Middle River Hobbies in Maryland played host to the Stock Wars 2015 race this past weekend. In the 1/12th scale Pro class Donny Lia took the TQ with the only 62 lap run and the following A-main would be very close as it saw the top 3 finish only four seconds apart. Donny Lia (TOP/Trinity) would take the win from Johnny Wiita (CRC/Phantom) and Mike Herald Jr. (TOP/Trinity) in second and third respectively.
Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]
The third and fourth round of the F1ItalianSeries again attracted 33 drivers to compete in the GP3 and GP4. The two Ferrari of Magnocavallo and Capuano were the fastest right from the start and they would dominate from Q1 to the end of the GP3 called third round. The only driver able to come close was Manciocchi with his Hesketh design car.
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The recent Nordic Electric On-road Championships saw Viljami Kutvonen taking the TQ in the Touring Modified class from Adrian Berntsen and Magnus Vässmar. Before the opening A-main disaster stroke for the TQ holder as self-inflicted electronic problems denied Viljami to start. Adrian made maximum use of the situation and brought home the win in front of Magnus. A2 then saw a clean start from Viljami and he was able to open a gap on the field. Later in the race Adrian made a mistake that allowed Viljami to cruise to the win. The third and decisive A-main was pretty much the same affair. Kutvonen had a clean start and was able to pull away while Berntsen’s mistake came a bit earlier this time. Viljami slowed down a bit to take things easy but Adrian was able to recover and suddenly was right behind the leader, but Viljami again was able to pull away and to take the win and with it a maiden Nordic Championship title.
Image: Viljami Kutvonen
The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Morava was held at the Jedovnice sports hall in the Czech Republic this past weekend with local drivers and guests from abroad in attendance. The event was held in the five classes of Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. In the Touring Open class Oliver Havranek was the man to beat as he won all qualifiers in front of Michal Vitamvas. The opening A-main went to Oliver but an improving Michal stroke back in A2 so the third and final main would decide over the day’s win. With Oliver laying down a flawless run he would take the win in a heartbeat final and with a margin of only 0.5 seconds on Michal so Oliver would take the overall victory from runner-up Michal. Miroslava Jurenka rounded out the podium result.
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This past weekend the China On-road Nationals were held in Fentai, Beijing, host of next year’s Electric World Championships. The event saw drivers from all over China participating in the China national team selection race. In the 190mm Sedan class it was HB team driver Huang Kui Sheng who took the overall win from runner-up Felix Law (MTS) while TOP Racing’s Zhu Xiao Feng finished third. Because Felix being a US citizen, the organisers promoted Feng to joint-second, allowing 11 years old Xray driver Lao Ming Hao to grab the final podium spot. In the 1/12th scale class, Jimmy Qian from Shanghai took the National title.
Source: HPI [hpiracing.net.cn]
The first annual SikCross was held this past weekend at Pro-line’s test facility in Banning, California. Levi Jackson was promising to bring supercross to RC with a brand new event, totally different than any other format in RC. Practice, seeding, qualifying was supercross style with side by side, heads up racing and at the end it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who would come out successful in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class from Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Kyosho’s Cody King.
The opening round of the Belgium Lovan RC Challenge was held this past weekend in Kortemark. In the Formula class Steven Deblaere and Nicolas Delise battled for the pole position with the better end for Steve whose TQ time was only 0.18 seconds faster than Nicolas’. Dimitri de Baeker lined up in third for the finals. In the triple A-mains Steve would make a clean sweep to take the day’s win from Nicolas Delise who came in second but not without having another close fight with Steve in A1 when the two separated less than three tenth of a second. With two third place finishes Dimitri de Baeker would end the day on the third spot.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
After a hugely successful opening round to Season #5 of the Euro Offroad Series at the famous full size Nurburgring race track in Germany, the championship is pleased to officially announce two changes in relation to the handout Schumacher tyres. Coming into effect for Round 2, which takes place at the Hudy Racing Arena in Slovakia next month (20-22 Nov), drivers will be limited to two sets of preglued tyres per class.
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