The 3rd round of the Schumacher BTCC incorporating the KO GP took place this last weekend at West London. Fine weather throughout saw some close racing with the drivers battling some hot tarmac. Schumacher’s Elliott Harper carried on his form from the last race with an excellent TQ and win in the Modified class. Elliott was followed closely by Xray’s Olly Jefferies and Team Associated driver, Matt White took 3rd overall.
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The newly resurfaced Raco2000 track in Utrecht, The Netherlands played host to round 3 of this year’s RC Lemans Series this past weekend. The track work was finished only two weeks before the event and both club and drivers did their best to make best out of the still slippery track conditions. In the swift LMP1 Modified class the Altmann brothers were a step ahead of the others and both battled for the TQ spot. Both were in a league of their own, being about a lap faster than the other drivers. In the end Kai took the TQ from Tim with a 2-seconds margin. Patrick Vannieuwenhyse came in 3rd in front of Reinder Wilms and Joachim Behnken. Tim also broke the track record by nearly four tenths of a second, setting a blistering 13.275.
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Last weekend the second round of the Norwegian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held at Hof Raceway, located some 45 minutes out off Norway’s capital of Oslo. It has been extremely hot in Norway the past weeks which meant challenging conditions and a hard-packed track with a lot off bumps but the club did its best to make the best out of it. Saturday started off with four qualification rounds for nitro, and Xray factory driver Daniel Kobbevik won three out of four qualifiers meaning the overall TQ in front of Xray’s Lars Erik Moe as Kyosho’s Danny Kwiatkowski came in 3rd.
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The recent Philippines round of the Asian Onroad Championships was held at the Bacolod Central District Speedway with some of world’s fastest electric on-road racers in attendance. This modern facility stepped it up big time providing all the participants with world-class amenities and a high grip track with a technical layout. Thursday started off the event with open practice where racers had to the chance to feel out the layout and dial in their rides. Also lhe local press was present every day of the event and did a great job of exposing RC racing to the locals. With the weather looming in the distance and an unknown forecast for Sunday, Saturday night mains under the lights was a blast to run. Thankfully Sunday was blessed with clear weather all day allowing the organisers to complete the racing program.
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Last weekend saw the running of the opening round of the Oder Pomerania Cup in Poznan, Poland. Conditions were very difficult as it was hot and the bumpy track had almost no traction. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Donat Bula brought home the win from Paweł Ntkovca 2nd and Mateusz Dudzic 3rd. Over in the 1/8th E-Buggy class Bartosz Zalewski was super fast all day and after winning all qualifiers and the semifinal he also took the overall win after the A-main finals with Wojtek Rzepecki and Steven Nortdorf rounding out the top 3.
The second round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held in the north of the country. The track was in good shape upon the beginning of the weekend, however a bit slippery and dusty but this would change soon and the traction was coming up quite fast. Unfortunately overnight rain washed away all traction and it was Hupo Hönigl who made the best out of the conditions on Sunday, bringing home the double win in the 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes from Peter Pinisch 2nd and Martin Kreil 3rd.
The second round of the RC HobbyRacing Cup was held in Skripov recently on a bumpy and technical track. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Ales Bidovsky with the overall win from David Krizak and Bartek Zalewski in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Martin Rytir and Jaroslav Valder would round out the top 5 results.
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The third round of the HSH Sundayrace Cup was held at the HSH Racetracks in Dintikon, central Switzerland. Nearly 30 drivers attended in the three classes offered and in Touring Modified it was local hero Michele Manzo with three wins in the triple A-mains in front of Jan Hässig and Nuno Huber.
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