The Vietnam 1/8th Off-Road National Championship was held this past weekend and it was Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai who took the TQ and win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class. Phan Quang Vinh (Xray) grabbed the vice championship from Mugen driver Thinh Phan. Nam Nguyen (Xray) and Zi Duong (Mugen) rounded out the top 5 result.
Image: Yuichi Kanai
The opening round of the Malaysia National League was held in Shah Alam this past weekend. After missing out on the TQ spot but winning the semifinal David Lim was able to win the 60 minute A-main that was run in very warm conditions with the ambient temperature hitting 36 degree Celsius, making it a demanding race for the competitors.
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Mikimodel will hold the WRC Contest 2015 in Faloppio, Italy, on the 6th to 7th of February. The annual event sees the running of electric touring car classes beside Formula, 1/10th and 1/12th pan car categories. Last year the race attracted a total of 135 drivers and for more information feel free to contact Mikimodel by emailing them at info@mikimodel.net.
The 10th edition of the Petit RC Race was held this past weekend at the RBR36 Arena in Barcelona, Spain, a new indoor facility built and owned by 1/8th Buggy World Champion Robert Batlle. As usual the race attracted some of Europe’s fastest drivers, this time including Jörn Neumann, Migual Matias and of course Robert Battle. The 2WD Buggy and Short Course classes, run on Saturday, saw Jörn Neumann and Robert Batlle leading the proceedings. Jörn took the overall TQ from Dani Batlle while Robert Batlle rounded out the top 3 result. In the Short Course class, that was run in a “finals only” mode, Robert was the man to beat on his home track as he won all but one final legs to take the win from Uri Valde and Vicente Moyano.
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Martin Wollanka and Kevin Pignotti are the new VRC Worlds title holders in 1:8th Sportscars and 1:10th ISTC respectively. Martin Wollanka from Austria scored a well-deserved title in his 2014 VRC Worlds campaign after having to settle for second in the 1:10 ISTC VRC Worlds right behind Kevin Pignotti. Martin managed to turn things around in 1:8 Sportscars at the Lostallo event, driving to victory with a 4 seconds lead on Kevin Pignotti. New kid on the block Jakub Rozycki from Poland was lapped by Wollanka at the very last lap of the race when he needed a last fuel stop as to make it to the finish line in 3rd.
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The second round of this Winter’s Winter Electric Series again took place at the Genius Ring track in Medeuzza/Udine, Italy and it attracted 42 drivers from Slovenia and Italy. Saturday started out with free practice with the actual race taking place on Sunday. Following another hour of practice on Sunday the qualifiers started and at the end it was Rok Rudl who took the TQ in the Touring Car Stock class coming fresh from a multi-year break from racing. In the Touring Modified class it was round 1 winner Alojzij Osvald who grabbed the valuable TQ spot while in the 1/12th Open class it was again Jernej Vuga who put his car on top of the field.
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The 2015 Hudy Indoor Champs were held at ProlevelRC in Saint Louis, MO with Xray factory drivers Paul Lemieux and Drew Ellis in attendance for the race. Classes that were ran were Touring Car Modified and Stock, USGT, 1/12 Stock, and F1. In Touring Car Modified, Paul was just on it and he TQ’ed in front of Drew Ellis and Andrew Dorothy.
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The Nocarpet Race was held at the permanent Indoor Racing Chilelli facility in the north of Italy. This unique location combines an excellent asphalt indoor track with a nice pub located inside the facility to care for the needs of drivers and visitors. The race kicked off the 2015 racing season and it attracted drivers from all around Italy with almost 60 entries in the three Touring Car classes of Modified, Stock 13.5 and Stock 17.5 beside a growing Formula class.
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