Round 4 of the popular HIT series was held in the Czech Republic recently. A technically track of medium grip challenged the drivers and in the end it was Oliver Havranek with the win in the Touring Modified class from Martin Kratochvil in 2nd and Radko Cernohous in 3rd, making it an all-Xray top 3. Over in the Formula class Lukas Hoch walked away with the silverware from Filip Radjus in 2nd and Svetlin Douhlevski in 3rd.
The second round of the West Division 2019/20 Tonisport Onroad Series was hosted by the Racing Arena Limburg in Sittard, The Netherlands this past weekend. The race was held in a multitude of classes and in the premier Touring Modified category it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker with the overall win from now free agent, Yannic Prümper on the runner-up spot. Awesomatix’s Thimo Weissbauer came in 3rd to round out the podium in front of Lucas Urbain, Christopher Krapp and Loic Jasmin. Sebastian Meibörg, Liam van de Wouwer and Martin Machura completed the A-main results.
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The fourth round of the 2019/20 Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place over the past weekend. In Touring 13.5T Mitch Fiddling would set the initial pace in the early rounds before a fatal incident would end his day. Chris Lovely would pick up the mantle and take the further three rounds of qualifying with his Xray T4’20. Lisa Keen would find the pace with her Serpent, Alex Brocklebank would fit his Schumacher Mi7 into 3rd. Joseph Cocking debuting his new Yokomo BD10 would sit in 4th, ahead of Callum Chapman with his mid motor converted Xray, Jay Kay would show consistency with his Yokomo, Andrew Twigger would debut well with his Xray making the A-final.
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Flowood Indoor R/C Park of Flowood, Mississippi held the 2020 January Jam this past weekend with nearly 190 entries for the several nitro and electric off-road classes. In the Expert Nitro Buggy class it was Agama pilot Brandon Rose with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in the 30-minute A-main event, leaving behind Kody Watson (JQ Racing) in 2nd, two laps behind. Cameron Breaux (HB Racing) would round out the top 3 result anther two laps down. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Brandon with the overall win after coming out on top in A1 and A2 while A2 winner, Cameron Breaux took the runner-up spot.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracingusa.com]
Round 4 of the Xray Racing Series Germany was held in Leipzig recently. The event saw the running of several electric on-road classes and in Touring FWD it was Stefan Schulz with the overall win from Sven Muller in 2nd and Michael Klaus in 3rd.
Touring Stock saw Stefan Schulz walking away with the win from Tim Schulte in 2nd and Michael Zierold in 3rd while in the Touring 17.5T class Peter Stein took the day’s win from Julius Stein on the runner-up spot as Mirko Schulze completed the top 3 results.
The Formula class had Andreas Beier taking the win from Enrico Hahn 2nd and Sebastian Keller in 3rd.
Lastly in the 1/12th scale pan car class Dirk Brauer took the win from Philipp Lischke 2nd and Christopher Bergholz 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The 2020 IFMAR 1/12th scale World Championship were held in Milton Keynes, UK, attracting nearly 60 entries for the LMP Modified and 60 entires for the LMP Stock class. The event was held on a purpose-built track within the large Centre:MK shopping mall, ensuring a good exposure of the sport to potential new racers. Free practice of the Modified class was lead by Alexander Hagberg while Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa took the seeding practice. Michal Orlowski then snatched the overall TQ, winning four of the six qualifiers from single round TQ, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa. Olly Jefferies came in 3rd with a steady performance as single round TQ and former 1/12th scale World Champ, Marc Rheinard put his car in 4th overall. A-main 1 then saw Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa taking the win with a 1-second margin from Marc as Ollie Payne came in 3rd, another second behind. TQ Michal lacked a bit of speed and had to settle for 5th.
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The Ohio RC Factory of Jeffersonville, Ohio held the 2020 CRCRC Winter Midwest Championship this past weekend, attracting nearly 330 entries including some of the country’s fastest 1/10th off-road pilots. TLR’s Dakotah Phend was in full swing, taking the overall TQs in 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy and Stadium Truck. The triple 5-minute A-mains saw Dakotah taking wins in A1 and A2 for an early overall as A3 winner Cole Tollard (Team Associated) cemented his runner-up spot from Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin in 3rd.
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This past weekend at RCI V2 in Shanghai, China, running alongside the OneTen Series for touring cars, the all new SGP1 Formula One series kicked off its inaugural season. An ultra fun, team-based series, running realistically painted body-shells to some very unique and interesting rules, all those in attendance seemed genuinely excited to be taking part and while competitive everyone seemed to be having fun, with teams not only competing on the track but off the track too with light hearted banter in the pits. Bringing fun back into RC and getting people back racing F1 was the goal of Rick Wang and Ben Lai and it has been very well received with the limited team spots selling out and a full grid at the opening round. We talked with the man behind SGP1, Rick Wang, to get a clearer insight into the concept and future plans for SGP1.
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