Reported by Chad Bradley - 5/11/10 - Hot Rod Hobbies: With 12 full heats Tuesday night, Chad Bradley TQ'ed both rounds of qualifying with his Jammin X2 buggy, Scott Wagner second with the Hyper 9 2.0. In the 10 minute main event, Chad lead every lap and nearly lapped up to the second position to take the win on a windy cold Tuesday night.
Expert 1/8 Buggy
1st & TQ
Chad Bradley
Jammin X2 CR
2nd
Greg Degani
-
3rd
Scott Wagner
Hyper 9 2.0
OCRC, Scott McDonough wins Pro4 - 5/7/10
Reported by DJ - Local racer Scott McDonough wins at OCRC in Pro4 on Friday night taking the win over the other fast local Lee Gravelle. Scott wheeling his Jammin SCRT-10 around the track put down good laps for the win as so would Lee with some solid chasing but Scott would hold on a collect the racebuck metal gear medallion that OCRC gives to the winner of the class for the next club race, good job Scott but don't use the gear as an extra spur for your Hyper 9.
Pos.
Driver
Short Course
1st
Scott McDonough
SCRT-10
2nd
Lee Gravelle
-
3rd
Brian Ramirez
-
Oval is still King at Outback Raceway - 5/9/10
Reported by Robin Nelson - This past weekend I traveled up to the mountains of Tennessee to Outback Raceway for the OFNA Spring Nationals to race some Dirt Oval. Outback has one of the best prepared and most consistent clay ovals I have ever raced on in the Southeast. The owners, the Valentine’s, do a great job with the track and also run a well stocked hobby shop, just right down the road from the track, called Hillbilly’s RC. The race was set up so drivers could come run a club race on Friday night with their big race being held on Saturday night, which I liked being this was my first dirt oval race this year! The classes where 1/8 Limited Late Model, 1/8 Sprint Car and 1/8 Super Late Model. About 35 racers showed up Friday night and about 45 or 50 racers showed up to battle Saturday night. The weather was bizarre with temps in the 90’s during the day and around 70’s on Friday night and Saturday the temperature was 70 during the day and Saturday night the temps where in the 40’s. I thought winter was gone? The bitter cold Saturday night sent racers searching for setups and kept the track crew busy preparing the track, but all turned out good. OFNA sent some great prizes to be given away and the racers enjoyed them including Brian Metcalf who walked away with a new OFNA Sprint Car. The Sprint cars are becoming popular at the track and they are a blast to drive! Here are the results from the OFNA Spring Nationals:
1/8 Limited Late Model
Driver
Car
|
1/8 Super Late Model
Driver
Car
1st
Johnny Broyles
OFNA Dirt
|
1st
Marty Hillman
OFNA Dirt
2nd
Phillip Thompson
-
|
2nd
Robin Nelson
OFNA Dirt
3rd
Steve Ocuto
OFNA Dirt
|
3rd
Tim Jones
OFNA Dirt
1/8 Sprint Car
Driver
Sprinter
1st
Robin Nelson
Hyper Sprint
2nd
Steve Ocuto
Hyper Sprint
3rd
Tim Jones
Hyper Sprint
OFNA dominates Pro4 at the Las Vegas Silverstate Short Course Championships - 5/9/10
Reported by Dave Starks - This past weekend, the OFNA Team when to Las Vegas to race at the Las Vegas Silver State Short Course Championships. Guess what.. DJ with his Hyper 10sc takes the win and TQ with Track Star Service man Jimmy Wright grabbing 2nd, it was a race that would put DJ back in the pack from a mistake and drive back through the field to make the time up on Jimmy for the race lead. With a 10min. main DJ waited for the right time to get the lead as they raced through the field but Jimmy just caught a pipe late in the race for DJ to jump into 1st and hold the lead from there on out. The track at 702 Raceway was fantastic and the AKA Wishbone tire was well suited for the conditions the track provided with 15 heats of racing and 10min. mains the track held up well, West Coast announcer Notch Johnson did a great job on the race program and race coverage and kept talking about In-n-Out with double doubles, but DJ was into 4x4's as the Hyper with Novak power cleared the bigger sections of track. Until next year title and TQ belongs to the OFNA guy that answers your calls and questions.
SUPER JOB!!!!
Pos.
