Last weekend the first round of the Portuguese Touring Series took place at the C.R.A.P. track in Lisbon. In qualifying TOP Racing driver José Figueiredo TQ’d all four heats of the Stock class with fellow driver Carlos Costa taking the 2nd spot on the grid. In the finals José made a clean sweep by winning all three legs handing him the win in front of Carlos Costa.
Source: T.O.P. [top-racing.jp]
The International Indoor Championships is a classic event which marks the start of the indoor carpet season. It is held on an annual basis at the Riviera Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Boulevard. Beside the Touring Car Modified Rubber class several other classes such as 17.5T and 13.5T TC Stock, 1/12 Modified and Stock as well as World GT were run. In the 17.5T Touring Car class RC America driver Eric Anderson brought home the win with fellow Xray drivers Craig Xavier and Michael Herald Jr. in tow.
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TLR/Pro-Line driver Brian McDuffie has won the 2WD Modified Buggy class at the Race for the Cure race at the IERC Raceway in San Bernadino, California. Coming from 5th position on the grid Brian took the lead in the second lap of the 6 minute A-main and never looked back. Robert Walker (TLR) and Brent Bisbee (TLR) completed the podium in second and third place respectively.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
The third season of the Euro Offroad Series kicks off this weekend (18-20th Oct) in Poland, where Europe’s best offroad racers will do battle in front of a crowd of up to 40,000 show goers. For the second year running, the opening race on the calendar of the four round championship for 1:10 electric offroad will take place in the city of Poznan as part of the ‘HOBBY Model Making and Games Exhibition’. Providing the perfect platform to showcase the sport, the entry for the three day event will be headed by Team Durango’s Joern Neumann.
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The third round of the Red Carpet on-road series was held by the Red Carpet Hobbyshop in Semarang, Thailand. The series is run in a Super Stock 10.5T class and saw the attendance of 21 drivers. Because of rain the organisers had to cancel the third and final round of the mains handing the win to Serpent driver Iwahara after two A-finals in front of Andre Frandong (Spec-R) and Jon Ambar (Hot Bodies). Donie W (Serpent) rounded out the top 4.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Spanish 2WD Electric Buggy nationals took place at the RC Hobby Garden track in Sant Cugat. Qualifying on the challenging clay track saw Robert Battle taking the TQ honours from Juanma Lerma who TQ’s two of the five rounds. Carlos Pineda was in third position after the qualifiers and one of the few drivers who could really challenge Robert and Juanma. In the finals Robert made a clean sweep by winning A-final 1 and 2 handing him the 2013 2WD Buggy title early. Juanma Lerma only came in fifth position in A1 but recovered in A2 and A3 taking the runner-up spot in front of Carlos Pineda who completed the podium.
Image: RC Hobby Garden
This weekend the International Indoor Championships took place in Las Vegas. In the Modified Rubber Touring class Ronald Völker (Yokomo) took the win in front of Xray’s Paul Lemieux and Alexander Hagberg (Xray). The Team Associated team mates Juho Levanen and Keven Hebert rounded out the top 5.
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The 2014 DHI Cup will be held from the weekend of the 10th to 12th of January 2014 in Odense, Denmark. As in previous years there will also be an off-road race run alongside the traditional touring car race. The classes will be Touring Car Modified and “blinky” 13.5T Super Stock with LRP motors. Off-Road will be run in 2WD and 4WD. The race will be under control of Hartmut Wenzel and David Church and registration opens Monday the 14th of October on myrcm.com. More information can be found here.
