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December 2, 2013

Patrick Hofer wins at MRTO Challenge

The MRTO Challenge took place last weekend in Armiswil, Switzerland. The event saw 120 entries in the SC 4×4, SC 2WD, modified Buggy 2WD and modified buggy 4WD classes. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer took TQ in the 2WD and 4WD buggy and later went on to win both categories. In 2WD Markus Metsch (Kyosho) finished 2nd in front of Luca Rau (Kyosho) while in 4WD Milan Steiner (Team Durango) and Max Stölzl (Kyosho) filled the remaining podium spots.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

December 2, 2013

Cham Dassayanake wins 2WD at SIORC Rd2

The second round of this Winter’s SIORC series at the ERMC club in Geneva, Switzerland took place this past weekend. In the 2WD class Cham Dassayanake (Yokomo) took the win from “old dude” Jean-Marc Betticher (Team C) and Adrien Bertin (Kyosho) who had one of his very few electric off-road outings.

Image: ERMC Grand Saconnex

December 2, 2013

Xray Challenge Italy – Announcement

The highly popular Xray Challenge Italy will return to Scandiano on the weekend of the 19th of January 2014. Registration for the race that will see a touring car modified, stock and a 1/12th scale class started yesterday on myrcm.ch. Entries are limited for the race so make sure to register in time.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

December 1, 2013

Marc Rheinard wins 2013 BIRC

The first annual Bangkok International RC Car Championship took place this weekend at the new Huge RC track in the Thailand capital. With a number of top drivers in attendance over the many classes, it was reigning World Champion Jilles Groskamp who took the TQ spot in the modified Touring car class ahead of 3-time Champion Marc Rheinard in 2nd with Nicholas Lee completing the top 3 for Tamiya. With Jilles flying back to the Netherlands on the Sunday for filming duties, Marc would take over the pole position for the A-main and made the most of his starting position by taking A1 and 2 to seal the overall win early. Andy Moore would come through from 5th on the grid to 4th in A2 and to take the win in A3 to claim the runner up spot, while Nicholas Lee would take 3rd overall.

Image: Marc Rheinard

November 28, 2013

Markus Hellquist wins South Swedish Cup Rd1

The first round of the South Swedish Cup for electric touring cars was held in Gothenburg. The quite small and narrow track was very technical and left loads of room for mistakes and driving errors. After 3 rounds of qualifying with the best round to count Markus Hellquist (Xray) managed to secure the first spot on the grid, ahead of fellow Xray driver Karl Ullenius in second and David Hassel in third.

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November 28, 2013

Antoni Caretti wins at Australian TC nationals

The 2013 Australian National titles were held in the Adelaide hills, at the Littlehampton track in South Australia. The race had a lot lower numbers than usual, as some drivers went to the AOC in Japan, and some chose not to come, but none the less the racing was great for those that attended. Massive rain on Friday washed away the track’s sugar treatment and the race director decided not to renew the traction enhancer as the weather forecast promised more rain during the weekend. Saturday again was washed away and only three out of the four qualifiers could be run. Antoni Cartti swept the touring car modified class qualifiers by taking six out of the six rounds. In 17.5T boosted stock Scott Kilford also took six out of the six rounds putting his car in pole position. In the modified class finals Antoni was able to win the first two A-mains in order to grab the 2013 Australian National title adding to his two previous 1/12th victories. In the boosted stock class Scott won A-mains #2 and #3 for a clean sweep of Xray’s latest T4 car.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 28, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins Madeira Cup Rd1

The first Madeira Cup was held at the Madeira Island Off Road track. With most of the participants being on-road racers Xray’s Bruno Coelho, who was invited to assist with car and engine set-up, had loads of work to do. After Saturday’s practice rounds the track was pretty beat-up but the conditions where the same for everyone and it was no surprise that Bruno Coelho took TQ after the qualifiers as he was the most experienced buggy racers on the track. Right from the start of the 45 minute final Bruno took off and never looked back taking the race win one lap ahead of Joao Figueiredo with Vitor Sousa completing the podium in 3rd position.

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November 28, 2013

Reedy Race control tyre announced

Reedy Race control tyre announcement

The organisers of the Reedy Race have announced that Pro-Line and JConcepts will continue to be the official tyre and insert suppliers for the 20th running of the Reedy International Off-Road Race of Champions that will take place from the 22nd to 26th of January at OCRC Raceway in Huntington Beach, California. The following will be the only combinations allowed at the event:

2WD Buggy
Front – JC Gold Barcode (#3017-05) & PL Closed Cell Inserts (#6185-03)
Rear – JC Silver Barcode (#3016-06) & PL V2 Closed Cell Inserts (#6185-04)

4WD Buggy
Front – PL MC Ion (#8223-17) & PL Closed Cell Inserts (#6185-02)
Rear – PL MC Ion (#8222-17) & PL V2 Closed Cell Inserts (#6185-04)

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