Jacky Siow wins MBA Cup 2012
The Minyak Beku Agrotourism Cup, an annual event held at the sea side resort in the southern part of Malaysia has attracted some of the best racers from Malaysia and Singapore, resulting in more than 50 racers participating in the 10.5T boosted class. The first round of qualifying saw Jacky Siow from Team Orca Asia taking the preliminary TQ spot with the fastest lap time of 12.281sec and completing 24 laps in 5:00.937. Michael Lo also from Team Orca Asia achieving 24 laps 5:02.352, with a fastest lap time of 12.291sec and Siow WoonFong achieving 24 laps 5:04.489 coming in 3rd.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
RCI hosts successful Horizon Hobby China Cup
On May 1st, a public holiday in China, RCI hosted the first ever Horizon Hobby Cup with the offroad event attracting an encouraging 55 entries to the impressive indoor facility situated in the Shanghai suburbs. Also housing an asphalt track which is set to host a round of the upcoming Asian Touring Series, the venue was the perfect stage for Horizon Hobby China to interact with racers in a sport that is still very much in the early stages of development in this potentially huge market.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Lemieux to contest ETS Apeldoorn
Xray have confirmed that American Touring Car ace Paul Lemieux will contest the penultimate round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series over the weekend of June 1-3 at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Having made annual appearances in three of the four previous seasons of the world famous electric touring car series, this will be the US National Champion’s fourth time to race in the ETS but will be the Wisconsin driver’s first experience of the Apeldoorn venue which is rated by many top drivers as one of Europe’s greatest race tracks. The RC America/Thunder Power backed driver will join factory Xray drivers Alexander Hagberg and Martin Hudy at the fifth round as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to build on their maiden victory in the Ride Modified class at Round 4 in Poland that has moved Hagberg into contention for the overall 2011/12 ETS Championship title.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Brunei PEMKAR series Rd1 report
Last weekend saw the first round of the Brunei PEMKAR series race held in an indoor hall in the capitol of Brunei. The series races is the most popular in this region and attracted some 40 drivers in three classes. The Mod Open class was TQ’ed by Wirawan in front of Hazmi and Zaman. In the finals, Wirawan was crowned the early winner after being successful in leg 1 and 2. 2nd place went to Hazmi and 3rd place went to Khai.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian TC Nationals Rd2
Round two of the Belgian touring car nationals took place at indoor track of Lovanrc in the town of Zarren. The EFRA class was dominated by Thomas Stockman for the first two qualifiers but at the end it was Olivier Bultynck who took TQ followed by Thomas and Nick Joosens in third. The first A final saw a four minute battle for the win between Olivier and Thomas, who kept all spectators in suspense until Thomas made a small mistake giving Olivier the chance to pull away. Oliver was able to keep his pace and took the victory with Thomas came in second. Nick Joosens secured the third place.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Drake wins 1/8th BL at 2012 Silver State
TLR, Pro-Line and Tekin driver Adam Drake took TQ and 1st in the Expert 1/8 Electric Buggy class at the Silver State Nitro Challenge in Boulder City, NV. The 10 minute final saw an amazing battle between Drake, Kortz, Moller, Lutz, and Wernimont. In the final Drake and Kortz exchanged the lead multiple times in the closing laps, but Kortz made a mistake on the final lap that allowed Wernimont to take second place. Drake came home with the victory followed by Wernimont and Kortz in third.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Minnesota Off-Road Series Rd1 report
JConcepts dominated this weekend at the first round of the Minnesota Off-Road Series at the Motodome in Staples, MN. With temps in the 30′s all day during qualifying and 40′s during the mains, the JConcepts tires proved they were the best choice given they set the TQ in 4 Classes and 8 podium positions from 3 drivers. Kendall Welch set TQ and finished 1st in 1/8th Scale Pro-Nitro Buggy running a TLR 8B 2.0 with Green Hybrids, & 2nd in Pro-Nitro Truggy running his 8T 2.0 on Green Hybrids on Elevated Wheels. Josh Ford won and TQ’d the 1/8th Scale Electric class running a Mugen / Techno MBX6 on Green Hybrids and a Punisher Body, 2nd in Pro Nitro Buggy with a Punisher Body and Green Hybrids on his MBX6 Buggy, 3rd in Pro Truggy running Green Hybrids on his MBX6T and set TQ with a 4th place finish on his Mugen Eco-ST with a Illuzion Hi-Flow Body and Green Subcultures.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Chris Grainger wins Schumacher BTCC opener
Last weekend saw the opening round of the Schumacher BTCC 2012 Championship at what many people in our fraternity say is the best track in the country, Cotswolds Model Car Club. The weather forecast didn’t look too good before the event maybe putting a few people off, however 115 drivers were set to compete. As always the excellent Sorex XG-32RY tyre was the choice for the dry and the new XG-Rain treaded tyre for the wet. All day Saturday was open practice, some people making it a two day event and others choosing to turn up on the day. Sunday morning was nice and sunny but with rain in the night open practice was on a drying track.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Mark Williams wins Super Production Cup Rd1
Ardent Raceway was the host for the first round of the Super Production Cup on 22nd April, around 55 entrants were spread across the 5 classes. In the Mini Open class there was a total of 14 drivers consisting of drivers from Dorset model car club, Essex and Chippenham. Mark Williams, Stuart Parnell, Bob Styles, Tim Woron, Stuart Webb and Kevin Hunt were all running the Top Mini Sabre, in fact out of the 14 entrants only 3 weren’t Sabres.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
