The 2016 Bring the Heat was held at Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Flowood, Mississippi. In the 1/8th Expert Nitro Buggy class, Ryan Lutz would take the TQ honours and he would go onto dominate the 35-minute A-main event by lapping the entire field to take the win from Cole Ogden and Blake Boggs.
The popular Riccione track in Italy played host to the 2016 Hot Race Beach Cup over the weekend. Despite being a fun event the race attracted about 100 drivers from seven nations to battle it out in a total of five different electric on-road classes. As usual the organisers not only catered for hot racing on the track but also a bunch of other activities such as the iconic Saturday night beach party, a kart race at the famous Misano track or a track side lounge area. Racing-wise it was Alexander Hagberg who took the TQ in the Touring Modified class while Jan Ratheisky swept the Touring Stock, Formula, Pan car and Cinquone 299 categories.
The recent 8th round of the Singapore Urban Touring Series welcomed its largest race turnout at the weekend with a total of 40 entries thanks to the newly added Formula class. Most of Singapore’s top EP racers were in attendance, ensuring a super competitive field. In the Touring Open class a total of 16 racers took the start and at the end of qualifying, it would be Yokomo’s factory driver Nicholas Lee who would dominate, winning all four rounds of qualifying. Despite an absence of eight months from racing, Xray’s Daryl Thong would qualify second, while Destiny’s Esmail Apandi ended up third.
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The Schumacher BTCC series moved on to another very fast circuit this past weekend in the form of Mendip. The championship is still very much wide open in all three classes, so it was set to be a great event. Lots of drivers were in attendance on Saturday for some practice and to get their cars set up to their liking. Unlike other rounds the weather was lovely sunshine and hot temperatures, this was how it stayed for the whole weekend. On to Sunday and race day, we had the usual open practice session first thing and then it was into qualifying mode. The race format was the usual format of round by round qualifying, however this time the organisers managed to get an extra round of qualifying into the schedule so it was the best three from five rounds to count. This was good practice for the drivers attending the National in two weeks.
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Last weekend’s Siderwinder Nitro Explosion held at RC Tracks of Las Vegas not only saw 1/8th Nitro Off-road racing but also the running of an 1/8th E-Buggy class. Spencer Rivkin would set the TQ to put his buggy on the pole position for the triple A-main events what he would from Tyler Vik who started from the 2 spot into the finals. Tyler would take the win in the opening leg but commanding wins in A2 and A3 handed Rivkin the overall victory from Vik in second and Anthony Westergaard in third.
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The 2016 EFRA European Electric Off-road Championships were held this week in Valladolid, Spain. As usual the event was split into a 2WD and a 4WD race with the 2WD portion being won by Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. The following 4WD event saw Xray’s Bruno Coelho and AE’s Neil Cragg battling it out for the TQ with the better end for reigning 4WD World Champion, Bruno Coelho who would take the overall TQ from Neil in the tie-breaker. In third Serpent’s Jörn Neumann also looked very fast while behind him Martin Wollanka and Karri Salmela completed the top 5.
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X-Factory UK and JConcepts have announced the addition of former multi-time World Champion, David Spashett to their UK race team. David brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience which will prove a great asset to the team, he is also one of the most approachable guys at the race track and always willing to help out all his fellow racers. The UK frontrunner will be using all of JConcepts’ pit gear and on-road oriented race products for the remainder of the 2016 season and beyond at high profile events all over the UK.
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The CAAR club in Curitiba played host to the recent Brazilian Touring Stock nationals. With July being a Winter month temperatures were pretty low but no wind and with the sun coming out it was a pleasant weekend. 17.5T Stock blinky was the most popular class with 23 entries and it was Otavio Langowski who took the title after some nice and clean fights in the A-mains. Pedro Thieme and Luiz Castori completed the podium result in second and third respectively.