Driver
Pro4 Short Course
1st/TQ
DJ Sandate
Hyper 10sc
2nd
Jimmy Wright
SCRT 10
Wed. nite racing at OCRC for Hyper 9e's - 5/5/10
Reported by DJ - OCRC Raceway offers a sizable track for some fast 1/8th scale racing and that's what the Hyper 9e likes, so on Wed nite the brigade of Hyper 9e's put on a clinic of podiums in both amateur & expert classes as Hyper's are the car to run at OCRC. Robert Black & Jason Kung put a battle from start to finish as lead changes swapped from time to time as the track would take their mistakes and keep them close for the race. Robert on 3-cell and Jason on 4-cell didn't make much of a difference for straight-a-way speed but the handle on the two cars killed the pace of the others but in the end track owner Robert Black got the win and the Sombrero (Cinco De Mayo) and Jason kept the 2nd place finish & Mike McMahon finished 3rd, good job by both.
In the amateur class Scott McDonough took the TQ honors for the class but the race would turn out be again another battle between two Hypers. Lee Gravelle also wheel-in an Hyper 9e would dice with Scott for the top spot and Lee would notch up a win on his belt as he pulled away from Scott, Jeff Smith would take 3rd. Lee keep it dialed, the J-Concepts Wave Race is just around the corner. Stay tuned for more exciting OFNA news.
Pos.
Driver
"E" Buggy
1st
Robert Black
Hyper 9e
2nd
Jason Kung
Hyper 9e
3rd
Mike McMahon
Mugen
Wed. Nite racing at OCRC Pro4 - 5/5/10
Reported by DJ - Last nite in Pro 4wd would be the battle of dodge-cars as 12 cars would run at the same time in the quals. & the main. As the TQ would be held by Randy Kung others would try for the top spot but to no avail, Randy would start from P-1. So the party starts literaly party music like Ghostbusters,Danger Zone,Hey baby Que Paso,Can't Touch This & the all time favorite Ice Ice Baby would reverberate around the track entertaining the drivers & spectators. Go!!!! Randy get the BIG bumper from STRC man Steve Wang into the first corner that would put Randy in mid pack racing to clear the meyham of ping pongs racing door to door others would take the lead while Randy gave chase to the leaders. Chopping into lead P-1 gives up the spot on a mistake as Randy charges to lead & never gives it up after that & continued to strut along for the win & the victory song "We are the Champions" new track proved to be exciting & looked fun, the J-Concepts Wave Race will be a good one to be at since this maybe the layout for this big race, stay tuned.
Pos.
Driver
Short Course
1st/TQ
Randy Kung
Hyper 10sc
Wed night Cinco De Mayo club racing at West Coast RC -5/5/10
Reported by DJ - "AY-YA-YAY!!!!! West Coast had a Cinco De Mayo club race that featured 18 Short Course Pro4's. Of course OFNA cars were out in full force as Yammins(Jammins) took the top 3 spots, local driver Kevin(The Gringo)Smith managed to take TQ and the win for the SCRT-10, challenging track owner Danny S. during the quals. and the main. But during the main Danny suffured and el breako on his axle and that just put Kevin on cruise control as there was no one else to push his pace. Other podium finishers were Tommy Long 2nd spot and James Grossaint taking 3rd. Additionally, Kevin got the double tap by also winning in his Hyper 9e in the 1/8th class "Viva La Yammins"
1/8 Buggy "E"
Driver
Buggy
1st
Kevin Smith
Hyper 9e
Pro4 Short Course
Pro4
1st/TQ
Kevin Smith
SCRT 10
2nd
Tommy Long
SCRT 10
3rd
James Grossaint
SCRT 10
Hyper 10sc Nitro is how robin Rolls - 5/4/10
Reported by Robin Nelson - This past weekend, with weather threatening, I decided to go to Easley to race Friday night. So I took my Hyper10sc Nitro to do some Short Course racing. The weather held out and about forty drivers showed up to do battle at the Easily Short Course track. Last time I raced here the track officials made me run in the “run what you brung class” but this weekend there were not enough cars. This weekend I got to run in the Mod 4X4 class. In qualifying I took the TQ in the second of two rounds. Lining up for the main, race officials made it interesting by inverting the field, which put me at the back with about nine other electric trucks in front of me. On lap one I diced (Earnhardt’d) my way up to third and set my sights on the leaders. About half way though the main I finally caught the leader Scottie Powell driving a Hyper 10sc, we battled for a couple of laps and I came out on top after Scottie had an altercation with a lap truck. At the end of the race I took the win with Scottie Powell finishing in Second with the Hyper10sc Electric. Once again showing that the Hyper10sc Nitro truck is one awesome truck!
