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May 17, 2016

Apandi & Sim take wins at Urban Touring Series Rd6

Round six of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held the past weekend. Xray’s Dominic Quek started out strong with the fastest run in all qualifying rounds, to take the TQ in the Open class while Tamiya driver Ng Wei Quan secured the TQ in the 17.5 Non-Boost category. In the finals, Esmail Apandi (Awesomatix) would bounce back to win the opening A-main as Dominic scored a DNF due to a stripped spur gear. Colin Tong (Xray) would finish 2nd. In leg 2, Dominic held on to his early lead before a small mistake allowed Esmail through to take the win. In the final leg, Dominic would once again suffer a DNF due to a blown tyre, and Esmail would make it a perfect three out of three with another win.

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May 17, 2016

Tanner Denney takes E-Buggy win at JBRL Nitro Series

The second round of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway and in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was TLR’s Tanner Denney who brought home the win in the 10 minute single A-main format. Behind him Team Associated’s Jake Mayo ended the race some 17 seconds down in second while a lap down Steve Harris (Mugen) had to settle for third.

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May 16, 2016

Mark Green wins BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals Rd3

The third round of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit National series took place this past weekend at the small, tight and technical track of Adur. Close to the limit for how small of a track a modern 1/8 scale car can race around, this track provides a unique challenge with heavy braking zones, tight hairpins, and a short straight to keep the drivers on their toes. Saturday was dry, warm and perfect conditions for racing, Andy Hastings, Neal King and Tim Wood were setting the pace during practice on Saturday. Sunday morning was a touch colder, but stayed dry through the day.  After four rounds of qualifying Mark Green came out fastest on top of Andrew Hastings and Neal King.

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May 16, 2016

Maifield, Sartel & Monteiro win at 2016 TLR Cup

The Noeux les Mines in France track played host to the 2016 TLR Cup over the weekend. The event attracted a good amount of national drivers and also guest from abroad such as TLR’s Ryan Maifield and Dakotah Phend to battle against Europe’s fastest TLR drivers. In the premier Nitro Buggy class Ryan Maifield would grab the TQ from Renaud Savoya while Marco Baruffolo rounded out the top 3. In the Nitro Truggy category Jerome Sartel came out fastest after the qualifiers from Matt Lewis and Vincent Berthelot while in 1/8th E-Buggy Dakotah Phend took the TQ honours from Jean-Pierrick Sartel and Ryan Maifield.

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May 16, 2016

Coelho puts it up to ETS rivals with convincing Italian asphalt win

Bruno Coelho has put it up to his title rivals by taking a convincing win today at the first asphalt round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Italy. Handed an easy win in A1, the Top Qualifier would wrap up an extra early win in Riccione with another unchallenged win in A2. With the finals run early due to the impending threat of rain at the first outdoor race of ETS Season #9, completing the perfect weekend gives the Xray driver an extended lead in the championship standings as he becomes the season’s first double winner. With Marc Rheinard ending up with a 3rd for Round 4 behind A3 winner Viljami Kutvonen, the Tamiya driver is now 5 points behind Coelho with two races remaining in which to reverse that deficit. With reigning champion Ronald Volker only fifth in Italy, his quest for a 6th consecutive title is looking increasingly difficult as he leaves 7-points behind Coelho.

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May 16, 2016

Cody King takes JBRL Nitro Series Rd2 win

Round two of the popular JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley R/C Raceway this past Saturday. As usual the event attracted both local talent and internationally experienced racers and in Expert Nitro Buggy it was Adam Drake who took the overall TQ after the qualifiers. In the A-main Cody King, coming from the 3 spot on the grid, had some good battles with Jeremy Kortz and Adam Drake after suffering from a couple of bobbles at the start. Cody would come back though and after Kortz and Drake made a few mistakes, Cody was able to gap the field and cruise to the win with Jeremy Kortz and Dayton Brown completing the top 3 result.

Source: Cody King [codykingrc.com]

May 16, 2016

RC Lemans Series South Division Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the new RC Lemans Series South Division, a sister series of the popular RC Lemans Series, was held at the MBC Bamberg track in the south of Germany over the weekend. The weather forecast wasn’t too promising for the weekend but despite some rain drops in the third Stock class A-main the race would be held in dry conditions. In the Modified LMP1 class Tobias Weist would be able to grab the TQ some 0.8s in front of Timo Schad with Maxi Vief only 1.1s behind Timo in third. In the Stock LMP2 category it was local hero Matthias Feld who took the TQ with the only 17 laps run from Marlon Beuershausen and Timo Schad in second and third.

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May 14, 2016

Coelho handed easy A1 win

Bruno Coelho has taken an easy win in the opening A-Main at Round 4 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Italy. The Top Qualifier was effectively handed the race early on when second place starter Viljami Kutvonen got out of shape, collecting Marc Rheinard and putting both drivers on the grass. Allowing Alexander Hagberg through to second the Swede would stay there for the remainder of an otherwise relatively uneventful race with Ronald Volker completing the podium. The key pass of the race would be pulled off by Capricorn’s Kyle Branson, the British driver getting a run on Serpent’s Viktor Wilck onto the straight to secure 4th.

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