The Cotswolds outdoor racetrack will play host to the first ever X-Race UK on the 11th and 12th of June. The event will see the running of Electric Touring Modified and 13.5T Pro Stock boosted classes as well as a Formula and a Nitro Touring Car class. The entries are limited to 30 Modified, 50 Pro Stock, 20 Formula and 10 Nitro Touring drivers. More information and sign-up can be found here.
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Following a successful opening round, the HFCC racing club of The Hague, the Netherlands, recently hosted the second round of the HFCC Indoor Racing Series. As with the previous round, Saturday was devoted to track building and practice while the actual race took place on Sunday. In the Touring 17.5T Stock class the battle for the TQ was on between Sybrand de Boer, Daniël Jansma and Steven Koiter with Sybrand holding the upper hand, placing his car on the pole position for the finals.
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LRP have announced the signing of JJ Wang to their factory team. The young Chinese-American top driver will strengthen LRPs on-road team for the upcoming season and beyond, with a special focus on the IFMAR Electric On-road World Championships in China. JJ will use LRP’s line of brushless motors, speed controllers and LiPo batteries to power his rides and this is what he had to say about the deal:
I would first like to thank Rick and Sean at Reedy for their support in the past two years. After taking a year to decide what’s next for me in terms of complete power package, I am very excited about my future with LRP and very thankful to Jürgen and Ales for giving me the opportunity to join a great team. I look forward to seeing everyone at the track.
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The first annual Nissan Cup was held at the Bandung Progresif track with a total of 116 entries for the 2-day event. In the premier Open Brushless class Bowie Ginting took the TQ from Muhammad Izzah who finished his best round within 1 second of Bowie’s time. Suwardi Suliandy rounded out the top 3 result. The Touring 13.5T non boost class again had Bowie coming out fastest after the qualifiers with Phoa Pinghong on the 2 spot and Muhammad Izzah in 3rd.
Round 4 of the Hungarian RCProf Challenge was held at the RCArena indoor carpet track in Budapest. In the Touring Stock 13.5T class Peter Miko secured the TQ position in the qualifiers and even the opening A-main brought a convincing tone-to-tone victory for him. In the second leg though the 2nd place driver crashed into him during a close fight for the lead, costing both several positions. After the incident the new leader built a big gap and it was impossible for Peter to get back to the first position in that final. The third final, in a blue print of A1, was again an easy start-finish victory for Peter, so he was able to walk away with the day’s win from Simon Ciudan and Zsolt Kalnay.
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Round 1 of the Singapore Electric Buggy National Series was held at the Urban PlaySpace astro turf off-road track in downtown Singapore. A small but quality field participated in the season’s opening event, including Singapore’s touring car ace, Nicholas Lee. The big challenge for all was managing the high traction surface of the tight circuit. In the 4WD class, Dominic Quek (Xray) drove his buggy with confidence to win the first two rounds of qualifying to secure the TQ honours. In leg 1 of the A-main, Dominic weathered the pressure from Scott Pettet (Yokomo) to secure the win. In leg 2, a misjudged jump by Dominic in the tricky double-chicane-double section of the track gave the win to Scott, setting up a showdown in leg 3. Dominic again got off to a confident start in leg 3, with Scott in hot pursuit. Holding back his adrenaline to avoid mistakes, Dominic was able to take a good win in leg 3 and claim his first win in the Singapore Nationals.
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The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series held round 5, considered by most to be the Crown Jewel of the series, at Victoria’s Speed Weekend on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The reputation of the series and this event continues to grow; and this year drivers from across Western Canada, and from Quebec, Texas, Colorado, California and Washington came to race. The result: the highest registrations so far in WCICS’s 25th season, and setting an all-time record Touring Car, WGT and 1/12th Modified turnouts. The WCICS Live site also continued to amaze with new developments such as a Live Texting feature sending every racer their individual heats directly to their phone, Live Streaming, and Live Scoring, streaming the RD’s screen directly to the racer’s mobile.
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The recent Southern Indoor Championships saw Ryan Lutz (Tekno) walking away with a triple win. In the 30 minute Nitro Buggy A-main Lutz and teammate Joe Bornhorst (Tekno) would battle over the top spot and they were within a few seconds the whole race. It came down to the last few laps for the deciding pass and the win from Ryan Lutz. Joe Bornhorst came in second, Evan Vail (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result.
