Gens Ace have announced the signing of 6-times Swedish National Champion, Viktor Wilck to their factory team. The Serpent team driver will use the company’s high-performance batteries from how on and he joins Gens Ace’s other high-class drivers such as Marc Fischer and David Ehrbar. Viktor’s first outing for his new power suppliers will be the forthcoming IFMAR World Championships in Beijing, China.
Source: Gens Ace [gensace.com]
Round four of this year’s Belgium Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Baanbrekers club in Rucphen. In the Touring Modified class it was Awesomatix’ Olivier Bultynck to take the pole position from Awesomatix team mate Nicolas Delisé and Xray driver Robby Engelen. The opening final began with a DNF for the TQ holder as technical issues prevent Olivier to complete more than a lap. This promoted Nicolas into the lead and he would make maximum use of the situation to walk away with the win in the opening A-main. The second and third leg then were a walk in the park for Ollie who took wins in A2 and A3 to grab the overall win from Nicolas with Mitchel Van Es (VBC) rounding out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the Formula class it was again Oilvier Bultynck who took the winning honours, this time in from of Steve Deblaere and youngster Florian Joos.
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The International Youth RC Models Association hosted the inaugural Car Modelling Junior World Championships to Prague, Czech Republic. This first of its kind event focused primarily on the youth and children and to bring together young people from different parts of the world. Rising electric on-road racer, Oliver Havranek (Xray) set the early pace already in practice and he continued to dominated by taking the TQ. In the finals Oliver would then score two wins to take home the first IYRCA Touring Modified World Championship title.
The 2016 JConcepts Super Cup Series kicked off its fall session last weekend at NewRed Hobbies indoor facility located in Ocala, Florida. NewRed Hobbies has a very unique surface, as they were one of the first tracks in the country to start using “Soiltac” exclusively. The glued surface makes the tire choice very simple as everyone runs slicks. With 225 entries, race director Lance MacDonald got qualifying rolling promptly at 9:30am. Qualifying was highly contested throughout the two rounds, but it’s in the main events where the points are claimed. Modified 2WD Buggy saw Paul Wynn take his vehicle with laydown transmission to the top spot on the podium while Daimon Borkowicz put in a flawless wire-to-wire win from his TQ spot in the insanely fast 4WD Modified Buggy class. Elsewhere AJ Marasco would take his buggy from the TQ position to a wire-to-wire victory in the highly contested Expert Stock 17.5 Buggy class.
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The fifth round of the MAC Heemstede club race was held on the recently resurfaced MACH track. The new asphalt surface made traction conditions difficult and in the ETS spec Formula class it was Xray driver Jitse Miedema who took the TQ followed by Niels de Zwijger (CRC) with the latter scoring the fastest lap but on the expense of a consistent pace. In the 13.5 Touring class Jitse also took the TQ, followed by Roy Bakker.
Round four of the Malaysia Nationals was held in Batu Kawan, Northern Malaysia. The race was a 1-day event attracting about 80 entries for the Touring Modified, Touring Super Stock 13.5T Boosted, Touring Stock 13.5T Non-Boosted and 1/10th Mini classes. In Touring Modified it was Xray’s Azri Amri who took the day’s win from Wee Yuan (Tamiya) and top qualifier Wong Kok Wai (Awesomatix).
Round four of the Belgian SCT Cup was held in Enghien as part of an RC show that featured aircrafts, boats and of course RC cars. The organising BRTC crew put in lot of efforts in building a temporary track in front of the park’s castle, and it would pay off with the series’ highest ever entry count ever. The nature of the grass track made setup and tyre choice a bit of a task as traction levels changed much over the course of the day. Racing wise and in Pro2 qualification, Laurent Halluin (Team C) started the day with a win in Q1 ahead of Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated). In the second round, Géry came out fastest ahead of Laurent and Samuel Castel (TLR). In the final round Géry was able to secure the overall TQ with another fastest time, again ahead of Samuel and Laurent. Those 3 clearly had a higher pace than the rest of the pack with all three being very close together in terms of performance.
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This past weekend the 2016 Great Lakes Showdown was held at The Track in Michigan. The “The Track” venue offers a large 1/8th off-road track as well as a smaller 1/10th off-road track and it was Adam Drake that was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truck, and 1/8th E-Buggy. Drake went on to win both 45 minute Nitro finals as well as the two 10 minute E-Buggy A-main legs to make it a title trifecta.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
