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December 11, 2017

Alexander Hagberg wins at Charity Race

The annual Charity Race was held at the RC Landia track in Scandiano, in the region of Emilia Romagna in Italy. More than 100 drivers joined the race in multiple classes, with the main purpose being to collect money for a local children’s hospital. In the 1/12th Open Modified category, Alexander Hagberg managed to put his car on the TQ spot after three perfect runs to secure overall TQ. Alexander’s team mate, Bui Khounmy, had a great run in qualifying as well, winning Q4, to eventually line up 2nd on the grid. The finals started well for Alex with a win in A1, which he was also able to repeat in A2, with a big margin, while also setting a new sub-ten second track record. Ultimately Jonni Pagani would obtain the runner-up spot from Bui Khounmy 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 11, 2017

Phend doubles at Horizon Hobby Mid-West Classic

The Horizon Hobby Mid-West Classic was held at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois this past weekend. TLR’s Dakotah Phend would take the respective TQs in the premier 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod Buggy classes while Charlie Maiorana came out on top after the Stadium Truck qualifiers. Dakotah then would also stay on top of things after the triple 2WD Mod A-mains to take the title from TLR’s JR Mitch 2nd and Team Associated’s Cole Tollard 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Robert Batlle wins at Advents Cup

The Czypu-Drom dirt indoor track in Bad Oeyenhausen, Germany played host to the 6th annual Advents Cup this past weekend. The 1/8th E-Buggy class was won by Mugen’s Robert Batlle who came all the way from Spain to take the win from Agama’s Burak Kilic 2nd and free agent driver Jörn Neumann, piloting a Mugen, in 3rd. Over in the Junior finals it was Burak Kilic who took the winning honour from Laurin Czypulowski 2nd and Berkan Kilic 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Martin Bayer sweeps XRS Slovakia Rd3

The third round of Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Arena. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Martin Bayer who took a pretty easy TQ with Max Gotzl in 2nd after great run in Q3 and Kaja Novotny in 3rd. 4WD Buggy was a different story with Martin and Kaja swapping the lead multiple times during the qualifiersn and eventually it was Martin who took overall TQ. Few seconds back each run was another duo of Adam Izsay and Max Gotzl fighting for 3rd place and in the end Adam prevailed. In the Truck class Martin was on another level and took his third TQ of the day with Kaja Novotny in 2nd place and Max Gotzl starting 3rd.

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December 11, 2017

Phutiyotin wins East RC Invitational Year End Race

The annual East RC Invitational Year End Race was held at East Speedway, Jakarta with Touring Open Brushless as the primary class of the race. It was Yokomo’s Charlee Phutiyotin who secured the pole position for A-main by one second ahead of fellow Yokomo racer Bowie Ginting. Former ISTC World Champ Surikarn Chaidajsuriya (Destiny) would be line up 3rd ahead of local Christian Mamesah (Serpent) and Arya Seta (Mugen). The main final was run under the lights and Charlee would convert his pole position into an overall win ahead of Bowie and Muhammad Izzah (Xray).

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December 11, 2017

Völker, Mächler & Ehrbar win at EWS International

The fifth running of the EWS International saw Ronald Völker, Max Mächler and David Ehrbar take the overall victories respectively in the Modified, Super Stock and Formula classes. In the previous four editions, it had always been a British driver standing atop the podium in every class, but this time signalled a changing of the guard, as a strong international field prevented any UK drivers from taking victory this time out.

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December 9, 2017

Overnight TQ for Volker & Hofer at EWS International

Ronald Volker has taken the honours of being the first non-British driver to secure the overall pole position at the EWS International as Yokomo continued their strong showing from practice, in both Modified and Super Stock classes, as qualifying got underway. The fifth running of the race, now firmly established as the highlight of the UK racing scene and a fixture on the European calendar, saw the TQ position confirmed for the current World Champion after he set the pace in all three rounds of Qualifying held today. “All the qualifiers went well” was Volker’s reaction. Explaining that his focus had been on trying different springs throughout the day, he is searching for confidence with the car to make it as “comfortable on the bumps” as possible.

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December 9, 2017

EWS International – Practice update

The fifth running of the EWS International event got underway yesterday, Friday, with many drivers taking the opportunity of three rounds of free practice on the Friday evening of the ever-growing event in the south-east of the UK. In the Modified class, World Champion Ronald Volker set the best three laps, just ahead of compatriot Marc Rheinard Ronald seemed happy with his Yokomo, and said whilst he was used to the bumps in the track after racing at the previous edition of the event, he liked the kerbs which allowed him to drive “fully on it”.

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