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July 4, 2015

6th annual Bring The Heat – Announcement

Flowood R/C Indoor Park will be hosting their 6th Annual Bring The Heat Race September 11th to 13th. Adam and Ronda Drake, along with Ryan Lutz will be returning to FRC and Richard “King Richard” Saxton will be making his first appearance at what is the biggest event held at FRC each year. The number of entries will be limited to the first 300 paid to allow for enough track time for each driver. The race will be run in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy, E-Buggy, E-Truggy and 1/10th SC classes and more information is available here.

July 3, 2015

BRCA 2015/16 National LMP Champs – Announcement

The BRCA have announced its calendar of events for the 2015/16 National championship for 1/12th scale electric LMP cars. The championships will be contested over five indoor rounds on carpet, with each driver’s best 3 scores counting towards their final placing in the series. During the season the Championship will visit several of the established venues, but also a couple of new ones. The venues have been chosen based on their geographic spread, the level of their track and facilities, their previous track record of hosting similar events and of course the feedback we have received from our competitors from last year.

Calendar dates
October 31st – November 1st – West Kent (Tonbridge)
November 21st/22nd – Crewe
December 12th/13th – Tamworth
February 20th/21st – Newbury
March 19th/20th – Leeds (MB Models)

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July 3, 2015

Micha Widmaier wins at South German regionals Rd4

Last weekend round four of the South German 1/8th Off-road regionals, a qualifying round for the German Nationals, was held at the MRC Senden track. In the final of the E-Buggy class Micha Widmaier came out successful in front of Hannes Käufler in 2nd and Luca Rau in 3rd place. Jonas Bauer and Stefan Byesse rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

July 2, 2015

Stefan Lutka wins Intertrack Challenge

The Intertrack Challenge was held recently held in Svaty Jur, Slovakia. The win in the 1/8th E-Buggy class after the triple 10 minute A-mains went to Stefan Lutka who suffered from an electronic failure in the opening leg and only came in 2nd in A2 but a flawless run, despite pressure Rolo Feketevizi, allowed Stefan to grab the day’s win. Feketevizi ended the race on the runner-up spot while Juriga rounded out the top 3 result.

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July 2, 2015

JBRL Electric Series Rd4 – Results

Round four of the 2015 JBRL Electric Series was hosted by OC/RC Raceway in Huntington Beach. As usual this Southern California based racing series attracted both local talent as well as nationally and internationally experienced drivers to race in several Modified and Stock categories and in the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy it was Kevin Motter (TLR) who came out successful from Cody Turner (Team Associated) in 2nd and Jimmy Barnett (Team Associated) in 3rd.

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July 1, 2015

Big Fat Turkey Race – Report

One of the largest outdoor asphalt races in the USA, Big Fat Turkey Race went off in Camarillo, CA at the Roadrunners R/C Club. This marked the 9th annual running of the confusingly-named event, which used to be held on Thanksgiving weekend, hence the name. Racers from all over California and neighbouring states made up a field covering a wide range of classes. The track layout was fast and flowing which made for great racing under the SoCal sunshine all weekend long. An interesting twist to the race format saw the use of qual-points with no drops, meaning it was imperative for racers to complete all three qualifiers, cars intact. In the top class, Open TC, Randy Caster was the driver to beat all weekend. He drove to TQ in 2 of the three rounds of qualifying to secure the top spot on the grid, and then went on to sweep the first two legs of the A-Main to take the overall title. Steve Weiss and Jovan Madriaga came in 2nd and 3rd. Touring Car Superstock saw local favourite Oliver Clipper dominate the class, taking TQ and the first 2 A-mains as well.

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July 1, 2015

Milanowicz wins at Polish Nats qualifier Rd4

The fourth qualification round for the Polish Electric On-road Championships was held in Jelcz-Laskowice this past weekend. Saturday started with dry weather and five rounds of qualifying with the triple finals would be run on Sunday after a delay due to overnight rain. In the finals of the Formula class it was Michal Milanowicz who came out successful by winning A1 and A2, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. Krystian Sobala finished the day in 2nd while Jan Ruman rounded out the podium result.

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June 30, 2015

Austrian 1/10th Buggy Nationals Rd3 – Report

Last weekend the third round of the Austrian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Steyregg near Linz. 67 entries split in the two classes of 2WD and 4WD buggy and Saturday’s practice was interrupted by some rain but thanks to the concrete and clay surface the first qualifying run could be held before the night kicked in. Sunday started off with three more qualifying rounds followed by triple mains. In the 2WD class Hupo Hönigl was able to grab the TQ honours in the final round to take the pole position from Marcel Rekettye and Stefan Pfeifhofer who scored a TQ run each.

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