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August 24, 2016

Xray set early pace in Beijing

Xray have set the early pace in practice at the 1:10 Electric Touring Car World Championships in Beijing, with Bruno Coelho topping the times for the first two practices from team-mate Alexander Hagberg. With the opening practice the first time cars have ever run on the newly resurfaced Fengtai R/C Model Area asphalt track, it was Hagberg who took the initial bragging rights and with the laps time improving by 1-seconds in the second of the opening day’s six free practices, he again set the fastest lap but over three consecutive laps it was Coelho who was marginally quicker – 0.025 the difference. Behind the Xray’s it was Yokomo’s Ronald Volker who completed the Top 3 followed by the Serpent of Viktor Wilck and Capricorn of Marc Fischer. With the first of the cars hitting the sugar watered track at 08:30, all the competitors coming out to watch Heat 1, the overall reaction to the layout and early traction is proving very positive.

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August 23, 2016

Martin Wollanka signs with Hot Race Tyres

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Austrian racer Martin Wollanka to their team. The factory Xray left former long-termn tyre sponsors Pro-Line right before this year’s European Championships and he will be using Hot Race Tyres’ range of competition tyres from now on. Martin has the following to say about the deal:

It was time to chance some things after around 10 years with Pro-Line tires, so I looked for another option. I start to test Hot Race Tyres some months ago and Iwas really impressive how they working fine on my Xray car. I drove very good laptimes and constant too. I was also impressed by the always equal quality of the tires, and the quick adaptation of any condition of the track and temperatures during the races. Nicola showed the potential of its product in on road, now becoming one of the pioneers of the On Road industry, and I want to help him to show it in offroad too! I’m already know it. I’m happy to be part of the Hot Race team.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

August 23, 2016

Cole Ogden wins Pro Nitro Buggy at Wicked Weekend

Racers from all over the US gathered at the Chicopee Wood Agricultural Center in Gainesville, Georgia, for one of the fastest growing events, The Wicked Weekend. With an unexpected entry count of 643 total entries this race would definitely live up to its name and be a wicked long race. Because of the large entry count the race organizers decided to change up the race format from three 5 minute qualifiers to two 7 minute qualifiers to save on time. With many racers unsure about the sudden change it would prove to be a very wise decision in the end. In Pro Nitro Buggy, the most competitive class at the event, Cole Ogden came out on top with one of the closes races of the event. Blake Pickett finished second and Blake Boggs would continue to show his presence rounding out the top three.

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August 23, 2016

Ben Smith takes BRCA U13 Junior 4WD Buggy title

The damp and bumpy astroturf track at Bury Metro in the north of England saw Ben Smith taking the BRCA 4WD Buggy Junior under 13’s title. Ben drove a very mature race to win the first two legs of the A-final to take the title and elsewhere in the 2WD class he would finish 2nd to round out a great weekend.

Source: Schumacher [racing-carc.com]

August 23, 2016

RC-Lemans Series Rd6 – Report

After an 8-week break the 2016 RC-Lemans Series continued with round six held at the RMC Düren track. The weather forecast for the weekend promised unsteady weather with Saturday’s practice underwent in cold but dry conditions. The opening round of qualifiers on Sunday morning would then be held on a dry track but in time for round 2 it started to get wet meaning all drivers would opt to sit out the remainder of the morning. Thankfully in time for the finals the weather cleared up and the mains would be run on a dry track.

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August 23, 2016

2016 USVTA Summer Slam – Report

The second annual Summer Slam hosted by NORCAR at The Gate in Brunswick, Ohio not only marks the nearing of the end to Summer and the start of the indoor carpet season in the U.S. Midwest region, but also the final weekend of the popular annual USVTA National Points Series. This event only offers rubber tire chassis’, this year saw Formula, VTA, USGT, GT-R, and Touring 17.5. The event saw a growth from the inaugural year due to the unique layouts that can be achieved with a rubber-tire only event. Lots of dots were used, okay … an exorbitant amount of dots were used and the Ring of Death made its reappearance. Saturday’s qualifying heated up quickly in round 1. In Formula Wayne Gerber set the early TQ in front of Brian Wynn, the only two to post early 38 lap runs.

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August 23, 2016

Bornhorst & Lutz win at Wicked Weekend

The Wicked Weekend was held in Gainesville, Georgia with a record amount of 640 entries. This made for long days but the program moved along quickly thanks to the race directing by Lance McDonald. The track layout put in by Bobby Moore was relatively easy and had good flow which provided close racing. For qualifying, Ryan Lutz seemed to be unbeatable by TQ’ing both rounds of all three classes. In Nitro Truggy Ryan set sail early and left the pack. Joe Bornhorst had some early mistakes but came back to 2nd place late in the race, leaving Blake Boggs behind in third.

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August 22, 2016

Matsukura is 1:12 World Champion

Naoto Matsukura is the 1:12 World Champion for a fourth time. The Japanese ace, who burst onto the international r/c scene when he won his first World title in 2008 aged 15, took back the sport’s biggest prize with an impressive recovery drive to make it 2 wins from 2 in the second A-Main in Beijing. Starting P2, China being his first Worlds not being the Top Qualifier, Matsukura came out best from a third lap pile up involving the Top 3 to go to the lead but almost immediately threw it away with a mistake of his own dropping back to fifth. With Sobue the new leader, Matsukura set about his recovery with his Roche clearly the fastest car on the track. On the limit trying to keep his lead and under pressure from Matsukura, Sobue would too lose the lead with a mistake and once passed Matsukura took complete control of the race to win ahead of Rheinard to put himself into the history books as the first driver to hold both the 1:12 and Electric Touring Car World titles simultaneously. A win of a very entertaining A3 would give Rheinard the overall runner-up spot with 1:12 Worlds debutant Sobue completing the podium for the 18th running of the championships.

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