts Team Driver, Shay Brand raced the Mod SCT, running JConcepts Double Dees in the first two qualifiers and Bar Codes for the final qualifier. In the 3rd qualifier, Shay was able to get a 10 lap run in, which ended up being the only one of the day out of any class, as well as the fastest lap of 38 seconds.

It was a great day for an all SCT race, and Shay said he can’t wait to run the race again next year.

 

 

 

 

Jonas easily won his 20-minute semi-final with his new Team Associated RC8.2, but Martin won his semi with a slightly faster run, and thus those two would start first and second in the 45-minute main. Silas would start the main with his Intech car from third on the grid.

During the A Final, Jonas was leading the first thirty minutes, extending his lead to 16 seconds until he started making mistakes on his own. Luckily the car withstood the punishment, but he was eventually overtaken by Martin, who ran a flawless race.