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September 2, 2019

Alexandre Hirata wins at Brazilian Touring Champs

The 2019 Brazilian Electric Touring Car Championships were held in Joinville, Santa Catarina recently in 8.5T Modified and 13.5T Blinky classes. In 8.5T Modified the race for the overall TQ was on between Xray’s Erich Heshiki and WRC Racing’s Alexandre Hirata with the two ending tie on points after the qualifiers with the better tie-breaker handing Erich the overall TQ from Alexandre in 2nd. The finals would be held on Sunday and in very good weather conditions. The opening A-main saw ARC driver Cesar Salvadori taking the win from Denis Picktaill (Awesomatix) and Alexandre Hirata (WRC) – the latter having to recover from a bad start and being dead last in the opening stages. A2 then had Alexandre taking the win from Mugen’s Flavio Elias in 2nd. The final A-main would bring the decision for the overall win with Felipe Franceschi (Xray) taking the leg win and with it the overall 3rd place as Alexandre snatched the overall win and the Brazilian 8.5T Touring title with a 2nd place finish in A3. Cesar Salvadori came in 2nd overall with a steady performance in the finals.

View the final results here

September 2, 2019

Mibosport Cup 2019/20 – Announcement

Mibosport have released full details for the forthcoming 2019/20 season of their highly popular Mibosport Cup. Kicking off on the weekend of the 19th of October, the series offers the usual mix of electric on-road and off-road racing with the new season seeing the addition of the GT Stock 17.5T and FWD classes, both rolling on Mibosport SQS-32PGL BBS-style rims and making use of realistic looking bodies for a more eye-pleasing appearance on the track. For the new season both the on-road and off-road tracks will be laid out on a new carpet and the off-road track also gains in size for even more fun and action. Full details about the series can be found here and here.

September 2, 2019

Tomy Yardy signs with Inside Line Racing

Inside Line Racing have announce that Tom Yardy, one of the top UK off road drivers, has signed a two year contract with PR Racing UK and Inside Line Racing. Tom is a very well respected driver and is very approachable, his setup knowledge and racecraft are second to none. Tom’s dad Chris will be on hand also and he will be a massive asset to, not only Tom, but to every Inside Line Racing driver. Tom will also be using the excellent Maclan MMAX ESC and V2m motors, along with SRT servos in his PR Racing cars. Tom has the following to say about the deal:

I’m really excited to join the PR Racing team. I’ve paid close attention to the way Kev and Alec have developed the brand here in the UK over the last few years, and how the quality and performance of the cars has really advanced since they first came on the scene. With a team combining young superstars with enthusiastic, experienced racers, I hope to help push the cars and the rest of the team forward in 2020 and beyond. I’d like to thank Kev at Inside Line Racing for this opportunity and look forward to getting out on track.

Source: Inside Line Racing [insidelinemodels.com]

August 28, 2019

2019 Romanian Nationals – Report

The Romanian Nationals for 1:8 and 1:10 IC & electric (super stock & touring / juniors and seniors) concluded last weekend on the beautiful asphalt track in Frumusani, just 25 km away from Romanian’s Capital, Bucharest. Hot weather raised the air temperature above 35 degrees and the sun warmed the track over 55 degrees Celsius. Track layout favoured high speed under high grip conditions with the busy schedule starting Friday and allowed only 3 qualifications for each class. From day one till the end, drivers confronted changing grip conditions and cars needed setup changes frequently.

Continue reading the report here

August 26, 2019

CTS4 Rd6 – Report

The finale of CTS4 was concluded this past weekend at Speedworld Raceway in over 100 degree weather. The track layout was similar to the recent ROAR asphalt Nats except it was run in reverse direction which gave the racers a different feel for race flow. In Modified TC Brandon Clements Team Xray Driver who took TQ honours and Won A1 and A2 taking Finals Title with 2019 Reedy Open TC Winner EJ Evans in 2nd and Julian Wong Team Xray Driver in 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

August 26, 2019

Ginting & Tribudiman secure Indonesian EP Offroad titles

The last round of Indonesian EP Offroad National 2019 series was held at SDC Track Serpong, Tangerang. Delivering a total of 65 racers from various cities in Indonesia, it was Bowie Ginting who secure the TQ Spot in 4WD Modified class after he won the tie-breaker from the fresh HB Racing signing Jason Nugroho. Ray Timothy secured 3rd for the main final. In 2WD Modified qualifying, Rama Tribudiman secured the TQ from Rizki Pradana and Adrian Wicaksono. The 4WD Main finals were a close one as Bowie and Jason both won the early two finals, bringing it to A3. Both of them pulled away from the field and battled for the lead, but a mistake from Jason would leave Bowie with a gap and he could win the A3, taking the overall win as well as National champion title for 4WD class. In 2WD, Rama Tribudiman converted his TQ spot into the win after secured an early two legs wins, followed by Adrian Wicaksono and Rizki Pradana. The win also gave Rama the 2WD National champion title.

View the complete race results here

August 26, 2019

Jacob Cruz to run Dash Electronics

Dash have announced that Jacob Cruz has their team to run their electronics from 2019 and beyond. Runner-up at the 2019 Reedy race Open class this year, the highly rated young American will be using the full line of products from Dash and batteries supplied by Arrowmax. He had the following to say:

I want to thank Dash and Mr Lau for this great opportunity. After testing out the products, Im very happy with the quality and performance of Dash electronics. Im super excited to be working with and representing a great company. See you at the track.

Source: Dash [dash-rc.com]

August 25, 2019

Bezerk RC Pro 10 Winter Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Bezerk RC Pro 10 Winter Series was held at England Park Raceway, Brisbane, Australia this weekend. The full long track layout was used for the event and a good field of Pro 10’s turned up to compete. After three rounds of qualifying Shannon Overson’s Bezerk Litesabre secured TQ with Clayton Hughes (Litesabre) second and Scott Tapsall’s (Xray X10W) filling out the top three. Clayton Hughes set the fastest lap time of the night in round three of qualifying with a 14.606 second lap. Heading into the third final it was one win each between Clayton and Shannon. Unfortunately in the decider Clayton’s Bezerk Litesabre had a mechanical failure while leading which handed the race and round win over to Shannon. Clayton secured second place for the round with Terry Norman finishing an impressive third place with his new 73RC chassis. All in all it was a fantastic night of super fast competitive racing with some very sportsmanship behaviour shown in the finals. The third and final round will be held on the 21st of September.

Thanks to Shannon Overson for the report.