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March 8, 2019

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd7 – Report

This past weekend was the seventh and final round of the ever popular Worksop Series, with once again a full entry of drivers across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and the Vintage Buggy. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. The track layout had some great features in it and was proper off-road. Many people commented what a brilliant lay out it was. As always a huge thanks go out to the fantastic Worksop track team.

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March 8, 2019

Kunak & Bayer take 2018/19 Mibosport Cup titles

The 2018/19 Mibosport Cup held its season finishing final round last weekend with the series attracting a total of 414 drivers. 229 attended in the off-road classes while the on-road categories drew a total of 185 entries. This season drivers from twelve countries including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia, Netherlands, Italy, Bulgaria and Canada made their way to the traditional location of he Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The final round of the season attracted a record entry of 261 racers. The Touring Modified attracted 27 racers to compete at the season finale with Zdenko Kunak taking the overall title thanks to winning four of the five rounds this season. Oliver Havránek finished in 2nd ahead of round 2 winner Matěj Šulc.

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March 7, 2019

Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions – Announcement

The organisers of the Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions have announced that Steel City Speedway in Fontana, California will be the new home for the prestigious event following last year’s closure its former location, the Aliso Viejo based Tamiya Raceway. The 2019 edition will take place from the 23rd to 26th of May and due to time constraints and to maintain the world-class nature of the event, total entries are capped at 170 for the Open classes. This year, the Sportsman and Expert spec classes will be powered by 13.5-turn Reedy 540-FT fixed-timing handout motors to even the playing field and reduce costs. The Modified class will remain unchanged, with the winner receiving the honor of competing in the Invitational class in 2020. Full details can be found here and here.

March 7, 2019

Xray Racing Series Finland – Report

The inaugural Xray Racing Series Finland was held at the Fullspeed RC track in Vantaa recently. The race was held on the same track layout as the national a couple of weeks ago which ensured good grip right from the start. The finals would be held in a slightly different format with the finishing order of A1 would mark the starting grid for A2 and so on. In the end it was Team Associated’s Karri Salmela with the overall win in the Touring Modified class from Xray’s Joel Valander in 2nd. Schumacher’s Pekko Iivonen came in 3rd.

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March 7, 2019

Marc Heim wins at Bütschwil Indoor GP

The Bütschwil Indoor GP was held in Bütschwil, Switzerland last weekend, attracting both local drivers and guests from the neighbouring countries. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Marc Heim with the win from Pascal Jutz on the runner-up spot. Germany’s Sven Rodewald would complete the top 3 podium result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 6, 2019

SARDA National EP Off-road Champs Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the South African SARDA National Electric Off-road Championship was held at the Viking Raceway in Tzaneen, South Africa. The under cover carpet track set the challenge once again not making it easy for any of the racers, the high temperatures with high humidity made it even tougher than usual, none the less all the drivers took on the challenge and the best came out on top. In the 2WD and 4WD Mod Buggy classes it was Charles Hollander with the overall TQ while the Stadium, Stock Buggy and 2WD SCT classes were TQ’d by Wickus Coetzer.

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March 6, 2019

Kay Frehner doubles at Scamora Arena finale

The final race of this winter at Switzerland’s Scamora Arena was held last weekend. In 2WD Buggy it was Xray’s Kay Frehner with the win from Markus Streuli (Xray) in 2nd. Yokomo’s Fabian Luca Widmer came in 3rd to round out the top 3. Over in 4WD Buggy it was again Kay Frehner with the win and he would lead an all-Xray podium with Philip Jeisy and Markus Streuli rounding out the top 3 results.

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March 6, 2019

Simon Lauter wins at RT-Pegasus Masters

The 8th annual RT-Pegasus Masters race was held in Piding, Germany last weekend, attracting many of the region’s fast electric on-road racers. In the competitive 13.5T Touring Stock class it was Simon Lauter with the win from Tobias Vogel on the runner-up spot. Christian Donath and Hannes Soyke would round out an all-Awesomatix top 4.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]