The 3rd round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Monteux last weekend on a fast yet technical track. In the Touring Car Modified class Yokomo’s Loic Jasim came out successful from Jeremy Limoges (Xray) who came from the 3 spot on the grid. Maxime Favrelle (ARC) rounded out the podium by grabbing the 3rd place after some nice battles in the finals.
Click here to continue reading the report
The 29th annual Hank Perry 240 was held this past weekend in Spokane, Washington. This race doubles as round #2 of the Northwest Championship Tour and always draws a large entry count, in part due to being held on Memorial Day weekend each year. This year was no different and “The Hank” attracted close to 300 entries. The 3 day event consisted of Friday practice, 3 rounds of qualifying Saturday and triple A-Mains Sunday with single 30 minute nitro A-mains. Q1 of the 2WD Buggy class with 26 entries saw the AE of Dave Gullickson edging out Kyosho’s Tayler Wonders by only a tenth or two. Q2 and Q3 would see Kyosho’s on top with Tayler taking round 2 and Derek Rasheed taking round 3. After all the qual points were calculated, and the tie-breakers were accounted for it, would be Rasheed with the overall TQ with Dave 2nd and Tayler 3rd.
Click here to continue reading the report
The RCR Club in Roeselare held the fourth round of the Belgian Electric Touring Car Nationals on their fast and flowing outdoor track. In the EFRA class Olivier Bultynck took the TQ in front of Nick Joosens and Mitchell Van Es. Stefan Rommens rounded out the top 4 in the fastest of the three classes of the weekend. In the first lap of the opening final Olivier Bultynck and Nick Joosens made contact and Olivier had to recover from the back of the field but already on the second lap Olivier choose to save his tyres and he stopped his car. Meanwhile Mitchell Van Es was in the lead closely followed by Thomas Stockman and Rico Claeys but Nick Joosens was fighting back and he took 3rd place from Rico. Ultimately Mitchell grabbed the win in front of Thomas.
Click here to continue reading the report
The second round of the Norwegian Grenland Cup was held in Skien over the weekend. Different from round 1 the race saw the introduction of a control tyre and everyone was keep to get some laps under their belts in practice to get used to the new tyres. In the qualifiers it was again Marlin Karlsen (Xray) who came out fastest by winning the first two rounds to take the overall TQ for the triple 12-minute A-mains. The finals then saw Malin taking comfortable wins with the only 21-lap runs of the day. Erik Fink (Mugen) came in 2nd while Petter Strand (Mugen) rounded out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Marc Rheinard has claimed a record 5th Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions title, the 18th running of the event being decided in the 36th and final race at Tamiya Raceway in California. Leading the points from the opening round right through the 3 days of heads up racing, the Tamiya star secured his first major touring car title for some time when he finished on the tail of outgoing champion Ronald Volker. Needing to win the race and have Rheinard finish 6th or lower, Volker could only manage second behind Yokomo team-mate Meen Vejrak, that win securing the Thai driver the final place on the podium.
Continue reading this report here or our full event coverage here.
The opening round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held at Glostrup Racing Club in changing weather conditions. The day started out with rain but it cleared up during the day. In the Formula class Christian Lehm secured the pole position for the finals and he would stay in front after the mains also to take the day’s win in front of Johnni Lyng and Tommy Jensen. Henrik Rasmussen, Johnny B Goode and Casper Lund would complete the top 6 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The first round of the Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the track of Horni Jeleni. The weather forecast did not look too promising but fortunately the race would take place in dry conditions. New for this year is an updated race format with the Nationals being 1-day events and with the best two drivers after qualifying would directly proceed into the main finals. In the 30 minute main final of the Nitro Buggy class Martin Bayer took the win from Jiri Mara and Jan Zamis.
Click here to continue reading
Marc Rheinard has one hand on the Reedy International Race of Champions trophy with just one round of racing between him and a record 5th title. The penultimate round of racing at the famous event netted the Tamiya driver his 7th win of the weekend allowing him to extend his lead to 3-points over defending Champion Ronald Volker. A rough eleventh round for Volker, the Yokomo driver could only manage third behind team-mate Meen Vejrak and HB’s JJ Wang who notched up his second win of the event. With both drivers lining up in the same heat for Round 12, which is the concluding race of the 18th running of the unique annual event, the advantage lies with Rheinard. In order for Volker to stand any chance of retaining his title he must take the win as well as having Rheinard finish 6th or lower.
Continue reading this report here or our full event coverage here.
