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May 9, 2015

Red RC to cover the 2015 Reedy TC Race of Champions

Red RC are soon making our trip to the Tamiya Raceway in Aliso Viejo in California, USA for the 2015 Reedy Touring Car Race of Champions. The annual event each year attracts the World’s best touring car drivers to compete in the Invitational, Open Modified as well as 13.5T and 17.5T Stock classes. The event starts on May 21st with controlled heat practice and Red RC will be trackside bringing you reports, insights, videos and photos directly from the track throughout the weekend.

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May 9, 2015

IRCC 2015 Airport race – Announcement

The annual IRCC Airport race in Japan will this year take place from the 12th to 14th of June. The race is unique in that it will be held at the Chubu international airport, in an event hall near the arrivals section. With the airport having a hotel and restaurants, you won’t need to do much travelling and can in fact access the track by foot. The race will see the running of several on-road classes including Stock TC, FWD, Modified 1/12th scale, World GT and more with racer from the USA, Korea, Macao and other countries being awaited. Racers interested can visit the official event site here and the IRCC Facebook page here.

May 8, 2015

Mark Green takes British Formula Championship

Mark Green has come out successful in his recent 1/10th electric on-road campaign by winning the British 1/10th Formula championship title. On his way to the overall win he scored maximum points in first three of the four rounds to take the title with a 2 point margin on Mark Burgess. David Underwood completed the top 3 result of the 2015 series.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 8, 2015

Maanson & Kobbevik win at Swedish Summercup Rd1

The first round of the popular Swedish Summercup was held at the Skarpneck track in Stockholm in the classes of 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy. After the timed practice local racer Niclas Maanson was on top of the timing sheets of the 2WD class while Daniel Kobbevik set the pace in 4WD. Both drivers would also be still on top in their respective classes after the three rounds of qualifying, to start from pole position into the A-mains.

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May 8, 2015

RC Car World’s Spring Challenge Points Series – Report

RC Car World's Spring Challenge Points Series – Report

Last weekend saw the conclusion of RC Car World’s Spring Challenge Points series at RC Car World in Willingboro, NJ. Qualifying started of strong with new Xray driver Oladelé Bolden qualifying 2nd to Schumacher driver Aja Archibald and Thomas Lane qualifying 3rd driving a Yokomo. As usual the track conditions varied as the racing continued throughout the day and Thomas Lane was able to set TQ and pole position heading into the final A main of the series.

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May 7, 2015

Nicolas Risser wins rainy Belgian E-Buggy Nats Rd2

The second round of the Belgian 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at clay track of Bauffe near the French boarder. Unfortunately the race had to be cancelled after the qualifiers due to heavy rain. This meant the qualifying result would determine the day’s winner and this handed Team C’s Nicolas Risser the win from the Kyosho duo of Sebastian Wartelle and Cedric Nickel.

Thanks to Jean-Michel for the report.

May 7, 2015

Hupo Hönigl wins Austrian E-Buggy Nationals Rd1

The opening round of the Austrian 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was held at the MRC Oberaich club and despite adverse weather forecasts, 55 starters found their way to Styria. At the end the weather held up fine with almost an entire weekend of mostly sunshine and perfect conditions making for ideal conditions at this first ever 1/8th E-Buggy national event on Austrian soil. After six qualifying rounds Hupo Hönigl set TQ for the finals. In the sub-finals Martin Wollanka secured himself the pole position for the A-finals in which Hupo and Martin were in a league of their own. After the triple A-mains Hupo secured the day’s win just ahead of Martin.

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May 6, 2015

Rasmussen doubles at Danish EP Off-road Series Rd1

The first round of the DRCMU Danish National Series was held at the RC Kongen hobby shop. Jonas Kaerup and Jesper Rasmussen set the early race pace. A hot and sunny race day on the large carpet track provided great conditions for all the drivers. It was a fantastic day to kickstart the outdoor summer racing and the start of the Danish Nationals. Jonas Kaerup was off to a flying start in qualifying and took TQ at his home track, just managing to hold off his junior teammate Jesper in qualifying. In the finals it was youth that prevailed and the more consistent Jesper Rasmussen took the victory in front of Jonas Kaerup.

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