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August 5, 2015

Dutch BL-Cup Rd4 & 5 – Report

Round 4 of this year’s Dutch BL-Cup was held at the Mach-one circuit in Helmond. The winner of the previous two races, Bart Mullink, was attending a different event, giving other drivers the chance to score maximum points for the overall standings. This turned out to be a bit more difficult than expected as a few local drivers of the Mach-one club participated for the first time in the BL-Cup and one of them was Sander van Genechten who ultimately took the win. The 2nd place went to Stefan Petrich followed by Erik Wadners in 3rd.

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August 5, 2015

Soeren Boy Holst wins at Danish Touring Car Nats Rd3

Sören Boy Holst wins at Danish Touring Car Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Danish Touring Car Championships was held at the challenging track in Vejle. The track offers a huge main straight with a banked corner at the end and a technical and challenging infield. After the practice in the SuperStock class it became clear that the race for the win would be on between at least four drivers. The opening qualifier saw a close battle between Frederik Broloes and Soeren Boy Holst with the latter taking the TQ by 0.03 seconds despite a spin in lap 7. The second round was just as close and this time Steven Olsen joined the fun but he made a mistake in lap 8 and also Soeren decided to visit the grass and he opted to end the qualifiers in order to save the tyres for the final round. The round was then won by Frederik. The third qualifier then saw a 3-way battle for the TQ and at the end it was Soeren who grabbed the pole position for the A-mains from Frederik and Steven.

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August 4, 2015

Hebert & Schinzano win at Canadian Int’l Champs

Hebert & Schinzano win at Canadian Int'l Champs

The 5th annual Canadian International Championships were held in Ottawa, Canada at Sutton Aviation Raceway, which is located just outside on the side of the hangar of Sutton Aviation, the track covered by a circus tent. Owner and racer Billy Sutton puts in countless hours of work for this event, and it is working. This year the attendance was 370 entries, making it the largest electric race in Canada. Pitting is inside the hangar with just a short walk to the racing circuit, and the pits were packed. With a manufactures row, all of the racers had easy access to many of the teams and could ask questions, or get set up advice easily.

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August 4, 2015

Kammann takes West division E-Buggy regionals Rd4

Round four of the German West division 1/8th E-Buggy regionals was held at the RCRT Duisburg track. Hot weather made for dry and dusty conditions and this caused some headache for the drivers and after the qualifiers it was Chris Kammann who came out fastest from Lukas Strothmann an Max Kempchen. In the single 10-minute A-main leg Chris was able to conserve his performance to take a commanding win some 14 seconds in front of second placed Lukas Strothmann. Peter Schulte-Batenbrock would round out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]

August 4, 2015

Lutz doubles at OS/Futaba Nitro Challenge

The OS/Futaba Nitro Challenge was held at the St. Louis Dirtburners track with a turnout of over 200 entries. The Levi Jackson built track was a lot of fun, watered and the grip level was pretty decent. As the sun got strong though the track began to dry quicker and it was made a decision to let it groove in early and hopes were it would hold together. By the end of practice on Friday everyone became aware that this wasn’t going as planned. The track got super dry and while there was a nice groove it had little holes in that groove that continually grew and spit out sand, dirt, and rocks. By the end of the weekend the track was a complete challenge as finding a setup to traverse the conditions was tricky. Everyone bemoaned about finding consistency and some found themselves using medium hardness tires, even though the conditions were loose.

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August 3, 2015

Xray Work.Shop Denmark – Announcement

Glostrup RC track in Denmark will play host for the Xray Work.Shop Denmark on the 8th and 9th of August. Xray’s Mike Gosvig will sit down with interested Xray owners to provide technical and setup support for the company’s T4, XB4 2WD and 4WD cars. More information can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

August 3, 2015

Tonisport Onroad Series Austria – Report

Tonisport Onroad Series Austria

The pilot race of the Tonisport Onroad Series Austria was held at the 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt track in Vienna over the weekend. Despite being scheduled on the weekend before the EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships in the UK the event attracted more than 100 drivers including international guests such as Bruo Coelho, Ronald Völker, Yannic Prümper and Marc Rheinard to name just a few. In the Touring Car Modified class Ronald Völker and Bruno Coelho fought for the TQ position with Marc Rheinard also being in the mix. At the end it was Ronald who came out fastest from Bruno and Marc.

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August 3, 2015

Kyle Skidmore joins Motiv RC

Motiv has announced the addition of long time US racer Kyle Skidmore to the Motiv pro team. Kyle has never been shy to race any class in RC but his skills are most recently put to use racing his Serpent 1/10th scale electric off-road vehicles. Kyle is no stranger to national level events and has been observed as a professional at tracks for many years. Kyle had this to say about his new partnership:

I’m excited to be one of the first drivers on the Motiv pro team. Testing the product went great and now I’m excited to showcase all my sponsors with the new addition to my racing package.

Source: Motiv RC [motivrc.com]