This past weekend Norcal Hobbies held the third and final round of the NCRL series. Pre-event favourite Justin Moon only had to show up and finish to claim the overall title in the 2WD Modified Buggy division. Justin would taking two 1st’s, a 2nd and a 3rd in the Reedy format race and he would be taking the series championship with six 2nd place finishes, five 1st place finishes and one 3rd place.
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The opening round of the Swiss Touring Car National Championship was held in Schaffhausen. French ace Leo Arnold grabbed the pole position for the A-finals following a mixed qualification with technical issues and rain interruptions. Leo then made a clean sweep in the finals, winning all three A-mains to take the day’s win and with it the third consecutive win following victories at the French Nationals Electric Touring and Nitro Touring Nationals. Behind Leo Fabian Widmer and Florian Hauser lined up in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The Southport club held the second round of the UK BRCA Electric Buggy Regional Series. The track had lots of rain the week leading up to Sunday and the club worked very hard to clear the water off the track. Sunday morning did start off damp and the track dried slowly but it didn’t totally dry up all day. After some very close qualifying in th2 2WD class it was Craig Collinson (Team C) who took TQ with Xray’s Stu Wood, running an XB2 prototype, in 2nd and local hero Chris Evison (Team C) in 3rd. The final was very close right from the start. Craig made a mistake which let Stu and Chris pull away a few seconds. Stu and Chris were head to head until the very last corner of the last lap and Stu tried to go for the inside line but clipped the apex too much and went upside down on top of Chris. After the marshal did his job Chris Evison with the Team C car came out the winner with Stu 2nd less than a second behind him.
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The second round of the Turkey On-road Championship was recently held in the classes of 1/10th Nitro On-road, Electric Touring Car Modified and Stock. With Turkey holding the EFRA 1/10th 200mm European Championships the interest in this class was pretty high with a total of 18 racers signing in, including two guests from Greece. The race was won by Nikos Karabelas in front of Mustafa Alp and Spiros Piknis.
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Revolution Design Racing Products have announced the signing of young and talented Michal Orlowski to their team. Michal, fresh off his 2WD class win at last weekend’s final round of the Euro Offroad Series, will use the full line of RDRP tools and accessories to build, maintain and tune his Schumacher rides in the 2015 season.
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The Jamrock Radio Control Car Club will host the Caribbean Invitational on-road race on the weekend of the 16th of August on the beautiful island of Jamaica. The three-day race will feature open practice on Friday, three rounds of qualifying on Saturday, and a final round before main events on Sunday. Four classes will be offered including 1/8th scale Open, Nitro GT, 1/10th scale sedan and electric touring car. More information can be found on the club’s website by clicking here.
The second round of the Indonesian National Championship was held at the Red Carpet Marina in Semarang in the classes of Touring Car Open Brushless, FWD and Mini. In the Open Brushless category Bowie Ginting took the TQ honours after the qualifiers in front of Muhammad Izzah and Ronny Suwarto. The opening A-main had Bowie taking the win 2 seconds clear of Muhammad in 2nd place and Bowie would also come out successful in the second leg when his last set of fresh tyres allowed him to come in 1st some 10 seconds in front of Suwadi Suliandy. After taking the day’s win early Bowie tried some different settings for the third and final A-main which allowed him to not only set a new lap record but also to take the win a lap ahead of Ronny Suwarto. Behind winner Bowie Ginting, Ronny Suwarto and Suwardi Suliandy rounded out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Last weekend the opening round of the HNS was held at the AMC Tirol track in the three on-road classes of 1/8th Nitro, 1/8th Electric and 1/10th 200mm. Nice weather, good food and a relaxed atmosphere made for a fun weekend and in the 1/8th nitro class it was Michael Klausner (Serpent/Picco) who came out successful in front of Gerhard Kapferer (Mugen/OS) and Rene Doktor (Capricorn/Reds).
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