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October 20, 2015

2015/16 WCICS Rd1 – Report

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series 2015/2016 season recently opened with a bang in the flatlands of Saskatoon, SK. This year the guys at SARCAR took it to the next level by arranging for a professional camera crew to document the weekend and boy did it turn out great. The coverage can be found on WCICS’ website here. As usual the first race of the season brought out everyone’s excitement to get back on the carpet and the racing was proof. Modified Touring Car really is the pinnacle of RC and the WCICS series has some seriously good drivers in this class and the Saskatoon race was no exception. As usual Wayne Mah and Danny Buck were doing their dance, but this time Blake Bell, Matt Wilfort and Josh Carter all joined to make things a bit more interesting.

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October 20, 2015

Belgium/Dutch Buggy Championship Rd8 – Report

The eighth and final round of the combined Belgium/Dutch Electric Off-road Championship was held at the MIO indoor carpet track in Oss. A total of 111 racers attended the championship that was held on a variety tracks including indoor and outdoor clay, astro turf and carpet. At the end, Wesley van Helmond dominated the Dutch 2WD title with his TLR 22 2.0 followed by Arjan van de Graaf, driving a Yokomo B-Max2 and Tom van Drunen (Team Associated B5M) and Wesley would also take the combined Belgium/Dutch title.

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October 20, 2015

2015 Turkish On-road Championship – Report

The Turkish On-road Championship recently concluded with the fourth and final round held at the Bumod track. A total of 105 racers attended the series that hosts the four classes of Touring Modified and Touring Stock as well as 1/10th and 1/8th Nitro with the final round also offering a supporting 1/10th Formula class. After the four races, held both at the Izmir Efmod and Bumod tracks, the Touring Modified category had Kayhan Ketenci (Xray) taking the title, but he was tie on points with Xray team mate Fatih Kaya who had to settle for second. Erol Uçar (Xray) rounded out the podium two points short with a total of 604 points.

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October 20, 2015

Nicholas Lee & Daryl Thong win at PRCA finals

The final race of the 2015 PRCA series was held at the RCMC outdoor asphalt track in Singapore with drivers from Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Sweden in attendance. Considered the second largest race in the country after the AOC, the event attracted international racers such as Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Serpent’s Viktor Wilck while star announcer Scotty Ernst flew in to make for some more international flair. With the big names attending, the Modified class attracted the most drivers, making for a lot of on-track action. The Modified class qualifiers then saw a close battle between top Singapore driver Nicholas Lee (Tamiya), Alexander Hagberg (Xray) and Viktor Wilck (Serpent) with Nicholas nailing it on the TQ position with one qualifying round to spare while Alexander and Viktor lined up in second and third respectively.

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October 20, 2015

Keven Hebert takes Halloween Classic 12th Mod title

The recent Halloween Classic continues to be one of the premier on-road events in USA with 225 lucky entrants converged upon The Gate in Brunswick, OH for an exciting weekend and the unofficial kick-off to the 2015-16 indoor racing season. Canadian driver Keven Hebert has been the dominant North American 1/12th driver the past few years and continued to show world-class pace by placing his car on the pole position of the 1/12th Mod A-main with a time that bested his nearest competitor by over a lap. With a single main event determining the winner, a clean start and mistake-free race would be in order. As planned, Keven shot into the lead at the sound of the tone and never looked back. He slowly increased his lead and at the 8-minute mark he crossed the finish line to take a wire-to-wire win. Teammate Mike Haynes also drove impressively to join Keven on the podium in the third position while veteran racer Josh Cyrul grabbed the runner-up spot.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

October 19, 2015

ROAR announce 2016 calendar dates & tracks

ROAR have announced the dates and tracks for their National Championships for 2016. Prolevel RC of St. Louis, MO will play host to the Carpet On-Road Nationals from the 3rd to 6th of March. The 1/8th Fuel Off-Road Nationals will be run from the 9th to the 12th of June at the Thornhill Racing Circuit, Hutto, TX, while the 1/8th Electric and 4WD SCT Off-Road Nationals will be run at Stateline RC, Raceway, Fremont, IN from July 21st through to the 24th. HobbyTown USA Hobbyplex in Omaha, NE will play host to the 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals from August 11th to 14th while the Electric Paved On-road Nationals will be held at Valkaria RC in Valkaria, FL. Last but not least come the Fuel On-road Nationals on October 20th to 23rd at Homestead RC Raceway in Miami, FL.

October 19, 2015

Alpe Adria Masters 2015 – Report

The Alpe Adria Masters 2015 recently concluded with the third and final round held at the LAMAC track in Austria. The very technical but smooth track layout attracted some 60 drivers despite a less-than-pleasant weather forecast for Saturday. In the 1/8th Nitro On-road class local driver Herfried Pucher (ARC/Picco) took the win from Nejc Mihelic (ARC/Picco) and Jernej Vuga Stendler (Xray/Reds Racing). As for the overall result, the third place at the final round of the three race series handed Jernej the win from Nejc on the runner-up spot. Roland Riegler (Capricorn/Picco) would round out the top 3 result.

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October 19, 2015

Roman Larkin doubles at Russian Buggy champs

The recent Russian Electric Off-road Championship was held in the Tverskoy region halfway between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg with the fastest drivers from both cities and several entries from other regions in attendance. In the 4WD Buggy class Roman Larkin (Xray) would dominate the proceedings to take the win from Dmitriy Malyshko (Kyosho) and Sawa Dobrynin. Roman would then continue to stamp his authority on the event by coming out successful in the 2WD class also.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]