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JConcepts team driver Kody Numedhal attended the 3rd annual Field of Dreams Classic in Garden City, Kansas this weekend. Top drivers entered the event from Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Kody raced his Team Associated cars in qualifying, both equipped with JConcepts Bar Code tires on the pole for both 2wd Modified, and 4wd Modified buggy. In 4wd buggy, Kody dominated the event with wins in both A1 and A2. In 2wd buggy the event win would come down to the third A main, but once again Numedhal would find himself on top of the podium. Congratulations to Kody and JConcepts on taking home the wins in both 2wd Modified and 4wd Modified buggy at the 3rd annual Field of Dreams Classic!

The first city-owned indoor offroad race track in the USA held its first annual January Jam race this weekend! The Flowood R/C Indoor Park has been open since the first of December and you won’t find a finer facility anywhere. They had 85 entries with 120 vehicles. They ran ten classes. The race 10 a.m. and ended at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Bubba Barham, President of Trackseekers R/C Club said they took a vote after two qualifiers to see if they wanted to run the third qualifier and the majority wanted to stay and run it.

“It exceeded any and all our expectations.”

Drivers came from Dallas, Atlanta, with many from Lousisiana. Derek Guidry, racing a Team Associated RC8B and RC8T, Top Qualified in both Expert Buggy and Truggy and won first place in both. He had some serious competition with Jason Wendling, Denver Houghton, Reggie Tongue, Brady Walton, and John Tabony chasing him. What a cool new event and it will be interesting to see what else they run here this year.

So here’s the deal – you love RC’s and your child is begging you to let them drive. You really want to pass on the hobby to your young boy or girl but aren’t sure if they’re ready for it? Well, not every child is the same and a lot of it depends on the maturity and the interest of the individual child. But there are a few general rules and advice I can give you. Read on »»

The BRCA Winter National meeting took place at Ardent Raceway on the permanent indoor carpet track. Qualifying was by FTD with the top 32 qualifiers going on to race a Reedy style Race of Champions with all drivers using 10.5 pro stock motors. Drivers not making the cut would contest the clubman title. The majority of the top UK national drivers were booked in and full quotas of 102 drivers were led away by current UK national champion Chris Grainger.

The previous week’s testing made it seem as if Andy Moore and Olly Jeffries could be the front runners and they sure were as they converted that pre event form into solid qualifying performances with Olly taking TQ ahead of Andy and 2010 BRCA Pro Stock champion Jonny Bowden.

The top 32 then went on to the Race of Champions as the remaining drivers went to a conventional UK national with round by round qualifying and three finals to decide the clubman’s title. Moore and Jeffries battled it out in the Race of Champions and it was eventually decided on a tie break with Andy Moore getting to vote by virtue of the fastest final time. What an exciting end!