April 18, 2016

Rick Hohwart wins Touring Mod class at CTS Rd3

Rick Hohwart wins Touring Mod class at CTS Rd3

Round three of the California Touring Series was held at the famous Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California. The round’s winner for Modified Touring class is Team Associated’s veteran racer Rick Hohwart. With his first win followed by two runner-up finishes, he secured the points chase and continues to lead the series. In Q1, Hohwart made a mistake that cost him TQ over Brandon Clements (Awesomatix) a local favourite, and he would then qualify behind Clements coming on to the main. In the main Hohwart trailed Clements at about the 2 minute mark as Clements went wide and Hohwart made a clean pass for the lead. With a huge bobble by Clements, Team Yokomo driver Eric Albano would then secure 2nd followed by Brandon. The top three finishers now have one win a piece for the series.  The next race will be held June 19th at P1 Hobbies in Ukiah.

Source: CTS [facebook.com]

April 18, 2016

Horne dominates JConcepts Factory Tracks Invitational

Horne dominates JConcepts Factory Tracks Invitational

The 3rd annual JConcepts Factory Tracks Invitational was hosted by RC Clubhouse and attracted 360+ entries. RC Clubhouse and Al Horne’s Factory Tracks crew put together an amazing track that worked very well for the heads-up Invitational racing. For the Invite class, they would run the Reedy format with 2 Wheel on Saturday and 4 Wheel on Sunday, with five rounds each day and one throw out. Teammates Austin Horne and Mason Fuller would have a great 3-way battle with California native Rudy Rico throughout 2WD and 4WD. After the dust settled, Austin Horne would take his vehicles to the top of the podium with a winning score of 12 points. Mason Fuller and Rudy Rico would finished tied with 15 points, but Rudy edge out Mason on the tie breaker.

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April 18, 2016

Kaja Novotny takes double Open Challenge title

Kaja Novotny takes double Open Challenge title

The 8th and final round of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Ruzyne. Once again Kaja Novotny was the driver to beat both in 2WD and 4WD as he took easy overall TQs in both classes. In the 2WD A-mains Kaja then had some good fights with Michal Blahovsky (SWorkz) for the win and the Xray driver would end the day on the 1 spot from Michal in second with Vaclav Broz (SWorkz) completing the top 3 result.

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April 18, 2016

Lacour & Jacquin win at Mauritius National Champs Rd1

Lacour & Jacquin win at Mauritius National Champs Rd1

Round one of the Mauritius National Championship was held at the Winner’s Speedway track on a sunny Sunday even though it rained on the previous night. The event was run in three different classes, 1/10 GP, 1/10 EP and 1/8GT. In the 1/10 GP class, Clarel Lacour took the top qualifying honours followed by Kenny Allas. During the final, Clarel showed confidence and managed to handle the pressure from both Giovanni Arekion and Keny Allas. Clarel opted for a less aggressive and softer setup this time around due to the low traction on that day and during the last 5 minutes of the 30-minutes final, Clarel managed to open a gap of two laps.

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April 18, 2016

Arkadiusz Smyk wins at Polish Indoor Champs

Arkadiusz Smyk wins at Polish Indoor Champs

The final round of the 6-race Polish Indoor Championship was held in Jelcz Laskowice. In the Touring Pro Stock class Arkadiusz Smyk (Xray) would grab the TQ after the qualifiers despite a troubled start when he broke his car in the practice rounds and suffered from servo issues in the opening qualifier. After taking the next four qualifying rounds he never looked back to also take the win in the A-mains to grab the day’s win and the overall championship title. Michal Wojcik (Xray) would take the runner-up spot overall after coming out 2nd at the final round with Stanislaw Pyrka completing the top 3 result to make it an Xray podium sweep.

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April 18, 2016

Esmail Apandi wins at Urban Touring Series Rd5

Esmail Apandi wins at Urban Touring Series Rd5

Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series took place this past weekend at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace with the event once again being a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. In the Touring Open Class, a modified Reedy Race format was run, with two qualifiers to sort out the grid followed by five finals. Taking TQ would be Esmail Apandi (Awesomatix), with Dominic Quek (Xray) starting in 2nd. In the finals, Esmail drew first blood with a win in leg 1 while Dominic suffered a DNF. In leg 2, it would be Esmail’s turn to DNF, however the win would go to Eugene Goh (Yokomo). In legs 3 and 4, Esmail bounced right back to take both wins and with it the overall victory. Eugene continued to put in a strong performance with two 2nd place finishes. In the final leg, Dominic finally managed to put a win in the books.

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April 18, 2016

Cragg & Martin win at BRCA 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd1

Cragg & Martin win at BRCA 1/10th Buggy Nats Rd1

The opening round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend at the Kiddermister multi-sufrace track in demanding weather conditions. Sunday’s 4WD competition would be held in relatively settled weather conditions and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg would take the TQ and the win in the A-mains from Yokomo’s Lee Martin while veteran racer Ellis Stafford (TLR) would round out the podium result in third. The day before the 2WD race was held in typical European month of April weather with snow fall greeting the drivers early in the morning. The day ended with sun beaming down and it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who laid down a dominant performance by taking the day’s win from Yokomo team mate Simon Moss. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) completed the top 3 result.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.co.uk]

April 17, 2016

Video – AOC China Modified A-main Leg 2

Watch JJ Wang take his first big international electric touring win at the opening round of the Asian Onroad Championships in Shanghai, China. Full coverage of this event including more videos and a complete image gallery can be found on our Events page.

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