The Russian UN Championship was held at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre in Moscow. Considered to be one of the largest events in the country the race attracted over 120 drivers and in the 4WD class it was Roman Larkin who would take the TQ and with it the pole position for the A-main. Roman then went on to win A1 and A2 for an early overall victory over Dmitriy Malyshko in second and Stanislav Glebov in third.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
SmacTrac of St. Charles, Missouri was host to the inaugural running of the Archway Classic. A world-class facility, backed by its very fast group of local racers, meant this event would have some fierce competition and with over 150 entries from all around the Midwest, a win at this race would cement a driver as a true threat at any track around the country. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class Matt Gosch, coming from the 3 spot on the grid, would go on to take the A-Main victory after close battles with Jonathan Burkhalter and Chris Baumgartner. In 4WD Modified Buggy Matt struggled to come to grips, setting him up for a 5th place starting position for the single 5 minute A. Aggressive driving early in the race let Matt find his way to 2nd place behind Josh Wheeler, who made an uncharacteristic mistake late in the race to allow Matt by for another A-main win, and a clean sweep of the Archway Classic. Elsewhere in the JConcepts 2WD Spec Tire class, Ben Ellis would take the TQ and win.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
Round 2 of the Xray Winter Series Morava was again held at the Jedovnice sports hall. The event attracted 64 racers to compete in the five classes of Touring Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. The Touring Open class was dominated by the fight between the two teammates David Nemcek and Kuba Simurda. In the finals Kuba held the upper hand over David to take the day’s win while Michal Vitamvas would round out the top 3 result.
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This past weekend the MRTO Challenge was held with around 150 drivers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany in attendance. The purpose-built track offered a lot of grip and the different jumps present made for an entertaining time. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer was on a mission, TQing all three classes of 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and 2WD Truck. On Sunday Patrick would continue to be on top of the field, taking the win in the 2WD class from Schumacher driver Micha Widmeier and Kyosho’s Luca Rau. In the 4WD class Patrick lead a Team Associated trifecta with Markus Metsch and Nico Schmid sidelining Patrick on the podium in second and third respectively. Finally in the 2WD Truck class Mr. Hofer would come out successful from Jan Dissler and Jakob Pirolt.
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The inaugural US Open Fuel Championships race was held at the Fear Farm Raceway this past weekend. A number of Pro drivers made the journey and it was raced like the “old days” where there was just one class per vehicle. Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz would have a mixed Nitro Truggy qualifier but he would end up with the TQ spot and in the main final and right from the tone Lutz was in front of TLR’s Ryan Maifield as the top four made a breakaway from the pack. Maifield would challenge Lutz early on but he started to fall back as the Tekno driver found his groove and began to pull away. Soon Lutz had a 5 second lead and it continued to grow. His closest competitors mid race both had issues thus allowing him an even greater margin to 2nd. In the end of the 45 min A-main Lutz was able to win by about 1.5 laps over his Tekno teammate Joe Bornhorst. Serpent’s Mike Truhe would round out the top 3.
Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]
The first ever Alpha Plus Cup was held at the KRC track in Shenzhen, China with local racers and also guests from Taiwan and Hong Kong in attendance. Entries were limited at 70 for the one day event that was run with mandatory Alpha Dragon III engines and Alpha’s own 2130 exhaust. In the 8 minute qualifiers Taiwanese driver Chen took the TQ for the 45 minute main final but he had to retire early in the race due to a servo failure. Ultimately Keung from Hong Kong would take the day’s win from Taiwanese driver Siu on the runner-up spot. Yeung, also from Taiwan, would grab the final podium spot to round out the top 3.
Thanks to John Ho for the report.
Round 1 of the SoCal RC Scale Series was held at TQ RC Racing in Chino. With Summer coming to an end, it was time to return to begin the second year of the popular Winter Series. Five race days comprise the series and a drivers’ best four event results count toward the end of series awards for both Sportsman and Expert drivers. The Formula cars were first to set qualifying times for their race heats for the day. The series’ unique system uses a three minute qualifying run to set the five best (non-consecutive) laps averaged together. Josh Tran would hold the initial TQ spot with his qualifying time of 11.320 in the first group but there were some heavy hitters eager to best Josh’s time. When the dust settled, Craig “Cuda” Hammon, after a lot of hard work to get his carpet competitiveness close to his outdoor pace, took the top spot; narrowly besting Aaron Lane with a five lap average of 10.656 to Aaron’s 10.667, just 0.011 second gap. Third qualifier would be Kevin “Panda” Cole with a 10.938 effort. The difference between 3rd to 9th qualifiers was only 0.2 seconds. The change this season from 21.5 to 25.5 motors has closed the overall gap and would make for some very exciting racing.
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The recent Turkey Race at Revelation Raceway saw Mugen’s Adam Drake walking away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class. HB driver Victor Guerrero came in second while Ricky Rodriguez rounded out the podium in third place.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
