The AC Raceway in Pusan, South Korea hosted their Championship race last weekend. In the 13.5T Touring Super Stock class it was Park Ki-Jeong (Xray) with the win from Awesomatix driver, Yu Chang-Sun. Park Sung-Kwang (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 1 of the Turkish 1/8th Off-road Nationals was hosted by the Lüleburgaz Yıldızlar RC track recently. In the Nitro Buggy class it was Alain Sarafyan who lead an Xray 1-2-3 with Can Soykal and Ömer Şahin coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the E-Buggy class it was again Alain with the win as Bora Mumcu (TLR) and İlker Alarçin (Mugen) completed the top 3 result.
RC Madness of Enfield, Connecticut will play host to the Schumacher US GP 2020 on August 15th and 16th. The event will see the running of 2WD and 4WD Modified and Stock classes as well as Open 2WD SCT and Stadium Truck racing with Schumacher spec tyres being mandatory for all classes. Signup and more details are available here.
The TVRCRC club in Kamloops, Canada hosted the Summer Classic this last weekend in 1/8th and 1/10th scale off-road classes. The race was held on a medium sized track that worked for both scales. The layout was pretty straight forward while it was smooth, but from past races it would be clear the track would get rough, as the race went on, and the track would become more challenging. Saturday was qualifying with three rounds throughout the day. The track would get slightly rougher throughout the day and it was Ty Tessmann who would take the TQs all 3 rounds of 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/10th 4WD Buggy. Sunday was main day and the track crew made some repairs to the track so for the first mains the track was a bit smoother than it was at the end of qualifying. The Nitro Buggy main was 30 minutes and the triple A 4WD mains were six minutes and in the end Ty would bring home the overalls in both categories to round out a perfect weekend.
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Danish off-road and on-road frontrunner, Jesper Rasmussen has announced his new deal with ARC to run the company’s popular electric on-road kits. It is understood that Jesper will continue to run Team Associated off-road machinery, however after Team Associated scrapped their on-road program, Jesper had to look for alternatives that he now found in the form of ARC and German distributor LMI Racing. Jesper has the following to say about the deal:
I’m so happy to announce that I have teamed up with LMI-Racing and will be running ARC on-road cars. I will like thank Henrik Heitsch and Stephan Eberding for opportunity to be part of LMI-Racing team. I have been at Arena33 and do some testing over past 3 days, cars is felling great already but still some improvement on driver and car to get maximum out of it.
Round 4 of the Slovakian 1/10th scale Electric Off-Road Nationals was held in the city of Kosice over the weekend in 2WD and 4WD categories. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Adam Urban with the win from top qualifier, Roman Pavlus on the runner-up spot. Tomáš Dankovčík came in 3rd overall.
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The 2020 Greek 1/8th Off-Road Championship was held at the Speed Track Renti in Renti, Athens this past weekend in Nitro Buggy and Electric Buggy classes. The one-off event saw a total of 31 participants for the nitro category, more than any other class so far for the 2020 Greek Nationals. In qualifying Tasos Paparegas (Xray) was able to take the pole position just five tenths in front of very fast and experienced Giannis Papanikolaou (Kyosho) with Panagiotis Terzis (Mugen) only another three seconds behind. In the main final it was Tasos Paparegas who would hold the upper hand, adding another championship to his belt with Giannis Papanikolaou finishing in a strong 2nd place and Alexandros Anapoliotakis (Tekno) finishing 3rd after making up a lot of ground in the final.
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Round 2 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Covid Summer Series was held this past weekend. The club is managing the Covid race period with reduced numbers to help with all the restrictions to improve safety for everyone. This round saw 53 competitors ready to battle it out on a damp drying track only three rounds as delay to the weather. Callum Niblett took TQ in Nitro Buggy, Karl Jackson in E-Buggy and Paul Fitzpatrick in Truggy. After the A-finals it was Xray’s Callum Niblett with the win in Nitro Buggy some ten seconds in front of the Team Associated duo of Lewis Jones in 2nd and Dylan Saunders, who finished another ten seconds down in 3rd. Simon Reeves and Darren Hayden-Ball came in 4th and 5th respectively while Taro Cradock, Jason Patey, Tehannah Cradock, Jimmy Whitehall, Toby Nicoll and Jamie Clancy completed the A-final result.
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