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June 5, 2018

Danish Electric Off-road Champs Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Danish Electric Off-road Championship was held at the RC Kongen outdoor track last weekend. The track was laid out with both old and new carpet, making setup a bit difficult. The track is also the home track of the Douglas and Kaerup families and both showed instant speed during the practice rounds. In the 2WD class Jesper Rasmussen set the pace in Q1 in front of Frederik Hovgaard. Jesper and Frederik upped their speed in every round of qualifying with Jesper holding the upper hand. Behind the two the battle for 3rd was closed between Lasse Bak and Marcus Kærup. Just behind the top 4 it was on-road driver Mike Hansen as Jonas Kærup was showing great speed but some electronic problem in every round stopped him to make full five minute runs.

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June 5, 2018

BRCA Clubmans Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the BRCA Clubmans Series took place at Aldershot Model Car Club. All of the Championship leaders and contenders were present for what was to be a sun drenched meeting for the whole weekend. Saturday saw a packed pit area with most of the competitors arriving for that all important practice on one of the Souths best tracks, with its infamous chicane onto the very long straight which leads into a banked sweeper – if taken incorrectly this could easily see you taking a trip into the scenery – then to the fast infield section to complete the lap. As it was dry weekend Sweep 34 control tyres would be used for the TC classes and Sweep SW control tyres also for the Formula class.

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June 5, 2018

Stefan Lutka wins E-Buggy class at NEOS Rd2

The second round of the NEOS series was held at Kvetoslav, Slovakia recently. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Stefan Lutka with the overall TQ and win after a mistake-free main final. Marek Baumerth came in 2nd from Petr Skacel 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 5, 2018

Jakub Klapacz wins at Polish On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Polish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Ruda Slaska track recently. In the competitive 13.5T stock class it was Jakub Klapacz with the TQ from Krystian Kopacki and Arkadiusz Smyk, however the finals were not run after the organisers had to call it a day following torrential rain. This meant the qualifying results were taken as the overall ranking with Jakub taking the win from Krystian and Arkadiusz.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

June 5, 2018

Tyrolean Championship Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Tyrolean Championship was hosted by the RCCÖ club and held in Umhausen. Like the previous round the race was held in four electric on-road classes and in the Touring Modified category, that attracted a total of six entries all of which were in a position to win or at least finish on the podium, it was Thomas Rinner with error-free runs that award him the overall win from Aaron Tursky 2nd and Markus Fleischmann 3rd.

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June 4, 2018

Adam Drake trifecta at JBRL Nitro Series Rd3

For round 3 of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series racers travelled to the Pro-Line Raceway in Banning, California. Mugen’s Adam Drake would sweep the Expert Nitro Buggy, Open Truggy and Open E-Buggy classes to make a perfect sweep. Anthony Westergaard (HB Racing) and Carlos Arredondo (Tekno) came in 2nd and 3rd in the Expert Buggy class while Carlos Arredondo and Cole Jenson (HB Racing) rounded out the Open Truggy podium. Finally in the Open E-Buggy class it was Anthony Westergaard on the runner-up spot from Steve Harris (Tekno) 3rd.

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June 4, 2018

BRCA Formula National Championship Rd3 – Report

Round three of the BRCA 1/10th Formula National Championship was held at the Aldershot track this past weekend. Andy Murray and Ben Cosgrove, the latter being hindered by not be able to show up for Saturday’s practice rounds, battled it out for the overall TQ in qualifying. Ultimately it was Ben with the TQ and pole position thanks to winning the tie-breaker. In the opening A-main Ben made a mistake about three laps in running too low and rolling mid sweeper dropping him back to 4th. He managed to catch and pass Luke Lee in the sweeper the next lap and then Andy and James Wright were tangled together when Cosgrove arrived at the next corner. From then on Ben backed off and took a relaxed leg win. Leg 2 then was a very simple race from the front with a controlled pace so Ben Cosgrove (Xray) took the leg win and with it the overall with Luke Lee (Xray) and Stephen Lander (Capricorn) coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Thanks to Ben Cosgrove for the report.

June 4, 2018

Caroli & Laubscher win at SA 12th Nats Rd3

The third round of the 2018 South-African ORE 1/12th National Championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena. In the 1/12 Modified class and after missing round 2 due to his host responsibilities at the pre-worlds, local Xray driver Antonio Caroli showed good early pace during practice with Marius van Niekerk, Shaun Schutte, Willie du Plooy and Wayne Joelson also running good fast laps. Ultimately it was Antonio Caroli who managed to secure TQ with Marius van Niekerk and Willie du Plooy starting from 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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