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May 24, 2019

Volker & Vejrak open Reedy Race with wins

The 22nd running of the Reedy Race of Champions is underway, with the sun finally turning up after rain washed out yesterday’s practice day. With just two heats of racing per round for the 22 car field, it was Meen Vejrak who registered the first win on the events debut at the Steel City RC Speedway. Starting from pole, the Yokomo driver managed to stay out front throughout the more stacked of the two races despite pressure from Viktor Wilck who made contact with the Thai driver on more than one occasion. Behind them defending champion Marc Rheinard would open his campaign with a P3 after Jan Ratheisky got the jump on him at the start that saw a good battle between the two Germans. In the other encounter, which featured no less than 8 US drivers, it was the visitors that came through to complete the Top 3. Starting 10th on the grid Ronald Volker was up to third by the hairpin on the opening lap and soon after was out front for a dominant win. Lining up 11th for the start, RROC debutant Lucas Urbain would take his Awesomatix through to second with young up & coming Japanese star Takuma Sasaki third.

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May 24, 2019

Kasekamp & Lainemae win at Estonian Off-road Nats Rd1

Round 1 of the Estonian Off-road Nationals was held at the Tartu RC track recently featuring all sorts of scales, ranging from 1/10th scale up to 1/5th Large Scale, making for ever changing conditions on the astroturf and red clay track. In qualifying it would be Hendrik Lainemae setting the pace in both E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy. The trend would continue in the finals. Nitro Buggy would see a lot of interesting situations for the top drivers. Hendrik would lead the field for the start of the 30-minute final but flamed out on the in-lap for the first round of pit-stops. Karl Kasekamp would take the lead, closely followed by Robin Ilus. Some 14 minutes into the race, Karl would pit after mishearing someone else being called in. Robin Ilus would suffer a flame-out and a shaky last pit stop for Hendrik would give Karl a safe gap to pit an extra time before the end. On the last laps Hendrik would pass Rainer Ressar, who had a mostly clean recovery drive after his 1st lap which dropped him to last, for 2nd position.

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May 24, 2019

2019 Muchmore Race Italy – Announcement

The 2019 edition of the Muchmore Race Italy will be held on the 30th of June at the Pianbosco track. The race will see the running of the four electric on-road classes of Touring Modified, EFRA Stock, Formula and LM Series and it will attract many of the country’s swift electric on-road drivers. In the past the event has seen the attendance of drivers of the likes of Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prümper and more details can soon be found here.

May 24, 2019

Reedy Race practice rained off in not so sunny California

Sunny California didn’t live up to its billing today with practice for the 22nd running of the Touring Car Reedy Race of Champions being rained off. With this year’s event the beginning of a new era for the legendary race as it moves from the famous Tamiya RC Raceway, which is no more, to Steel City RC Speedway, invite drivers got just one run in less than ideal conditions, before shortly after lunch the rains returned and the decision was made to call an end to official proceedings. With cars struggling for traction, reigning 7-time RROC Champion Marc Rheinard joked from the drivers stand it felt like playing Super Mario and running over banana skins. With weather for both Friday and Saturday set to deliver the shorts & t-shirts weather associated with California, Race Director Scotty Ernst issued a new schedule which will see the invitational drivers get two practice runs in the morning before getting down to the real business of 5 rounds of the events unique heads up racing. A further 5 rounds are planning for Saturday but with rain forecast to arrive again on Sunday afternoon, a call to run the final two rounds of racing on Sunday morning will be made based on the the latest forecast given on Saturday.

May 23, 2019

Bartosz Zalewski doubles at RCSP Cup Rd1

Round 1 of the Polish Puchar RC Sport Piaseczno RCSP Cup was held recently with Bartosz Zalewski sweeping the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. On Saturday the weather was on the rainy side, however this changed for Sunday when the sun came out, making for good racing conditions. Bartosz would be accompanied by Donat Bula and Marek Cisek on the Nitro podium while Lukasz Polak and Jan Zalewski rounded out the E-Buggy top 3.

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May 23, 2019

E-Buggy win for Ty Tessmann at Lonestar Challenge

Thornhill RC Raceway in Hutto, Texas played host to the Lonestar Challenge last weekend. The event also doubled as the nationals warmup and the event, organised by The Dirt, attracted most of the country’s fast 1/8th off-road racers. Friday was practice day on a wet track, it was watered a couple of times throughout the day which gave good grip. The track started to get smooth and polished up by Friday night and in the first round of electric buggy Xray’s Ty Tessmann qualified 3rd which he backed up by two TQs which would give him the overall TQ. Sunday was mains day, and drivers were still trying to get grip on the polished surface. The organisers did double A-mains for E-Buggy with both mains counting to determine the overall winner. A1 was up first, Tessmann had a mistake fairly early on that he needed to be marshalled for which dropped him quite a ways back to 4th. Ty got back in the groove and was able to make his way by 3rd and 2nd place and then had a good battle with Agama’s Ryan Lutz before making a pass back to the lead which is where he would finish the race. A2 was smoother, Ty was able to just put in clean laps and lead tone to tone, which would give him the overall win in from Ryan Lutz 2nd and Serpent’s Brandon Rose 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 22, 2019

Theobald & Endres win at Pro Stock Series

The Mac-Saar Niederwürzbach club in Germany held a round to the Pro Stock Series this past weekend. The weather was a bit on the changeable site, however the race would be held as planned with only some minor rain delays. In the IC Track class it was Oliver Theobald (Shepherd) with the win from David Kröger (Shepherd) and Matthias Günther (Shepherd). Over in the 1/8th Electric class it was Benny Endres with the win from Rene Franzl Simon and Frank Ramsperger.

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May 22, 2019

2019 SARDA National Championship Rd2 – Report

The TRAP Raceway was host to the second round of the SARDA National 1/10th Off-road Championship in Pretoria, South Africa last weekend. TRAP being a tight track with not many opportunities to pass makes qualifying in a good position vital, this also led to some of the closest and most exciting racing seen for a while with everyone hunting the top step of the podium. Charles Hollander would top qualify in the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes while Wikus Coetzer swept 2WD Stock, Stadium Trucks and 2WD SCT. In the 4WD Stock class it was Michael Gibson who would led the field. In the 2WD Mod A-main it then also was Charles Hollander who also brought home the win with Rikus Jansen Van Vuuren and Wikus Coetzer coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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