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November 16, 2016

Gassauer wins 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway

The 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway race was held at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany this past weekend. Limited to a total of 50 entries the race was sold out within a couple of hours after sign-in started and as usual the event was held using HPI Super EP chassis, oldschool brushed motors and LRP NiMH batteries, all sponsored by the hosting MBC Goldstein club. A single three minute practice was followed by ten rounds of head-to-head racing in random 5-car legs. At the end the best five drivers proceeded into the A-main, place six to ten into the B-main and so on. As usual the race attracted a nice mix of internationally experienced drivers and local racers and it was ETS finalist and 3-times winner, Patrick Gassauer, who made a clean sweep in the legs to take the TQ from Daniel Anthes and Daniel Koch. Justin Gefeller and Alexander Beck complete the A-main grid. In the finals Patrick was less dominant but he still took the overall win and with it his fourth Frankfurt Ice Speedway title. Daniel Anthes, who scored a single win, came in second from local hero, Daniel Koch, who also took a win in the finals.

Source: MBC Goldstein

November 16, 2016

Swiss Carpet Race – Report

The Swiss Carpet Race was recently hosted by the Mini Racing Chiasso club, attracting 80 drivers from Swiss and Italy. The race format was free practice on Friday, three rounds of practice on Saturday followed by a reseeding round as well as four qualifiers and triple finals. In the Touring Modified class it was Philipp Huber (Team Durango) that walked away with the win from Yokomo driver Michele Manzo and Serpent pilot Antonio Mangiaracina.

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November 16, 2016

Alexander Landen wins at WBC Cup opener

The opening round of the WBC Cup was held at the HB/Orion Raceway in Kallinge, Sweden hosted by the Karlskrona MRK club. In the 4WD buggy class the battle for the TQ was on between Xray teammates Alexander Landen and Malin Karlsen. Malin took the opening qualifier as Alexander had a couple of moments, eventually finishing second. In round two it was Alexander’s turn while Malin came in second with the latter striking back in R3. It was now all coming down to the final qualifier and unfortunately for Alexander he lost a front wheel of his buggy, handing Malin the final qualifier and with it the overall TQ.

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November 15, 2016

Akiyama win Speed King Tour Rd7

The seventh and final round of the 2016 Speed King Tour took place at Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in Gunma prefecture last weekend. TRF driver Akio Sobue has already crowned 2016 Modified class series champion but he was still in attendance. The typical Modified and Stock touring classes were run alongside two special classes, the first one is Oval class while the other was the ‘Father and Mother’ class. Only parents of race entrant can enter this race and although some fathers were ‘racers’, some parents had no experience of driving RC cars which led to some chaos.

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November 15, 2016

Tebo sweeps 2016 JConcepts WIS & Invitational

This past weekend Kyosho/Team Orion Factory Driver Jared Tebo would attend the 2016 JConcepts Winter Indoor Shootout & Invitational hosted by Fastlane R/C Raceway in Blue Springs, Missouri. In the Invitational 2wd/4wd Modified Buggy class, Tebo was on another level as he would finish the first day of racing with a perfect score of 4 wins in the 2wd Buggy class with his Team Orion powered RB6.6. Tebo then continued his dominance on Sunday by also taking 4 wins in 4wd Buggy with his ZX6 to finish the event with a perfect score & take the overall Championship. Kyosho America’s Jonathan Burkhalter would put in an impressive performance to finish only 4 points behind Tebo to take 2nd overall with TLR’s Mason Fuller in 3rd. In the Modified Truck class, Tebo would dominate qualifying by TQ’ing all 4 rounds and then went onto win the single 8-minute A-Main Event with his Team Orion powered RT6 by a comfortable margin to complete the clean sweep for the weekend.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoamerica.com]

November 11, 2016

Luke Pittman wins at the Big Chill

The Big Chill went down in Chilliwack, BC, Canada in early November and Xray’s Luke Pittman made the trip to represent team Xray and RC America. The track layout was very fast and flowing and allowed for some excellent racing which was seen in all classes. The Touring Stock class was sponsored by ORCA who provided their new RT 17.5 for all entrants as a hand-out motor, creating an even playing field among all those who entered. Motors were randomly picked during registration and racers were free to change timing and gearing as they wanted. Pittman left the timing at the recommended setting and ran the recommended gearing of 3.72.

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November 11, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd7 – Report

The last race of the 2016 Belgian SCT season was organized at the famous offroad indoor track “Blackcounty Arena”, which hosted an EOS race some years ago. The clay track they had last year is now covered with astroturf providing higher grip but keeping the natural elevations and underneath bumps. The layout has been revised as well and is really fun to drive. The Pro4 title was already decided before this race, but the Pro2 was still open with Nicolas Evens (TLR 22SCT) and Géry Ledocq (Kyosho SC6) tied on points in the series ranking.

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November 11, 2016

JJ Wang joins Sweep Racing

Korea based Sweep Racing have made the announcement that they have signed up Chinese American driver JJ Wang to use their on-road products and cooperate to develop tires, testing and promote the brand as well. The current US National Champion in nitro onroad, where he drives for Mugen, in electric he runs Xray and with his recent move to California we can expect to see him run more races in the US as part of this development work. JJ had this to say:

I want to thank Steve Kong and Sweep Racing for this opportunity. Now that I am based in the US where Sweep is a well-known brand, I hope to contribute to Sweep’s on road racing product development.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]