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June 21, 2017

Victor Pelaez scores win at Spanish 200mm Nationals Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Ronda track in Andalusia. The race took place in quite extreme conditions due to the high temperatures, and at the end of the qualifying it was Jonnhy Pastor to take the TQ honours, while Juan Hidalgo would line up in 2nd on the A-main grid after winning the Superpole race. In the main final though, it was Victor Pelaez who took the lead in the early stages of the race, never to letting it go and taking the win ahead of Raul Amella for a Capricorn 1-2, with the Mugen of Sergi Franch rounding up the podium.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

June 21, 2017

CWIC Xray Racing Series UK – Announcement

Xray have announced the CWIC XRS UK racing series for the 2017/18 winter season. The races will be held at Christie Miller Sports Centre, Melksham with the series kicking off on the 15th of October and it finishes off with round 7 held on the 11th of March 2018. More information can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 21, 2017

Polish On-road Championship Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Polish On-road National Championship was held recently in several electric and nitro classes. In the Touring Modified class it was Arkadiusz Smyk who took round TQ in Q2 and Q3 to take the overall TQ and the pole position for the finals. In the opening two A-mains Arkadiusz brought home wins to bag the overall victory from Bartosz Pochopień, who challenged Arkadiusz in A1 but made a mistake in A2. The podium was rounded out by Mateusz Ogonowski in 3rd.

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June 21, 2017

Chan Chau-man doubles at Shepherd China Cup Rd2

The second round of the Corona Shepherd China Cup was recently held at the SRC track in Shenzhen. In the 1/10th Open class it was Chan Chau-man who was the man to beat as he swept all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ. Also in the main final Chan Chau-man drove a flawless race, leading from the start to the checkered flag he took the win in front of Fai Ho and Ray Poon in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 1/10th Shepherd class, run with mandatory Shepherd Velox V10 cars, Chan Chau-man completed his podium sweep by taking another win that weekend. Ray Poon came in 2nd with Pong rounding out the podium. With this result Chan Chau-man claimed the second win in a row in the Shepherd Championship and increased his lead in the championship standings.

View the Shepherd class podium here

June 21, 2017

Mark Wallin wins at AARCMCC EP On-road State Titles

The 2017 AARCMCC EP On-Road State Titles were held at the Sydney Model Autosports track in the west of Sydney. The SMA track is a flowing technical track with a challenging layout to really test drivers abilities. The lead up to the meeting was dogged with bad weather which ultimately caused the meeting to be abandoned after the completion of qualifying. Saturday kicked off with a seeding run, each class was given a 5-minute session on the track, a drivers quickest three consecutive laps would then be counted for a total time that would seed the first three rounds of qualifying. In 1/12th Modified Mark Wallin went all in, using a set of brand new, un-cut and un-treated tyres and his decision proved to be a good one as he set a seed time of 52.068 seconds placing him at the top of the order for round one. The first round of 1/12th qualifying confirmed that Mark was going to have to work hard. After missing the seeding round, Ed Clark came out strong posting several quickest laps to take 2nd behind Mark in the round.

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June 20, 2017

Quebec RC Series Rd2 – Report

This past weekend the second round of the Quebec RC Series was held at the Bego RC Raceway near Montréal, home of the 2017 Quebec Classic. The rain on Friday would turn into nice weather all weekend, making for good racing conditions. In Nitro Buggy, Sam Langer laid down the fastest run in Q2 to take the overall TQ and in the main Sam took the lead and never looked back while TLR’s Carl Boulianne and Team Associated’s Eric Deschenes were battling for P2. At the 15-minutes mark, both Eric and Carl had issues and Wesley Gurr took the 2nd spot in front of Steve Lamoureux.

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June 20, 2017

Quentin Leroux takes 200mm French National title

The fourth and final round of the French 1/10th IC Track Championship took place in great weather conditions at the circuit of Besançon in the eastern part of the country. The title would be in contention between championship leader Basile Concialdi and Quentin Leroux who sat in 2nd. To take the championship lead, Quentin would need to take the pole position and win and hope for a maximum 3rd place of Basile. In Saturday morning’s timed practice Quentin seemed already faster with an average of 17.2 seconds on three consecutive laps, followed by Thomas Gold in 17.4 then Brice Turco/Basile Concialdi/Michael Derderian all with 17.6’s.

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June 20, 2017

Italian Manufacturers Championship Rd2 – Report

Last weekend the second and final round of the Italian Manufacturers Championship took place at the World famous venue of Gubbio in central Italy. With the majestic track making for a perfect scenery for the season finale and a highly competitive field in both the 1/10th 200mm and the 1/8th class, the championship proved to be once again one of the best events in the Italian on-road scene. The 1/8th A-main would see an outstanding battle for the lead between Raiola’s Infinity and Mazzeo’s Xray until the RX8 of the 200mm vice-World champion was forced to retire due to a loose servo horn screw. From that moment on Carmine Raiola has been able to cruise to a deserved win ahead of his Infinity team-mates Balestri and Tironi. In the championship, Infinity claimed the chassis title with two wins (Balestri in Fiorano and Raiola in Gubbio), with Max Power and Runner Time winning the respective titles while Matrix won the Tires title at the second tie-breaker with Hotrace.

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