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June 4, 2018

Mibosport Summer Race – Report

The Mibosport Summer Race was held this past weekend in Blansko with 43 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, Stock LRP, Formula, Hobby and a Nitro class. The Touring Modified class was held in a Reedy-style system. During all six rounds it was a battle for the overall victory between Michal Bok, Radek Flek and Matěj Šulc. In the end Michal Bok was able to take the day’s win with Matěj and Radek in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

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June 4, 2018

Maifield, Tessmann & Cavalieri win at Manufacturers Cup

The Amain Hobbies Manufacturers Cup was hosted by Silver Dollar Raceway in Chico, California over the weekend with some of the fastest U.S. racers making their entry to race in the usual array of 1/8th off-road classes. The Manufacturers Cup is always an exciting race that carries a different format much similar to the Reedy Race of Champions, where the Pro drivers compete in a series of heads-up racing and awarded points after finishing results for each round. The lowest point total taken from 3 of the 4 rounds decides the overall finishing order making each round an all-out race rather. Ryan Maifield was on another level in the Pro Nitro Buggy class as he delivered a perfect performance going 4 for 4 to win all rounds and took the overall without question. The Mugen ace was on top of the tire program selecting the right tire at the right time and got good starts to work his way up to the front. Once in the lead, Maifield put it in overdrive and secured his flawless weekend in Nitro Buggy with some amazing driving. Xray’s Ty Tessman secured 2 wins and locked up 2nd as Kyosho’s Jared Tebo finished on the podium in 3rd.

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June 4, 2018

Joe Bornhorst trifecta at Horizon RC Fest

The Horizon RC Fest was held this last weekend in Monticello, Illinois this past weekend with he event caring about everything radio controlled including planes, drones and cars. As part of the festivities Horizon Hobby held their TLR Cup for 1/8th scale off-road classes and it was Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst who would sweep the Pro Buggy, Truggy and E-Buggy classes. Pro Buggy and Truggy were TQ’ed by TLR’s Dakotah Phend, using what appear to be prototype 8ight 5.0 and 8ight-T 5.0 vehicles, however Bornhorst would ultimately walk away with the wins in Pro Buggy, Truggy and E-Buggy to round out a perfect weekend.

View the Truggy and E-Buggy podiums here

June 4, 2018

Andrew Shapland wins at Pro10 Winter Series

The first round of the Australian Pro Amps Hobbywing Pro10 Winter Series was held at England Park Raceway this past weekend. The TQ went to Jeff Hamon with 18 laps 5:14.376 as well as a new lap record of 16.359 but after the A-mains it was Andrew Shapland on the 1st spot from Clayton Hughes 2nd. Top qualifier, Jeff Hamon had to settle for 3rd overall. The second round will be held on the 30th of June.

Source: Pro10 Australia [facebook.com]

June 4, 2018

Scorpion to power the OneTen series

The organisers of the 2018/19 OneTen Series presented by Infinity are extremely pleased to announce Scorpion Power System as the official supplier of handout motors for the Stock class. This highly competitive class will be run with identical 13.5T motors from this well respected Hong Kong based brand, joining other well known race series around the World such as the ETS to run the famous gold and black power plants. The OneTen series kicks off on in Shanghai at RCI V2 on October 6-7 before going to Hong Kong in December for round 2, then on to Guangzhou in January for round 3 and ending back in Hong Kong in March. Scorpion handout motors will be available at each event with each entrant to the Stock class receiving one with their first entry.

More information, along with details on how to enter, can be found here.

June 4, 2018

Patrick Hofer wins 2WD class at Swiss Buggy Nats Rd3

The third round of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Dielsdorf over the weekend. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class, that attracted a total of 26 drivers, it was Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer who would make a clean sweep by coming out fastest in practice while also winning the qualifiers and A-mains for the overall victory from the Xray duo of Nico Schmid and Florian Schmid in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the 4WD Mod Buggy class, that suffered from a sub-standard entry of only ten cars, it was Florian Schmid with the win from Fabian Luca Widmer in 2nd and Philip Jeisy in 3rd.

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June 4, 2018

Völker & Mächler win at TOS Apeldoorn

Round 5 of the Tonisport Onroad Series West Division was held at the Dutch Apeldoorn track over the weekend. The race attracted many racer from all over Europe and also overseas that tried to get some laps under their belts in preparation for the Dutch round of the 2017/18 ETS that will be held at the AMCA track later this month. In the premier Touring Modified it was the Yokomo duo of Ronald Völker and Christopher Krapp out in front with the two dominating the practice rounds, qualifiers and finals. After the qualifiers Ronald would obtain the TQ spot from Christopher 2nd and Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, who also took a round TQ, in 3rd. The finals then were a done deal for the Yokomo guys that snatched the 1-2 spots ultimately as Alexander Hagberg retained his qualifying position to round out the top 3.

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June 4, 2018

Hugo Miguel successful at Portuguese EP track Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Portuguese Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Maiorca track over the weekend. Serpent’s Hugo Miguel walked away with the win in the 1/10th Touring class from Xray’s Frederic Santos on the runner-up spot. Nuno Duraes would end the day on the 3 spot to round out the podium.

Image: Nuno Duraes