ANOTHER GREAT JOB
pos.Driver Short Course
1st/TQ Robin Nelson Hyper10sc Nitro with Picco .12
2nd Scottie Powell Hyper10sc E
JBRL series race #3 Hot Rod Hobbies 5-2-10
Reported by DJ - Well the JBRL race at hot Rod Hobbies was a really good one, there were 27 entries for the unlimited Pro4 class. The hottest drivers from OFNA were there, like Chad Bradley and Jeremy Kortz to battle for the top points in the series driving the Hyper10sc and Jammin SCRT 10. The battle continues to be a close one as Bradley took the TQ spot for the A-main and Kortz in the P-2 spot. Jammins and Hypers took over the A-main and was evenly distributed throughout the main. With 6min of full banked racing, it was sure to be a good race anywhere around the track. Bradley got a good start with Jeremy and Jon Anderson to follow with Dj pushing to keep the 4th spot. It was clearly heavy with some good door to door racing and side by side jumping as the track provided some width to battle, with triples, doubles, elevation changes, and a Talladega no-lift high banked sweeper gave the crowd some excitement, but in the end Kortz got the win in the Hyper 10SC with Bradley finishing 2nd and Crash from Upgrade RC 3rd, can't wait to report the next JBRL from Bakersfield.
Pos
Driver
Short Course
1st
Jeremy Kortz
Hyper10sc
2nd/TQ
Chad Bradley
SCRT 10
3rd
Crash
SCRT 10
Sat night racing at Hot Rod Hobbies - 5/1/10
As reported by DJ - I headed to Hot Rod Hobbies on Sat. to do some pre-race set-up for the JBRL race on Sun. but after some good practice and other 4wd drivers showing later to club race I decided to follow along and race also. Chad Bradley comes by also to club race to get in tune for the JBRL, of course Chad breaks out with awsome lead to TQ by a mile, I managed to hold down the 2nd spot on stock tires with Crash 3rd. The race was pretty good Chad took off and was gone so the challenge was for the 2nd spot between myself and Crash but after some time Chad has a temporary shutdown and that gave me and Crash the battle for the lead, but Chad got up and going again and made a charge for us, he gets by Crash and works on me but a back marker slide across me and put me to a stop and Chad wiggled by, by the time they cleared me I was in 3rd chasing Crash, with time running out I was pushing to find a way to get past Crash and finally did in last corner told hold onto the 2nd spot it, was a good race with Crash.
Pos
Driver
Short
Course
1st/TQ
Chad Bradley
SCRT 10
2nd
DJ Sandate
Hyper 10sc
3rd
Crash
SCRT
10
Jason Kung wins at WCRC - 4/24/10
Reported by Jeff
Kung - 4/28/10 - West Coast Raceway - The first race for the brand new layout at West Coast Raceway saw a full heat of 1:8 Electric buggies, and as usual we ran 2 qualifies and a 7 minute main event. Jason Kung TQ’ed round 1 of qualifying, putting him on the pole position for the main event. When the mains came, Jason lead from start to finish, also with the new speedometer at the end of the straight, Jason sets a track record at 36 MPH in the Hyper 9e.
1/8 Buggy Electric
1st
Jason
Kung
Hyper
9e
2nd
-
-
3rd
-
-
Kortz and Chad Battle it out at Tuesday Night Nationals - 4/28/10
Reported by Chad Bradley - 4/27/10 - 124 entries Tuesday Night at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita CA. On a brand new layout, Team OFNA took home the wins in the 1/8 Nitro Buggy class, 1/8 Electric Buggy class and the 4wd Short Course class! Chad Bradley driving the Jammin X2 took the TQ and Win in the Expert Nitro 1/8 buggy class, Jeremy Kortz took the TQ and win in both 1/8 electric and 4wd Short Course classes driving the Hyper 9E and Hyper 10SC. In the Expert Nitro 1/8 Buggy class Chad set the fastest times in both rounds of qualifying and lead wire to wire in the main event, Nick Tennant finished 2nd and DJ Silva 3rd. In the 4wd Short Class, Jeremy Kortz set the fastest times in both rounds of qualifying with the Hyper 10SC. The main event for the 4wd Short Course class started off a little sketchy for both Bradley and Kortz. Crash driving a Jammin SCRT-10 lead off half way through the first lap and second lap of the 4wd SC main, Kortz was able to get by for the lead and then Bradley in 2nd, Chad had a couple mistakes early on and was not able to close the gap enough to make it a fight for the lead with Kortz. OFNA once again made it a 1-2-3 finish in the 4wd Short Course Class with Jeremy Kortz taking the win, Chad Bradley in 2nd and Crash in 3rd.
