The second round of the Brazilian State Championships was held at the AARC Racing Track in Santo André, Brazil last weekend. Erich Heshiki (Xray) took the overall TQ in the 8.5T Modified Touring class, tie on points with Awesomatix’s Dennis Pickthall. The triple A-mains saw Erich coming out on top in all mains for the overall as Cesar Salvadori (ARC) snatched the runner-up spot from Dennis in 3rd overall.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
The second round of the Portuguese Touring Car Championship was held at the AMVR track with nearly 30 drivers in attendance. The weekend was blessed with great weather, temperatures in the mid-20s, no wind, a clean track and good traction. In the Touring Car class both Carlos Manual and Hugo Miguel showed a strong pace and even made that extra lap in the fourth qualifying round. This set the stage for the finals with Carlos taking the pole position from Hugo on the 2 spot. When the dust had settled, it was Hugo who came out successful, taking the win for Serpent with Capricorn’s Carlos Manuel on the runner-up spot. Mario Miranda (Xray) was on fire in the finals, taking the final podium spot coming from the 5th spot on the grid.
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The opening round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held as a joint event together with the first International Foam Race IFR at the MAC de Baanbrekers club in Rucphen, The Netherlands. The weather forecast saw wet and windy conditions, however the weekend kicked off with dry weather on Friday and parts of Saturday. The opening qualifier for the 1/8th Electric Stock and Pro10 Modified, Stock and Super Stock classes was also held in dry conditions, however things went down from there. The 1/8th Stock class saw Adrien Viallet taking the opening qualifier from the Smits brothers, Martijn and Jeroen. Jeroen in turn would take the second qualifier in front of Martijn while Jeroen Smits came in 3rd. During Sunday’s wet qualifiers the drivers opened to not start meaning Martin would take the pole position for the finals. Martin would then take the opening A-main with quite a margin, however Adrien came out on top in the wet A2 and A3 for the overall. Martin and Jeroen would complete the top 3 podium.
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The second round of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Midland RC track in Lelystad last weekend. In the Touring Modified class it was Florian Joos who would pretty much dominate the proceedings, despite having never run on this track before. In the end it was Florian with the win from 2017 Dutch Modified champ Sidney Blokker in 2nd and 2018 Dutch Modified champ Rick Van den Akker in 3rd.
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Performa Racing has announced that multiple time World Champion racer Ryan Maifield has signed to campaign their new line of RC products. The Mugen factory driver will use Performa Racing’s line of competition 1/8th scale electronics and he has the following to say about the deal:
I’m extremely impressed with the Performa line of products, the 1/8th electric speed control, motors and batteries are a game changer and have been a huge step forward for my race program, I’m excited to see what comes next from Performa. I will use everything at the Silver State for the first time.
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Last weekend the outdoor season in Western Germany kicked off on the huge Astroturf track of the RCRT Duisburg club. The joint event of the NORC round 2 and the West German National Qualifier saw almost 120 entries in several electric off-road classes. The weekend started pretty wet with lots of rain on Saturday but things changed on Sunday when the rain stopped and the track dried off with every hour. After three rounds of qualifying Jens Becker was able to take the TQ in the 2WD Modified class and he was also able to bring home the overall win after the mains. It was a though but fair and fun fight with Marcel Schneider who finished 2nd, followed by Jorg Mampel in 3rd.
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The Austrian SMRC club held a club race last weekend. The event saw a somewhat different race format with only two qualifiers, 20 minutes long for the 2WD class while the 4WD and Truck qualifiers were held over ten minutes. The final grid was decided by the best three consecutive laps. Max Götzl took the TQ in all three classes with the 2WD top 3 being made up by Martin Fischer and Manfred Resch while Antonia Kovalzski and Roland Hauleitner came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the 4WD class. The finals then were run over eight minutes in 2WD and six minutes in 4WD and Truck.
The opening round of the Norwegian Touring Nationals was held in wet conditions at the Helganes Motorsports Centre in Karmøy. With several entrants pulling out due to the weather conditions, only 6 drivers made up the Modified qualifiers, that already from the start seemed to be a battle between Øyvind Stusdal and Nikolai Håheim. As the rain had been pouring down during the night, and the rain showers were expected to continue during the day, the race officials decided to declare it a wet race, and the track was indeed very wet. Stussdahl took Q1, five seconds ahead of Håheim, before Håheim fought back in Q2 securing the heat. An unfortunate mechanical error set an early stop for Stusdal in Q3, securing Håheim the TQ. The remainder of the participants struggled heavily with the conditions.
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