The XRS Italy International Race was held recently at the Indoor Racing Chilelli track. The event was held in several electric on-road classes, attracting both local Xray racers and guests from abroad. In Touring Modified it was Alexander Hagberg with the win from Alessio Menicucci 2nd and Gabriele Berselli 3rd. Mattia Collina and Jan Ratheisky would round out the top 5 results.
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The opening round of the 2017/18 Lovan RC Challenge kicked off this past weekend at their new location, which is a bit closer to the Belgian coast and the French boarder. The redesigned track measures 35x18m and it is laid out using the popular ETS carpet. 71 sign-ups made for a competitive field and a good amount of entries for a Belgium race. The weekend started off on Saturday with six rounds of 4-minute heat practice, reseeding and the opening qualifier. In the EFRA Touring Modified class young Liam van de Wouwer made a first impact as did Remi Callens, Hush Ragout and Guillaume Guffroy.
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Only in its 3rd year, The Masters of Dirt hosted by Beach RC Hobbies and Raceway in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has quickly evolved into one of the best races on the east coast. With its grippy clay/dirt mixed surface, Beach RC has slowly become a racer’s favorite due to the entertaining high grip surface and unique square shape layout making for fun and interesting racing. Attracting nearly 300 entries this year, the 2017 MoD has grown each and every year as this year drew in some of the industry’s best talents to battle in three different Modified classes in order to crown one overall multi-class champion. The combined classes include the 2WD Modified class, 4WD Modified, and one of the Mod Truck classes like Mod Stadium or Mod Short Course. Each racer that entered the three classes could qualify for the MoD title, but only one would emerge MoD Champion with the best score in all three classes.
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The 2017 APPA Championship was held in São Paulo, Brazil last weekend, attracting some of the country’s fastest nitro and electric on-road drivers. In the 1/8th Nitro On-road category it was Roberto Nunes with the win from Marcio Lopez in 2nd and Hamilton Santos, who rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The opening round of the 2017/18 Rug Racers series was held this past weekend at Wodson Park in Ware, Hertfordshire. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Paul Pinkney and his Schumacher taking the win from Yokomo’s Harley Eldridge. It was Harley who locked down the pole position with FTQ, but a mistake in leg 1 moved her down to 3rd and Paul was able to capitalise. In 3rd Aaron Rose and his Schumacher completed the podium.
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The 2017 TQ Carpet Championship Summer Series concluded this past weekend, attracting 83 racers and a total of 559 entries during the ten rounds of racing this summer. In the Sportsman Sedan class it was Gino Kwan with the overall from William Yip Sam Ip who ended the series tie on points with the better tie-breaker handing William the overall runner-up spot.
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Multiple former Pro Stock & Formula Champion Jan Ratheisky bounced back with a bang at the Euro Touring Series season opener in Austria today wrapping up a double victory in the second round of A-Main encounters. Securing his first pole position in over a season at the Vienna hosted race, the Xray driver ended a 9 race victory drought in Pro Stock thanks to a repeat of his dominant A1 performance. In Formula, the 4-time back to back champion’s last race win was more recent, the German had to work harder for the win in A2. The man who took the title off him last season, David Ehrbar pushed him hard with the duo swapping positions before Ratheisky found his way back passed the Serpent driver to win by half a second. With Ratheisky sitting out A3, Ehrbar would take the win to secure 2nd overall despite a strong challenge from Luke Lee, the British driver completing the Scorpion Power System Formula podium with his Xray.
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Marc Rheinard got his first full season of ETS as an Infinity driver off to the best possible start by taking the overall win in Austria with another clear win in A2, again finishing ahead of reigning champion Bruno Coelho. Wrapping up his long run as a Tamiya driver at the season opener last year before moving to newcomers Infinity for Round 2, today marks the German’s first ETS success with the team and the first for the team as a manufacturer. Also claiming the TQ in Vienna taking all four qualifiers, Marc’s first win in almost two season’s sees the former champion go away with the maximum points available with him admitting himself he doesn’t know when he last had such a dominant weekend.
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