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January 14, 2019

British Off-Road Grand Prix 2019 – Report

The British Off-Road Grand Prix 2019 also known as the MK GP was held in Milton Keynes this past weekend. The race is held in the super-sized MK shopping centre, a superb location with approx. 100,000 visitors per day, and organised by the capable Silverstone RCMCC. With 180 plus entries and several of Europe’s very best professional RC racers in attendance the MK GP was always going to be the ‘must-attend’ event for the major manufacturers for the main 1/10th off-road 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes, making it possibly the biggest off-road event taking place in the UK this year. The track looked relatively simple from the side-lines, but clearly as each heat of drivers took to the track the difficulties became clear – getting a smooth, trouble free 5x minute qualifier would be hard to achieve.

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January 14, 2019

SDRC Supercross Rd1 – Report

SDRC of San Diego, California held round 1 of their SDRC Supercross Series this past weekend with over 120 entries. The race was held in several electric off-road classes and 2WD Expert Open saw Kevin King taking the TQ and also the win in the single 7-minute A-main event, leaving behind Eli Westrup in 2nd and Tito Gonzalez in 3rd. Tyler Hicks and Matt Barksdale would round out the top 5 results.

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January 14, 2019

Sobue & Ratheisky extend OneTen winning streaks

Akio Sobue has maintained his perfect record at the 2018/19 OneTen Series presented by Infinity having taken the win in the 8-minute A-main here in Guangzhou. Having already wrapped up the title with the win in round 5 yesterday, the Japanese driver led a mostly processional race as racers drove with battery conservation in mind. In the end, the top 4 finished in the positions they started with Sawada crossing the line in 2nd, while Nicholas Lee and Jan Ratheisky, who had a good battle early on, completed the top 4 with Haoran Ma in 5th. The talk before the race was trying to finish the 8 minutes on this high speed track and Sobue said he drove the race very smoothly, having pushed hard in the first few laps to build a gap. He was able to maintain his lead and in the end had a lot of power left in his 6300mAh cells. Despite having taken the title, the Infinity driver said he will for sure be in Hong Kong for the final two rounds saying he is aiming for a perfect score in the series.

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January 14, 2019

Louth RCCC Schumacher Winter Series Rd4 – Report

With the Christmas and new year period it was back to racing for round 4 of the Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club. An ever increasing field showed up with the numbers reaching 75 a club record. In 13.5 Touring qualifying Chris Lovely would set the pace early on, on a track catching many out when they tended to push. Andrew Green would leave it all till the last round with Ricky Lee 3rd, brother Kyle would line up 4th, with Joe Cocking, Daniel Burks and Nathan Winyard in 7th.

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January 14, 2019

Jörn Neumann doubles at DHI Cup

The annual DHI Cup was held in Odense, Denmark this past weekend. As usual the race was held simultaneously on an off-road and an on-road track with the tracks sharing the drivers’ stand. In the 1/10th Buggy categories it was Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann with the clean sweep, taking the win in both 2WD and 4WD as HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk and Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in 2WD Buggy. Over in 4WD Buggy it was David Ronnefalk with the runner-up spot from HB Racing teammate, Hampus Berg in 3rd.

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January 14, 2019

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

The second round of this Winter’s XRS Germany was held at the permanent track of the MCRT-Aschaffenburg club. It was the last time the race took place at this facility since the track is likely to be closed in the first quarter of 2019. As the track is known for its small technical layout it demanded a lot from all drivers to make all clean runs. Classes run were Touring Car Stock, 1/12 GT Pan Car, Touring Car FWD and Formula. Most of the drivers already started off on Saturday with a whole day of free practice. Sunday was race day and at first saw three rounds of qualifying with the best two to count. Jannick Namyslo found a decent starting setup for his car and was able to TQ all three rounds. In FWD Harald Schmittgen, who drove the new Xray prototype, swept the qualifiers, highlighting the performance of both man and machine. In Formula Johannes dominated the field while in 1/12 GT Pan Car Felix was topping the timing sheets followed by Benedikt.

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January 13, 2019

Sobue & Ratheisky to start Rd6 A-mains from pole

Akio Sobue has continued his dominance of the Sweep Modified class as the Japanese driver took the 3rd round of qualifying and wrapped up the top qualifying spot here early in Guangzhou for round 6 of the series with one qualifier still left to run. Jan Ratheisky did a similar feat in the Scorpion Stock class as the Xray racer once again was not headed by any of the local racers. In modified, the German bolted on a fresh set of Sweep handout tires and looked set to stop Sobue’s dominance, leading the heat for 3 minutes, but unfortunately fell back in the last minute which allowed Akio and Nicholas Lee passed. Sawada took 4th, while Lao Minhao completed the top 5. Sobue was once again on used tires, using a combination of 2 run old rear tires on the front and rear of his IF14, and said he felt the traction improve in the last 2 minutes of his run as the tires came in. For the final qualifier and the single 8-minute long A-main, Sobue still has two brand new sets of tires.

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January 13, 2019

OneTen Rd6 kicks off with familiar faces topping Q1

Round 6 of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity kicked off at Feiteng Raceway in Guangzhou with cooler conditions than on Saturday. The colder track conditions meant traction was a little lower than before but the order of the top 2 drivers remained the same. Akio Sobue, who claimed the season title in Modified yesterday, was again the pace setter from Jin Sawada, who seeded first in controlled practice earlier in the morning. 3rd spot for the opening round went to Jan Ratheisky, while Nicholas Lee and Gary Huang, the Xray driver running in the 2nd fastest heat, completed the top 5. Sobue who was on one run tires from the 2nd A-main yesterday felt that the traction was lower today but his car and the used tire were still ok.

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