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January 23, 2018

BRCA LMP Nationals Rd4 – Report

Last weekend saw the running of round four of the BRCA LMP12 nationals. The meeting took place at a new venue for the series, Dorset Model Car Club. The club is based on the south coast of England in the harbour town of Poole. The track laid out was a beautifully flat and technical track and used the GT style carpet. Over the past years the ETS style carpet has become common in Britain, but the GT carpet is still a real favourite with racers. In the 13.5T class David Spashett had a chance to seal the championship two rounds early if he won the meeting, and in Modified Alexander Hagberg was back to see if he could claim win number two of the season.

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January 23, 2018

Burak Kilic wins at OWL Messe Cup

The annual OWL Messe Cup was held in Bad Salzuflen, Germany this past weekend. The event was run along a public fair which ensured a good exposure to possible newcomers. In the 1/10th 2WD Buggy class it was Schumacher’s Burak Kilic who took the TQ spot from his brother Berkan (Schumacher), despite the two not making it in time for Friday morning’s practice due to school obligations. In the triple 8-minute A-mains things were pretty close between the brothers as Burak took the win in A1 while Berkan came out on top in A2. In the third and final A-main it came to a rear showdown in the closing stages but it was the pole setter who held the upper hand to take the day’s win from Berkan in 2nd and Sophie Müller (Xray) in 3rd.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

January 23, 2018

Lee doubles at Urban Astro Buggy Champs Rd1

The opening round of the popular Urban Astro Buggy Championships in Singapore was held this past weekend at the downtown rooftop astro offroad track. Throwing down the gauntlet for the rest of the local racers was young Sean Lee, who kicked off his 2018 racing season in the best possible way with a double win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In the 2WD category, Sean blitzed the field by sewing up the TQ with wins in the first two of three rounds of qualifying. Sebastian Lee, who is Sean’s father, made it a family affair in the front row of the grid, by qualifying 2nd, while 2017 4WD Singapore National Champ, Fazly Ibrahim took 3rd.

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January 23, 2018

Hobbywing sign Daniel Kobbevik

Hobbywing have announced the signing of another RC star to their growing factory team in the form of up and coming Daniel Kobbevik. The Norwegian talent and IFMAR 1/10th Buggy Junior World Champion will be using Hobbywing speed controllers and motors in all of his 1/10th and 1/8th rides from now on and he has the following to say about the deal:

I am very excited about what 2018 has to bring, and it’s an honor to be a part of the Hobbywing team, I have already made a podium at EOS with Hobbywing power and won the Junior WC title in China. The support at race in China was awesome! Thank you to the team Hobbywing for the opportunity.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

January 22, 2018

2017/18 RugRacers series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the 2017/18 RugRacers series was held this past weekend. Zak Finlay now has one hand on the 13.5 blinky title after wrapping up round 4 with FTQ and both leg final wins. It may not of been as straight forward but for the intense battle taking place for 2nd place between Billy Fletcher and Paul Pinkney, however with a challenging track rewarding the least mistakes Zak was able to increase the gap, Ashley Wiffen able to capitalise on the battle and take 3rd overall. Zak only needs FTQ or a leg win over the final two rounds to confirm the title.

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January 22, 2018

Evans claims 2nd Reedy Race of Champions

Seven years on from when he made a name for himself as one of Offroad’s top drivers by winning the 2011 Reedy Race of Champions, Dustin Evans has claimed victory at the unique event for a second time. The Associated driver becomes only the 5th driver in the race’s 24 year history to have achieved multiple victories in one of the World’s most difficult races to win given its unique multiple heads up race format. A contender throughout this year’s encounter, which was hosted again at the World famous OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California, Evans went to the top of the points after a dramatic penultimate round of 2WD action and then sealed the deal with his 6th win of the event in the last round. This left a stacked closing heat to determine who would stand each side of Evans on the podium, 5 drivers vying for the 2 places. An action packed affair Tessmann came out the winner to give him a perfect 2WD score which together with a less successful 4WD part of the event pulled the Xray driver up to 2nd overall. Having looked like he was going to clean up a 5th Reedy Race title, Ryan Cavalieri would get third behind Joona Hataanen to secure the final podium placing getting the tie break from World Champion Ryan Maifield. Going into the final round in 2nd position in the points, Maifield would break after 5 laps while leading. Also having a tough final race, Spencer Rivkin, who shared the lead with Cavalieri over a number of rounds, would end the event with his worst race and while a throw-out it meant he had to count the 5 from the previous round leaving him 5th overall.

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January 22, 2018

Prümper & Bultynck win at GP3F

The Grand Prix des 3 Frontiers, also known as GP3F was held by the French MRC Longwy club this past weekend. As usual the event attracts some of Europe’s fastest drivers to battle it out in the Touring Modified and Touring Stock classes. The 2018 edition made no exception and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Germany’s Yannic Prümper who lead a Yokomo 1-2-3 after the qualifiers with fellow countrymen Ronald Völker and Christopher Krapp completing the top 3 as Marc Rheinard and Thimo Weissbauer came in 4th and 5th.

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January 22, 2018

Scottish GT12 Regionals Rd1 – Report

The first round of the BRCA Scottish GT12 regionals 2018 was hosted by Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub. This was the first round of a four round series involving Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub, Grampian Radio Car Club and Lothian Radio Control Car Club. The series is now in its fifth year and continued the successful format of previous years of 4 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all racers. As well as GT12 cars support classes for 13.5 blinky touring cars and Formula 1 cars were also offered.

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