Format: 2 5 minute IFMAR Rounds, 20 Nitro finals and 10 minute electric final. The 2012 JBRL Nitro Series is in full swing and the second stop on the series took place last weekend at Revelation Raceway with over 200 entries. Many of the world’s best were on hand including the current World Champion Cody King, Ryan Cavalieri, Adam Drake, Mike Truhe, Ryan Maifield, Travis Amezcua, Dylan Rodriguez, Richard Saxton, and Steve Hartson. The layout started out smooth and high speed, but by the end of the weekend is was very technical and rough. It was Adam Drake who dominated the event by winning three classes. In the 1/8th electric class Drake had problems in both rounds of qualifying stripping two plastic spur gears and ended up in the B Main. Drake won the B Main, but a large margin and started 13th on the grid in the A Main. In the 10 minute A Main Drake worked his way through the pack, but the leader Hartson was gone until he made a few mistakes which allowed Drake to close, then take the lead and pull a way to more than a 10 second lead. Drake’s TLR 8ight E 2.0 powered by Tekin electronics and Pro-Line M4 Holeshot 2.0’s was on rails in the final. Read More...
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1st Adam Drake / TLR 8ight 2.0 / Tekin / Tekin / Losi / Pro-Line Holeshot 2.0 (M4)
2nd Steven Hartson (TQ) / AE / JC
3rd Ryan Hughes / Tekno
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Jörn Neumann reports - The 2nd Round was held in Hürtgenwald on an astroturf track. The weather was great all weekend. On Saturday was first free practice for a couple hours and then 3 Rounds of controlled practice. I tried some different shock setups and a 3mm front swaybar. This made my car much better and faster. I changed nothing for the 1st Round of qualifying. I finished 2nd, made one mistake and had some traffic. On Sunday were two more Rounds of qualifying. In Round two, I was on a good pace, but had a problem after 2 minutes. The last Round worked really well with a TQ. This was also enough for the overall TQ. For the semi-final I changed the front and centre diff from 7K to 20K, to get more acceleration out of the corners. This worked out and I won my semi-final. The main final started really bad, with a problem on the start. I lost more than 10 seconds and started from the pit lane. I pushed really hard and worked my way back to third after a couple of minutes. I caught up a few tenths every lap to the leaders. We decided to pit safe at 7minutes in the 20 minutes main. Both leaders tried to pit at 10. During the pit stops with some fast laps I was back in the lead and pulled away to have enough of a gap for my second fuel stop. In the end I won by half a lap over second.
