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August 26, 2015

Mario Rigert wins at Swiss Touring Car Nationals Rd4

Round four of the Swiss Electric Touring Car Nationals was held at the very fast Aigle track. The event started dry on Saturday, but on Sunday morning the weather had changed and two qualification rounds were raced under wet conditions and it was Mario Rigert who made the best of the conditions by taking the TQ spot in front of Daniel James in 2nd and Raphael Wicki in 3rd. All three finals would then be held under dry conditions and they saw a clean sweep for Mario Rigert. The remaining podium spots went to Mario’s team mates Raphael Wicki and Daniel James in second and third respectively.

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August 26, 2015

South-African ORE national champs Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the 2015 South-African ORE national championship moved to the Welkom RC Club. The indoor asphalt track greeted the drivers with great traction and a technical but fast layout for the event that saw special guest Alexander Hagberg made his way to South Africa to compete and show his skills in the Modified Touring and 1/12th scale Modified classes. With Alexander in the field and hosting a RC workshop, the rest of the South African drivers really pushed hard and went faster all weekend. Alexander once again showed is skills and pace as a professional driver and dominated the event from practise through qualifying and into the A-finals. The battle for the podium was really hot in the Touring Modified class with Deon Gove managing to take the runner up spot from Anderton Smith.

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August 26, 2015

Jake Mayo & Rudy Rico win at JBRL Electric Series Rd6

Round six of the 2015 Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series as held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, CA this past weekend. As usual the event attracted a nice mix of nationally experienced driver and local talent and in the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy Jake Mayo took the day’s win from David Jenson in second and Carlos Quilez in third.

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August 26, 2015

Dutch Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

Round five of the Dutch electric on-road nationals was held in the North of the Netherlands at the Real80 track in Groningen. Beside the usual Touring Car Modified and Stock as well as Formula classes the event also saw the running of a supporting Club class. Saturday’s practice sessions were run in perfect weather conditions and many drivers made use of the opportunity to adapt their cars to the bumpy track surface. The nice weather also held up for Sunday and the schedule with three rounds of qualifying and triple mains could go ahead a planned. In the Modified class Rob Janssen (Team Magic) took the TQ from Mitchell van Es (Yokomo) and Bram Lagerwey (Xray) while in the Stock class Sybrand de Boer, Vincent Koers and Fokke Groen made for an Xray 1-2-3 after the qualifiers.

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August 25, 2015

Austrian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

Round five of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held under extremely hot weather conditions at the ERC Wiener Neudorf track near Vienna, with ambient temperatures reaching 40 degree Celsius and the track surfaces reached a scorching 60 degree Celsius. A total of 29 drivers attended in the three classes of Touring Car Modified, Touring Car Stock and Formula. The newly crowned champion Dominic Vogl was on holidays so Patrick Gollner (Yokomo) was the pre-event favourite in the Touring Car Modified class. As expected Patrick grabbed the TQ, although five-time champion Martin Schuster (Tamiya), at his maiden outing this season, as well as Mario Sowka (Serpent) gave Patrick a hard time. In the finals Patrick scored two easy wins to secure his first victory this season. Winning the third A-main and securing the runner-up spot was Mario Sowka, followed by Martin Schuster.

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August 25, 2015

2015 Kyosho Masters USA – Announcement

The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA will be back at R/C Tracks of Las Vegas in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada on November 6th to 8th. The event will see 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy racing with world-class drivers such as 2015 European Champion Elliott Boots, 2010 World Champion Cody King, 2010 World and National Champion Jared Tebo as well as Kyosho legend Yuichi Kanai in attendance to name just a few. For more information about the Kyosho-only event as well as pre-registration please contact Joe Pillars at joepillars@hotmail.com.

August 25, 2015

Cavalieri wins at 6th Annual North-West Invitational

The 6th Annual North-West Invitational was held this past weekend at Dave’s R/C Tracks in Hubbard, Oregon, the home track of Team Orion USA team manager Joe Pillars. JP first started this annual event in 2010 and every year has gained more momentum by attracting top level drivers. Fresh off his ROAR Modified National Sweep a few weeks ago, Ryan Cavalieri would once again make the trip up to the beautiful Pacific North-West to compete at this great event. The highly contested Invitational 2WD Modified Buggy class would have its largest entry count in the history of the event with 28 drivers competing. Seven rounds of completely random heads-up racing would be ran in four heats of seven drivers. Then the final round would resort the drivers based on there five best finishes to group the heats with the fastest drivers all racing each other in the last race of the day.

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August 24, 2015

Caribbean Invitational 2015 – Report

JamRock Radio Control Car Club of Kingston, Jamaica, recently hosted its inaugural Caribbean Invitational event. The Jamaicans competed with racers from Curacao as well as Trinidad and Tobago at this historic event whose 3-day schedule included a day of open practice, four rounds of qualifying and single nitro as well as triple electric A-mains. Michael Clarke (Jamaica) took the TQ in 1/10th scale Nitro Sedan, Andy Debique (Trinidad & Tobago) came out fastest in 1/8th Nitro GT, Nikoli Yap (Jamaica) TQ’d 1/8th scale 4WD Open and Marwen Martina (Curacao) put his car on top of the Electric Touring 13.5 Blinky timing sheets.

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