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February 23, 2016

2016 UISP Indoor Nationals – Report

The RC Landia track in Scandiano, Italy played host to the UISP Indoor Nationals with drivers attending in the three classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T and 13.5T. The event kicked off on Saturday with two rounds of controlled practice and two rounds of qualifying. On Sunday three more rounds of qualifying and the triple mains would be held. In the Touring Modified class, Alessio Menicucci took the TQ by winning three of the five qualifying rounds from Mattia Collina who placed his car on the 2 spot and Dario Balestri in third.

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February 23, 2016

Super Cup Rd2 – Report

For the second race of the Super Cup series racers headed South to the Coral Springs RC Track. The second round had 234 entries, another great turnout and even with Friday’s practice only going to 5pm, the day had a very large turnout of racers getting ready for Saturday’s event. On Saturday morning, registration went pretty smoothly and things kicked off right at 9:30am. A slightly damp but packed track greeted the morning qualifiers but with the sun shining throughout the day the track started drying and grooving up quickly.

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February 23, 2016

Kaja Novotny dominates Czech Open Challenge Rd6

Round six of the popular Czech Open Challenge was held this past Sunday in the city of Prague. In the 2WD Buggy class Xray’s Kaja Novotny would make a clean sweep by winning all three qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ from his team mates Milan Mudra and Zdenek Miksovsky. 4WD was pretty much the same story with Kaja TQing all qualifying rounds to grab the pole position for the A-main events. Milan Mudra and Oliver Havranek completed the top 3 so far.

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February 22, 2016

Vita Hola doubles at Rebels Race Rd4

The fourth round of the Rebels Race was recently held in Trutnov, Czech Republic. The somewhat smaller amount of entries allowed for a lot of track time for the attending drivers with four qualifiers and four final legs. In the Touring Open class, Petr Grof won two qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ from Polish guest driver Vita Hola. Lukas Gombik would round out the top 3 so far. In the Touring Stock class Vita was on a mission, winning all four qualifiers to grab the pole position for the quadruple A-mains.

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February 21, 2016

Elliott Harper & Jimmy Maddison win 2016 ICC

Elliott Harper has won the 2016 International Carpet Challenge, by taking victory in the first two legs of the A-final. The British Schumacher driver, who started on pole position, faced competition in both A1 and A2 from second placed starter, Yannic Prumper, for the first minute or so of each run, but by half distance each time he had opened a lead to around one and half seconds, which he would then control until the end of the five minute encounters. Commenting on the win, Elliott described it as an “awesome weekend [for me] and a great event”. He also wanted to thank his Schumacher team mates, their combined testing and knowledge sharing being a key part of his success this week.

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February 21, 2016

Akio Sobue wins at Speed king Tour Rd1

The opening round of the Speed King Tour 2016 was held at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track in the Aichi prefecture in Touring Modified, Touring Stock and a Stock Oval class. 2015 JMRCA Touring Modified national and reigning Speed King Tour champion, Akio Sobue (Tamiya) instantly showed his speed on his home track, taking the TQ and with it the pole position for the A-main. Privater Kazuya Saito grabbed the second spot on the grid with his Awesomatix A800, leaving many factory drivers behind.

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February 21, 2016

Tessmann fuels his way to DNC Truggy win

Ty Tessmann has resumed his reign as Truggy Champion of the Dirt Nitro Challenge after an action filled 45-minute final in which both Ryan Maifield and Ryan Cavalieri both ran out of fuel while leading. Starting second behind Top Qualifier Maifield, the first lap was an indication of the intensity of the racing that was to come over the first half of the race, as Tessmann bumped his way passed for the lead in front of the drivers stand. Taking the lead at the 25-minute mark, 2-minutes later Cavalieri would come to a halt leaving Maifield to lead from Tessmann and a very impressive Joe Bornhorst. With Tessmann dropping back after collecting a back marker who was badly marshalled by spectators, Maifield then looked set to cruise to an easy win but with the final round of stops coming up the TLR driver would also come up short on fuel. With Tessmann now clear of Bornhorst, the Canadian would go the extra lap to claim his 5th Truggy title but the action continued to the last lap where Spencer Rivkin forced his way passed Tekno’s Ryan Lutz to snatch the final podium placing.

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February 21, 2016

Prumper tops Q5, Harper secures TQ at IIC

Yannic Prumper topped the final round of qualifying that was held at the 2016 International Carpet Challenge this morning. The run allowed him to secure second place on the grid, beating Kyle Branson on the tie-break. However, this was not enough to deny Elliott the overall TQ, the Schumacher driver saying that the surprisingly fast track conditions this morning “caught him out a bit”, but now knows what he needs to adjust for the finals. Olly Jefferies will line up fourth for Xray, with Fast Finn Viljami Kutvonen fifth overall with his Awesomatix. Chris Grainger will start sixth, the multi-time UK Champion, well-known as not the biggest fan of carpet racing, joked that after securing sixth he would “need a lie down”. Polish youngster Michal Orlowski was the top junior, seventh overall, in front of the Tamiya of Germany’s Christopher Krapp, Leo Arnold (Xray) from France and Paul Pinkney (Schumacher), making it five different nationalities in the main final and seven different manufacturers.

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