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April 26, 2016

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of the BRCA Circuit Championship took place at the high speed circuit of Mendip R/C Raceway. Created in 1977 the circuit was made to challenge the 2WD drive cars of the day, and allow corners to by taken at high speed, this means with a modern 4WD chassis it is very much a power circuit, thus a great engine and big brass spheres are required to get around the circuit at full speed as the circuit is lined with concrete barriers, making this a track to be respected. Greeted by cold but dry weather, practice was under way on the Saturday. With Neal King setting the pace and the usual drivers of Tim Wood, Andy Hastings, John Carr and the returning David Spashett all looking fast it was going to be a close qualifying and race come Sunday.

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April 26, 2016

Adam Drake sweeps 2016 Philippine Masters

This past weekend the Philippine Masters was held at Quezon City Radio Control Car Club. The event hosted many drivers from throughout Asia as well as Adam Drake and Aaron Gomez from the USA. Quezon City Radio Control Car Club has been around for nearly twenty years and has host the last six Philippine Masters. Saturday was Nitro Buggy racing and consisted of three rounds of qualifying, using rocket round due to the consistency of the track. Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy followed by teammate Aaron Gomez. The 60-minute Nitro Buggy final was under the lights on Saturday night and Adam Drake won the main by a large margin. Sunday was Nitro Truck and 1/8th E-Buggy racing using the same format as Saturday. Adam Drake again was the top qualifier and won the 60-minute final while in the E-Buggy class Edward Sio came out fastest.

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April 26, 2016

Tanner Day doubles at Kyosho 3 Lap Challenge

The 2nd running of the Kyosho 3 Lap Challenge took place at Nor-Cal Hobbies in San Jose, California this past weekend. In a break from the traditional qualifying format, the fastest three consecutive laps comprised the contestants’ times. To add even more challenges, dirt engineer Anton Aaroe designed a track layout specifically for this event, complete with a wicked challenging large quad jump that tripped up many drivers and shone a spotlight on those that conquered it. It was an accomplishment for drivers to complete one fast lap, let alone three, making for an exciting and unpredictable race. In Modified 2WD Buggy, Tanner Day held TQ over fellow team mate Charlie Cavalier by 1.9 seconds. In the main event, a mistake by Tanner in the quad jump put Charlie in the lead, but only for a minute. The 17-year old regained the lead and won with Charlie 2nd, and Antonio Counsil 3rd.

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April 25, 2016

RC LeMans Series Rd1 – Report

The season opening round 1 of the popular RC LeMans Series was held this past weekend at the Dutch Appeldoorn track. The weekend started out in cold but dry weather on Saturday but it turned to the worst on Sunday with rain, snow, hail, wind and sun making for challenging track conditions. After the rocket round qualifiers Tim Altmann would grab the TQ in the Modified LMP1 class from Kai Altmann and Tobias Weist. Reinder Wilms and Ben Voorhaar completed the top 5 result. In the Stock LMP2 category, 2015 championship runner-up, Mathijs Hermens beat 2015 champion, Sascha Lennartz for the pole position. In the Modified A-main finals Tim would take leg wins in a wet A1 and a dry A3 to take the overall win from Kai and Reinder while in the Stock class, TQ holder Mathijs came out fastest from Franz-Jakob Reinartz and Sascha Lennartz.

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April 25, 2016

Thomas Mayr takes Austrian E-Buggy Nats Rd1 win

Jürgen Trieb takes Austrian E-Buggy Nats Rd1 win

The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th E-Buggy national championship was held at the famous and European Championship approved Fehring multi-surface track. The qualifiers saw Christian Landl (Mugen) taking the TQ honours by TQing two of the five rounds to leave Thomas Mayr (SWorkz) and Hupo Hönigl (Xray) behind in second and third. After the triple A-mains Thomas would then come out successful thanks to wins in A2 and A3, leaving Jürgen Trieb (SWorkz) behind in second place. TQ Christian Landl had to settle for third overall.

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April 25, 2016

Tessmann & Maifield win at Lonestar Challenge

The 3rd annual The Dirt Lonestar Challenge was held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas over the weekend. Host of the 2016 ROAR Offroad Fuel Nationals, the track recently received a cover to make it one of the, if not the largest off-road indoor facility and for the race The Dirt’s Joey Christensen also shaped a challenging new track layout. The Top Qualifier honours in the premier class of 1/8th Pro Buggy went to TLR’s Ryan Maifield but it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who came out fastest in the main final, leaving Ryan Mailfield and Ryan Lutz (Tekno) in second and third respectively.

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April 23, 2016

Alberta Touring Series Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the Alberta Touring Series was held in Edmonton, Alberta with the NASCAR club hosted a great event with 117 entries across six classes. The focus of this series in its second year would be to have fun, keep rules to a minimum, save budget conscious racers some money with less travel and create a friendly provincial rivalry. The format for the weekend would be four qualifiers and triple mains for everyone. In the Touring Modified class, TQ Wayne Mah (Awesomatix) would take A1 and A2 in dominating fashion, with Ryan Berry (Awesomatix) winning A3 to finish 2nd and Joe Levesque (Awesomatix) taking 3rd.

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April 22, 2016

Xray Winter Series Greece Rd5 – Report

Round five of the Xray Winter Series Greece was held at the FRT track in the three classes of Touring Modified, Pan Car and Formula. In the Touring Modified category the qualifiers were dominated by the battle between Batas and Georgiadis (both Xray) with the better end for Georgiadis who took the overall TQ from Batas with Diamadis rounding out an Xray top3 lock-out.

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