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March 19, 2018

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian Touring Nats Rd1

The opening round of Indonesian 1/10 Electric On-road National Championship was held at the Giant Arena Circuit in South Borneo. A huge 75×40 meters asphalt track, inside an asphalt mixing facility, attracted 50 racers who joined the primary Modified class in medium high traction conditions. Racing-wise it was the defending national champion, Bowie Ginting, who scored an early two TQ points to secure himself the pole position while Suwardi Suliandy took the 3rd round to start from 2nd on the grid followed by Chandra Yosef on P3. In the mains it was again Bowie who led the proceedings, taking the overall victory from Yosef and Suliandy.

View the final results here

March 19, 2018

Micha Widmaier doubles in Leonberg

The annual 1/10th Electric Off-road race in Leonberg, Germany was held recently and it was SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier with the double TQ in the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. Winning all six A-main events secured Micha a double win for a clean sweep with Yokomo’s Aaron Münster taking the runner-up spots in both classes. Team C’s Sven Zünd would round out the 2WD podium while Xray’s Ales Schmitt completed the 4WD top 3.

View the 4WD podium here

March 18, 2018

Lutz dominates EP Buggy in China

Completely dominating the Electric Buggy class here at the SIGP in Xiamen, southern China, Ryan Lutz took all qualifiers and the first two of 3 A-mains to wrap up the overall win early. In a league of his own, the winning margin after 5 minutes for the Tekno driver over 2nd place Yusuke Sugiura was 11 seconds in the first main, and 7 seconds over Sunpadow backed Kaja Novotny in the 3rd main. With the US driver sitting out A3, Sugiura would take the win in the final A-main to secure the runner up spot, while a disappointed Kaja took the final spot on the podium in 3rd place. Chen Guanxian, Jonathan Yeung and Chinese National Champion Hu Weiping would complete the top 6.

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March 17, 2018

Ryan Lutz TQs EP Buggy in China

Ryan Lutz is the top qualifier of EP Buggy at the 2018 SIGP in Xiamen, China having taken Q2 which along with taking Q1 locks in pole position for Sunday’s triple A-mains. Putting in a blistering run on the ARC International Raceway, the Tekno driver took 4 seconds off his Q1 time and set the outright track record with a 32.904 second lap, the only driver to drop below 34 seconds in qualifying. It was a familiar order behind with Kyosho driver Yusuke Sugiura taking 2nd place, with Kaja Novotny a further 11 seconds back in 3rd with Chen Guanxian and Shin Dongcheol completing the top 5.

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March 16, 2018

Southern Dirt Challenge – Announcement

The Cork Radio Control Car Club will play host to the Southern Dirt Challenge on the weekend of the 24th of June in Ballinhassig, Cork. Classes run are 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy with the event kicking off on Saturday with practice from 12pm to 5pm followed by heats and finals on Sunday. More information can be found on the club’s website here, on social media here or by emailing the club at crccc@eircom.net.

March 15, 2018

Jared Phair takes double INES points series titles

The final round of the INES points series was hosted by 46RC recently. With watering mid-round the grip was more consistent but the tight, red clay track required running extra soft slicks with aggressive tyre sauce. In the 2WD and 4WD classes Jared Phair finished 2nd to take the overall titles from Stephen Maizer (PR Racing) 2nd and Bryan Kata (Team Associated) on the 3 spot with the two also rounding out the championship top 3 results.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 15, 2018

Kaja Novotny sweeps Czech EP Off-road Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Czech National Electric Off-road Championship was held in Hrotovice at the same venue as the popular Mibosport Cup. The organisers used the same track layout as during the Mibosport Cup final, meaning things would be pretty close up front. Already in practice Xray’s Kaja Novotny showed a pretty amazing performance in 2WD and Truck, however he struggled a bit in 4WD. The 2WD class then saw Kaja taking the overall TQ from Max Götzl and Ales Bidovsky in 2nd and 3rd.

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March 14, 2018

2018 ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals – Report

The 2018 ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals were held at Apex RC and Hobbies in Murfreesboro, Tennessee last weekend. In the Modified Sedan class, Sam Isaacs and Mike Gee were battling the entire weekend for the top spot and after four rounds of qualifying Sam Isaacs would retain the TQ with Mike Gee in 2nd. Sam then was able to put down two dominating runs in the first two mains to secure the overall title with Mike Gee finishing 2nd overall from Keven Hebert 3rd.

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