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April 11, 2014

Andrew Cartwright Takes the Emerald City Classic

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On-road racers from the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada gathered last weekend for their winter season finale, the Emerald City Classic. The Seattle RC Racers hosted over 150 entries on the high-bite gym track known as “the smooth”. The largest class of the event was 17.5 Touring. In his first race Team Associated’s Andrew Cartwright was the man to beat every time he hit the track. Andrew topped the time sheets in all three qualifying rounds. He also set a new track record on his way to a convincing win in the A-Main event.

Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]

April 11, 2014

Birinyi & Toth win RCProf Speedpassion Challenge

The 7th and final round of the Hungarian RCProf Speedpassion Challenge was held in Budapest. In the Touring Car Stock class the overall championship was already decided for Janos Birinyi who also took the TQ for the finals. The Xray driver then also went on to win the A-mains in a controlled manner, taking the 6th win this season. Tamas Pongho came in second while Mate Toth completed the podium of the 7th round. Behind Janos, Tamas Pongho and Peter Taal completed the 2013/14 series sitting in 2nd and 3rd place.

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April 10, 2014

MRC Wiener Neustadt track opening – Announcement

The 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt announce their track opening race for the weekend of the 4th of May. Taking place on the renewed track some 50km away from the Vienna airport, the race will be run in a Touring Car Modified, Touring Car 17.5T and a Formula class. The entries for the event, that starts on Friday with a full day of practice, are limited to 120 drivers and you can find more information on the club’s website by clicking here.

April 9, 2014

Belgian SCT Cup Rd1 – Report

First round of this year’s Belgian SCT Cup was held at the new urban UndeRing track in Brussels. The track is nicely located under the highway bridge within a public park with an interesting layout slippery surface. This race marked the first ever meeting organised by the club and after all it went pretty smooth and without problems. In the 2WD Pro2 class Philippe Hautecoeur (Associated SC10) ran a pretty weird but effective tyre setup, with astroturf tyres allowing him to run fast and consistent laps in order to take the TQ in front of Julian André (Associated SC10) and Martin Viérin (Associated SC10). In Pro4 Thierry Matthieu (Tekno SCT410) showed a great pace and took TQ in front on Nicolas Evens (TLR Ten-SCTE).

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April 8, 2014

Batlle & Cuevas win at Spanish TC nats Rd1

78 drivers met for the opening round of the Spanish Electric Touring Car nationals in Madrid with 36 entries for the Modified and 42 for the Stock class. The Modified class saw Nitro Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle taking the win for Yokomo while Toni Rheinard came in second. Jonnhy Pastor completed the podium in third position. In the Stock class Isaac Cuevas, Mikel Angulo and Ramon Guasch marked the top 3 spots.

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April 8, 2014

Schumacher BTCC Rd1 – Report

The 2014 Series kicked off in fine style at the superb West London venue, with over 110 drivers booked in for the event. The weather was dry for Saturday which saw many of the drivers use the day for a lot of practice to get their cars fine tuned ready for race day on Sunday. However what greeted drivers all Sunday morning was rain, followed by more heavy rain, the weather was going to make for some very interesting racing. The race classes for this year’s BTCC, following on from a successful Series last year are 17.5T Blinky class, 13.5T and Modified.

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April 8, 2014

Park & Lee dominate Korean Sweep Challenge

A total of 40 drivers competed at the Sweep Challenge Korea at the PTS track in Gyeonggido in cold and windy conditions. In the 13.5T Stock class JinHyun Park (T.O.P.) came in 1st, followed by Sungtae Kim (Awesomatix) and Googil Jung (Awesomatix) respectively. Elswhere in the Modified class T.O.P. Racing factory driver Ryan Lee took the TQ and overall win. JungHyun Ahn and Yonghoon Park (both Awesomatix) rounded out the podium.

Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]

April 8, 2014

Hartson doubles at April Fools Classic

The 26th annual Pro-Line April Fools Classic was held at the Intermountain RC Raceway in Magna, Utah last weekend running most of the important 1/10 and 1/8 scale electric off-road classes. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class TQ Steven Hartson brought home the win for Team Associated, leaving TLR’s Dustin Evans and Rob Gillespie (Team Associated) behind. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class the race saw the same three gentlemen on the top 3 positions. Steven again put himself on top, but this time Rob came in second while Dustin completed the podium. The 2WD Stock Buggy class had Carl Hyndman first took the TQ position and then he also went on to win the class ahead of Chris Boise and Ron Reid while the latter also took the Hot Lap award.

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