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July 25, 2018

Joe Bornhorst takes maiden ROAR National title

This year’s ROAR 1/8th Electric Nationals race was held at the HobbyTown Hobbyplex indoor track in Omaha, Nebraska. Practice started on Thursday morning and with a little bit of a light turnout everyone was getting a lot of track time. Friday would be two seeding rounds and then two qualifiers and in 1/10th 4WD Short Course it was Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst with the overnight TQ following two round wins. Saturday saw four more qualifiers but Joe missed to get some runs together, allowing Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz and TLR’s Tanner Denney score TQs. Going into the last round, basically whoever won would take overall TQ. Fortunately for Joe he had his head on straight and put a solid run together to take the round and overall TQ for the class. Sunday was main day and in A1 Joe brought home the win despite being chased by a storming Ryan Lutz. This time Lutz wanted to grab the lead early and went for a move but tagged Joe and spun him around. He waited and that handed Denney the lead, Joe 2nd and Lutz 3rd. Denney made a mistake a few laps later giving Bornhorst back the lead. Then he made another mistake a few laps later but was able to hold onto the lead with Lutz right behind him. Then Lutz made a couple mistakes allowing Joe to sneak away and bring home the A2 win and with it his first National Championship. Ryan Lutz would take the vice-championship from Tanner Denney 3rd.

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]

July 24, 2018

Schumacher BTCC Rd4 – Report

The Fourth and penultimate BTCC 2018 took place this weekend at the super-fast Halifax track in the north of England. With the hot UK weather continuing drivers were trying to get the most out of their packages in these testing conditions. Once again in Modified the battle between Olly Jefferies and Elliott Harper continued, with some super close and exciting racing, it is awesome to watch two of the best drivers in Europe battle it out at our races. Elliott took first blood in qualifying but Olly clawed it back to take TQ honours overall, followed by Elliott and Matt White. Olly managed to hold station by just 0.255 of a second over Elliott with Matt third. Olly pulled a little gap in the second final beating Elliott by two seconds with again Matt third.

Continue reading the report here

July 24, 2018

Hampus Berg wins at Swedish Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish Cup was held at the Gotland RC Club last weekend. The track offered a fun and challenging layout and ultimately it was HB Racing’s Hampus Berg with the win in the 45-minute Nitro Buggy A-main. Serpent’s Pontus Larssen came in 2nd from Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson 3rd – all ending the race in the same lap. Emil Edlung and Oskar Levin would round out the top 5 results.

Image: Jessica Palsson

July 24, 2018

JJ Wang wins at Sanwa Grand Prix

Steel City Raceway of Fontana, California played host to the 2018 Sanwa Grand Prix last weekend. The race was held in several electric and nitro classes and it was Mugen’s JJ Wang who would lead the way in 1/10th 200m Nitro Sedan. JJ took the top qualifier honours and he also came out successful in the 30-minutes A-main, leaving behind Serpent’s Ralph Burch in 2nd, a lap down. Brian Thomas would round out the top 3 podium result for Mugen. Over in 1/8th Sportsman it was JJ’s father Rick Wang with the win as Bill Jianis and William Yip rounded out the podium for a Mugen sweep.

View the 1/8th Sportsman podium here

July 24, 2018

The West Coast Buggy Nationals – Report

Last weekend San Diego RC Raceway set out to do something different in 1/10th scale electric RC racing. Racers were invited from around the country to attend the inaugural running of The West Coast Buggy Nationals which was hosted by SDRC Raceway. This event differed from others as there were no motor limits or minimum weights placed on any classes. It was separated simply by driver skill and which sponsors those drivers were representing. Three Divisions were offered at the West Coast Buggy Nationals; Sportsman, a Class for drivers who do not have any sponsors at all. Intermediate, a class for drivers who may be running for a tire or electronics company, and Expert, a class for those drivers representing a chassis sponsor or just wanting to run with the fast guys to see what they had to make it happen. Each Division was required to run both 2WD and 4WD buggy to be eligible to win the overall title for the Division they entered. SDRC also offered a beginner class where newer drivers could run a 2WD or 4WD buggy.

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July 24, 2018

Jeremiah Ward wins at Midwest Series

A round of the Midwest Fuel On-road Series was held at Toledo, Ohio last weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Sedan class it was Jeremiah Ward (Capricorn) with the TQ from Melvin Aulston (WRC). In the 30-minutes main final Jeremiah was able to conserve his qualifying performance, bringing home the win a lap in front of Melvin who finished on the runner-up spot. Chat Blount (Serpent) would round out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Wallace Motorsports [wallacemotorsports.net]

July 23, 2018

2018 Benelux+ Race – Report

The annual Benelux+ race took place this past weekend at the very fast track of the MAC de Baanbrekers club in Rucphen, The Netherlands. Due to the national holidays, the attendance was a bit lower than in recent years, but a total of 60 drivers were greeted by an excellent weather. The classes for this event were the usual suspects of Touring Stock, Touring Modified, and Formula, all ran according to the ETS rules, as well as Pro10. Everyone was really anxious to see the premier Modified class hit the track. Unfortunately some accidents marred this otherwise great event.
Hot favourite for the title was Awesomatix driver Olivier Bultyinck. Oli started his ambitions in fashion by claiming P1 in Q1. He had a gap of some 3 seconds on Sidney Blokker and Rick Van den Akker.

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July 23, 2018

Urban Community Park GP Buggy Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Urban Community Park GP Buggy Series was held at the UCP R/C track in Central Jakarta this past weekend. The event was organised by the Indonesia R/C Car Community IRCC, an association of eight track owners in Indonesia, in order to push RC racing in the area. The UCP track layout is pretty huge, with more than 60 seconds average lap time, while the remainder of the facility is also being world class. The race was attended by racers from several provinces in Indonesia including East Sumatra, South Sumatra, Jakarta, West Java, Middle Java, and East Java.

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