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June 20, 2016

2016 Nordic Championships – Report

The Pitkämäki RC-Circuit in Vaasa, Finland played host to the 2016 Buggy Nordic Championships and the combined second round of the Finnish nationals. Considered to be the sunniest city of Finland, things were a bit different this weekend as rain postponed the start of the controlled practice and qualifiers on Saturday. At the end only the opening qualifier for both the 2WD and 4WD classes could be held. Sunday started off with more drizzle and moist weather. A muddy second round of qualifiers was interrupted by light rain and after another delay, round three started in dry weather conditions. The TQ in the 2WD class went to Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen who won two of the three qualifiers with a clear margin on his competitors. Joel Valander would come in second while Karri Salmela rounded out the top 3 result.

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June 20, 2016

2016 Nor-Cal Championships – Report

This past weekend Nor-Cal Hobbies was over run with contestants coming from all across California battling for a chance to win a coveted boxing belt at the 8th running of the Northern California Off-Road Championships – The Nor-Cal Champs. The course was a challenge for both Spec and modified class drivers. The Spec drivers had to deal with a challenging right side drop down, with back section that only Modified drivers could only triple. After two days of qualifying and a fierce triple A main format, Mason Eppley from Tekno set the track record of 13.9. Derek Stepanson (TLR) won 2WD Modified and 2WD Short Course. Matt Olson (MIP) also took home two belts from the 4×4 Short Course Classes and 1/8th E-Buggy. Rudy Rico (Team Associated) took the 2WD 17.5 Expert Buggy while Rob Russel (Team Powers) took a belt in 40+ 17.5 Buggy and got a 2nd in Expert. Finally Newcomer Julian Jimenez took the 13.5 Stadium Truck belt.

View the top 3 results here:

June 19, 2016

Bowie Ginting wins at Xcampus Challenge Rd2

The second round of the Xcampus Challenge was held at the East RC Speedway in Jakarta in the three classes of Open Brushless, 13.5T non-boost and FWD. The track layout was pretty technical with lap times of around 12 seconds for the Open class. Bowie Ginting would TQ the Open class with Arya Seta some 11 seconds back in second. Teddy Syach came in third, a lap short of the top 2. In 13.5T Agustinus Sanjaya took the TQ while Arya Seta came out fastest in the FWD class. The finals then saw Bowie taking commanding wins in the Open Brushless class from Arya Seta while Iwan Tirtha completed the top 3 result. 13.5T non-boost had Ronald Kasengkang grabbing the day’s win from Handoko Wijaksono while TQ holder Agustinus Sanjaya had to settle for third overall. Finally in FWD, Arya Seta brought home the win from Reynaldi Kriswanto and Riyan Permana in second and third respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 19, 2016

Dutch EC10 Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Dutch EC10 nationals was held at the small and very popular RC Hotwheels track in Deventer. The Heilige Koe Cup race, the unofficial warm-up, was held two weeks before the nationals with the Touring Stock class being won by Rob Janssen (Team Magic) from Richard Arts (Team Magic) and Tim Streefkerk (Gizmo). In the Formula class was it Jitse Miedema (Xray) who would take the win in front of runner-up, Martijn van der Heijden (Xray) and Michael Lepelaar (Tamiya). The nationals then stared on Saturday as usual and dry and nice weather made for perfect track conditions. Unfortunately in the afternoon the sky turned almost black and heavy rain poured down. A handful of brave drivers tried to continue but with the weather forecast for Sunday looking much better, most drivers sat out the afternoon practice.

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June 17, 2016

Xray sign young Alexander Landen

Xray have announced the signing of young swedish talent, Alexander Landen to their junior racing program. The 10-years old will race 1/10th electric off-road at events such as the EOS, the WBC races, the Swedish National Cup and more and he has the following to say about the deal:

I am very happy for this opportunity and I am of course very proud. I have been running Xray cars for the last 2 years with a great success. The quality and attention to details in the products are top notch and the performance and reliability of the products are superior. With the recent release of the new 2WD platform we believe the Xray overall package currently is the strongest in the 1/10 off road racing market on all surfaces. Therefore this seems as a perfect time to join a very successful team and I will do my best to represent the team.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 17, 2016

John Spencer teams up with PR Racing UK

PR Racing UK and Inside Line Racing have announced that top UK RC driver John Spencer is joining the team to run the 4WD PRSB401 buggy. John is well known on the European RC racing scene being a BRCA National A-finalist and multiple European top 20 finisher. As the DMS Racing shop manager he has loads of day to day experience to offer to the PR UK team and racers in general regarding set ups and improving your lap times.

Source: Inside Line Models [insidelinemodels.com]

June 17, 2016

Chen Yanfu wins at Beijing BGP opening race

The recent Beijing BGP opening race saw the running of a 1/12th 13.5T spec class and it was Lu Yi Heng (Xray) who took the TQ after the triple qualifiers. The battle for the overall TQ was a very close one with Lu finally grabbing the TQ in the third and final qualifier by 0.4 seconds. In the triple A-mains Lu suffered from setup issues with the car constantly traction rolling on the grippy CRC black carpet. Chen Yanfu (Xray) made maximum use of the situation to bring home the win from TQ holder Lu Yi Heng while Liu Yunan (Kyosho) completed the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 16, 2016

Peter Pinisch doubles at rain-affected Austrian Nats Rd3

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Last weekend the third round of the Austrian Nationals was held at the dirt track TSA Krieglach. The weather forecast for the race day was not so good and the rain stopped the race after three rounds of qualifying. Schumacher’s Peter Pinisch took the win in both classes with the fastest time of the day. The Team Associated duo of Stefan Pfeifhofer and Lucas Grainer would side-line Peter on the 2WD podium while Hupo Hönigl (Xray) and Marcel Rekettye completed the 4WD top 3 result.

View the 4WD podium here