Round 4 of the Hufnágl Ice Trophy Summer Series was held in Otrokovice, Czech Republic in very hot weather conditions. The asphalt temperate would near 65°C and this would cause problems with electronics and also some drivers and in the Modified Touring class it was Matej Sulc with the TQ and win followed by Pavel Martinec and David Mestan.
The annual Xcampus Challenge recently took place at the Giant Arena Circuit located in Banjarmasin City, South Borneo, Indonesia. 60 entries for the Touring Modified and Super Stock classes made for competitive racing. In the Touring Modified category it was Bowie Ginting who took the TQ ahead of Christian Mamesah and Suwardi Suliandy after three rounds of qualifying, while in the Super Stock class, Ronald Kasengkang secured the pole ahead Peter Anthonijsz and Donnie Pangemanan.
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Round 5 of the 2017 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway in Beaumont, California with about 170 entries. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier for the Expert Nitro Buggy A-main and he would take a tone-to-tone win in the 15-minute long encounter with Anthony Westergaard (Kyosho) and Austin Pannone (Team Associated) coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The Tilted Worlds were held this past weekend and it was Austin Woodyard who made a clean sweep by TQing and winning all three classes he attended. In the Nitro Buggy main Austin would make a couple of mistakes but he would work his way back up to the 1st spot to take the win. The Nitro Truggy main saw Austin taking the win from tone to tone and finally in 1/8th E-Buggy he came out fastest in A1 only to suffer a big crash in A2. Coming back from P8 Austin would end the second main on the runner-up spot which was enough for him to take the overall win and with it his third title of the weekend.
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This past weekend was the annual event of the oOple Invernational at the brilliant Robin Hood Raceway venue. A fantastic entry of 191 competitors across the various classes was superb to see. The format for the event was four rounds of qualifying by round by round, with the best two to count. Then followed by three leg finals for everyone. In 2WD it was very close throughout qualifying as the three star drivers were Michal Orlowski, Ben Jemison and Craig Collinson. Each of these three drivers TQ’d a round each, so it was all down to the 4th and final round of qualifying. Ben Jemison dominated this round so therfore would line up on pole position for the A-finals. Ultimately it was TQ holder Ben Jemison (Schumacher) who laid down a dominant performance in the triple A-mains to take the title from Team C’s Craig Collinson in 2nd and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski 3rd.
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A full entry of 110 drivers headed to the fast Halifax track in the north of the UK for round 4 of the BRCA Touring Car Series. Prior to the meeting there were concerns over the Sorex control tyre so the BRCA allowed an extra set of tyres for the Modified drivers. Despite the 2017 title already being decided in favour of Xray’s Olly Jefferies, the class was still very keenly contested. At round 4 Jefferies once again took TQ ahead of Team Associated’s Chris Granger and the Schumacher of Elliott Harper, and Jefferies also went on to take both legs of the Modified A-final ahead of Harper and Zak Smith (Team Associated). In winning the meeting Jefferies maintains his 100 percent unbeaten record in the UK this year.
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The MBC Bamberg club played host to this year’s German Electric On-road Nationals this past weekend. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Infinity’s Marc Rheinard who took the TQ and also the wins in the opening two A-mains to add another national title to his belt. Behind him, Awesomatix’s Freddy Südhoff and Yokomo’s Ronald Völker would battle for the runner-up spot with the better end for Freddy, who already optioned the 2 spot after the qualifiers. Ronald would come in 3rd while Yokomo teammate Christopher Krapp had to settle for 4th overall.
Round 4 of the Finnish 1/10th Electric Buggy Nationals was held in Vantaa in sunny weather conditions. As the track wasn’t watered, the grip changed a lot during the day with the mornings offering high grip whereas the track got slipper over the day. This caught out Xray’s Joel Valander a bit as he was able to secure a round TQ in 2WD but he struggled with his driving over the day so it was Team Associated’s Karri Salmela who brought home the TQ and win with Joel in 2nd. Konsta Saarinen (Xray) would round out the top 3 result.
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