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June 13, 2022

Ahn Jung Hyun wins AC Speedway Invitational race

AC speedway in Busan, South Korea held their Invitational race race last weekend. The asphalt track was well prepared with sugar water to offer consistent grip for racers. Three classes were run, Modified, 13.5T Boosted and 13.5T Nonboost. The race consisted of 4 rounds of qualifying followed by triple mains for the A finalist on this amazing track. In the Modified class, Yokomo’s factory driver Nicholas Lee from Singapore would take 3 out of 4 rounds in qualifying, earning him the TQ spot ahead of Ahn Jung Hyun (AC speedway owner) and Kang Jung Mug. In the finals, Ahn showed great composure to take the win with his BD11 ahead of Kwon Chanu (BD11) and Nicholas lee, who suffered with technical issues will, rounding out the podium.

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June 7, 2022

Prümper wins ETS Rd1 in the Netherlands

Season #15 of the Euro Touring Series kicked off this past weekend with AMCA Apeldoorn in the Netherlands playing host to Rd1 of the series. The race saw 198 entries in six classes and the event started with a free practice day on Thursday. A solid weather forecast for the weekend made all drivers looking forward for great ETS racing action. As always at the ETS, the race included 4 rounds of qualifying followed by triple mains for everybody on the amazing racetrack in Apeldoorn. During the weekend, the forecast for Sunday was changing and showing the possibility of rain on the radar. The ETS crew changed the schedule and raced two complete rounds of finals on Saturday, and only one on Sunday and it paid off with all races in dry conditions.

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June 5, 2022

2022 Speed King Tour Rd2 – Report

The second round of Speed King Tour 2022 was held at TM circuit Wakayama outdoor tarmac track recently. The race catered to hree different electric touring car classes, TC0 class cars using modified motor, TC1 with boosted stock motor and only GForce ESC and motor can be used in the TC2 class. Tire manufacturer Rush became main sponsor for Speed King tour from this event and supplied hand-out tires for all classes. Kazushige Tomita is not only TM circuit track manager but also top class driver in Japan took TQ in the TC0 class with his brand new Tamiya TRF420X. Masayuki Kawada took TQ in TC1 and Hidekazu Fujino became top qualifier in the TC2 class. The TC2 class A final race was chaotic but Hidekazu made top finish from pole position with Makoto Ando in second and Shigehiro Odawara tsking the final place on the podium. Masayuki won the TC1 class with TRF420X and Masaaki Honda took second while Atsushi Yamaguchi finished 3rd. Kazushige Tomita was unbeatable on his track. He finished first and his disciple Takara Sano was second. Takara also drove TRF420X. Rush Infinity driver Jin Sawada finished third only 0.4 seconds behind Takara. Next round of the Speed King Tour will take place at the New Next Rush Circuit in Chiba prefecture on 19th of June.

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April 28, 2022

FSEARA Rd7 Flagler RC – Report

The FSEARA was again back to the old school style parking lot races for the first time this season. Chris Crowder was able to build up a steady routine schedule of this parking lot racing for the Daytona locals to participate. With the loss of 386 Raceway, a lot of RC enthusiasts had to travel hours away to race. Special thanks to Chris Crowder and his crew they were able to work with woody BBQ to provide their parking lot for this show to go on. In the Flagler plaza, there are also a Winn-Dixie and Ace Hardware to generate a ton of traffic and spectators. The race atmosphere was exciting with all of the spectators cheering and rooting for their favourite car to crash. All fun and exciting crew of people.

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April 18, 2022

2022 Speed King Tour Rd1 – Report

With the Speed King Tour in 2021 only managing to run two rounds because of Covid-19, the organizer decided to start the series again in 2022. The first round of Speed King Tour 2022 was held at Super Rajikon Saitama Omiya indoor tarmac recently. The race class names and regulations changed a bit, with the modified class becoming TC0, Stock class became TC1 and the TC2 class for amateur racers was previously the Super Stock class with only G Force ESC and motor being used. Following three rounds of Modified class qualifying, Rush/Axon driver Hayato Ishioka took TQ with his Yokomo/Axon TC10/2. Super Rajikon Saitama Omiya shop staff Kazuma Murai drove the same car as Hayato and got second position while Rush/Infinity driver Jin Sawada took third.

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April 6, 2022

Kaerup & Orlwoski win EOS Season #10 opener

After a couple of years of disruption caused by the pandemic, the Euro Offroad Series reignited in an epic way to provide some of the closest and most high-paced 1/10th Offroad racing Europe has seen in a very long time. The first of five race meetings planned for the tenth edition of the Euro Offroad Series (EOS) was hosted by a new club – ORC-B – in Göttingen, Germany on April 1st to 3rd 2022. Located on a former indoor football pitch,the permanent track looked small and tight in the pre-event social media posts, but it was larger in the flesh than expected and proved to be a very good battle ground for extremely tight racing with few overtaking opportunities. The artificial grass circuit was quite “3D” and had a very good range of jump styles including an undulating back straight which was elevated nearly a metre above ground level. Many of the drivers who initially thought the track was too small and too tight later reported that the track flowed extremely well and had a great range of features, and, in fact, it was quite adequate for an EOS event – lots of happy racers.

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April 3, 2022

FSEARA Rd6 Valkaria RC Raceway – Report

Racing was back once again at the Valkaria RC Raceway for Rd6 of the FSEARA series last weekend. Due to the increased interest and popular demand in order to practice this year’s ROAR Regionals and Nationals, FSEARA revisit Valkaria for the 2nd time this season. This race is also considered the warm up event for the ROAR Regional due to the timeline of the event. With a solid 104 entries for the event, it was once again a successful turn out for this round. The highlight of the battle for the weekend was for sure in 17.5 TC. Infinity Driver Dave Vera, also our series director, leading the pack with his strongest performance yet. TQ both rounds of the qualifier without a sweat. With a brand new setup to his car, he was able to reset the qualifying record for this track hitting the first 27 lap run in Valkaria. A famous old school nitro racer also driving the Mugen MTC2 Danny Horta also joined the EP scene. Having an excellent weekend and able to qualify just ahead of series veteran Brian Larkin.

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March 30, 2022

Kobbevik doubles Norwegian Indoor Offroad Nats

The Norwegian EP Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at the KayArena carpet track in Siggerud. The 2wd portion was run with four qualifiers and Daniel Kobbevik TQ’d all four with his Sunpadow/Hobbywing powered Schumacher LD2. Helge Johannesen and Eirik Andressen complete the top three on the grid. Daniel won A1 easily with Eirik Andreassen with his Yokomo second and Alexander Gjemble with his Schumacher third. In A2 Daniel had huge lead, but 1:45 before the finish, the right front wheel came off, and at same time earlier in the final Alexander and Eirik had a hard wheel to wheel battle and they came into each other, meaning they both missed the loop, so they lost one lap. That left them fighting for second and third. And with Daniel out of race as well, it was a total shake up with the ranking after A2. It ended with Vincent Rüger in front of Peter Strein and Helge Johannesen and so A3 was going to be exciting. A3 started, and Daniel went away right away leaving behind the fight for second and third was strong. It ended it was Eirik in front of Alexander, but with his win in A2, Rüger took the final overall podium spot.

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