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March 15, 2016

Deniz & Alp win at TORC Series Rd1

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.

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March 14, 2016

Slovakia Cup Rd6 – Report

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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March 14, 2016

Orlowski & Risser win at French EP Offroad Nats Rd1

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.

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March 14, 2016

Rivkin, Phend & Cavalieri win at 2016 Cactus Classic

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.

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March 14, 2016

JJ Wang wins opening SRGP round

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.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 14, 2016

Griffin Hanna doubles at Palmetto Classic

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.

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March 14, 2016

Alex Krieg wins 17.5T SC at Cactus Classic

The 30th Annual Cactus Classic race was held this past weekend at Hobbytown/SRS in Phoenix, Arizona and in the 17.5T Short Course class it was X Factory driver Alex Krieg who laid down a dominating drive from second on the grid in the 7-minute A-main. Privateer Robert Molina (X Factory), came from 6th to lead laps three and four before he and Krieg switched places, running 1-2 for the last 11 laps of the race. Krieg slowly built a 6-second lead over Molina, who finished 3.5 seconds ahead of world-renowned race announcer Scotty Ernst (Team Associated) in third.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

March 14, 2016

Protoform WCICS Rd7 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series held round 7 in BC’s “Tournament Capital”, Kamloops, British Columbia, hosted by the Thompson Valley R/C Race Club. It was a great race weekend, lots of entries, with full heats all around. As usual, TVRCRC threw down a unique layout that left drivers looking for every inch on track to shave off the lap times with the bravest pulling out all the stops to make time in the tightest of chicanes. In the premier Touring Modified class the top 3 would slip away, with a chase for the win. Q3 Jason Melnyk however was sent airborne off track doing the first lap. His car would not survive and he would be a spectator for the 5 minute main. TQ Blake Bell and Korgae Scales would clear the pack quickly and just after setting his fastest lap, Korgae would have some issues in traffic, widening the distance to Blake and allowing Q4 John Tsang through for second. It would appear the car did not survive the incident undamaged, and after another slow lap, Scales joined Melnyk as a spectator. The second incident entangled Tsang, and allowed Luke Pittman a break into second position. Tsang closed the gap, but was unable to pass Pittman by the buzzer, just 0.25sec back.

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