Hot Rod Hobbies Shootout!

The 14th Annual Off-Road Shootout
July 8-10, 2011
Hot Rod Hobbies – Saugus, CA

The top drivers from all over are preparing this week to race in some of the 15 classes offered at this year Hot Rod Shootout. JConcepts Team Driver Billy Fischer is at the track and sends us some photos of the layout. Billy will be joined by the rest of the JConcepts Team shortly to hit the track for open practice today and controlled practice tomorrow. There will be two qualifiers on Friday and two qualifiers on Saturday with the mains on Sunday. More photos, videos and updates coming soon.

Source: blog.jconcepts.net

Steve Antill Takes Mod 2wd and 4wd Short Course

Dates: April – June, 2011

Event: 2011 Team NOVAK Summer Spectacular Points Series

8 Race Series

Track: 702 RC Raceway – Las Vegas, NV

JConcepts Team Driver Steve Antill takes the overall win in 2wd and 4wd Mod Short Course at the 2011 Team NOVAK Summer Spectacular Points Series. The series was held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas from April – June, 2011. Steve’s JConcepts equipped SC10 TQ’d and won the 7 races he entered out of the 8 total races giving him a perfect score in the 2wd Mod Class. Consistent driving also gave Steve the overall win in the 4wd class with his new JConcepts equipped SC10 4×4. Steve ran Double Dees in Green Compound on both trucks for the entire series and had his trucks topped off with the JConcepts Ford Raptor OSFM 

~Advantage Racing

source: jconcepts.net

Tlr Sweeps the 1st Annual Canada dry Electric Championship

Dave Henry travelled to a new small track located in Midhurst Ontario Canada for B&D RC Raceway’s first race and was pleasantly surprised with a fun group of local racers and a well laid out tight course under some great big shady trees. After a great weekend of racing and some amazing challenges from the locals Dave Henry was able to come home with the win in Mod 2wd buggy with his TLR 22, Mod Short Course with his Losi XXX-SCT and Pro 1/8 electric buggy with his TLR 8ight-E. Local driver Shawn Sloan won 4wd Short Course with his Losi SCTe to help TLR/Losi sweep all the classes! Thanks Shawn!

~Advantage Racing

source: tlracing.com

West Coast Championship Series Round 7

TLR and Losi's Frank Root, Matt Schreffler, Drew Moller, Trevor Adamo, and Colby Poh raced the 7th Round of the West Coast Championship Series at WCRC Raceway. In 2wd Buggy, the TLR crew put on a clinic with 22’s in the top 5 spots on the grid lead by Trevor Adamo’s TQ. The main would be all 22’s again. Trevor would lead the field off from pole, with Drew Moller in the 2, and Frank Root in the 3. Frank made a move to the 2 spot, then got by Trevor for the lead when Trevor had a bobble in the woops section. A daring attempt by Trevor to quickly regain the lead would not work out and drop him from 2nd to 4th where he would finish. Up front, Frank would put in clean laps and take the win ahead of Drew Moller and a hard charging Matt Schreffler giving TLR a clean sweep of the podium! Pro2 (Modified SC) was all Frank Root! Frank's Losi XXX-SCT with the TLR Tuned Kit was on point in qualifying taking an easy TQ. The single 5-minute main started with Frank pulling out to an early lead, and he would nearly lap the field by the end of the race taking a dominant win and his second of the day!

Great Job Root on your win!

~Advantage Racing

source: tlracing.com

Frank Root won first opening race at SDRC

Losi's Frank Root made the short drive to San Diego for the Grand Opening Race at SDRC. SDRC is the newest track to grace the San Diego R/C scene, but the only indoor track in years. The track layout was fun with a long fast straight for an awesome weekend of racing. 
Pro2 (Modified SC) - Franks's Losi XXX-SCT with the TLR Tuned Kit was on point in qualifying. Frank would run the fast time in of the two rounds of qualifying, taking the TQ by over 6 seconds! The single 6-minute main started with a brief challenge from 2nd place, but Frank tightened up his lines and would pull away taking a comfortable win!

Great Job!

~Advantage Racing

source: tlracing.com

Richard Infanti wins t Canadian Championship series

TLR team driver Richard Infanti made the trip out to round 1 and put in two great drives to take the TQ win in pro truggy. It the pro buggy class Richard would just miss out on the TQ but put in a fantastic main to take the overall win in pro buggy.

