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October 2, 2022

Canas wins Buggyland 9.0

Less than a month after the country hosted the 1:8 Buggy World Championship, some of the best offroad drivers where back in Spain over the weekend for the the annual Buggyland race where Sworkz’ Juan Carlos Canas was this year’s big winner. The 9th edition of the Madrid based event, qualifying in Pro Buggy opened with Kyosho driver Joao Figueiredo setting the pace around the Circuito de Fuencarral from Canas, Berkan Kilic and Marco Baruffolo. Q2 & 3 saw Canas go fastest securing the former champion the overall TQ from Figueiredo, young Spain talent Adrian Pariente, Kilic, Baruffolo and World Champion Davide Ongaro. Having already secure the eBuggy TQ & win from Ongaro and Pariente, Canas would do the double to win from the 1-hour nitro final from the Mugens of 8th place qualifier Burak Kilic and former World Champion Robert Batlle after Anger was an early retirement from 2nd position. In Saturday’s Nitro Truggy Final Tekno’s Baruffolo claimed victory, the Italian holding off Canas (P2) and Figueiredo (P3).

Image: Sworkz [Facebook]

September 30, 2022

Fong wins at Feiteng Onroad Touring Series

The third round of the Feiteng Onroad Touring Series in China took place last weekend with Serpent driver Kenrick Fong taking both the TQ and win with his X20 ’23. Taking place at Feiteng Raceway in Guangzhou, which has previously hosted a round of the high profile OneTen Series, the race attracted a strong field of 40 drivers. Joining Fong on the Pro Stock podium would be fellow Serpent driver Wong with the Xray of Chung in 3rd. Interestingly it was Mugen that made up the greatest share of the A-Main grid with 5 of its MTC2 chassis, the best placed being in 4th, with a single Tamiya adding to the mix.

Source: Kenrick Fong

September 30, 2022

MRC Longwy Winter Series/GP3F – Announcement

Prominent French electric onroad club MRC Longwy has announced details of its popular Winter Series. Boasting recent ETS winner Lucas Urbain and fellow international racer Loic Jasmin among its membership, it has also confirmed the date of its famous international GP3F event. The Winter Series is known to attract many international factory drivers while the GP3F has become one of the big events on the annual international touring car calendar. Run over four rounds, the Winter Series has categories for Rookie, FWD, Stock 17.5, Stock 13.5 & Modified and with entries limited to 120 drivers per meeting. With 2023 marking the 18th edition of the GP3F, the dates has been confirmed for January 21-22 although the club are still awaiting final confirmation of the hall

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September 27, 2022

2022 EWS International – Announcement

The well-known EWS team have announced the details of their EWS International event. After an enforced break for a couple of years due to the COVID restrictions, the popular race will return over the weekend of 18-20 November 2022. Taking place on at their usual indoor venue in the south-east of the UK, the race will see classes for Modified and Stock (17.5) Touring, plus Front Wheel Drive and Tamiya Junior-E. As in previous years, the top drivers from the UK will face competition from many of Europe’s best racers, with drivers including World Champions Ronald Volker and Marc Rheinard already confirmed to attend. As always, the EWS team will prepare a world-class track and popular announcer Oli Meggitt will be on the mic to direct the races. This year, a tweak to the time schedule will allow more practice time for those who are only able to attend Saturday onwards, in an effort to provide an option for those drivers looking to save costs or with limited time. Entries for the race open at 19:30 UK time (20:30 CET) on Thursday 29 September via MyRCM, and will be limited.

Source: EWS [ewsevents.co.uk]

September 27, 2022

Urbain wins at ETS RD4 in Luxembourg – Report

Last weekend, ETS RD4 took place at the Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg” in Luxembourg. A fantastic onroad racetrack that attracted 150 ETS racers to sign up for the event. The weekend of racing was amazing, and luckily the weather was stable and dry. In the Matrix Modified class, Lucas Urbain took his first ever race win at the Euro Touring Series and joined the circle of winners. He took the very important pole position in qualifying and won the first two A-Mains from start to finish. It was a perfect weekend for the French Awesomatix driver who was showing an amazing performance on track! Behind the race winner, Marc Rheinard and Ronald Völker took second and third place overall. Yannic Prümper finished fourth, and Jan Ratheisky completed the top 5 in the Matrix Modified class at ETS RD4.

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September 26, 2022

Kyle Branson is British Touring Car Champion

Fresh from making his ISTC World Championship debut in Italy a week earlier weekend, Kyle Branson has just claimed his first BRCA British National Electric Touring Car Championship title. The Xray team driver secured the title with his 3rd win of the season at the Halifax track where he also claimed the TQ honours and set a new track lap record in the process. With 2 wins to his credit having taken back to back wins at Rounds 4 & 5, Schumacher’s Zak Smith would finish 2nd overall. The championship podium would be completed the Awesomatix of multiple former Champion Chris Grainger.

Image: Kyle Branson [facebook.com]

September 26, 2022

Savoya adds 10th French National Title to CV

Reno Savoya hit a landmark over the weekend when he claimed his 10th French 1:8 Offroad National title at ARCF 42 track in Boisset-Saint-Priest. The fourth & final round of the 2022 National Championship, the 3-time European Champion would cap of the season with the perfect run securing the overall TQ before winning his Semi in the fastest time to line up on pole for the main final. In the 45-minute encounter, ‘The Shark’ would steer his Kyosho to victory ahead of Xray’s Jerome Aigoin (Semi B winner), both drivers recording 60-laps. On 59 laps, the seventh place starter Remy Bermudez completed the podium with his Xray.

Image: Reno Savoya [facebook.com]

September 26, 2022

Sturdy triples at Australian Offroad Nationals

The 2022 RCRA Australian 1:10 Offroad Titles, sponsored by SpeedyRC, was held at Chargers RC over the weekend. While the 5 day event had its difficulties with rains cutting practice short, the big winner was Team Associated’s Christopher Sturdy who took the TQ and win in 2WD, 4WD and Mod Truck for a National Title triple. The first of the Premier classes lived up to the hype, with all of Australia’s best talent turning up to put on a show. Sturdy would take TQ all 4 rounds of 2WD qualifying with Lachlan Donnelly often nipping at the heels only a couple of seconds off. A clean display in A1 allowed Sturdy to pull a small gap over Donnelly. In A2 Donnelly was on song, following Sturdy around within a few tenths for most the race but Sturdy was not shaken and would also take victory in A2 giving him overall win.

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