Round four of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series was held at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. In the premier class of 2WD Open Buggy, Team Associated’s Steven Hartson would take the win in the A-main from the TLR duo of Blake Beyett in second and Radek Grammes in third.
The fourth round of the California Touring Series CTS was held at P1 Hobbies in Ukiah, California, this past weekend. This round’s winner was Factory Team Yokomo driver Eric Albano taking TQ honors and the only driver to complete 30 laps in 5 minutes. His BD7 set the benchmark through qualifying and secured the win in the main followed by Team Associated Factory Team driver Rick Hohwart and TOP Racing driver E.J. Evans in third. With the points chase, this victory will solidify the lead for Albano as the series approaches two more rounds.
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Tom Yardy has completed a successful defence of the BRCA Mid West off-road regional championship in both 2WD and 4WD, with two rounds left to spare. Having already wrapped up 2WD a couple of weeks previously at Oswestry, with a 3rd win in three rounds using his Schumacher Cougar KF2 mid. Tom repeated the feat in 4WD this weekend at the new Coventry Model Car Club track with his Cat K2, winning all qualifiers and three legs of the final. Tom said “it’s great to continue my run of regional series wins with Schumacher, back in 2002 I won my first 2WD regional championship with a Schumacher Fireblade so it’s nice to win once more in my 2nd spell with the team. The cars have been dialled on all tracks so far, this weekend my 4WD was unbelievable on the new Coventry track! A big thanks to my Dad and Trish for their support, and of course Schumacher and their range of fantastic brands.”
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
The third round of the Czech 1/10th Buggy Nationals was held at the big astroturf track in Potstejn. Heavy rain kept most of the drivers from attending the free practice on Friday and even on Saturday morning the track was rain soaked but every driver tried to get at least a couple of laps in. In the 2WD qualifiers Marek Schiller would take the TQ from Kaja Novotny, who suffered from unusual mistakes. In the 4WD class Kaja then went on to win Q2 and Q3 for the overall TQ.
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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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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.
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.
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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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