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March 29, 2016

Kaja Novotny wins Czech season opener

The first round of the 1/10 Czech nationals 2016 took place in Olomouc and Kaja Novotny wrote this report. ‘This year the organisers have decided to make the series more interesting than in previous year with the first round on carpet, then 2 rounds on clay, followed by 3 rounds on astroturf. We arrived late on Friday for a short practice. In practice I struggled little bit to find the pace for clean 5 minutes run and somehow couldn’t get a clean lap. When arrived to the hotel, we made few changes on the cars which appeared as a right move. On Saturday both my XB2 and XB4’16 worked great since the first lap. In 2wd qualifications I wasn’t the fastest driver on one lap, but the most consistent and took TQ in all three qualifications. In 4wd qualifications my XB4’16 was amazing, however being hit twice in Q1 by one-lap slower drivers meant 2nd place. Nevertheless TQs in Q2 & Q3 meant overall TQ for my XB4’16.

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March 29, 2016

Michael Walton wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nats Rd1

The first round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit Championship took place at the Cotswold Model Car club over the Easter weekend, with the new addition of an electric class to run alongside the nitro powered cars. With one of the highest number of drivers booked in to race within recent years, we were in for a great first round, unfortunately the British weather had other ideas with heavy downpours throughout the weekend. Qualifying saw mixed track conditions with low grip, which left a few big names in the B-final, Steve Scott secured a superb pole position for the 30 minute A-final from Clive Connolly and John Carr.

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March 28, 2016

Jared Tebo takes 6th Neo win

Jared Tebo has taken an impressive 6th win at the Neo race today in the UK. While it was last year’s winner Ryan Cavalieri driving for Associated that took the top spot after qualifying it was the Kyosho racer that would start the 45 minute main from pole after winning his semi final. Starting up front Jared tried to build up an early lead by pushing very hard from the start. Surviving an early attack by a very fast starting Ryan Lutz, the Tekno driver’s race would however end very early with an engine bearing failure. This left Cavalieri back into 2nd to lead the charge on Tebo and it looked to be close as they swapped fastest laps, however by 2/3rds of the way through the race Cav had dropped back into he grasp of a fast charging Cody King as the pace from the leader up front was relentless. With 12 minutes to go King would make his way passed Cavalieri but Ryan got his head down and 2 minutes later made his way passed in a long pass that lasted several corners. Just as both were coming up to their final stop King would flame out leaving Elliott Boots up to 3rd which for a time would become temporarily 2nd as Cav took his final stop. With the final stops out of the way it was Tebo who would take the win, never slowing in his quest for a 6th win, a huge mental boost ahead of the Worlds in Vegas later this year. Cavalieri took the runner up spot some 16 seconds back and off the lead lap with Elliott Boots putting his Kyosho on the podium some 8 seconds further back. Cody King would end the race 4th with Davide Ongaro rounding out the top 5.

Image: Neo Buggy [neobuggy.net]

March 27, 2016

Jitse Miedema takes 2016 Dutch F1 Masters

This weekend the Heemstede track played host to the International Dutch F1 Masters. Friday started with free practice without heats and at the end of the day there were 2 rounds of free practice heats which saw Jitse Miedema with the best pace followed by his brother Tjitte Miedema and Milan Holthuis. Saturday was a nice day with the sun shining and all drivers having fun. Following 2 rounds of controlled practice it was last year’s winner Jitse who had a really good pace with the fastest time in the controlled practice followed by Roy Bakker and Sidney Blokker. Qualification was up next and it was again Jitse on position 1 followed by Milan Holthuis and Stephan Beelen. On Sunday the beginning of the day was a little bit wet what offered up some surprises but in the first final it was business as usual for Jitse who took the win followed by Milan and Sidney. In A2 there was a crash in the first lap but for the rest of the final the guys shows a good pace and clean racing. It was Jitse who would bring home the win and take the overall win for the IDFM 2016 followed by Milan and Tjitte. In the 3rd final it was again Jitse followed by Milan and Niels.

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March 26, 2016

Mibosport Cup 2015/16 – Season review

The 2015/16 Mibosport Cup held its season finishing final round last weekend with the series attracting a total of 487 drivers of which 245 attended in the off-road classes while the on-road categories drew a total of 242 entries. This season drivers from 9 countries including Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic made their way to the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice.

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March 24, 2016

Nicolai Lindegaard wins Danish Touring Car Nationals

The final round of the Danish Touring Car Nationals was held in Tinglev near the German border. The race attracted a record breaking 80+ entries including reigning DHI Cup Champion Tim Benson from Germany. The overall championship was still up for grabs with both Nicolai Lindegaard and Steven M. Olsen could secure the title with a win. Controlled practice saw Nicolai and Steven settle for second and third as they were beaten by Frederik Mikkelsen by 0.1 tenth of a second and it looked to be a weekend of close racing.

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March 24, 2016

Jannick Namyslo crowned Winter Cup Champion

The 4-race Winter Cup Series was held at the Hobby-Theke Raceway of the MCRT-Aschaffenburg club in Germany in several electric on-road classes including Touring Car, 1/12th pan car, Formula and M-Chassis. In 1/12th pan car reigning champion Jannick Namyslo again came out successful at the end of the season with a maximum points score, taking the overall title in front of Hartmut Rose and Sebastian Fenske, making it an all-Xray podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 23, 2016

Boggs & Mitch win at Extreme Carpet Initiative

The Extreme Carpet Initiative was held at Extreme RC raceway in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The awesome carpet track is setup a couple of times each month for racers all over the area to have a place to race. Not changing up the layout and going with a previous layout configuration the racers saw a mix of singles, doubles, corner jumps and a wall ride as jumps/obstacles for this year’s event. The track also featured different carpet areas as the main basketball court would be covered in a gray indoor/outdoor carpet with the jumps and the landing after the jumps in different type of carpet mainly to help from damaging the basketball court underneath the race track from hard landings.

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