October 24, 2018

Cragg & Austin win at EMAS Series Rd2

The second round of the EMAS series was held at NDOR in the East Midlands. This series is a joint venture between the Deerdale Off Road and NDOR club and is local series for local drivers. The day’s racing consisted of a round of practice and then three rounds of qualifying. The Nitro Buggy A-final was an intense race with battles going on throughout the whole race. However after 15 minutes Neil Cragg took the win with an impressive time of 24/15m 26.33. Kieran Cox took 2nd place with an equally impressive time of 24/15m 40.51, Dave Bailey took 3rd place with a time of 22/15m 0.93. In the E-Buggy A-main Dan Austin took the win a entire lap in front of the rest of field. David Corden took 2nd place and Matt Bridge took 3rd place overall. The third round will be at Deerdale Off Road on the 25th November.

View the E-Buggy podium here

October 24, 2018

2018/19 Winter Jumps Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Finnish Winter Jumps electric off-road series was held at the Fullspeed RC Indoor Arena in Vantaa, Finland, with a new record of 122 entries in the two classes. The race was held at the facility’s huge astro turf track and the competition was very high. The layout was fast with difficult jump sections and the race featured four former Euros A-main finalists, which would make for some stiff competition. The 2WD race had a record breaking 74 entries of the like of Joona Haatanen, Joel Valander, Karri Salmela and Pekko Iivonen. These drivers showed a high pace from the start and along with Konsta Saarinen, Lauri Ruotsalainen and Tuomo Otsavaara these were the drivers dominating the qualifying.

Continue reading the report here

October 23, 2018

Arrowmax Cup Singapore Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Arrowmax Cup Singapore, a joint race with the Singapore Nationals, was held at the RCMC PA track last weekend. In the Touring Modified class, that was part of the Singapore Nationals, the three A-mains produced a lot of action on the track with ARC’s PY Tang taking the overall win from Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee in 2nd. Xray’s Dominic Quek rounded out the top 3 results after some troubled A-mains.

Continue reading the report here

October 23, 2018

Adam Drake doubles at Hal’s Hobby Fall Brawl

The 1st annual Fall Brawl was held at Hal’s Hobby Warehouse Raceway in El Paso, Texas over the weekend. Mugen’s Adam Drake went on to TQ and win both the Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes with Casey Peck and Ronda Drake rounding out the Nitro Buggy podium for a full Mugen sweep.

Thanks to Adam Drake for the update.

October 23, 2018

Mauritian Championship & Mauritian Cup – Report

Mauritius recently saw the running the of the joint 2018 Mauritian Championship and Mauritian Cup. Both were held in EP and GP classes such as Electric Touring 10.5T, 1/8th Buggy/Rallygame and 1/8th Brushless Buggy/Rallygame. As for the Championship race it was Jovanni Appasamy (Xray) with the win in the Touring 10.5T category from Danen Conjamalay (Spec-R) in 2nd and Adrien Philippe (Xray) in 3rd. In 1/8th Brushless it was Mosheem Caseem (Xray) with the win from Danen Conjamalay (HoBao) 2nd and Akheale Chinnayya (HoBao) on the 3 spot. The Mauritius Cup was held in three classes with the Touring 10.5T win being snatched by Jovanni Appasamy (Xray) from Serpent driver, Kevin Robert in 2nd and Damien Dardenne (Xray) in 3rd. The 1/8th Buggy/Rallygame class was won by William Tonti (Serpent) from Christophe Cazin (Kyosho) in 2nd and Yannick Mascareigne (Kyosho) in 3rd. Finally in the 1/8th Brushless Buggy/Rallygame class it was William Tonti (Serpent) with the win from Christophe Cazin (Kyosho) 2nd and Mosheem Casseem (Xray) in 3rd.

Thanks to Jovanni Appasamy for the report.

October 23, 2018

Simon Lauter wins at German EP On-road regionals

A round of the South German division electric on-road regionals was held at the SLR Ingolstadt club this past weekend. In the competitive 13.5T Touring class it was Awesomatix’s Simon Lauter with the TQ and win for a clean sweep. His Awesomatix teammates Christian Donath and Max Mächler would round out the top 3 in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

October 23, 2018

Kenrick Fong teams up with Yokomo

Yokomo have announced the signing of Hong-Kong-based touring car front runner, Kenrick Fong to their team. The former MTS driver already collected some impressive results at events such as the AOC, the IFMAR Worlds and at several Asia-based cup races, despite for being in the hobby for only a couple of years. Kenrick will be using the forthcoming BD9 at races in Hong Kong, China and all over Asia and he had the following to say:

At first, thanks Tom, Aso and Jackie providing me this opportunity to being a member of the Team Yokomo family. It is a big change in my RC career. In the following time, I will keep racing and promote Yokomo brand with Jackie. Can’t wait for the races coming and see my friends on the track. Once again, thanks Andy Tse and Derek Hung from MTS for giving me support in the previous years since I was young. Thank you very much and see you guys soon.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

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