Capital City Raceway played host to the 5th Annual Big Bend Shootout recently. Challenging racing conditions with a rough yet high grip track and cold weather made things interesting for the racers and in Pro Nitro Buggy it was Xray’s Landen Lewis who made the best out of the conditions, taking home the win in front of Tekno’s Kenny Morris Jr. and Serpent’s Will McGiver.
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Thornhill Raceway of Hutto, Texas held their Toys for Tots race last weekend, raising $3000 and lots of toys for the good cause. Jason Woolridge (Xray) was top qualifier in Nitro and would also bring home the win from Xray teammate, Nick Vanderpool while Elliott Martinez rounded out the top 3 results. Over in E-Buggy it was again Jason Woolridge (Xray) with the win as Daniel Grobe (Xray) and Sean Gallagher (Mugen) completed the podium.
Last weekend saw round 3 of the RugRacers 2017/18 race series take place at Wodson Park. With severe weather warnings in place, some racers chose not to make the journey to a heavy snow covered Hertfordshire. The 44 drivers that braved the conditions were greeted by one of the best track layouts the RugRacer team have ever set out.
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The opening round of the Swiss SITCC series was held recently. In the Touring Car class it was HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen who took a narrow TQ from Cham Dassanayake (Xray) who returned to the series after two years of absence. After the triple A-mains it was again Kevin on top with Cham Dassanayake, who had some mixed races, in 2nd and Briac Berthoud (Xray) 3rd. Over in the Formula class it was Nicolas Albina with the win from Sergio Ramos and Ulrich Bader in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The annual PMTC electric touring car race was held at the AMA track in Panyu, Guangzhou, China recently. In the Modified class Gary Huang would lead the way in practice and the qualifiers, taking the overall TQ for the triple A-mains. However due to a mishap in the opening A-main he had to make way for teammate Alfred Lao but with wins in the remaining two legs, Gary would walk away with the overall win after the mains.
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The recent third round of the Czech Open electric on-road series again attracted a lot of entries and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Matej Sulc (Xray) with the TQ and win from Jirka Mara (Serpent) and Marcel Dostal (Xray) who had to settle for 3rd overall following some mishaps.
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Sun City Raceway of El Paso, Texas played host to the US Open race recently. Joey from The Dirt put in a great layout for the event and it was a lot of fun to drive on as it flowed really well and still worked when the track started to build some character. Tanner Stees (Xray) would put in TQ runs in Q1 of both Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy and he scores P2 runs in Q2 and with these results he was overall TQ in both classes. After winning his semi-final on Sunday, Tanner would start from pole position into the 60-minute A-main, however, he ran into some issues and had a couple of flameouts during the 60-minute period which pretty much put him out of contention to win. Ultimately he was able to bring home a P3 from Casey Peck (Mugen) 2nd and eventual winner, Billy Fischer (Tekno) 1st.
The JConcepts Indoor National Series is considered to be the most successful offroad racing series in the U.S. and the 2017 season proved that the series keeps growing attracting the best racers in the nation to compete on five different tracks across America. As soon as the JConcepts INS7 Finale race registration opened for SpeedRC Raceway, spots filled up fast and soon hit the max capacity limit at 350 entries very quickly. The highly anticipated race was headlined by some of the most competitive names in the game like current 2WD and 4WD IFMAR World Champion Ryan Maifield, 4-time World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, 2015 World Champion Spencer Rivkin, former National Champion Dustin Evans, Max Flurer, JP Richards, Spencer Heckert, Griffin Hanna, Alex Kosciuszek, and Daimon Borkowicz just to name a few.
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