The Czech Republic will see a round of this year’s Xray Challenge meetings run in the city of Prague. The race will take place this weekend, the 16th of March, and will be run in 1/10th touring stock 17.5T, 9.5T and modified as well as 1/10 WGT and F1. You can book in for the race here and find more information by hitting this link.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The RHR Dirt track in Worksop, England will host the Pro-Line Challenge 2013 on the weekend of the 19th of May. Run in 2WD and 4WD buggy as well as short course the race will see round by round qualifying and bump up finals. Run along BRCA rules and on Pro-Line Holeshot tires for the driven wheels you must be BRCA and/or EFRA member to join the race. Get more information by emailing Derek Brady at mexico1800@hotmail.com.
Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]
The Canadian on-road nationals is Canada’s biggest on-road event held in the middle of Sea Way Mall in Welland Ontario. With well over 290 entries for touring car, VTA, 12th scale, and Mini, this is clearly the biggest event in Canada. US national champion and indoor champion Dave Johnson attended this event and ran the highly competitive 17.5 blinky touring car class as well as full blown open modified class. The VBC driver took TQ by 4 seconds over the other 89 entries in this class. In the main Dave got away to a good lead after 3 laps from current Canadian champion Philippe Gelinas who had got around Rob Say for 2nd place. Philippe would get within a second of Dave before the latter started to put together blistering laps to pull out to a 6 second lead over second place.
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The Greek National Championship got underway last weekend and it was John Sotiropoulos that dominated the race at the FRT track with his Serpent 747. Saturday practice showed that Sotiropoulos had strong pace as he set the pace with his Max Powered Serpent. That speed carried through to qualifying on Sunday as he TQ’d the event ahead of Shepherd’s top two challengers. Starting the final from pole position Sotiropoulos had perfect start and showed great pace and once the race had settled the Serpent driver started to extend his lead eventually crossing the line some three laps clear of 2nd placed Capricorn driver Vangelis Totomis and another 3 laps clear of 3nd placed also Capricorn driver Nick Karabelas after 45-minutes of racing.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
After an impressive top 10 finish earlier this year at the Reedy Race of Champions, Travis Amezcua took double wins at the Chi Town Shootout in Joliet, IL. His Viper powered Durango’s took the Top Qualifying spot in 4wd Modified Buggy and the overall wins in 4wd Modified Buggy and 2wd Modified Buggy. But his winning didn’t end there, Viper power also drove Travis to 4wd and 2wd Modified class wins in the Dash for Cash.
Source: Viper-RC [viper-rc.com]
In just its first year, the Top Notch Series (TNS) is going strong. With close to 200 entries for the sixth round at Redlands RC Raceway, racers were greeted by the friendly staff and a flowing and fun layout. Reminiscent of former SoCal tracks, the Redlands RC Raceway track is a bit smaller than others, but has great dirt and makes use of every square inch of the facility, including a 15′ wall ride. In the 2WD Modified class it was Brent Thielke who took the TQ with his Factory Team B4.2, with its Reedy Sonic Mach 2 8.5 and LRP Flow speed control. As the tone went off, teammate Chris Jarosz climbed the ranks and reeled in Thielke. The two raced hard for the win, with Jarosz’ LRP X20 8.5 and Flow-equipped B4.2 coming out on top by just a few tenths of a second. In the Truck Modified class, Thielke jumped out to the lead and was quickly joined by teammate Nick Wautlet, who kept him honest throughout the 5-minute main event. In the end, Thielke led a 1-2-3 podium sweep with his Factory Team T4.2 with his Reedy Sonic Mach 2 7.5 turn motor and LRP Flow speed control.
Last weekend the 7th and final round of the 2012-2013 Hungarian Electric Championship, which is held indoor from October until March, took place. The series consist of on and off-road races under the same roof at the same time and 5 race count out of 7. This season Zoltan Kovacs won 4 races and also finished 2nd at the last race meaning that he won the still growing 2WD class. Zoltan drives Team Durango’s DEX210 buggy which is also the most popular car in the championship. TLR driver Gyorgy Fally took the runner up spot in the series ahead of another Durango driver Norbert Szanyi in 3rd.
Thanks to Balint Rajki for the report.
The 1/10 EP Offroad season kicked off in Singapore last weekend with round 1 of the NOOB Singapore Open Buggy Series held at the RaceWorks Arena. In the 4WD class, reigning champ Mark “BC” Lim set the pace in qualifying and secured his Durango DEX410 buggy a spot at the front of the grid. Unfortunately he experienced transmission issues throughout the mains. Last year’s series runner-up Tein capitalized on this and with some great runs took the win in all 3 mains. Joakim, who has steadily been moving up the rankings in the past years finished in 2nd leaving BC to be content with a 3rd place finish.
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