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February 13, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins at Jakarta Regionals opener

The opening round of the Jakarta Regionals was held at the Sunter International Speedway in the three classes of Open Brushless, FWD and Mini. Light rain made for changing and unpredictable traction conditions and in the Open Brushless class Bowie Ginting was the one who made the best out of the conditions by TQing round one and two of the qualifiers to grab the overall TQ and the pole position for the finals. Christian Mamesah would come out fastest in round three to grab the 2 spot on the grid.

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February 13, 2017

Team Associated International GP – Announcement

Team Associated Italy have announced the Team Associated International GP for the weekend of the 26th of March. Held at the Castelnuovo Scrivia outdoor facility the event will be held in Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Touring Super Stock 13.5T, and Formula classes and it will also see workshops and a meet and greet with the AE Italy team. The race is open for everybody and entries can be made here.

February 12, 2017

Video – Come Drive With Us – The Vegas Worlds

Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that David Ronnefalk won the 2016 IFMAR Worlds held in Vegas last October. But that’s only the end of the story…and to be honest, the final wasn’t all that exciting. What was exciting is seeing how we got to that point. There is simply so much that goes into just competing at the top level at an IFMAR Worlds event, that if we just told the story of the winner…we would be out of a job. Events like Silver State, the Worlds Warmup, the Pro-Line Gas Champs, the Neo Race and simply just practice at Revelation with “The Drake” all contribute to telling the amazing story of the 2016 Worlds.

February 10, 2017

Walter Floris Alpha-powered for 2017

Italian Alpha distributor Planet Racing has announced the signing of Italian off-road frontrunner, Walter Floris to the Alpha Power racing team for the 2017 season. Walter and his mechanics will take part at all major national events while also giving support to Alpha customers and to the growing Italian team.

Source: Planet Racing [alpha-rc.it]

February 10, 2017

Wynn & Ishioka win at 2017 Snowbird Nationals

The recent 2017 Snowbird Nationals once again attracted some of the World’s fastest on-road racers to compete in several electric on-road classes. In World GT-R and after taking a second in 2016, Brian Wynn came out swinging at this year’s Snowbirds. He would have his hands full as defending Champ, Japan driver Kosuke Suzuki, was in the house ready to hang on to the title. Ultimately Brian would hold the upper hand by taking the TQ and A-main win from team mate Jeff Dayger in second and Cory Parsons in third while Kosuke had to settle for fourth overall.

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February 8, 2017

Protoform WCICS Rd5 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 5 flew into the Pacific island town of Victoria, British Columbia. With a huge turnout, and racers flying in from Quebec, New Mexico, North Dakota, California and Washington, this was an all-star affair. The Touring Modified class offered some of the best racing WCICS has ever seen, with some of the world’s top racers battling it out, and a different winner of each AAA main. Xray’s JJ Wang would set a fast TQ over a top field, and would hold off Team Associated’s Keven Hebert and Xray’s Max Kuenning for the win in leg one.

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February 8, 2017

Gubbio to host HotRace Summer Cup

Following the recent announcement of the Tonisport-supported HotRace Summer Cup the organisers have now published information of the hosting track. The fourth instalment of the popular race will take place in Gubbio and all information about the event are available here.

February 8, 2017

Hot Race Trophy Rome – Report

The Hot Race Trophy Rome was held at the Gianni Modellismo track in both electric and nitro classes. The 1-day race saw three qualifiers of which the best round counted. In Electric Touring Car Modified Alessio Menicucci took the pole position for the mains from Nicola Marrone and Simone D’Ottavio while the Touring 13.5T blinky class was lead by Valter Cola from Flavio Buzi and Djalma Bochicchio.

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