The Danish Odense RC Minirace club hosted round 1 of their popular club racing series this past weekend. In the combined Stock/FWD 17.5T JuStock class it was electric off-road ace, Jesper Rasmussen with the overall TQ after winning all three qualifying rounds. In the triple A-finals Jesper would hold onto the lead despite a hard charging field to take the win in front of Mads Koue in 2nd and Rasmus Andersen in 3rd.
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A round of the RCK Challenge Central/West Division was held at the recently renewed outdoor asphalt track of the DJK Andernach club. The event saw the running of four electric on-road classes and in Touring Super Stock it was Awesomatix’s own Max Mächler with the overall TQ after a clean sweep in all four qualifying rounds. The triple A-mains then again saw Max out in front and by winning A1 and A2 he grabbed the overall win with one leg to spare. A3 winner, Manuel Wagner (Xray) came in 2nd overall from Jill Bartsch (Awesomatix) in 3rd.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
The EMBCM club of Horgen, Switzerland hosted round 2 of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals last weekend. The event kicked off with the 2WD Buggy class on Saturday with the race being held in challenging weather conditions. Fabian Luca Widmer snatched the TQ from young Kay Frehner (Team Associated), however the latter would take wins in A1 and A2 of the A-main to take the overall victory from Nico and Florian Schmid (both Xray) in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The opening race on Nemo Racing’s new Nemo Raceway in Royal Leamington Spa, UK was held this past weekend in Nitro and Electric Off-road classes. The event attracted nearly 60 entries and in Nitro Buggy it was Lee Martin with the overall TQ, tie on points with Neil Cragg as Tommy Hall came in 2rd overall. The E-Buggy class was top qualified by Scott Follington from Sean Berryman in 2nd.
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Round 8 of the Houston Area RC Series was held at the Gulf Coast Raceway in Porter, Texas this past weekend, attracting nearly 70 entries. In Open Nitro Buggy it was Dillon Caldwell with the TQ and also the overall win in the 20-minute A-main event. Mike Garrett came in 2nd overall, already some three laps back as Tim Bort came in 3rd overall, some 5.5 seconds behind Mike.
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Round 5 of the 2019/2020 One12 Series was hosted by the Jokerteam Bolzano this past weekend. The event was held in 1/12th Open and GT12 classes and in 1/12th Open it was Alessio Mota who would dominate the proceedings with Alessandro Giubbilei coming in 2nd overall. Luca Tassinari would round out the top 3 result. Over in GT12 it was Alessio Tolomelli with the win from Mattia Dall’Oca in 2nd and Guido Carbognani in 3rd overall.
The fourth round of the 2020 StickIt1Racing.com “We’re Back Racing” Friday Night Modified Off-Road Series was hosted by PDX RC Underground in Portland, Oregon last Friday. Yokomo privateer Joseph Johnson took an impressive 2WD Modified Buggy win in front of Yokomo USA team manager, Joe Pillars who finished 2nd overall after just losing out the tie-breaker with Joseph Johnson settled by the fastest time with both drivers having three wins. Yokomo USA team driver, Travis Harker finished 3rd overall for a Yokomo podium lock-out.
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Round 5 of the Huge Challenge was held at the Huge RC Circuit in Bangkok, Thailand this past weekend. The event saw the running of a multitude of nitro and electric on-road classes and in Touring 17.5T Non-Boost it was Kanyarat “Grace” Kleungsakul with the TQ and also the overall win. Sakdarat Thanet came in 2nd overall from Sato Atsushi in 3rd. P. Thanate Oil and Oguri Tomoyuki completed the top 5 tie on points.
Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]
