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March 6, 2017

Richards & Battinelli win at Chi-Town Shootout

The 2017 Chi-Town Shootout was held this past weekend at Leisure Hours Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. In 2WD Modified Truck JP Richards would take the overall TQ after the qualifiers and he would also come out fastest in the A-main to take the win some 3.1s from team mate JR Mitch, while Alec Walters ended the race another five seconds down on JR in third. In the 4×4 Short Course A-main, polesitter Peter Battinelli would score a popular win some 4.2s in front of second placed Brandon Burns with Brian Malone ending the race another six seconds down on Brian to round out the top 3 result.

View the 4×4 SC podium here

March 6, 2017

Kum Yew wins at NOOB Singapore Open 2WD Rd1

The streak of wet weather in Singapore took a temporary break as the sun broke through the dark clouds at last Sunday’s NOOB Singapore Open 2WD electric buggy series round 1 event held at the RaceWorks Arena. The series is the country’s longest running electric off-road event and this race saw a nice spread of racers ranging from some of Singapore’s fastest drivers to newcomers racing for the very first time. After the three qualifiers, Kum Yew took the top qualifier position clocking the only 12-lap run with Mark Lim and Dennis Chiang taking second and third on the grid behind him respectively.

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March 4, 2017

Neumann recovers to dominate Qualifying Day 1 in China

The opening day of qualifying got underway at ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China for the 2017 Guan Kou Sunpadow Offroad GP with 3 rounds for Nitro Buggy followed by 2 rounds for EP Buggy. Round 1 in Nitro Buggy saw first blood go to Atsushi Hara, a number of errors by Serpent driver Joern Neumann, including a costly error on the main straight that lost him 10 seconds, allowing his team mate Shin Adachi to take 2nd spot for the round with Joern having to settle for 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

March 3, 2017

Andrea Simari successful at LRP-AE-Challenge Rd5

The RC Evolution track in Ranica (BG) hosted the fifth and penultimate round of the Italian LRP-AE-Challenge Championship. Andrea Simari managed to TQ all three rounds of qualifying ahead of Andrea Valerio to earn himself the pole position for the A-Main, with Federico Barbieri starting from third. Simmer concluded his perfect weekend winning the opening two legs of the A-main and bringing home full points from the meeting. Coming out on top of the field the third A-main, Federico Barbieri completed a Capricorn 1-2 ahead of the Xray of Valerio. Thanks to the result, the overall championship standings going into the final round see Simari (Capricorn) leading from Valerio (Xray) and Bizzocco (Xray).

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

March 3, 2017

Introducing the 2017 CETC presented by Infinity

Red RC China are proud to introduce the CETC, Chinese Electric Touring Car Championships, a 4 round electric onroad racing series that travels along the South Eastern China seaboard. With major backing from EP newcomers Infinity, the CETC presented by Infinity will kick off in late March at the Amazing Indoor Arena in Guangzhou, before traveling to Xiamen, Shanghai and finally Hong Kong. With additional support from Serpent and Sunpadow batteries, the series will cater for Modified Touring, Pro Stock Touring and Formula, all classes to run on handout Sweep Racing tires, with Pro Stock and Formula also using handout spec motors from ORCA.

Continue reading the announcement here

March 3, 2017

Xray Racing Series Italy – Announcement

Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Italy, a 3-race event tour held between March and June. The series kicks off on the 19th of March at MiniRace in Casoria and concludes on the 25th of June in Rome. Classes run are Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T HW team driver, Touring Stock 13.5T HW, Formula 21.5 HW and 1/12th pan car. More information and sign-up are available here.

March 3, 2017

Helliwell wins at Northeast Indoor Regional Series Rd3

The third and final round of the 2017 Northeast Indoor Regional Series took the local drivers to Batley Buggy Club and the MB Models Raceway near Leeds. The 86 racers that attended the event were greeted with a testing track laid out with EOS carpet, jumps and a difficult 90 degree table top at the end of the straight. In 2WD James Helliwell and Jonathon Skidmore battled it out for TQ with James taking the honours with two 1st places and a 2nd to Jonathon’s 1st and two 2nd places. Unfortunately Jonathon would not feature in the A-final for long as a mechanical failure would take him out of contention early on. The crowd were treat to and exciting final nonetheless as Jack Hirst slowly hunted down James Helliwell for the full five minutes. James hung on though and took the win by only 0.2s in the end.

View the final results here

March 3, 2017

Serpent welcome “Stickking”

Serpent have announced the signing of Fung Wai Yin, better known as “Stickking” to their racing team. The Hongkong resident will campaign Serpent’s Project 4X touring car at races in Hongkong, China and around Asia.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]