The 2017 ROAR 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals were held at The Track in Gaithersburg, Maryland last weekend. 270 entries made for competitive racing in the eight Modified and Stock classes. The traditional off-road classes of 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy and Mod Racing Truck were swept by Xray’s Ty Tessmann who won all but three qualifiers to take dominant TQs.
Continue reading the report here
The MRG track in Genk played host for the penultimate round of the Belgian Championship this past weekend. The track is situated at a motorsport facility with an FIA karting track and an MX track and classes run were the usual Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and Rookie categories. Most drivers were present on Saturday for practice, but due to the complete washout, running was very limited. As the track was still damp on Sunday morning, the racers expected the first qualifiers to be very tough.
Continue reading the report here
Round 8 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend at the city’s Urban Onroad Raceway. Colin Tong (Xray) gave his rivals notice of his intentions when he TQ’d all three rounds of qualifying to start the finals in the coveted pole position. Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo) qualified 2nd while Hasron Robana (Xray) started in 3rd. In the first leg of the A-main, a turn 1 incident unfortunately dropped Hasron to the back of the field, with Colin and Lip Keong immediately putting a gap on the rest of the field. Benefitting the most was Smith Kek (Xray) who moved to 3rd despite a 6th position start. Colin held on to his quick start to take the win by four seconds over Lip Keong in 2nd. Smith held on to 3rd. Before the second leg of the A-main could be started, the skies, that had been threatening rain throughout, finally opened up. A steady drizzle throughout the rest of the day meant that the race had to be called, with the final results based on the single leg run, handing Colin a maiden win at the UTS.
The third round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Glostrup Racing Club in difficult weather conditions. Saturday’s practice sessions were interrupted by the unavoidable rain but thankfully the track is known to dry up pretty fast and so a reasonable amount of runs could be completed. Sunday started off dry but the qualifiers again had their wet moments and in the end it was Xray driver Kevin Nielsen who made the best out of the conditions, taking the TQ from Xray teammate Patrick Danielsen and VBC Racing’s Soren Boy Holst.
Continue reading the report here
The weather forecast for round 6 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals was mainly showers although nearly fifty drivers across the two classes made the trip to Wombwell, near Barnsley. The circuit is likened by many for its combination of high speed straight which utilises the karting circuit and then a medium speed infield with undulations making it very testing. On arrival, the track was damp on Saturday morning which saw many of the electric class runners preparing their wet cars as the forecast was indifferent for the whole weekend. By midday the track was dry. In the electric class, it was Alex Thurston and Adam Catchpole setting the pace with Pete Hastings and Dan Jones not too far behind them. With 17 entrants and times being so close, a place in the A-final would be tight for some. In the Nitro class, Andy Hastings was out to make up for his Halifax poor showing but the man on form, David Spashett, was again going to be the man to beat. Quick as ever were Tim Wood, Neal King and Mark Green, running the new Serpent chassis.
Continue reading the report here
Round 4 of the Belgian SCT Cup was held in the middle of a park in Enghien as part of the biggest RC exhibition of the country. The Buggy Tournai Racing Club laid out a nice temporary tack but due to the weather, practice on Saturday would be limited. On Sunday it took the first two qualification rounds for the track to dry up completely, making car setup and tyre choice a bit complex and spicing up the race. In the Pro2 class, Nicolas Evens (TLR) dominated and won all rounds. In the first round, Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) followed in 2nd in some distance, struggling with car setup. Tom Vercarre (TLR) was in full swing again and took a nice 3rd spot, a result he would only improve in the second and third round by taking 2nd places, securing himself the P2 spot on the grid. Géry’s struggles continued in the second round where he finished 3rd while he broke his truck in the final qualifier, however he still took P3 for the finals.
Continue reading the report here
The 2017 Russian Electric On-road Championships were recently held in St. Peterburg in excellent weather conditions. In the Touring Modified class Georgy Chmigal (Xray) was the man to beat, winning all qualifiers except of two and also coming out on top after the A-mains, taking the title from runner-up, Maxim Laverychev (Awesomatix) and 3rd placed Vladislav Glebov (Xray). Elsewhere in the supporting Nitro class it was Alexander Naumov (Xray) with the win from Nikita Ignatiev (Xray) and Sergey Piskunov. The Electric Touring Junior title went to young Andrey Egorov (Xray).
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The final round of the Arrowmax Asia Racing Cup will be held on the 13th and 14th of January 2018 at the Yatabe Arena in Japan. The event will see Touring Modified, Touring Pro Stock and also Formula 21.5T classes and the Pro Stock and Formula classes’ non-sponsored top finishers of the previous rounds will be receiving tickets for the grand finale in Japan.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
