Round seven of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Prague and it saw Xray’s Kaja Novotny sweeping the 2WD Buggy qualifiers despite only arriving late due to attending the final round of the Mibosport Cup held the day before. Vaclav Broz and Arnold Lorenz qualified 2nd and 3rd while in 4WD Buggy Kaja TQ’ed round 1 and 2 but he had to retire in Q3 due to technical issues.
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Seaway Mall in Ontario, Canada was the venue for the recent 2016 Canadian Carpet On-Road Nationals. Racing was close in all classes with an extremely competitive field. In Touring Stock, 3 seconds separated out the top 5. At the start of the A, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, Dave Johnson paced himself perfectly, taking the lead on lap 4 and would go on to win the A Main, securing the TC 17.5 National title. In USGT, the top 3 were separated out by less than 1 second. Dave Johnson would quality in the third spot and in what would be another flawless drive, Dave hold off the field to take the USGT title, scoring a double and another National title.
Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]
The Annual Canadian On-road Nationals were held last weekend at the Seaway Mall in Welland Ontario, Canada. Part of what makes this race special is that it is held center court in a shopping mall which brings high-end RC racing to thousands of spectators. This year was bigger than ever with well over 300 entries, drivers from all over North America were in attendance representing many brands. In the showcase class of Modified Touring it was team Xray driver Paul Lemieux who would ultimately TQ over Kevin Hebert (Team Associated) and Andrew Hardman (Yokomo). In the final it was Lemieux who would lead tone to tone but was not unchallenged with Andrew Hardmann in striking distance the entire race and finishing a very close second, Blake Bell (Xray) would put in a solid drive to round out the podium.
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The opening round of the Portuguese Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the ARMAIA track close to Porto in the North of the country. With no entries for the Modified class the 10.5T Stock category received a real boost and it offered a high level of competition all weekend and ultimately Frederic Santos would come out successful in the finals by taking wins in A2 and A3, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. Helder Silva came in second, Jorge Simoes rounded out the podium in third.
The recent X-Race Italy was hosted by the Team La Gang in Scandiano, Italy with the event attracting over 100 drivers to compete in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula, 1/10th GT and 1/12th scale. The 2-day event saw controlled practice and the first three qualifying rounds on Saturday followed by two more qualifiers and triple mains on Sunday. In the Touring Modified class Coelho Bruno would take the TQ from Marco Kaufmann and Martin Hudy while in Touring Stock Jan Ratheisky would come out fastest from Davide Bertuzzi and Andrea Valerio. In the Formula class Guido Barbera would grab the pole position for the finals while 1/10th GT had Jan Ratheisky took the TQ honours. Finally in 1/12th pan car it was Alessio Mota who placed his car on the 1 spot for the finals.
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Paul Sinclair and Cade Bivens dominated the Modified Buggy and Modified Short Course classes at last weekend’s 4th Annual Tennessee Winter Championships held at Thunder R/C in Nashville, Tennessee. Bivens and Sinclair qualified 1-2 in Modified Buggy, with one of them winning every qualifier; they reversed positions in Modified SC, also winning every qualifier. Cade then made an early mistake in the Buggy main, and Paul took the win, lapping all but Bivens and third place while turning in a ballistic 14.3 fast lap and in Modified Short Course, it was Sinclair and Bivens 1-2 wire-to-wire, both with a lap on the field.
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The German 1/12th scale National Championships were hosted by the SLR Ingolstadt club in the South of the country. In the premier Modified class, veteran racer Markus Mobers would add another national championship title to his belt by coming out successful from Dionys Stadler and Daniel Sieber. Tim Altmann and Stefan Mraz rounded out the top 5 result.
The fifth and final round of the 2015/16 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice, Czech Republic with a total of 225 entries that split into 120 on-road and 105 off-road entries. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by Ronald Völker who won the qualifying and took TQ without any problems. Second in qualifying was Michal Orlowski ahead of Elliot Harper.
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