Robin takes the First Hyper 10sc Nitro for the win - 4/24/10
Reported by Robin Nelson - This past Friday night I took my “New” Hyper 10 SC Nitro truck to Easley, SC to the Hobby Connection for some Friday night Short Course Racing. The Hobby Connection is a large fully stocked hobby shop with three tracks. They have a 400 ft Asphalt Oval, a Road Course and a track designed for Short Course Racing. About 50 racers showed up for the first Friday night race. The classes at the race where Stock Slash, Open Slash and “Run what you Brung”. Since my Hyper 10 SC Nitro was one of the first seen at the track I was told by race officials that I would have to run in the “Run what you Brung” class, OKJ. In this class I was up against a couple of 1/8 nitro buggies, some 1/8 brushless buggies, a brushless Revo, a mini Revo and a quick 1/10 brushless buggy. We ran two rounds of qualifying and a main event. Qualifying was interesting with the track rotation being swapped between the qualifiers and then a coin flipped for the rotation for the main. My Hyper 10 Nitro handle great and had plenty of power under the hood and qualifying went well with me taking the TQ in my class. In the main I had to battle with the 1/10 brushless buggy for about three minutes and he finally looped it in a corner and I went on to take the win. I would like to say we finally got some real horsepower under the hood of the Hyper 10 SC with Nitro and its Great! Sounds right, Smells right, Looks right, It must be Right. The Hyper 10 SC Nitro is one Awesome Truck.
Pos.
Driver
Short Course
1st/TQ
Robin Nelson
Hyper 10sc Nitro with Picco .12
2nd
-
-
3rd
-
-
The Kungs take their class - 4/24/10
Reported by Jeff Kung - 4/24/10 - 1/8 scale Indoor Championships was run at OCRC Raceway. There was a about 9 heats with over 70 "E" buggies. It was a long day with 3 rounds of qualifying and triple A-Mains. Brothers Jason and Randy Kung ran in the Sportsman class. In rounds 1 and 2 of qualifying, Jason had electronic issues that allowed him to not finish the race. On the final qualify, Jason had met up with traffic which only allowed him to qualify 4th. As for Randy on the final qualify, he was working a TQ run, but had a traction roll coming onto the straight. He ended up qualifying 3rd behind the TQ pace by 1.5 seconds and behind the 2nd position by 3 tenths of a second. After the first lap in A1, Jason and Randy made it to positions 1 and 2 and from then on, they led the rest of the way and Jason received 1st while Randy received 2nd. In A2, Jason was leading, but had a bobble at the big triple. Randy also had the same bobble at the same triple. Jason finished 2nd while Randy finished 4th. In A3, Randy had a bad start and dropped to last place. In the 7minute main, by staying consistent and up to pace, he found himself on the final podium spot. After Jason took the lead in the 5 minute mark, he set cruise control to secure the top spot. The final standings, Jason took first place in the OFNA Hyper 9E while Jeff Kulp earned second in the RC8B and Randy got 3rd place also piloting the OFNA Hyper 9E.
1/8 Buggy Electric
1st
Jason Kung
Hyper 9e
2nd
Jeff Kulp
RC
3rd
Randy Kung
Hyper 9e
Kortz and Chad Battle it out! - 4/24/10
Reported by Kortz - 4/24/10 : Hot Rod Hobbies club race 80 entry's. In 1/8 buggy Hyper9e, I raced against the gas buggies in the 10 minute main!!! I TQ'ed and won over Bradley and his Jammin X2. In Pro4, I also ran my Hyper 10sc, which I qualified 2nd and finished 3rd behind Bradley and Jon Anderson with the SCRT10. I Just made too many mistakes (as always) early in the race, My mind wasn't right!
