The recent Zolder Race in Belgium saw Kristof Dehert walking away with the win in the four 6-minute 2WD A-main events. Starting from the 2 spot, Kristof was able to secure one win and two second places to finish the day on the top spot from Nik Weyers and Tom Buekers in second and third respectively. In the 4WD class, Eric Michiels took the win from Gunther Lambrechts and Patrick Lievens.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The organisers of the Essex Winter Series have announced details of their 2016/17 championship. The series, now in its sixth year, is recognised as one of the most popular on-road championships not only in the UK, but across Europe too. Following a successful fifth season, the organisers have made a few tweaks and changes to the programme and rules. The series will continue to feature classes for Modified and Super Stock (13.5 Blinky/Zero Timing) Touring Cars. The first major change will see the series now utilising controlled tyres from Sweep Racing. The tyres will be specific to EWS, and feature the EWS logo on the wheel and they will be available very soon, in the UK via CML Distribution. The organisers will also be investing in new carpet, switching to the popular “ETS” style carpet and with it the track expands to a massive 24×34 metres, one of the largest carpet tracks in the world. The series will consist of five rounds again, and be concluded with the EWS International, previously known as the International Carpet Challenge, which will take place after the end of the regular championship. Entries for the series open on 1st September 2016, and the series is expected to fill up quickly. More details and all dates can be found on the series’ website here and also on Facebook here.
Round four of the Slovakian 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the XXXL-Bratislava Raceway in Bratislava. Like in the previous round the weather was very hot, making for dusty and slippery track conditions. In 2WD Lucas Grainer could take the TQ with Philipp Stocker and Thomas Rössler in tow. The very low-grip track conditions made things interesting in the finals but Lucas would excel and he took the win from Phillip and Thomas.
The Norwegian Electric Off-road Nationals, run in 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified Buggy classes, were held this part weekend at the Innherred RC Klubb in Levanger. The weather forecast wasn’t too promising but after some hard work of the club and some volunteers the clay track was ready for the weekend of racing. The weather limited practice before the event so at first it looked like the local drivers would be on top. Yokomo’s Daniel Kobbevik had a good start into the event as he showed a very fast pace from early on. Behind him, Roy Gemble also was very quick but electrics gizmos later on meant the BQ for the unlucky driver. The 2WD top 3 after the qualifiers would then read Daniel Kobbevik on the TQ from Eirik Andreassen (Yokomo) and Torbjorn Doler (Team Associated).
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Round four of this season’s BRCA Touring Car Series took place over the weekend at the popular Mendip track near Weston Super Mare. This event looked on paper to be pivotal in the 2016 championship as the first three rounds had seen three different winners, Chris Grainger took round one, Elliott Harper round two and the last round saw victory for Olly Jefferies. In the Modified Super Touring class tyre strategy played a major part in the outcome of the result, Chris Grainger sat out round one of qualifying to put himself on a different strategy to his main championship contenders, this paid off and he would go on to take TQ and pole position for the A-final ahead of Olly Jefferies, Matt White and Elliott Harper.
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The 2016 ROAR Electric Off-road Nationals were held this past weekend at The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska. In the premier 2WD Modified Buggy class the race for the overall TQ was on between Ryan Maifield (TLR), Dakotah Phend (TLR) and Ty Tessmann (HB Racing) who scored individual round TQs in the opening three qualifiers until Dakotah came out fastest in Q4 to take the overall TQ. Ty Tessmann would place his buggy on the 2 spot for the A-main while Ryan Maifield had to settle for third.
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The Swedish On-road Nationals were recently hosted by the Wäxjö MS club and held in several electric and nitro on-road classes. In 1/10th Electric Touring it was Viktor Wilck who topped three out of four qualifying rounds to take the TQ position in front of Markus Hellqvist and Fabian Vernersson. In the finals Wilck could easily win the first two A-main legs to take the overall victory. Hellqvist would finish second with upcoming driver Fabian completing the podium.
Reedy have announced the second annual Reedy Outdoor Off-Road Championships hosted by Hot Rod Hobbies in Saugus, California from November 18th to 20th. With an old school feel and watered track, the event made its debut last year to the praise of many. Classes run are the proven mix of Modified and Stock Buggy, Stadium Truck and Short Course Truck and more information as well as the entry form are available here.
