Red RC » Electric

August 22, 2017

Swedish National Cup Rd3 – Report

This past weekend the third round of the Swedish National Cup was held at in Västerås at the Västerås Motorsällskap club. The astro turf track offered high traction that, in combination with the bumpy surface, made for challenging conditions for the drivers. The 2WD portion of the event was held on Saturday but massive rain falls meant the start had to be postponed. As the track dried up slowly the opening qualifiers were held on a wet track. Elias Johansson made the best out of the conditions and he took the overall TQ following wins in the opening three qualifiers. Alexander Landen came in 2nd with a strong performance from Wilhelm Skjöldebrand in 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

August 22, 2017

Vaclav Broz wins at rain-shortened NEOS Rd4

The fourth round of the Nitro & Electric Offroad Series was held at the Zidlochovice track in the Czech Republic. The event started off wet and in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Vaclav Broz who dominated the qualifiers, taking wins in all three rounds. Sadly for the drivers and organisers more rain would flood the track and so the race director called it a day and by using the qualifying results to determine the winner it was Vaclav Broz with the E-Buggy victory.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

August 22, 2017

Dominic Quek joins Xray factory team

Xray have announced the addition of Singapore’s Dominic Quek to their factory team. A former Xray privateer, Dominic will now receive full works support in his campaign that will see attendances at events such as the Asian Onroad Championships, the TITC as well as national events such as the Urban Touring Series, the Singapore Nationals and the TIPS Championship. Dominic will campaign Xray’s T4 and X1 platforms and he had the following to say:

I have been racing radio control cars since the age of 5. One of my first pro-level cars was the Xray T2 which my dad chose for me for its durability. Over the years, I have continued to choose to race the Xray platform for its on-track performance and unrivalled quality. In recent years, I have had the opportunity to interact with and receive advice from Xray’s factory team drivers including Alexander Hagberg, Jan Ratheisky, Bruno Coelho and Martin Hudy. I am honored to now be a part of the Xray team and look forward to helping Xray drivers in Singapore and internationally. I would like to thank the entire Xray family for this amazing opportunity.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 22, 2017

Luca Rau takes German 4WD Modified Buggy title

The 4WD portion of the German 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the RC-Cars Köngen club in the south of the country. In the 4WD Modified class it was local hero, Luca Rau (Xray) who took the overall TQ from SWorkz’ Micha Widmaier in 2nd and Jörn Neumann 3rd. The finals then saw Luca checking out in A1 and A2 for an early title win while runner-up after the qualifiers, Micha Widmaier scored a DNF in A1 only to come back in A2 with a 2nd place and the win in A3 to take the vice-championship from Tom Maquel (Team C) in 3rd. With the 2nd place in the Modified class, Micha Widmaier secured himself the German Youth title while Elias Ehrmann/Schiller (Xray) snatched the German Junior title with a 23rd place overall.

View the final results here

August 22, 2017

BRCA Clubmans Series Rd6 – Report

The Stafford club in the heart of the UK hosted the penultimate round of the BRCA 2017 Clubmans series last weekend, once again a near fully entry contested the three classes. In the 13.5 Touring class it was close battle between Liam Brooks, Andy Murray and Markus Askell and this was the qualifying order after four rounds of qualifying. In the two-leg finals it finished one leg each to Liam and Markus with Liam taking the overall win over Markus on a faster time. The result sets up great final round with Markus moving in to contention but he will have to fight off a hard charging Adrian Bidewell who, by his standard, had an off day at Stafford.

Continue reading the report here

August 22, 2017

Patrick Chau teams up with ARC

ARC have announced the signing of former VBC Racing driver Patrick Chau. The Hong Kong based driver will use ARC’s soon-to-be-released R11 2018 touring car in his upcoming campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:

First of all, I would like to thanks VBC for the support in the past year and it is time to have a new challenge now. Thanks ARC for giving me the opportunity to become a ARC driver, ARC is for sure having one of the best touring cars in the world. In the coming race season, I will attend most of the local races and some of the overseas races in order to promote ARC products. Hope to see u guys at the tracks soon.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

August 21, 2017

Jarno Pijpers wins at NRW-Cup Rd6

Round 6 of the popular NRW-Offorad-Cup was recently held at the Mach-One Helmond track in the Netherlands. 60 entries from Belgium, Germany, the UK and The Netherlands made for competitive racing and in the 2WD Buggy class it was Jarno Pijpers with the win from James Chappell 2nd and Julian Heitjan 3rd.

View the final results here

August 21, 2017

Bloomfield doubles at BRCA Truggy & E8 Nats Rd5

Round five of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Nationals was held at Remote World in Slough this past weekend. Agama’s Darren Bloomfield would make a clean sweep and take the TQ in E-Buggy and also in Nitro Truggy, a class he barely runs. The 12-minute E8 A-main then again saw Darren excel as he took the win some four seconds in front of Kyosho’s Elliott Boots with Jamie Clancy (Team Associated) coming in a distant 3rd, a lap down on the two frontrunners.

Continue reading here