4x4 Pro4 Short Course
1st & TQ
Chad Bradley
SCRT10sc
2nd
Jon Anderson
SCRT10sc
3rd
Jeremy Kortz
Hyper 10sc
1/8 Nitro/E buggy
1st & TQ
Jeremy Kortz
Hyper 9e
2nd
Chad Bradley
X2 Nitro
Check the Social Streamer on the OFNA Site!
Hay Man! We just linked up to our Ustream OFNA Live Social Streamer, which can also be found on the Ustream Chat window. This cool new page, will appear when clicked, too quickly send your text to all four social media sites of OFNA Racing and its follower's.
Kortz takes second leg of JBRL series - 4/17/10
Reported by Chad Bradley - 4/17/10 - JBRL Electric Series round 2 at OCRC : Round 2 of the JBRL Electric Series was held at OCRC in Huntington Beach CA. This was round 2 of the 8 race series that extends from all ends around Southern California. In the Unlimited 4wd Short Course class Chad Bradley took home the win in round 1 a few weeks back with Jeremy Kortz finishing in a close 2nd position. Jeremy Kortz was poised to not let Bradley extend his lead in the overall standings after the second round race. Jeremy Kortz put in flawless qualifying runs with his Hyper 10sc to take the overall TQ, in round 2 of qualifying Chad with his SCRT-10 came close to beating Jeremy round 1 time but fell short by a few seconds when it was all said and done. Kevin Smith driving a SCRT-10 rounded out the top 3 in qualifying. The main was geared up to be another great race between Jeremy and Chad, however on the very first lap of the main event Jeremy made a mistake and Chad tried to make an early pass but was off line over a jump which cause him to fall back as well. Jeremy was able to hold his lead over Chad by 5-8 seconds, Chad was having to fend off Kevin Smith for most of the main, so this allowed Jeremy to cruise to an easy win and tie Chad in the overall points standings. Chad Bradley finished in second and Kevin Smith third, making it an OFNA 1-2-3 finish once again in the 4wd Short Course Class! Round 3 will be held in a couple weeks at Hot Rod Hobbies in Santa Clarita CA., so we'll be sure to see another close race between Jeremy Kortz and Chad Bradley (which is both driver's home track).
4x4 Pro4 Short Course
1st & TQ
Jeremy Kortz
Hyper 10sc
2nd
Chad Bradley
SCRT10sc
3rd
Kevin Smith
SCRT10sc
SCRT10 takes The Rebel Open, White House Hobbies - 4/18/10
Reported by DJ - White House Hobbies hosted "The Rebel Open" & had a class called 4x4 SCT , driver Mark Thomas driving the Jammin SCRT-10 drove his car to a victory over the other non-OFNA rides in stellar fashion starting from the 3rd position in the 10 min. A-main. At the start of the race was pile-up of cars into the first turn & Mark was one of them but after getting cleared away & now rolling from the next to last position in the race he got on it by blistering past by most of the field by the second lap in P-2 stalking the leader waiting to make his move into the uphill sweeper, with the other 4x4 in his cross-hairs he made his on the inside for the lead as the leader pushed wide & could not hold the line. By the time the race was over Mark had a 26 sec. lead on P-2 & lapped the rest of the field, Mark said that his Jammin ride accelerates and turns better than the other trucks in the race powered by the Novak GTB and the HV 4.5 a combination that puts him in the winner's circle, good job Mark.
New Hyper10sc Test Drive on RCTV.. thanks Jeff!
RCTV LIVE Show 911 from Jeffrey Maturo on Vimeo.RCTV Live just finished the third product test drive of OFNA products. If you missed them be sure to check out the 1/10 JL-10 and 1/8 Hyper Sprint RTR... he did a great job (better than the Mag's)
Kortz wins at OCRC with the Hyper 10sc - 4/14/10
Reported by Jeremy Kortz - 4/14/10 - OCRC: After 7 heats of Pro SC truck, I TQ'ed and set a new track record and took the A-main by a lap. In 1/8 Electric buggy, I qualified 8th and finished 5th. My indoor buggy is not working that good rite now, but Im working the set-up with the new shocks. Its just taking some time to get up to speed with the 17" Hobao shocks, but Im getting faster.