Round four of the Islikon Indoor Masters was held this past weekend in Islikon, Switzerland. In the 4WD Buggy class Xray’s Florian Schmid took a poplar TQ and win from Patrick Vogt (Xray) in second and Adi Riederer (Xray) in third. Philipp Huber (Team Durango) and Marci Di Bella (Xray) would round out the top 5 result.
Serpent have announced the signing of UK frontrunner, Alex Thurston to their international team. Alex is focussed on the 1/10th 200mm nitro class and he will campaign Serpent’s 748 platform at events such as the ENS, the European Championships and the National Championship while also having select outings in the electric 1/10th Touring and 1/8th Electric on-road classes. Alex says:
I am very excited to run for team Serpent and work together closely with Michael Salven, David Ehrbar and the other top-drivers in the team like Mark Green and Dominic Greiner.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The recent third round of the JConcepts Super Cup Championship Series was hosted by Newberry R/C Park and the track crew did an amazing job putting together a super fun layout that was ultra smooth and full of character. From Lake Park’s round 2 attendance of over 250 entries, round 3 at Newberry set a Super Cup record with 279 total entries. The track is a perfectly sized 1/10th scale track that’s easy on the eyes meaning you can see corner to corner without straining to see your vehicle at the furthest distances. Pictures do not do this track the proper justice as Newberry is perhaps one of the best looking tracks to gaze at from the driver’s stand. The surface was sprayed with soda water to give more bite with tire wear being the trade-off. With the sun being a huge factor on grip, being on the right compound at the right time was the key to one’s success. As the sun went down and racing was held under lights, shifting to another compound or tread design was a move that most of the top drivers made in order to set the fastest times.
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The fourth round of Xray Racing Series Poland took place last weekend on a very challenging but fun to drive track in Lodz. The 2WD Buggy qualifiers were a pretty close affair between Xray team mates Kaja Novotny and Martin Wollanka. The outcome was decided by traffic and times and ultimately it was Kaja who took the top qualifier honours. 4WD Buggy was a 3-horse race for the overall TQ between Wollanka, Zambrzycki and Novotny. The rounds were super close with again traffic playing a role and in the end Martin was able to take the pole position for the finals from Bartek Zambrzycki (Yokomo) and Kaja.
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Finals day at the 2017 Guan Kou Sunpadow Offroad GP in Xiamen China and the threat of rain, forecast for Sunday, never materialised and in fact saw the warmest but also most humid conditions of the event. The schedule was to see triple A-mains for EP buggy as well aslower finals for both classes, with the 1-hour Championship A-main ending the day’s on track action.
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The opening round of the South African National Championship was held at the Avion Raceway track in Johannesburg this past weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class Dean Steenmans took the TQ and he also brought home a popular win some five laps ahead of the second place finisher while in E-Buggy Akshay Patel would take the winning honours.
The fourth round of the 6-race MRC Vianen Cup was held this past Sunday in Vianen, The Netherlands. The purpose-built indoor carpet track was only built on Sunday morning but with the help of the drivers the task was carried out in only 30 minutes. Classes offered were Touring 17.5T blinky with Turnigy 17.5T motors and open tyres, a Tamiya TT category for TT-01 and TT-02 chassis, a Tamiya M-Chassis class as well as a Formula category run with Hobbywing 21.5T motors and Ride tyres. The race format would be double 6-minute qualifiers and triple 6-minute mains.
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This past weekend the Swedish Indoor Nationals were held at the new Hässleholm track with a total of 70 drivers competing in the three classes of Touring Car, 1/12th scale and Formula. The entry list saw names such as local star Daniel Carlsson and national aces like Marcus Hellqvist, Fabian Vernersson, Jonas Andersson and Viktor Wilck. In the Touring class qualifying Wilck would TQ all rounds to line up in 1st for the finals followed by Hellqvist and Carlsson. Wilck would then also dominate the finals but a miss fortune with a lapped car in A2 kept tension high until the last final. Wilck would then cruise to a solid victory in front of Hellqvist who took the vice championship title, while Daniel Carlsson would take 3rd to complete the podium.
