The iconic MBV Kampenhout track played host to round four of the Belgium Electric Off-road Championship. 2WD Buggy qualifying saw TLR’s Wesley Van Helmond taking the TQ honours from Thibault Jaqueloot (Team Associated) and Schumacher’s Brent Ausloos. In the 4WD class Brent Ausloos (Schumacher) came out fastest in the qualifiers from Xray teammates Erik Michiels and Marco Briers.
The grand finale of the California Touring Series CTS was held at Warm Springs Raceway in Fremont, California, the biggest track in NorCal. The inaugural overall winner for season one in Modified Touring car is Yokomo driver Eric Albano followed by Team Associated’s Rick Hohwart in 2nd and Awesomatix driver Brandon Clements in 3rd. For his first time competing in CTS, Xray driver Max Kuenning locked up TQ in the 1st and 2nd round, Albano managed to put down a fire round in Q3 which put him at pole position for the main. From bell to bell, Albano then clinched the championship taking home a satisfying win for Yokomo.
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Last weekend saw the running of the BRCA supported Schumacher Scottish Grand Prix, hosted by the Stonehaven club. The BRCA touring car section were keen to explore the possibilities of including clubs further afield from the normal tracks that normally host UK nationals, disappointingly none of the big name UK drivers made the trip but that did not distract from what was a very competitive meeting. In the Modified class Peter Eagles was pre-event favourite and he went on to take TQ, and in the finals he fought off an early challenge in the first two finals from Andrew Walters and these two would be first and second with Chris Briggs completing the podium.
During last weekend’s German Electric Touring Car Nationals it was Tino Weller who took the Touring Stock Junior class title. The most popular class at the Nationals, Tino came in 6th in the B-main, a position that earned him the 2016 Junior category title.
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The final round of the RC LeMans Series South division was held at the MSC Rötz club this past weekend. The event also was the warm-up race for the German Nationals in September and beside the usual classes of LMP1 Modified and LMP2 Stock the race also offered a chance for drivers to run in the growing 1/8th Electric Modified and Stock Buri categories. In the LMP1 class it was Tobias Weist who took the TQ with a 2-laps margin on local hero, Bernhard Hummel and Roman Krejci. Hot on the heels were also Christian Fischer and Timo Schad.
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Foshan in the Southern part of China played host to the MRC Buggy Summer Race this past weekend. The track’s maiden race for the 2016 season attracted both local drivers and also participants from Hong Hong to race in several 1/8th off-road classes. In the premier category of 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was young Jonathan Yeung who took the winning honours, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. At first Jonathan was hindered by traffic but he kept his cool and with fast and consistent laps the 14-years old would soon start to chase leader Mr. Li and at about the 30-minute mark Jonathan was able to make use of a mistake by the leader, promoting Jonathan into the lead. From that moment Yeung and Li would swap the lead several times and on the final lap things got even more interesting as both made mistakes but Jonathan would emerge on top of the carnage to take the win from Li in second and Carson Yeung in third.
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The German National 1/10th Electric On-road nationals were held this past weekend at the RC-Sportfreunde Singen club in the south of the country. In the Touring Stock class it was Valentin Hettrich who took the pole position for the triple A-mains but problems in A1 and A3 despite a win in A2 only meant the 6th overall place while Max Mächler (Awesomatix), starting from the 2 spot on the grid, made maximum use of Valentin’s issues, taking wins in A1 and A3 to grab the overall Stock title from Alexander Stocker (Awesomatix) in second and Danuel Wohlgemuth (Xray) in third.
Image: Max Mächler
Round two of the Asian Onroad Championship was held at Australia’s ACT model car racing club. With a spacious hall at the Exhibition Park in Canberra the venue offered a large high-speed track that was laid out using the proven ETS carpet with a couple of technical sections to keep things interesting, providing passing opportunities and close hard racing in all classes. In the 1/12th Modified class it was Brett Drayton to take the day’s win from Kerren Nottle and his team mate Mark Wallin. 1/12th 10.5T Stock also had Brett Drayton coming out fastest in the triple A-mains with Chris Peet in second and Mark Wallin, who scored another podium result this weekend, in third.
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