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July 2, 2018

Martel & Mardon win at Kamloops Summer Classic

The Kamloops Summer Classic, round 3 of the Western Offroad Racing Series WORS was held at Thompson Valley RC Race Club who put together a brand new layout for the event, and attracted racers from all over Western Canada. WORS is a 5-round series traveling through British Columbia with the main 1/10th scale classes as well as Nitro and Electric 1/8th scale. Kamloops being a central locale, also draws many drivers from Alberta in a true Province vs Province show down. Local, Jason Mardon, had double duty both as racer and main race director for the event. Concentrating mainly on the 1/10th scale classes, Mardon managed TQ in both 2WD Buggy Open and 2WD Truck Open, P3 in 4WD Buggy Open and P6 in eBuggy.

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June 29, 2018

EWS Abroad Austria – Announcement

Oli Meggitt and the well-known EWS team announce the first EWS Abroad to be taking place later this year. Taking their popular EWS style of events outside of the UK for the first time, the race will take place at the popular MAV Aigen-Schlägl circuit in northern Austria, on the weekend of 1st and 2nd September. The event will feature a number of electric on-road classes, for Modified and Super Stock Touring Cars, plus Formula, all running to rules based on ETS, plus classes for Stock and Modified electric 1:8th scale. Factory drivers from Awesomatix, Infinity, Tonisport and Yokomo are already confirmed to join the race, and the location of the track close to the German and Czech borders means drivers from all over Europe can easily attend. It is planned to make this race a fun and relaxed atmosphere to end the outdoor summer season, with the host club arranging a driver’s party on the Saturday night too. More details and rules for the event, in English and German, and also info on hotel discounts and airport shuttle bus, can be found here, and entries are now open here. For more details, please contact Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).

June 29, 2018

Myron Kinnard TQs & wins at Bash at the Beach

The 2018 Bash at the Beach DAV charity event was hosted by 386 RC Raceway inside the Sunshine mall in Daytona. By far the largest class of the weekend was USVTA with some of the top Florida and Carolina VTA drivers being on hand including a ROAR VTA Champ as well. Myron Kinnard would overall TQ the class by winning the last chance qualifier with a 99 percent consistency and a 28-lapper to line up in 1st for the 8-minute A-main. Sitting in the TQ spot all Myron had to do was make it into turn 1 and 2. With eight long minutes anything can happen, but with a positive mind and steady hand Kinnard was able to go tone to tone, and take home the TQ and Championship.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

June 28, 2018

Daniel Kobbevik dominates Norwegian EP Buggy Nats Rd3

The third round of the Norwegian 1/10 Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the amazing Innherrad Raceway in Levanger. While the track and area was well prepared the weather was not as it changed a lot from cold, wet, dry and everything in-between, making setup and tyre choice a big gamble. The weekend kicked off with the 2WD rounds on Saturday and instantly Daniel Kobbevik was in control of things, taking all qualifiers to line up 1st on the grid in front of local hero, Roy Gjemble.

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June 27, 2018

Schumacher US GP 2018 – Announcement

The 2018 Schumacher US GP will be held on the weekend of the 12th of August at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut. The event sees the running of a variety of classes including 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy, Open Stadium Truck, 4WD 13.5T Buggy, 2WD 17.5T Expert and more. Schumacher spec tyres will be used in all classes and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski already made his entry, giving the race an international touch. More information can be found on social media here.

June 27, 2018

Kevin Zwahlen doubles at Swiss E-Buggy Nats

Round 3 and 4 of the Swiss 1/8th scale E-Buggy National Championship was held at the Neuchatel Mini Buggy Club last weekend. HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen was in control of things all weekend long as he not only took the TQs for Saturday’s round 3 and Sunday’s round 4 but he also came out on top on both days, taking wins in front of the Xray duo of Robin Frischkopf and Romeo Grass who rounded out the Rd3 and Rd4 podium.

Image: Neuchatel Mini Buggy Club [nmbc.ch]

June 27, 2018

Jason Nugroho wins Truggy class at Asia Fever

The recent Asia Fever race in Malaysia saw Xray’s Jason Nugroho walking away with the win in the Nitro Truggy class. The TQ holder would sweep the half hour long A-main by talking the win some three laps in front of SWorkz’s Scott Yang and Eric Xiao while also scoring the fastest lap of the race.

Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]

June 27, 2018

Tim Wood wins BRCA 1/8th Track Nats Rd5

Round 5 of the BRCA 1/8th Track National Championship was held at the Mendip track last weekend. In 1/8th Nitro On-road and after the finals had to be restarted due to an accident involving personal injury, Tim Wood carefully started into the main final. Since no tyre change was planned on his Shepherd car, but his opponent, Serpent’s Alex Thurston went for a tyre change, the outcome of the race should be decided in the late stage of the race. But due to a gearbox damage Alex lost valuable time so Tim was able to drive home a safe victory. The second place went to Alex, the final podium spot went to Clive Connolly. Neal King (Shepherd) just missed the podium crossing the finishing line in 4th position.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]