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September 29, 2017

Speed King Tour Rd5 – Report

After a two month break, round 5 of the Speed King Tour 2017 took place at Twin Ring Honguu outdoor tarmac track in the Aichi prefecture. Open to Modified and Stock touring as well as Oval class racing, in the Modified class qualifying was very close with a number of drivers finishing within 0.1 seconds of each but it was Yokomo driver Yugo Nagashima who took TQ. Naito won the Oval class while local driver Tsuboi, who started on pole, would go on to win in the Stock class and then it was time for the 7 minutes Modified class final. Yugo made a good start as Ryosuke Yamamoto and Sota Goto chased him down but the chasing pair got into each other and dropped out of contention at the three minutes mark. Yugo would go on to win the round while track owner Masayuki Oyaizu finished second with his Yokomo BD8. TRF driver Takayuki Kono driving the new TRF419XR rounded out the podium in 3rd. The next and final round of the Speed King tour 2017 will be held at Sagamido racing track in the Kanagawa prefecture on the 12th of November.

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September 29, 2017

Arrowmax Asia Race Cup 2017 Beijing – Race report

After Guanzhou and Shanghai, the Arrowmax Asia Race Cup travelled to the capital city of China, Beijing. Hosted by INCOM Arena, the beautiful indoor facility would feature high traction black carpet and with the control AM tires being very different with what those at the track were using, it provided a big challenge for all attending drivers. As with the Shanghai and Guanzhou rounds, the Beijing League would also earning a ticket to Japan for AARC grand final. Three classes were run including the Arrowmax 1/10th EP Modified touring class, Dash 13.5T Stock touring Class and the Dash 21.5T Formula class, both Stock and Formula classes would use control motors supplied by Dash.

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September 28, 2017

SARDA 1/12th National Championship Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the 2017 South-African ORE 1/12th national championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena on Saturday 23 September 2017. The busy 2017 RC racing schedule and a long weekend in South Africa celebrating Heritage Day made that not all the 1/12th drivers could attend the one day event.

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September 26, 2017

2017 Full Throttle Champs report

The 2017 Full Throttle Champs is in the books, the second annual race run at Banana Raceway, the premier carpet track in Texas. Team Xray showed up in full force armed with their new T4’18. The team led by Chris Adams and Johnee Fenimore was able to find a fast and easy to drive setup on the new cars, with the track was particularly difficult as it had a high speed switchback that really took a stable car to get through fast. In the premier Modified class, Chris was able to start off strong by setting TQ following 4 rounds of intense qualifying. The mains were exactly the same as Chris won the triple A’s with Cristian Tabush and Johnee Fenimore rounding out the podium.

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September 25, 2017

Jokerteam GT12 Championship Rd5 – Report

As the summer weather proved particularly uncooperative during the month of August and the first half of September, the rescheduled Round 5 of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship got finally underway in changeable weather conditions. With early morning showers hitting the track, the drivers who gathered in Bolzano were left waiting in the pits for quite a long time before being allowed from the Race direction to a short practice session. During the qualification rounds, grip conditions improved dramatically from Q1 to Q3 mixing the battle for TQ several times: at the end, Alessandro Giubbilei (Jokerteam) came out on top with a solid Q3 run, ahead of Johnny Orsolin (Jokerteam) and Lorenzo Crepaldi (Jokerteam).

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September 25, 2017

Akio Sobue takes CETC title with A2 win

During the past 6 months, visiting 4 of the best racing tracks within China, the CETC presented by Infinity has crowned its first Champion with Akio Sobue taking the title at Twin RC Speedway in Hong Kong. In the second round of finals the Infinity factory driver recovered from being passed early in the race by Yokomo factory driver Nicholas Lee to take the title with one round of finals to spare. Using old tires Naoto Matsukura did not pose a threat to Sobue, and only 1.3 seconds ahead of Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang would finish in 2nd place. Leading the race for the first 3 minutes until a coming together with Sobue, Nicholas Lee would end up on his roof after the Japanese driver made a pass on him. Returning to the track the Singaporean ace could only come back to 4th place, 0.38 seconds behind Rocket Zhang. The two Serpent factory drivers Stick King and Felix Law ended the race in 5th and 6th, with Fai Ho just behind in 7th.

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September 25, 2017

Akio Sobue cruises to A1 win in Hong Kong

The first round of finals at the season finale of the CETC presented by Infinity at Twin RC Speedway has just finished and it was Infinity factory driver Akio Sobue who took full advantage of a crash between 2nd place starter Nicholas Lee and Naoto Matsukura which set of a chain reaction of crashes that affected most of the chasing pack. So without any pressure the Japanese ace won the race with ease and is now only one step away from taking the inaugural CETC season title. Sobue’s team mate Matsukura recovered after the clash with Lee and would finish the race in 2nd place. The first lap incident caused a body tuck for Nicholas Lee, making the start of his race a nightmare, however he kept pushing and would end up in 3rd. Behind the 3 international racers the remaining drivers were involved in an intense battle. Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang was able to pass Xpress driver Hay 4 laps before the end of the race and took the 4th place with a 1.3 second gap over Hay. Serpent factory driver Felix Law was another 0.4 seconds behind and classified 6th.

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September 23, 2017

Nicholas Lee takes eventful Q1 in Hong Kong

The CETC presented by Infinity finally made it to the first round of qualifying following earlier delays that forced it to be run under flood lights. With an incident filled opening round, Yokomo factory driver Nicholas Lee put in a very stable performance and had a brilliant finish to be able to come out on top in Q1, in front of the very strong Infinity team. Former World Champion Naoto Matsukura, who effectively lost out on the final lap by 0.198 seconds, had to settle for 2nd place for the round. The super fast Infinity driver Akio Sobue led the race early on but made a huge mistake as the race reached the halfway point dropping him to 4th place, but was able to recover to take third. In the 2nd last group, Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang and Xpress driver Hay would end 4th and 5th overall in what was also an incident packed heat. ARC driver Patrick Chau ended 6th, followed by Hong Kong veteran Fai Ho.

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