After a five-race season Nicolai Nielsen was crowned the Danish Stock Touring Car champion thanks to taking the podium four times and scoring a win at the season finale held at the EFRA GP track in Neastved. Being the only driver to campaign a FWD car in the 17.5T blinky class Nicolai left Tommy Udensen and young Calle Rasmussen behind in second and third respectively.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Motorhead R/C Raceway in San Jacinto, California played host to the seventh round of the JBRL Electric Off-Road Series. With just over 150 entries, the crowd was set for an exciting day of racing. In Modified 2WD Buggy, local fast kid Jeremy Hase Jr. sat on the pole, followed by Jake Mayo and Nick Wautlet. At the sound of the tone, Mayo applied formidable skill and patience to press Hase Jr. into a mistake. From there, Mayo held on to an 8-second lead to take home the win for the weekend from Tyler Fenster in second and Shawn Blackwell Sr. in third.
Xray have revealed details of their Xray Racing Series UK that will kick off on the 16th of October. The series is hosted by the Chippenham Model Car Club and run in the classes of 1/10th Touring Cars, 13.5T ProStock, SuperTouring, Formula, LMP 1/12th and GT12. The 7-round series concludes in March and more information and registration is available here.
The fourth round of the Swedish 1/10th Buggy National Cup series was held at Green Hill race track in Stockholm. The weather was great all weekend and in 4WD Alexander Landén started off quick by TQing the first three rounds and in the process putting in the only 12-lap qualifying round of the event. The first final was at long times a very tight affair between Alexander, local driver Niclas Månsson and Elias Johansson. In the end Alexander stood victorious in front of Niclas.
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Singapore’s Urban Touring Series returned this past weekend with round 9, which was concurrently a national championship points scoring round. In Touring Open only a small grid registered and it was decided that a Reedy Race format would be run over five legs. Both Esmail Apandi and Dominic Quek had two wins and one second place but it was Esmail who would secure the top step of the podium by virtue of a faster winning time in the last leg, which was run in much cooler conditions. Hasron Robana would round out the podium in third.
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VBC Racing have announced the signing of Germany’s Jan Rettke to their team. A Stock class expert, the 2015 1/12th 10.5T German National Champion will use the company’s products from now on and he has the following to say:
I am very happy and want to thank Victor L and VBC Racing for giving me the opportunity to use their products. I can’t wait to work together with my new team and looking forward to next season.
Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]
Round five of the Slovakian Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the RC-Comorra track in Komarno. It was again a hot and dusty race and in 2WD buggy it was Lucas Grainer who took the TQ after an awesome qualification. In the finals Lucas was able to stay on top to win the race from Michal Nagy and Milos Svihran.
The Southern Nationals Indoor Off-road Race was held at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, Louisiana this past weekend. The event attracted both internationally experienced racers and local talent and in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy it was reigning World Champion, Ty Tessmann (HB Racing) who locked down the prestigious TQ positions and he would also bring home popular wins in both classes from Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst. Mugen’s Cole Ogden would take the final podium spot in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy while elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Joe Bornhorst who top qualified and won the race.
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