Team Xray’s Adrian Berntsen topped the opening round of qualifying at Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria this morning, the Norwegian outpacing Ronald Volker by .283 with Round 2 winner Alexander Hagberg completing the Top 3. For last year’s winner Viktor Wilck another speedo issue resulted in him failing to start the qualifier.
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The 6th round of the East Hungarian National Championship was held near Debrecen. Xray driver János Birinyi was able to win A1 and A2 coming from the second spot on the grid. Ferenc Gibala (Xray) and Tamás Ponghó (Xray) finished second and third respectively.
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The 2014 Winter Cup at JCP RC Raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana took place with a total of 160 entries. The race format saw four qualifiers, and triple A-mains with bump-ups. In the highly contested 2WD Modified class Kyosho’s Zach Phillips took TQ and made maximum use of the pole position by winning the first A-main with a clean run. In A2 he had a small bobble in the opening laps letting him drop to 2nd, but he was able to recover in order to take the win and therefore also the overall victory in the 2WD Mod class.
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The organisers of this year’s IFMAR World Championship have announced the location of the 1/12th scale portion of the event. While the ISTC Touring Car race will take place at the Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, the 1/12th race is set to take place in Largo, Florida (Minnregg hall, 6340 126th Ave Largo, FL 33773) close to Tampa, some 100 miles away from the outdoor track. A well known venue, having hosted ROAR nationals in the past, for the first time the distance between locations means racers who are planning to race both classes will have to arrange separate accommodation for each event.
With official timing finally becoming available with the first round of controlled practice it is Ronald Volker who set pace during the single 5-minute round at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Gran Canaria. After issues with the newly resurfaced track that saw much of the day’s practice run as open practice by class, the Team Yokomo driver set the fastest three consecutive laps ahead of Xray’s Adrian Bernsten with team-mate Alexander Hagberg and Serpent’s Marc Fischer sharing identical times to be be third fastest.
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Round 3 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series got underway officially today in Gran Canaria but recent work to the track has challenged drivers as they struggle for traction on the highly abrasive new surface. Originally drivers where to run open practice for the first half of the day before conducting two control practice rounds that would determine the seeding for the day’s opening round of qualifying. However when drivers started to run tyres from the freshly produced batch of handout tyres provided by Ride there was a noticeable difference between the tyres they had used for previous practice runs, some drivers having already conducted a number of days testing earlier in the week. Due to this Race Director Scotty Ernst adapted the time table allowing drivers to continue with open practice before closing the first official day with one round of controlled practice.
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The 6th round of the RCProf Speedpassion Challenge was recently held in Budapest. In the 13.5T Stock ckass János Birinyi took the overall TQ after winning all three qualifying rounds. János then was able to win the first and second A-final quite easily in order to grab the day’s overall win. A3 was only for the books but proofed to be very exciting for the Xray driver as he was struggling with a backmarker which cost him the lead around the 2 minute mark. He was able to regain the position after some risky driving and won the final with a new Stock class track record. Behind János Tamás Ponghó and Péter Taál finished second and third respectively.
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The 6th Annual President’s Day Classic was run at Addiction R/C in Ogden, Utah. With a total of 220 entries and 28 heats large, Addiction R/C was staged to be the center of epic battles all weekend long. The largest classes over the weekend were Stock Buggy at 32 entries, 2WD Mod buggy 25 entries, and 4WD Mod buggy with also 25 entries which ran on a 5 minute triple A-main format. The rest of the classes saw single 8 minute A-main events with lower mains receiving a 5 minute treatment.
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