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September 19, 2017

2017 TIPS Championship – Announcement

The Tamiya Inf1nity PRCA Singapore Championship will be held on the 21st and 22nd of October at the Marine Parade Radio Modellers Track in Singapore. The race is run in Touring Modified and Open Brushless as well as Tamiya M-Chassis and Racing Truck classes and it will see the attendance of both local driver and guests from abroad with Serpent’s Viktor Wilck, Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee and several Infinity team drivers having already signed in. More information can be found on social media here.

September 19, 2017

Völker & Mächler win at RC Touring-Cup 2017

The ADAC RC Touring-Cup was held at the world-famous Nürburgring last weekend. Run in several electric on-road classes it was Ronald Völker with the TQ in the Touring Modified category from Thimo Weissbauer and Marco Kaufmann. In the Touring Stock class Max Mächler and Alex Kunkler battled for the overall TQ and in the end it was Max who held the upper hand to take the pole position for the finals.

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September 19, 2017

Jorge Flores sweeps ROAR Invitational

The ROAR Invitational race was held with about 70 entries at the G’s RC Raceway in Pennsylvania recently. In the 4WD Modified Buggy and Modified Stadium Truck class it was Jorge Flores with the TQs and wins. Howard Anderson and Rob Regl would come in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Buggy class while Rob Regl and Brandon Stevenson rounded out the Truck podium.

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September 18, 2017

Natale & Zanchettin win at Emperor of Rome race

The Roma Cross Village track played host to the 2017 Emperor of Rome race this past weekend. Attracting both local drivers as well as guests from abroad the event saw Mugen’s Marco Natale walking away with the win in the Nitro Buggy class from the Kyosho duo of Rayan Medjoubi 2nd and Jessica Palsson 3rd. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin who took the winning honours from runner-up, Marco Natale and 3rd placed Jessica Palsson.

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September 18, 2017

Dakotah Phend doubles at TLR Cup West

The TLR Cup West was held this past weekend at MHOR R/C Raceway in Aurora, Colorado. A track that broke up in the middle of qualifying made for some old school off-road racing and when the dust had settled it was TLR’s Dakotah Phend who walked away with the wins in 2WD Mod Buggy and 4WD Mod Buggy as the Team Associated duo of Dustin Evans and Zeke Ballinger would round out the top 3 podium results in both classes.

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September 18, 2017

2017/18 Xray Racing Series Slovenia – Announcement

Xray have announced the 2017/18 Xray Racing Series Slovenia, a 4-race series between November 2017 and February 2018. The season kicks off on November 12th in Medeuzza, Italy with the finale being held on February 18th at the same venue. Classes run are Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and 1/12th Open Pan Car and more information can be found here.

September 18, 2017

Aden Young takes NSW 2WD Stock Junior title

The New South Wales Off-road State Championships were held recently and it was Aden Young who took the overall TQ after the four 2WD Stock Buggy qualifiers. In the opening A-main Aden would have a great race and finished 1st only to suffer from a bad start in A2 as he clipped a pipe. But keeping his head down Aden was able to recover and ultimately he would come out on top in the second main too to grab the NSW 2WD Stock Junior championship title. With another win in A3 he would round out a perfect 2WD portion of the event, scoring seven 1st place finished in seven races that day.

View the final results here

September 18, 2017

BRCA Touring Car Series finale – Report

The final round of the BRCA Touring Car Series was hosted by Cotswold Model Car club and despite two of the classes already being decided this did not distract from a classic race meeting. The Modified class had already been decided in favour of Xray driver Olly Jefferies, but he was attempting now to win all five rounds of the series. In qualifying he was pushed hard by Schumacher’s Elliott Harper but Jefferies took TQ. In the two leg finals the crowd were treated to some tense close racing as Harper joined by Chris Grainger (Team Associated) piled the pressure on Jefferies. Harper was rarely more than a cars length of the bumper of Jefferies for both finals but Jefferies held on to take the win ahead of Harper and Team Associated’s Matt White.

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