The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.
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Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has announced the signing of Alessio Menicucci to their team. The multiple Italian national champion and ETS finalist will deck out his Xray rides with Mon-Tech bodyshells from now on, joining swift team mates such as Portugal’s Bruno Coelho.
Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]
The Adventscup Warm-up race was held this past weekend at the Czypu-Drom indoor off-road dirt track in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. About 60 drivers signed in for the 1/8th E-buggy class and after the opening qualifier on Saturday it looked like a lot of drivers would battle for the overall win with Carsten Keller, Luca Rau, Philip Lüdgart and Burak Kilic all being in the mix. After the qualifiers on Sunday, Burak Kilic (Agama) held the upper hand over the other drivers and he would take the win in the main final from tone to tone, leaving Philip Lüdgart (Kyosho) and Luca Rau (Kyosho) behind in second and third respectively.
Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.
The city of Sochi, located on the Black Sea coast recently played host to this year’s Russian 1/10th Off-road Championships. In the 4WD Buggy class it was multi-time winner, Roman Larkin who brought home leg wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall victory for the third time in a row.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Belgium Modelifun Championship was held in Meux, Belgium. The Touring Car class was won by Jerome Defrenne from Michel Smets in second and Pascal Delferiere in third. Cedric Colen and Cornard Olivier completed the top 5 result in fourth and fifth respectively.
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The opening round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice, Czech Republic and it saw a total of 233 entries for the four on-road and two off-road classes. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by reigning IFMAR Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker (Yokomo) who won the qualifying and took the overall TQ without any problems. Behind him Viktor Wilck (Serpent) and Tobias Seidl (Schumacher) made up the top 3 while, after some very strong runs in the qualifiers, Czech driver Radek Flek came in fourth.
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The sixth and final round of the Malaysia National Championships was recently held with about 80 drivers attending in the Touring Modified, Super Stock and Stock classes. In Touring Modified TQ holder Adik Haikal (Xray) would bring home the day’s win from Norazam (Xray) and Michael Lim (Xray). Shahrin (Yokomo) and Wong Kok Wai (Awesomatix) would round out the top 5 result.
The 2016 Italian AMSCI 1/10th Off-road Championships were held last weekend and it was Beppe Fermi who walked away with the win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Francesco Fasetta and Nathan Senesi would complete the top 3 result in the 2WD class while Marco Baruffolo and Mattea Speranza rounded out the podium in 4WD.
