Hellquist & van Elling win at SSIS Rd3

The recent third round of the South Swedish Indoor Series was held alongside the Middle Swedish Electric Series and the event was hosted at the Miracl facilities just outside of the small town of Åtvidaberg. The track was put together using older spec ETS Carpet with a darker gray colour, instead of the more recent black one. The traction started out low during Friday’s free practice, but came up soon. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Markus Hellquist started off quick by winning all practice rounds, qualifiers and finals. Team Associated’s Daniel Carlsson came in 2nd as Andreas Johansson (Serpent) obtained the 3 spot on the podium.

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Indoor Speed Challenge – Announcement

The ACRP Clube Radiomodelismo club in Porto, Portugal will hold their Indoor Speed Challenge event on the 14th of January. The race will see 1/10th Formula, 1/12th scale and 1/10th M-Chassis racing and more information can be found on the club’s social media site here.

Ronald Völker sweeps MRC Longwy Winter Series Rd2

Last weekend’s second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series saw Yokomo’s Ronald Völker sweeping the Touring Modified class. Ronald would take the overall TQ with the only 26-laps run of the qualifiers from Lucas Urbain (VBC Racing) 2nd and Loic Jasmin (Yokomo)  3rd. In the finals Ronald would again bring home wins with a 1-lap margin as Loic Jasmin came in 2nd in both A1 and A2. A3 then had again Ronald taking the win, however some seven seconds behind it was Lucas Urbain on the runner-up spot to secure himself the final podium spot behind winner Ronald and runner-up, Loic.

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Hayato Ishioka wins Mod class at 2017 Kazuki Cup

Famous Japanese RC car racer Kazuki Endo recently held its annual Kazuki Cup at the Kyosho R246 outdoor tarmac track in the Kanagawa prefecture. The event saw the running of six electric on-road categories one of which was a budget cap class that had the competitors built their race cars within a 20,000 Yen (150€/180US$) budget – including motor, body and tyres. However the premier category was Touring Modified with Kyosho’s Hayato Ishioka taking the TQ and new Destiny driver Yugo Nagashima putting his car on the 2 spot. Hayato had the hole shot at the rolling style start as Yugo made a mistake and lost his position. Although Yugo finally moved up to 2nd again, Hayato’s race was pretty much smooth sailing and he ultimately won the A-main as up and coming racer Ion Shionoya took the overall 3rd spot with his Xray. Videos and more results from the event can be found here.

Thanks to Atsushi Hasegawa for the report.