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January 17, 2013

Clemen Pancho wins Philippine Masters 2013

The Philippine Masters 2013 at Junkyard RC Race Track, the biggest event for 1/8th RC Nitro Offroad in the Philippines, ended just a few days ago and it was another successful Masters as racers from different places joined the 2 day event despite the heavy downpour the night before the big day. On Saturday morning as drivers started to show up at the trac the weather looked really bad as it was still drizzling lightly, but since the entire track was covered the whole night while raining the track remained in good shape for racing. 3 rounds of qualifying started around 10 a.m and the thick clouds started to clear a little. During the first set of qualifying, drivers were having a hard time producing a good lap as some parts of the track were covered with mud and made the cars heavy. In the 2nd and 3rd qualifying rounds, the track was in perfect condition with good grip and Aussie driver Zac Ryan with his Losi/Novarossi took the overall TQ with 16 laps with only a 0.02 seconds ahead of one of the top local Serpent/Novarossi driver Clemen Pancho.

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January 16, 2013

ETS returns to Czech Republic with record entry

The Yokomo Euro Touring Series returns to the Czech Republic this weekend (January 18-20) after a year out with the second round of the 2012/13 series attracting a record 319 entries on the world famous electric touring car championship’s third visit to the town of Hrotovice. Having opted out of last season’s ETS calendar after it was awarded the date for the opening round of the TLR/Spektrum Euro Offroad Series, the return to the Sport-V-Hotel facility has proved hugely popular with competitors from 25 different countries set to make the trip to the 29th ETS race.

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January 16, 2013

JBRL Nitro & Electric series – Announcement

JBRL Nitro & Electric series - Announcement

Popular southern California race series, the JBRL have announced dates for each of their 8 round nitro offroad and electric offroad championships. The Nitro series will kick off on April 6th at Thunder Alley and will finish on November 9 at Jimmy Babcock’s own track Hot Rod Hobbies, while the Electric series gets underway on March 2nd at OC/RC Raceway and again will end at HRH, on the 19th of October. You can find the full list of dates here (Nitro) and here (Electric) or by browsing Red RC’s race calendar page here. Full series information can be found here.

January 15, 2013

Tebo & Cavalieri dominate CRCRC Winter Champs

Tebo & Cavalieri victorious at CRCRC Winter Champs

The 25th Annual CRCRC Winter Mid-West Electric Off-Road Championships were held this past weekend in Jeffersonville, OH. This is known as the first big electric off-road race of the new year as well as being one of the longest on-going races to date. This years event reached an outstanding 355 entries. Team Orion would once again have 2 of their aces in attendance this year with Jared Tebo and Ryan Cavalieri. The overall qualifying order in each class was determined by the points system which would take each drivers 2 best qualifying round finishes out of 4. The top 10 drivers from each class would automatically go into the A-Main Events. This would be the first year CRCRC incorporated the bump-up system to their electric race. Lower main events up through the B’s were ran earlier on main day. The top 2 finishers from each main event would bump into the next main. This would make a 12 car field for the triple A-Main Events.

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January 15, 2013

Ronnefalk & Rasch-Olsen win Petit Race

The 7th edition of the Petit Race was held last weekend at Mustit Raceway in Norway. In 2wd buggy, the race was dominated by the Swedes with David Ronnefalk (Kyosho) taking the TQ position and he also ended up taking the win. Second place went to Christoffer Svensson (Kyosho) with 3rd to Oskar Levin (TLR).

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January 15, 2013

Joern Neumann dominates DHI Cup

Last weekend was the DHI Cup in Odense, Denmark. The event is held over three days and includes on-road and off-road racing on two separate tracks. On Friday there was practice and one round of qualifying and after a few minor set-up changes Jörn was ready for qualifying. Jörn went on to TQ three out of four qualifying rounds, which put him 1st on the grid in both classes. Triple A-Mains were held on Sunday. The 4WD finals were perfect, with Jörn winning the first 2 mains. In 2nd, it was Martin Bayer and 3rd Tom Cockerill. 2WD was a little more work for Jörn after crashing into a lapped driver on the main straight in A2, which broke his front A-arm. Jörn was able to win A1 and A3, to get the overall victory in 2WD, followed by Tom Cockerill in 2nd and Martin Bayer in 3rd.

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January 14, 2013

Mibosport Cup Rd5 report

The fifth of eight races of the 2012/13 Mibosport Cup presented by Yokomo attracted again 100 Czech and foreign drivers. The Mibosport Cup is organised by Michal Bok and his crew and the event takes place in the same venue as this weekend’s ETS Rd2. As usually the race was held for a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock 17.5T and Modified TC. In the TC Modified class 18 drivers fought for the victory and the battle for TQ was on between Radek Flek, David Nemcek, Mario Sowka and Kuba Simurda. The TQ went to Radek Flek ahead of David Nemcek and Mario Sowka. In the A-Main it was big battle between Radek, David and Mario. The win went to David Nemcek, with Radek Flek in 2nd and Mario Sowka third. A very good race in this category also for Kuba Simurda who was fourth place overall.

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January 14, 2013

Olly Jefferies takes Autosport GT Cup

The prestigious Autosport International Show at the NEC in Birmingham provided the venue for the BRCA to demonstrate a wide range of radio controlled cars, the show also hosted the Autosport GT Cup Race for 1:10 GT cars. In front of large crowds of motorsport fans some of the UK’s top racers gathered for the GT cup race including 1:12 scale national front runners Mark Stiles and Chris Kerswell, joining them were current BRCA touring car champion Olly Jefferies and his Associated team mate Zak Smith, these four were expected to be the front running drivers but as the event got underway it became clear early on the race would be a straight fight between Jefferies and Smith, using a Reedy format the Associated pair notched up win after win on day one and carried that form on in to Sunday.

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