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July 10, 2023

Hagberg wins Portuguese Nationals Rd3

As a nice warm-up to the Swedish Nationals next weekend, Alexander Hagberg took victory at the 3rd round of the Portuguese National Championships in Coimbra over the weekend. The Swede, who resides in Portugal, topped all four qualifiers to secure the TQ ahead Antonino Mangiaracina and José Pereira. In the finals, the factory Xray driver secured the win in Sunday’s hot conditions, in contrast to Saturday wet track, ahead of the similar X4 of Pereira with Silva Samuel completing the podium driving a Mugen. In 13.5T, Hugo Miguel took his Mugen to both the TQ and win. Rúben Francisco driving an Awesomatix finished second with Miguel Costa’s Xray completing the Top 3.

Image: Alexander Hagberg [Facebook]

July 10, 2023

HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia 2023 – Announcement

Having just recently hosted the Malaysia FEMCA Series, SACC RC Park has announced the HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia 2023. Situated in Shah Alam city in the state capital of Selangor, the roof top track will play host to the RC Planet Malayia organised electric touring car event on August 13th. Also the host venue for the Xray’s XRS Malaysia event that as attended by Alexander Hagberg, racing at the HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia will see drivers compete for honours in 13.5T Stock Blinky, 13.5T Stock with HobbyWing Handout Motor & ESC, 17.5T GT with HobbyWing Handout Motor & ESC and 17.5T FWD Blinky. The race schedule will see three rounds of rocket round qualifying with triple A-Main to decide the overall winners

Source: SACC RC Park [Facebook]

July 10, 2023

Double win for Widmaier at Austrian Nationals Rd3

Sworkz’ Micha Widmaier completed the double at the latest round of the Austria 1:10 Offroad Nationals over the weekend. Racing on the GMAC track in Litschau for the third round, Widmaier had the perfect weekend that started off with him securing the TQ for both 2WD and 4WD Buggy. Lining up on pole for the 4WD A-Mains ahead of Xray’s Hupo Honigl, he would wrap up the overall win after A2 with Honigl (2nd) and Team Associated driver Peter Pinisch joining him on the podium. In 2WD, the Yokomo of Robin Riedmann was Widmaier closest rival qualifying P2 with Honigl P3 but the pole sitter won the first two comfortably for the win. Winning A3, Honigl would claimed his second runner-up spot of the weekend with Riedmann completing the podium.

Image: Micha Widmaier [Facebook]

July 10, 2023

Champlin and Horne win JConcepts INS13 Summer stop

Broc Champlin and Aydin Horne took the Buggy wins at the latest stop of the JConcepts Indoor National Series, the Summer INS13 race taking place at the Hobbyplex Raceway track in Omaha over the weekend. In 2WD it was Team Associated of Reedy’s Dustin Evans that secure the TQ from Champlin and Horne but over the triple Champlin got the better of Evans to take his LRP powered Schumacher to the overall victory with wins in A1 and 2. Winning A3 Evans would takes second with Horne completing the podium ahead of Tom Rinderknecht and Ryan Cavalieri. In 4WD it was Champlin who won the qualifying battle from Horne with Evans P3 but it was it Team Associated’s Horne who came out top in the opening two A-Main for the win from Champlin and Evans with Xray’s Chase Lemieux fourth.

Image: JConcepts [Facebook]

July 9, 2023

Volker adds another German National title

A nation that has been a major force in the world of international 1:10 electric touring car racing, Germany hosted its National Championships over the weekend with Ronald Volker adding another DMC title to his CV. Hosted by the MC Munster at the club’s Hollmoorring track in the western part of the country, qualifying would see Volker take his Mugen to the overall TQ. A dominant performance, the former World Champion’s LRP powered MTC2R was fastest in 4 of the 5 qualifiers. The only other driver to top a round, Q4, Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp would would secure P2 on the grid followed by team-mate Yannic Prümper. Winner of the title at his home track of Andernach, last year Awesomatix’s Marc Rheinard would start P4 with the Xray of Jan Ratheisky completing the top half of the grid. In the triple finals, A1 would see Volker crash out early and DNF with Krapp taking the win from Rheinard. A2 would see a perfect run from the pole sitter to give him the win just ahead of Krapp meaning it was a head to head battle in A3. Battling for the lead, on the penultimate lap Krapp would roll allowing Volker to win from Rheinard and lift the DMC title. Finishing A3 in 5th, Krapp would finish runner-up with Rheinard completing the podium. In the Stock class Top Qualifier Simon Lauter took the title while in Formula it was Ratheisky who took the win.

Image: Marc Rheinard

July 7, 2023

Volker confirmed for Electric Singapore Int. Challenge

Having only announced the inaugural running of the event last week, the Electric Singapore International Challenge is quickly gaining international interest with former World Champion Ronald Volker the latest driver to be confirmed for the September 9-10th race. Organised by the RCMC Singapore Club together with top international racer Nicholas Lee and Chhua Joo kiah, the aim of ESIC is to bring back racing in style in Singapore with the creation of one big exciting weekend for the on-road racers. With over 100 entries already received, the ESIC is already well on its way to achieving this. With famed race announcer and organiser Scotty Ernst as Race Director, other international entries include Infinity’s trio of Electric Touring Car World Champions – Naoto Matsukura, Jilles Groskamp and Andy Moore.

Source: E-SIC

July 4, 2023

BRCA 2WD Onroad Nationals R3 Mendip – Report

The third round of this year’s BRCA 2WD Onroad National Championship took place at Mendip over the weekend with Xray’s Luke Lee and Schumacher’s Andy Murray taking the wins. In Formula, qualifying would be a Luke Lee show, the winner of the opening two rounds of the championship taking all three rounds of qualifying from his brother Michael’s Schumacher. Behind them it was Michael Friebel’s new WRC edging out James Greener’s Xray for third by virue of the tie-break. The finals saw Lee taking all three legs for the overall win from his brother Michael with Friebel in third and Greener fourth.

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June 30, 2023

Compound supply issues force tyre change for TC Euros

EFRA has announced that compound supply issues have lead to a decision to change the official tyre that will be used by Modified class competitors at this year’s European Championships. The 22nd running of the championship is scheduled for August 2-5 in Türkheim, Germany, but global supply issues that continue to effect all industries mean that rather than risk not having sufficient tyres for all drivers that a different tyre be nominated now. In a statement EFRA said, “It is now apparent that the chosen tyre for the Modified 10th ISTC EC could be in short supply for the event. “The reason is the total lack of a primary component to produce the compound which is unfortunately patented by only one company in the world which is experiencing big problems and has had to interrupt, hope momentarily, the production. Since Production Capacities are limited, even if the compound will be available again, it is not sure when and if we will get enough tyres of the original type.” In order to ensure that entrants are able to buy tyres to practise freely and the suppliers are able to fulfil their supply obligations to the organisers a different tyre will be used. This will be the Matrix EPA-D36. This tyre is considered to be a suitable substitute and will not have the same supply issues. Chris Hardisty, Electric Track Chairman.”

Source: EFRA [efra.ws]