The final round of the Stotfold Winter Series was held this past weekend, attracting over 50 drivers. In 2WD Kit Jones would bring home the day’s win and he would also take the overall title from Ian Buck second and Alex Carter third. In 4WD David Orbell would bring home the day’s win with Joe Howson taking the overall from John Myall second and Simon Overall third.
In preparation of the forthcoming third round of the 2016/17 ETS, the Asoger club in Madrid, Spain held a warm up race this past weekend. Infinity’s Marc Rheinard would sweep the Touring Modified class qualifying, taking all four rounds from Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who had to settle for second in front of Yokomo team mate Christopher Krapp. The finals were a pretty entertaining affair with the opening leg being won by Marc who had the freight-training Ronald and Christopher in tow. In A2 Marc hit a curb in the opening stages which resulted in a DNF with Christopher taking the win from a chasing Ronald while Javier Alonso would take a third place in A2. The third and decisive main was held under difficult conditions as strong wind made for a dirty track that would lead to a Völker spin on the opening lap and a DNF for both Ronald and Christopher as the latter couldn’t avoid T-boning Ronald’s car. With his main competitors out of the equation, Marc was able to cruise to the win from David Perez in second and Arturo Escarpa in third. Overall and behind inner Marc, Christopher and Ronald would make up the top 3 result.
Image: Marc Rheinard
This past weekend Dialed In Raceway of Victorville, California held round one of the Grass Roots series. In the Expert Nitro Buggy class HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he would also come out successful in the 20-minute A-main, leaving JQRacing’s Joseph Quagraine a lap behind in second. HB Racing driver Tyler Brown would round out the podium result in third another lap down.
Source: HB Racing [hbracing.com]
The MK Eskil club played host to the sixth and final round of the Swedish Electric On-road Nationals this past weekend. The track offered low to medium grip and due to the technical layout low speed grip and consistency was the key to success. In the Touring Modified class already in practice the field was very close in terms of lap times, showing this would be an exciting race. The qualifiers were swept by Andre Fossto who put his Hobbywing-powered Yokomo on the pole position for the triple A-mains with young Rasmus Karlsson (Schumacher/Muchmore) and Fredrik Loikse (Xray/Hobbywing) coming in second and third. The finals were a pretty intense affair with lots of exciting fights and Andre would continue to dominate, taking wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall victory with one leg to spare. Fredrik would come in second thanks to a win in A3 while Rasmus had to settle for third overall.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.info]
The International R/C Car Championship, otherwise known as the IRCC Airport Race, will take place from the 2nd to 4th of June at the Chubu International Airport in Japan. The unique event will be held on a temporary carpet track in an event hall near the arrivals section. With the airport having a hotel and restaurants, races won’t need to do much travelling and can in fact access the track by foot. The race will see the running of several on-road classes including Touring Stock, FWD, Modified and Stock 1/12th scale, Formula, World GT and more, with racers from the USA, Korea, Macao and other countries being awaited. More information about the event can be found on the official event website here as well on social media here.
The recent round seven of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK concluded the 2016/17 series and as with the previous rounds the event had a good turn out of racers. In Super Touring the final round of the series seen some top racers attend to challenge for the win, but in keeping with recent rounds Olly Jefferies topped the podium with back to back final wins. Alex Hagberg came in close to take second and Alex Thurston made up the podium.
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The first annual Thornhill Cup was recently held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas. In the Nitro Buggy A-main Jake Dellinger (Team Associated) would bring home the win from Noah Dickerson (Xray) in second and Tyler Hooks (TLR) third. Rocco Margiota (Xray) and Edwin Hartman (Tekno) would round out the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The first round of the 2017 South-African ORE national championship was held at the Welkom RC Arena, host of the 2018 IFMAR ISTC 1/12th World Championships. It is fair to say that the facility has revived RC racing in South Africa and for the first time in many years there were five Touring Modified mains, a full 1/12th Modified main as well as a full main of 1/12th Stock. In Touring Modified and for the first time in many years over 46 entries ensured competitive racing and the drivers had to be at their best to qualify for the A-mains. The battle for the podium was really hot with great runs from Hein Kotze, Anderton Smith, Antonio Caroli and Ashley Hurley. After missing the first qualifying run it was Hein Kotze who put in great runs in Q2, Q3 and Q4 to secure the TQ spot. Youngster Ashley Hurley improved Alexander Hagberg’s 2016 record to 12.7s and showed that he was a force to be reckoned with by qualifying in 2nd with Antonio Caroli 3rd and Anderton Smith in 4th.
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