October 7, 2012
The second round of qualifying for the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’ at RC Excitement was a repeat of Q1 in terms of the pace setters with Steve Hartson once again topping 4WD Buggy while Dustin Evans repeated his opening 2WD Buggy performance with another convincing TQ run that secures them both pole position for their respective A-Mains. Team Associated’s Hartson, who has already sewn up overall 4WD Buggy honours in the five round JConcepts National Indoor Series, took Q2 with a time of 20/5:05.602 with the similar B44.1 of Gunnar Rieck second fastest just 2-seconds adrift of the Californian. A slightly…
October 6, 2012
Team Losi Racing’s Dustin Evans has dominated the first round of 2WD qualifying at the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, the Colorado driver setting the pace in Buggy, Short Course and Stadium truck all classes of which he is defending champion. In 2WD Buggy, the biggest class among the record entry at the R/C Excitement hosted event, Evans’ closest rival was 4WD Q1 pace setter Steven Hartson whose Associated was 3.8 seconds off the 19/5:01.640 set by the 2011 US National Champion. Evans described his opening buggy run as ‘conservative’ but added his Orion powered TLR22 felt good however on running his…
October 6, 2012
Chasing his fourth consecutive win in this year’s JConcepts Indoor National Series in 4WD Buggy, Steven Hartson got the fourth round of the series, the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’, off to the perfect start as he took his Associated around the RC Excitement track in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in a fastest time of 20/5:03.910 ahead of last year’s Top Qualifier Mike Gay with JConcepts’ Jason Ruona third. Setting the fastest lap of the round with a 14.658 compared with Gay’s best of 14.937, Hartson was overall pleased with his run despite twice parking his Reedy powered B44.1 in the corner pipping. Running…
October 6, 2012
With no official timing, today’s open practice for the JConcepts Fall Indoor Nationals at RC Excitment was a very relaxed affair with drivers getting plenty of time on a track which they all reported as been super consistent throughout the day meaning little set-up changes, the focus instead being on tyre compounds. Steven Harston, who is chasing a fourth straight ‘Indoor National Series’ win this weekend in 4WD Buggy, said he was pleased with all three of his factory Associated cars. Describing the track conditions as a little loose he said they have been consistent all day and having switched…
October 5, 2012
JConcepts’ Indoor National Series today touched down in Massachusetts for the penultimate round on the 2012 calendar with RC Excitement in Fitchburg, which is about an hours drive north east of Boston, playing host to the electric offroad event. Known as the ‘Fall Indoor Nationals’ this is the fourth of five events that makes up the series which is now in its second season with an entry of around 300 racers expected to book in before tomorrow morning’s opening qualifier. Having already visited Missouri for the ‘Winter’, Texas for the ‘Spring’, California for the ‘Summer’ and set to culminate with…