Congratulations on your win Richard!

~Advantage Racing

source: tlracing.com

JBRL Series Palm Desert Raceway

Southern California’s JBRL Nitro Series sponsored by TLR. The host track was Palm Desert Raceway. The event turnout was light with around 100 entries due to the Holiday weekend and the extreme temperatures of 118 degrees and the track temp was 166 degrees. In qualifying it was Team Losi Racing / Nova Rossi driver Adam Drake who set the pace in both of the expert 1/8th classes. The extreme temperatures made chassis and engine tuning difficult for most of the racers. 
At the start of the truck main Drake began to pull away and at the end of the 25 minute main Drake took the win followed by Brad Wintermantle who was also driving a TLR 8ight T 2.0. 

In the buggy final, Drake led from start to finish and won the 25 minute final. Tim Long finished third with his TLR 8ight 2.0. Due to the extreme heat a number of drivers had engine problems, but Drake’s Nova Rossi engines ran prefect all day and he took the double victory. Nova Rossi engines also tq’ed and won the intermediate buggy and truck class. Congrats to Jacob Haas on winning truck with his TLR 8ight T 2.0 and to Sean Gaffney for winning the buggy class. 
Photos courtesy of Brian Cross.

1/8th Expert Buggy Chassis Engine Tire
1st Adam Drake (TQ) TLR 8ight 2.0 Nova Rossi BTTS Losi Kingpin (red)
3rd Tim Long TLR 8ight 2.0 Orion Losi Kingpin (red)

1/8th Expert TruckChassis Engine Tire
1st Adam Drake (TQ) TLR 8ight T 2.0 Nova Rossi Bonito Losi Kingpin (red)
2nd Brad Wintermantle TLR 8ight T 2.0 OS PL

Great job Adam Drake keep up the great work!

~Advantage Racing

source: tlracing.com

4th of July

Happy 4th of July to everybody from everybody here at Advantage Racing! Hope you have a great day and keep checking back for more updates!
~Advantage Racing

Numan wins A-Main

credits: www.rcinsider.com

Team Associated’s Josh Numan takes 4wd Open Buggy at the 2011 JC Summer Indoor Nationals!

All we can say about this race is you had to be here to see it! It was a good one… At the beginning of the race Steven Hartson had checked out and put some space between himself and the rest of the pack. Tyler Vik would eventually catch up to him and make a pass, Hartson would then put his buggy into the straight away wall and he would be off the track for a bit. This cost him a podium spot. At this point Vick was your leader Ryan Lutz was in 2nd and Josh Numan was knocking on the door in third! Vik would then crash going into the turn before the driverstand and Numan would get by him for the lead, while Lutz would have motor problems and go down with 30 seconds left in the race… In the end Numan would take the win, Tyler Vik would get 2nd and “The Weisel” Austin Blair would get 3rd…!

4wd Open Buggy:  1)  Josh Numan  2)  Tyler Vik  3)  Austin Blair

~Advantage Racing

source: rcinsider.com

JC Indoor A-Main Results

credits: rcinsider.com

Here are the rest of the podium pics from the 2011 JConcepts Summer Indoor Nats… We congratulate all drivers for making it out this weekend. When we return to San Diego,CA we will post highlights from some of the A-Mains and breakdown some of these classes…

Novice:  1)  Tom Little  2)  Terry Cook  3)  William Fogle

Pro 4 SCT:  1)  Ryan Lutz  2)  Jason Ruona  3)  Hopper Kwatkowski

2wd Truck Open:  1)  Eddie Bernal  2)  Rocky IV Cariglio  3)  Rocky III Cariglio

Pro 2 Stock SCT NR:  1)  Ryan Sagisi  2)  Nathan Lavery  3)  Brett Bowen

Pro 2 SCT:  1)  Tanner Denney  2)  Aaron Biner  3)  Tyler Vik

2wd Stock Buggy NR:  1)  Brian Eady  2)  Nathan Lavery  3)  Hopper Kwatkowski

1/8th EL Buggy:  1)  Austin Blair  2)  Rick Jenkins  3)  Dan Jurgenson

Seems like it was a fun race to be at everybody make sure you get the time to go next year if you didn't go this year!

~Advantage Racing

source: rcinsider.com