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June 26, 2013

2013 Bring The Heat race – Announcement

Bring The Heat Race - Announcement

The good guys at Flowood RC Indoor Park dropped us a mail to tell us about their biggest and most important race of the year for FRC, the third Annual Bring The Heat race, which will run from July 19-21. Recently crowned National Champion Adam Drake will be returning for his third year to defend his crown at FRC and Ronda Drake will also be there and they have some surprise racers attending this year that have not been to FRC before. FRC are taking the first 350 paid entries so if you have not signed up or paid go to www.rcsignup.com and do so now. The organisers will be giving away over $25,000 worth of donated product to the racers this year from their sponsors. You can find more information here.

June 26, 2013

Bruno Coelho wins TC Rd3 in Portugal

Last weekend the third round of Portuguese Nationals took place in Torres Novas village at the track where the European TC Championship will be held later this summer. The temperatures where high all weekend and drivers got perfect conditions to compete and also practice and prepare for the upcoming Euros. There were 15 drivers in modified class and 8 in stock class. The practice runs showed that Bruno Coelho was the man to beat closely followed by, and always beating back the challenges of, his teammate Helder Silva. Pedro Moura unfortunately experienced some technical problems and was not able to keep up with them, however he still made it to the A main. During the finals Bruno and Helder again made it a superb race to watch for all spectators fighting for the top spot in the first final. In the second and third final run Bruno made a quick clean start and making use of the fight between Helder and last year’s champion Hugo Miguel was able to stretch his lead until the finish line.

View the final results here

June 26, 2013

Adam Drake takes GRRS final round win

This past weekend Thunder Alley hosted the final round of the Grass Roots Racing Series attracting nearly 150 entries. The track was hard packed and very technical. Cody King TQ’d round one of buggy and newly crowned National Champion Adam Drake took the second round, but wasn’t able to beat Cody’s time from round one. In the final Cody and Adam had a great battle and were never more than a few seconds apart until the end when Cody ran out of fuel with two laps to go. Drake took the win by a lap over Matt Schreffler with Cody King holding on for third. Adam used Pro-Line M3 Holeshot 2.0’s in M3 compound for qualifying and the twenty minute final.

Source: TLR [tlracing.com] / Image: Rugspin Graphix

June 25, 2013

2013 HPI Challenge – Announcement

2013 HPI Challenge - Announcement

HPI Racing Europe have been in contact to tell is that the 4th of August and the 28th of September mark the return of the HPI Challenge, with on and offroad racing classes organized at two of the country’s leading venues. The 4th of August marks the return of the HPI Challenge for all on-road racers and HPI touring car kit owners with racing taking place at the Cotswolds Model car club in Gloucestershire. Every racer will get a complete set (2 pairs) of top-quality HPI Challenge racing slick tyres, an HPI T-shirt and a HPI goodie bag with lots of HPI freebies inside. The 28th of September is the day for off-road HPI kit owners, with the event organised at the wonderful Coventry Model Car Club. Whether you’ve got a Savage monster truck, nitro buggy or electric truggy, they’ve got you all covered. Full details on the event can be found here.

June 25, 2013

May & Friedrich win at Pro Stock Series Rd3

This past weekend saw the 3rd round of the Pro Stock Series taking place at the Kastellaun Race Track. The unique feature of this racing series are the standard Sonic/Xceed engines that are mandatory and must not be modified in any way. 25 drivers in 2 classes went out for some nice racing. The weather forecast for both days was okay although the Saturday was supposed to be the better day. With former Austrian 1/12th national champion Martin Wilfinger (Shepherd) and former Tamiya World Champion Patrick Gassauer (Serpent) the drivers list showed interesting names. Also the overall winner of 2011 Marcus May and last years runner-up Sascha Vorgrümler (both Shepherd) took the challenge.

Continue reading the report here

June 25, 2013

Patrick Hofer takes 4wd at Swiss Rd3

Patrrick Hofer takes 4wd at Swiss Rd3

Round 3 of the Swiss electric offroad nationals were run last weekend in Obernau (Switzerland) on a multi-surface track combining Astroturf, carpet and wood. On Saturday Associated/Reedy driver Patrick Hofer started showing his domination in the 4wd practice and was a lap ahead of 2nd in qualifying, taking the TQ spot in the 4wd class. In 2wd he placed his B4.2 2nd. During the finals it started to rain so some drivers saw a chance for the win but Patrick’s B44.2 seemed unbeatable on the slippy track and so he won both finals and secured the overall win in 4wd modified ahead of Peter Forster (Yokomo) in 2nd and Patrick Vogt (Durango) in 3rd. In 2wd modified he finished 2nd.

Thanks to Patrick Hofer for the report.

June 25, 2013

SpeedRC Cup – Announcement

SpeedRC Cup - Announcement

The organisers of the SpeedRC Cup got in touch to tell us about their touring car race which is held on Sunday the 14th of July at Parona Lomellina (PV) Italy 50km south-west from Milan. The race is open to 1/10 Touring Mod and 13.5 (no timing) classes and they have introduced a new race format with the possibility to make the A main through a Last Chance race. Entries are limited to 40 drivers per class, if the number of entries in one class is lower than 40 the other class can be supplemented. More details and entries can be found through iscrizione.gare@hotmail.it

View an image of the track here

June 24, 2013

Romanian Nitro Cup – Announcement

Romanian Nitro Cup - Announcement

The organizers of the Romanian Nitro Cup got in contact to tell us about their annual competition for 1/10th and 1/8th scale IC on road nitro cars which this year will be held from the ~~30th of August to the 1st of September~~ 20th to the 22nd of September. It is a private event with important prizes and the rules are kept as simple and as fair as possible for the drivers. Entries are limited to 60 drivers per class, if the number of entries in one class is lower than 60 the other class can be supplemented. The event will be held on the beautiful new Hobby Arena track near Bucharest and to make it event more interesting both classes offer prize money of EUR 1000 for the winner, EUR 700 for 2nd place and EUR 400 for 3rd. More details can be found here (under Competitions).