The fourth and final round of the Swiss DMTCC Challenge was held in Court over the weekend and it saw Kevin Zwahlen (HB) taking the TQ from the Team Magic duo of Arthur Brulé and Christophe Plancherel. After the four A-main legs the top 3 order would not change with Keving taking a commanding win from Arthur and Christophe in second and third respectively.
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The first round of the 2016 South-African ORE National Championship was held at the Krugersdorp Model Racers club. Free practise started on Thursday but Summer rains only allowed for a couple of hours practise on Thursday and Friday. The rain stayed away for the weekend and a full racing schedule could be managed. The weather challenged the drivers with a little variation in traction due to temperature differences but the track was in great shape and the drivers pushed hard and raced fast. The opening round also marked the introduction of new Nationals rules that see less classes with now only Touring Modified, Touring Pro Stock 13.5T Blinky, 1/12th Modified, Formula and 13.5T FWD being run.
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The opening round of the TORC Series was held at the Team Ncrc Arena in Lefkosa, Cyprus. In the premier Touring Stock class Mustafa Alp (Xray) took the TQ from Adnan Kanat (Xray) and Ahmet Kasap (Xray) and Mustafa would also easily win the first A-main with a margin of a lap as both Ahmet and Adnan suffered from an incident in the opening stages of the race. A2 then was a much closer affair as Adnan was in chase of Mustafa and he eventually took over the lead but a mistake of Kanat allowed Alp to regain the number 1 spot the same lap and from that moment on Mustafa Alp was able to cruise to the win to take the overall victory from Adnan Kanat and Niyazi Deniz.
The sixth and final round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin over the weekend. The event saw the running of several electric on-road and off-road classes and it had Martin Hudy taking the TQ and win in the Touring Modified class from Austria’s Martin Wollanka in second and Patrick Gollner in third. In the overall championship Martin Hudy took the title from Zdenko Kunak and Oliver Havranek.
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The city of Montbrison played host to the opening round of the French 1/10th Electric Offroad National Championships. The 2WD class podium was occupied by foreign drivers with Polish front runner Michal Orlowski (Schumacher) taking the win from Japan’s Sigiura Yusuke (Kyosho) and Belgium Xray driver Nico Risser. In the 4WD class Nico Risser lead an Xray 1-2-3 with Lorenzo Crolla and Mathieu Briere completing the podium.
The 30th Annual Cactus Classic race was held this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona and it saw a nice mixture of drivers battling it out for the top spots in the Modified classes. 2WD Modified Buggy had TQ Spencer Rivkin (Team Associated) taking the winning honours, coming from the TQ spot, from TLR’s Dakotah Phend and Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri. Runner-up after the qualifiers, Jared Tebo, had to settle for fourth.
Round one of the Shanghai SRGP series was held at the JunTi TRS track in Shanghai, China. The event attracted both local talent and also experienced racers such as JJ Wang, Rocket Zhang, Wanghaifeng, and others. The qualifying was won by JJ Wang with a six seconds margin on the second placed driver but positions 2 to 6 were only separated by a single second, highlighting the stiff competition at the event. The mains saw JJ Wang (Team Associated) taking easy wins to grab the overall win with one leg to spare. Behind him Chao Gor (HB) and Jimmy Qian (Xray) completed the top 3 result.
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The 2nd annual Palmetto Classic race was held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with a total of 154 entries. Griffin Hanna would sweep qualifying of the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and in the 2WD A-main Braydon Obremski kept Griffin honest until he ran into radio issues, allowing Griffin to take the win from Monty Reeder in second and Kevin Bullock in third. Patrick Rossiter and Jason Smith would round out the top 5 result. In the 10 minute 4WD Buggy A-main it was again Griffin Hanna who came out fastest, this time from Alex Muler and Braydon Obremski in second and third respectively. Austin Odum and Josh Knight completed the top 5.
