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October 19, 2016

Jason Jakubczyk takes double The Series title

Jason Jakubczyk came out on top of both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy Championships at the 2016 The Series. The 5-race series would hit some of the best tracks throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. With only allowing one throw-out, the pressure would be on to have good and consistent finishes throughout. After the first four rounds were complete, Jason’s performance had given him enough points to wrap up both championships before the final round of The Series.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

October 19, 2016

Williams & Lowe win at Schumacher Indoor Masters

The second round of the Schumacher Indoor Masters were held at Worksop this past weekend with 173 entries across the two classes of 2WD and 4WD buggy. In the 4WD A-final Greg Williams (Schumacher) came out successful in front of Richard Lowe (HB Racing) and Craig Collinson (Team C). Danny McGee and Jack Neal would round out the top 5 result.

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October 19, 2016

Scotty Ernst’s Off-road Showdown Tour Rd5 – Report

Scotty Ernst's Off-road Showdown Tour Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the Off-road Showdown Tour by Scotty Ernst rolled into town hosted by Superior Hobbies/Beachline Raceway this past weekend. Beachline Raceway is an amazing facility housing one of the largest 1/10th indoor scale off-road tracks, and plenty of indoor pitting. The track surface is sealed/glued orange clay making it very unique as it provides plenty of traction and is very consistent from start to finish. The track opened for official practice Friday morning and racers took full advantage as they dialed in their vehicles for the super high bite surface. Practice buttoned up around 7pm giving racers plenty of time for dinner and race day prep.

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October 19, 2016

FSEARA Rd2 – Report

Round two of the Florida State Electric Auto Racers Association Race FSEARA was held this past weekend at The Village Raceway. In the 17.5 Pro Stock Touring A-main David Vera would come out fastest in front of second placed David Baptiste and third placed Robert Cooper. Pete Pepe, Steve Pendergraph, Ken Moss, top qualifier Austin Wolfe, George Martinez, Mike Dobbs, and Joe Sumasky would round out the final results.

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October 19, 2016

Jiri Mara takes Czech Open finale

The ninth and final round of the Czech Open series was held in Kolin after heavy rain fall made the scheduled Radotin track unusable. Jiri Mara took the TQ in the muddy conditions from Kaja Novotny and Max Gotzl. In the main final both Jiri and Kaja quickly got away from the field and they both battled for the lead but a couple of errors from Kaja meant he had to led Jiri pull away, settling for second in front of teammate Max Gotzl.

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October 19, 2016

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals Rd9 – Report

With the racing season drawing to a close, the BRCA 1/8th Circuit section headed to the northern venue of Wombwell Model Car Club, with rain forecast on the Sunday. Saturday practice stayed dry with Tim Wood, Andy Hastings and Neal King looking very quick. Come Sunday all the dry practice would be irrelevant as the rain arrived, very few drivers went out to set times in the early rounds of qualifying, it wasn’t until round four when the track was starting to dry that all drivers went onto circuit to set their best times.

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October 18, 2016

ROAR announce 2017 calendar dates & tracks

ROAR have announced the dates and tracks for their National Championships for 2017. 360 V2 of New Rochelle, NY will play host to the Carpet Nationals from the 9th to 12th of March. The 1/8th Fuel Off-Road Nationals will be run from the 22nd to the 25th of June at the Stateline RC Raceway in Fremont, IN, while the 1/8th Electric Off-Road Nationals will be held at the Silver Dollar Raceway from July 20th through to the 23rd. The Track in Gaithersburg, MD will play host to the 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals from August 10th to 13th while the Nitro Paved On-road Nationals will be held at MRO in Lincoln, NE from September 28th to October 1st. Last but not least come the Electric Paved On-road Nationals from August 31st to September 3rd at Ncontrol in Dale, TX.

October 18, 2016

CWIC XRS UK Rd1 – Report

Round one of the re-branded CWIC series got underway this weekend with a full entry heading to the Christie Miller Sports centre. A very new look and feel to this year’s series as support now comes from title sponsor Xray, Hudy and Hobbywing. The CWIC series has always been popular with touring car drivers in the west of the UK and now with the additional support its hoped drivers from further afield will come and taste the friendly but competitive feel of the series, still run under the expert supervision of Stephen Fabray the championship now has a new control tyre and hand-out motors for the touring car stock class. Three rounds of qualifying got underway at ten o’clock after a short practise run for all the drivers, the new tyre showed good grip from the start even on a relatively green track.

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