October 25, 2016

EJ Evans successful at inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge

EJ Evans successful at inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge

The inaugural Cen*Cal Challenge was held over the weekend at Hobby Town in Fresno, California. There were a total of 143 entries making it the second largest outdoor electric race in the USA for 2016. After four rounds of qualifying the Touring Modified TQ honors was claimed by EJ Evans followed by Ethan Erchinger and Brian Bosley. Early in the main Evans and Erchinger pulled a slight gap over the rest of the field. Ethan Erchinger applied pressure early, but after about one minute EJ Evans was able to maintain a two second gap for the victory. Brian Bosley and Fred Hubbard had a hard fought battle for the third spot and in the end Hubbard was able to claim the final podium position.

Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]

October 25, 2016

BRCA 1/12 Nationals Rd1 – Report

BRCA 1/12 Nationals Rd1 – Report

Last weekend saw the first round of the 2016/17 BRCA 1/12th scale Nationals take place in Eastbourne, UK. The events southern location resulted in a lower turnout than is normal for these events as some drivers from the north of England chose not to make the long trip south. Despite this the event promised to be very competitive with all of the main contenders for the series in attendance. This season sees a change to the classes offered, with a single 13.5T blinky class for everyone on Saturday while on Sunday drivers have a choice of 13.5T blinky and modified, which for this season sees the introduction of a 6.5T motor limit and “blinky” speed controllers.

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October 24, 2016

Lovan RC Challenge Rd1 – Report

Lovan RC Challenge Rd1 – Report

The Lovan RC Challenge kicked off this past weekend with the opening round taking place at the new Velocitatem Arena, a permanent and pretty technical indoor track in Ingelmunster, in the western part of Belgium. The series is run in the four classes of Touring Superstock 10.5T blinky, Touring Stock 17.5T blinky, 1/12th scale 10.5T and Formula 21.5T. Tyres are limited to one set of Ride tyres for the Formula class and a set of Sorex, Volante, Ride or LRP tyres for the Touring classes. As for the schedule, an opening round of qualifying was held on Saturday with the remainder of the qualifiers were run on Sunday followed by triple mains for everyone. In Superstock Awesomatix’s Ollie Bultynck took a convincing pole position, one lap in front of Florian Joos (Tamiya), with the latter suffering transponder issues, and the Xray of Eric Denolf. The finals were a bit more exciting and Florian would put his Tamiya a bit closer to Ollie’s Awesomatix but ultimately Olivier would take the win from Florian while Kristof Dehert, an off-road aficionado, took his brand new WRC to a fine third place overall, all three running Volante 28 tyres.

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October 24, 2016

Weissbauer & Mächler win at South German regional

Weissbauer & Mächler win at South German regionals

A round of the South German Indoor regionals was held this past weekend at the SLR Ingolstadt club. Thimo Weissbauer would take a dominant TQ in the Touring Modified class from Viktor Wilck in second and Frederik Südhoff in third. In the triple A-mains both Thimo and Frederik would battle for the overall win with each having scored a win and a second place before the third and decisive A-main. In leg three Thimo held everything together to take a second leg win some 2.7 seconds in front of Frederik to grab the overall win. Frederik came in second from Viktor Wilck who scored a 4-4-3 in the finals which let him end tie on points with Dominik Fleischmann but the better tie-breaker handed the Swede the final podium spot.

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October 24, 2016

Jeff Dayger successful at NORCAR Halloween Classic

Jeff Dayger successful at NORCAR Halloween Classic

The past weekend the 2016 NORCA Halloween Classic was held at The Gate and in the 1/12th 13.5T class it was Jeff Dayger who walked away with the win. In a star-studded field Jeff would come out fastest in the single 8-minute A-main from top qualifier, Johnny Wiita and runner-up after the qualifiers, Joe Trandel. Michael Hanulec, coming from the 9 spot on the grid ended the race in fourth place from veteran racer, Josh Cyrul in fifth.

Source: Trinity [trinityrc.com]

October 24, 2016

Steven Hartson doubles at JBRL Electric Series finale

Steven Hartson doubles at JBRL Electric Series finale

The 8th and final round of the 2016 JBRL Electric Series was recently held at Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California. In the premier 2WD Open Buggy Steven Hartson would walk away with the win from Jake Mayo and Tyler Fenster but overall in the championship it was Jake who took the title honours from teammate Steven. David Jenson would round out the championship top 3 result.

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October 23, 2016

2016/17 Winter Jumps Rd1 – Report

2016/17 Winter Jumps Rd1 – Report

The popular Finnish Winter Jumps RC off-road series recently had its opening round held at the Vaasa RC Club, host of the 2011 IFMAR 1/10th off-road World Championships. Different from other racing series that are run on grippy carpet or astroturf tracks, the Winter Jumps series also has two races held on slippery surfaces with the Vaasa round being one of them. In the 2WD race Joona Haatanen dominated every qualifier with his Team Associated buggy and he would also win the A-mains to take the day’s win from Schumacher driver Touko Silpola and Konsta Saarinen (Xray).

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October 21, 2016

ROAR announces Clubman Series

ROAR announces Clubman Series

ROAR in conjunction with Hobbytown Hobbyplex raceway, Fastlane Raceway and The Track have announced the new ROAR Clubman Series. This pilot program focuses on the local level of racing, it is designed to keep it simple, fair and fun. The series targets 17.5T stock racing classes using ROAR-approved non-timing ESCs and handout 17.5T motors and more information along with the basic rules can be found here.

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