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August 15, 2017

Daniel Kobbevik wins Norwegian E-Buggy Nats Rd3

The third round of the Norwegian 1/8th Electric Nationals was hosted by the Oslo Model Car Club this past weekend. The race did not start well for pre-event favourite Daniel Kobbevik who suffered a corrupt speed controller that had no brakes but he was able to get a P2 in the opening qualifier despite having to drive really smoothly. With a new controller installed for the remaining qualifiers, Daniel was able to snatch the overall TQ thanks to coming out fastest in Q2 and Q3. A1 then was smooth sailing for the young man but in A2 he suffered a dying battery in the opening stages meaning he had to hold everything in A3 in which Daniel was able to bring home the win and with the the overall victory from Kai Ronning 2nd and Mathias Fink 3rd.

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August 15, 2017

Clements wins CTS2 finals as Hohwart takes title

The finals for CTS2 was again held at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California. Some of the biggest names in the Touring Car world came to attend this series like Paul Lemieux, JJ Wang, Drew Ellis and David Jun. In practice and qualifying, Team Xray driver JJ Wang showed a dominant pace even with his first ever visit to SWR. But with some bad luck, he was unable to finish both qualifiers. Xray driver Paul Lemieux qualified 6th behind EJ Evans in 5th while Team Associated driver David Jun qualified 4th. Series points leader Rick Hohwart (Team Associated) qualified top 3 behind local favourite, Awesomatix driver Brandon Clements and 2nd qualifier, Yokomo driver Eric Albano with the top 5 guys being all within one second apart.

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August 15, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins East Touring Series Rd3

The third round of the East Touring Series was held at East RC Speedway in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sunny weather attracted a good amount of racers and it was Bowie Ginting who earned the TQ spot in the Touring Modified class in front of Christian Mamesah and Teddy Syach. At the end of the triple A-main finals the top 3 order would remain the same with Bowie snatching the overall after coming out on top in the first two A-mains as Christian and Teddy completed the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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August 14, 2017

Ryan Cavalieri takes 2WD Mod SCT win at ROAR Nats

Last weekend’s 2017 ROAR 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals saw Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri taking the TQ in the 2WD Modified SCT class. Alex Kosciuszek and Spencer Rivkin (both Team Associated) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively and after the triple A-mains the top 3 would remain the same, with Ryan leading an AE top 3 with Alex and Spencer coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively. TLR’s Dakotah Phend would be the best of the rest, matching his qualifying performance with a 4th place overall.

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August 14, 2017

RC Lemans Series Rd5 – Report

The fifth and penultimate round of the RC Lemans Series was held at the MRC Düren track this past weekend. Practice on Saturday was wet in the morning and evening and this meant the start of the qualifiers on Sunday was postponed by an hour to make sure the track was fully dried. With the sun coming out both the temperatures and traction became higher, pleasing the drivers. In the LMP1 Modified class title favourites Timo Schad and Tim Altmann – with two wins each – as well as Tobias Weist, who also may have a shot at the title, made the trip to Düren while in LMP2 Stock, title favourite Andy Dick, winner of the past three rounds, did not made the trip to round five.

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August 14, 2017

Ty Tessmann sweeps ROAR 1/10th Off-road Nationals

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.

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August 14, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

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.

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August 14, 2017

Colin Tong takes maiden Urban Touring Series win

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.

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