The first round of the 2014 Ride Cup took place at the famous RC Addict track in Bangkok, Thailand. In the Touring Car Modified class Atsuhi Hara (Yokomo) grabbed the win from his Yokomo teammates Meen V. and Charlee P. for an all-Yokomo podium.
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The 2014 season of the oOoos kicked off at Stotfold last weekend. Being in its second year the series is meant to address the average driver and will compromise of a total of four events in 2014. New for ’14 is also a vintage RC10 “Gold Tub” class run with handout 21.5T brushless motors. 2WD Buggy was pretty much dominated by Kev Lee who swept the A-final leaving Stuart Wood and Gregg Williams behind. Kev then also went on to triple-win the 4WD mains with Ben Jemison and Stuart Wood completing the podium. In the Gold Tub class James McFadyean also took undefeated wins to take the overall victory. Jim Dixon and Nick Gurnell joined him on the podium. To read the full report swing over to our friends of oOple by clicking here.
The first round of the Dutch electric on-road nationals was held last weekend at the RC-Hotwheels track in Deventer. Practice on Saturday took place under the best possible weather conditions but overnight rain washed away the grip and coming the first qualifying round the track was still damp. Soon after the first round was completed, the heaven opened its gates again causing the racing action to come to a halt. In the Touring Car Modified class the TQ then went to Rob Jansen (Tamiya) followed by Jetse Reitsma (Spec-R) and Ronald Arts (Tamiya). The Stock class had Jitse Miedema taking TQ in front of his Xray fellows Bram Lagerwey and Steven Koiter.
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At the final round of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series, which hosted over 1500 registrations across 8 events this season, Xray’s Wayne Mah took the Team Novak RC Sponsored 1/12th Scale Modified season championship. This is the first year for 1/12 Modified in WCICS, and is the fastest class in the series. Only very skilled drivers need apply, and Wayne takes home the well-deserved top spot in the inaugural year. Second in the championship was an amazing three way tie. British Columbia’s CRC sponsored Blake Bell, followed by Team Associated’s Peter Toszer in 3rd, and Steve Soon were all tied, but after going to race wins, TQ’s, and dropped races that’s how it shook out. Full results and podium pics can be found here.
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Last weekend the 2nd round of the combined Belgium and Dutch electric off-road nationals took place at the redesigned astro turf track of Metchtem in Belgium. The qualification in the 2WD class was a close affair between Wouter Wijnen and Wesley von Helmond with both winning one of the first two qualifiers. The final round would decide and at the end it was Wesley who put his TLR on pole in front of Wouter Wijnen and Nik Weyers.
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Last weekend, the 2014 German Indoor Nationals were held in the small town of Manching near Ingolstadt on a quite challenging track. A total of 59 entries participated in the three classes. In the Modified class, Yokomo driver Dominik Fleischmann dominated the proceedings from practice on, TQ-ing all five rounds of qualifying. Behind him Marc Fischer took his Serpent to second on the grid in front of the Awesomatix of Dionys Stadler.
In the finals, Dominik was able to open up a comfortable gap early on and he went on to take the overall win by winning all three A-mains. The podium was completed by Stadler and Fischer and the top 6 result was rounded out by the Xrays of Marco Kaufmann and Tim Wahl and the Yokomo of Bernhard Bopp.
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Round 1 of the 2014 BRCA Touring Car Nationals was held this past weekend at the West London circuit situated near Heathrow airport. Known as the home of touring car racing by many of the UK drivers, it is one of the more technical and challenging circuits on the series calendar. Before the event all the talk was on how the weather would treat the drivers, and it decided to be somewhat cruel by giving all the drivers challenging and mixed weather conditions throughout the weekend.
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Joern Neumann has capped of the third season of the Euro Offroad Series with the overall win in Austria, a result that brings the Team Durango tally of 4WD Buggy victories in the championship to 10. Having sewn up his third consecutive championship title in A2, the German would go on to win the closing race of the Modelbau Wels Hobby Show event to take victory at the season finale ahead of Top Qualifier Naoto Matsukura with young star and Durango team-mate Michal Qrlowski completing the podium.
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