Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Australia Off-road will be held on the 1st of December at the Castle Hill off-road track. The race sees the running of 2WD Modified, 2WD 17.5T, 4WD Modified, 4WD 13.5T as well as 1/10th 4WD Truggy and Junior classes and more information can soon be found here.
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Round 2 of the Asphalt Wars series was held in San Jose, California last weekend. Lex Tyler was able to TQ and win Modified Touring over Kyle Colbert, Jeff Auxier and Aaron Lewis. Kyle showed a solid pace in Q1 and Q2 but with a couple mistakes, Lex beat his TQ earning an extra lap 26/5:10 to Colbert’s 25/5:01. In the main Lex took the lead from tone to tone leaving the rest of the field battling for 2nd and 3rd.
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The AeroNorte Rosario track in Funes, Argentine played host to round 4 of the Campeonato Cordobes series last weekend. The event was held in several 1/8th off-road classes and in Buggy Pro it was Nicolas Bregante with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the 45-minute A-main, some five laps in front of runner-up, Martin Crivello. Federico Rinaudo came in 3rd to round out the top 3 results.
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Empire RC Raceway of Brentwood, California held their annual Harvest Classic race last weekend, attracting over 100 entries for the multiple 1/8th off-road and single 4×4 SCT classes. In Expert Nitro Buggy it was Kyosho’s CJ Jelin with the overall TQ from Team Associated’s Gonzalo Cortez on the runner-up spot. In the 45-minute main there was some close battling in the first couple laps for the top spot between the top guys. When everything got more spread out Kyle Turner (Xray) and CJ Jelin had a good battle going back and forth once again for about ten to 15 minutes until CJ had a mechanical problem. Throughout the main Kyle had a pretty consistent run, mixed with some mistakes, but he still drove pretty well and ended up taking the win in the end as Gonzalo came in 2nd, some four laps down and Steve Noack (Kyosho) came in 3rd, another three laps behind.
Round two of EssexCarpetClash took place last weekend, with a good entry level of some very competitive drivers, 2WD being an oversubscribed class. 4WD saw Stephen Brown pick up where he left off from round 1, securing his pole position taking three of the four rounds of qualifying. Finals also went Brown’s way, by taking the first two leg wins, giving him the overall win for the day. It was then down to who would complete the podium and in which order. John Painter had looked fast all day and lined up 2nd of the grid with a chasing Lee Hedges on 3rd. After the 3-leg finals – and with Brown not participating in the 3rd – where tight close battles took place on track in all legs, the podium would conclude the same as the grid start with Stephen Brown on top followed by John Painter and Lee Hedges.
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The 2019 Fallout RC Arenacross race was held in Ridgefield, Washington last weekend, attracting over 280 entries. In 1/10th 4WD Buggy it was Robert Sorjonen with the overall TQ, a tight win following a mishap in A1 and a tone-to-tone win in A2 for an early overall victory from 7th place qualifier, Roger Seim in 2nd and 3rd place qualifier, Dan Thomas in 3rd.
The 2019 1/10 Jay Leno’s Garage Offroad Australian Nationals were held at the Keilor club in Melbourne, Australia recently. Around 230 entries were received from all around the country for the event, and the club prepared a brand new track layout which was fast and challenging. Mother nature made life difficult with very hot and windy conditions during practice and 2WD day, and unfortunately heavy rain which forced the cancellation of the 4WD and truck classes. In 2WD Modified Chris Sturdy was the defending champ and hot favourite for the title, however in qualifying he was pushed hard by Lachlan Donnelly who took Q3 and was leading much of Q4. Chris was able to take TQ from Lachlan, Jordan Isergin and Lachlan Munday, with Ari Bakla 5th.
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The opening round of the Factory Racing League was held at the Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, Ohio last weekend. In Modified 2WD Buggy it was Paul Ciccarello with the overall TQ and he would also bring home the win in the single 7-minute A-main event from 2nd place qualifier, Brandon Marsh as Matt Cline rounded out the top 3 podium result.
