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March 26, 2016

Mibosport Cup 2015/16 – Season review

The 2015/16 Mibosport Cup held its season finishing final round last weekend with the series attracting a total of 487 drivers of which 245 attended in the off-road classes while the on-road categories drew a total of 242 entries. This season drivers from 9 countries including Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Great Britain, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic made their way to the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice.

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March 24, 2016

Nicolai Lindegaard wins Danish Touring Car Nationals

The final round of the Danish Touring Car Nationals was held in Tinglev near the German border. The race attracted a record breaking 80+ entries including reigning DHI Cup Champion Tim Benson from Germany. The overall championship was still up for grabs with both Nicolai Lindegaard and Steven M. Olsen could secure the title with a win. Controlled practice saw Nicolai and Steven settle for second and third as they were beaten by Frederik Mikkelsen by 0.1 tenth of a second and it looked to be a weekend of close racing.

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March 24, 2016

Jannick Namyslo crowned Winter Cup Champion

The 4-race Winter Cup Series was held at the Hobby-Theke Raceway of the MCRT-Aschaffenburg club in Germany in several electric on-road classes including Touring Car, 1/12th pan car, Formula and M-Chassis. In 1/12th pan car reigning champion Jannick Namyslo again came out successful at the end of the season with a maximum points score, taking the overall title in front of Hartmut Rose and Sebastian Fenske, making it an all-Xray podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 23, 2016

Boggs & Mitch win at Extreme Carpet Initiative

The Extreme Carpet Initiative was held at Extreme RC raceway in Spring Hill, Tennessee. The awesome carpet track is setup a couple of times each month for racers all over the area to have a place to race. Not changing up the layout and going with a previous layout configuration the racers saw a mix of singles, doubles, corner jumps and a wall ride as jumps/obstacles for this year’s event. The track also featured different carpet areas as the main basketball court would be covered in a gray indoor/outdoor carpet with the jumps and the landing after the jumps in different type of carpet mainly to help from damaging the basketball court underneath the race track from hard landings.

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March 23, 2016

Kaja Novotny doubles at Open Challenge Rd7

Round seven of the Czech Open Challenge was held in Prague and it saw Xray’s Kaja Novotny sweeping the 2WD Buggy qualifiers despite only arriving late due to attending the final round of the Mibosport Cup held the day before. Vaclav Broz and Arnold Lorenz qualified 2nd and 3rd while in 4WD Buggy Kaja TQ’ed round 1 and 2 but he had to retire in Q3 due to technical issues.

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March 23, 2016

Dave Johnson takes double Canadian on-road title

Seaway Mall in Ontario, Canada was the venue for the recent 2016 Canadian Carpet On-Road Nationals. Racing was close in all classes with an extremely competitive field. In Touring Stock, 3 seconds separated out the top 5. At the start of the A, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, Dave Johnson paced himself perfectly, taking the lead on lap 4 and would go on to win the A Main, securing the TC 17.5 National title. In USGT, the top 3 were separated out by less than 1 second. Dave Johnson would quality in the third spot and in what would be another flawless drive, Dave hold off the field to take the USGT title, scoring a double and another National title.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

March 22, 2016

Paul Lemieux successful at Canadian On-road Nats

The Annual Canadian On-road Nationals were held last weekend at the Seaway Mall in Welland Ontario, Canada. Part of what makes this race special is that it is held center court in a shopping mall which brings high-end RC racing to thousands of spectators. This year was bigger than ever with well over 300 entries, drivers from all over North America were in attendance representing many brands. In the showcase class of Modified Touring it was team Xray driver Paul Lemieux who would ultimately TQ over Kevin Hebert (Team Associated) and Andrew Hardman (Yokomo). In the final it was Lemieux who would lead tone to tone but was not unchallenged with Andrew Hardmann in striking distance the entire race and finishing a very close second, Blake Bell (Xray) would put in a solid drive to round out the podium.

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March 22, 2016

Frederic Santos wins Portuguese TC opener

The opening round of the Portuguese Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the ARMAIA track close to Porto in the North of the country. With no entries for the Modified class the 10.5T Stock category received a real boost and it offered a high level of competition all weekend and ultimately Frederic Santos would come out successful in the finals by taking wins in A2 and A3, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. Helder Silva came in second, Jorge Simoes rounded out the podium in third.

View the top 10 result here