The 1/10th Off-road Turkey Race was held at the Ohio RC Factory in Jeffersonville, Ohio last Saturday, attracting nearly 80 entries. In the popular 13.5T Wheeler class it was Chad Wipperman with the overall TQ, however the single 7-minute A-main was won by 3rd place qualifier, Michael Gers as P2 qualifier, Nathan McClanahan conserved his qualifying performance by finishing on the runner-up spot.
Source: Raw Speed [rawspeedrc.com]
Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Germany was hosted by the RC-Schwalmracern club recently. The event kicked off on Saturday morning with practice with Sunday being the main race day and classes run included 1/10th Touring Stock, Touring FWD and 1/12th GT. In the premier class of Touring Stock it was Jannick Namyslo with the overall TQ in front of Tobias Schuch and Marc Stubben. When the dust had settled after the finals it was still Jannick on top with Marc Stubbed and Jens Haller coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively for an all-Xray top 3 result.
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The Radio Control Car Club of Kuwait RCCCK held their opening Points Race last weekend, attracting over 40 entries for the Nitro Buggy and Truggy classes. In Nitro Buggy it was Agama racer Abdulrahman Aljuhail with the win in the 45-minute A-main event, a lap in front of SWorkz’s Ali Sherazy on the runner-up spot. Agama’s Mohammad Alhajri came in 3rd to complete the podium result in front of Mohammad Altarmoum in 4th and Nasser Altermoum in 5th overall.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
The 2019 Australian Nitro On-Road GP National Championships were held at RRCSA in Littlehampton, Adelaide last weekend. In 1/8th scale it was Jesse Davis taking the TQ spot over Luke Duthie in 2nd and Steven Jovanovic in 3rd. In the main final it was factory Infinity driver Jesse Davis comfortably taking the win over 2nd placed Nick Salib (Infinity) by five laps and making up the podium in 3rd was Capricorn’s Steven Jovanovic.
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Round 2 of Estonian 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the newly built Saue HOBI zone off-road track. The small and technical track would prove to be challenging even for the best drivers that Latvia and Estonia had to offer. In qualifying, Team Associated driver Reimo Kosk would take the TQ in front of the Xray duo of Toms Pukitis and Juri Ressar. They were followed closely by Andreas Tolpt and Tonis Lattik. Reimo would go on to win A1 in a tense fight with Toms, the young man would hit back in A2, leaving a full on shootout for A3. In the middle of the race however Reimo would face technical issues, leaving the door open for Toms to take the overall win from Reimo in 2nd and Juri Ressar in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The third round of the RC Pro 1/10th scale Series was held at the Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas attracting nearly 50 entries. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class Tekno RC’s Tyler Hooks would snatch the overall TQ and he also brought home the overall win following wins in the double A-main format. Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre had to settle for 2nd overall, only tenths of a second behind Tyler in both A-main legs. Xray’s Spencer Harrison came in 2nd, already a lap down in both mains.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
The opening round of the Danish DASU Electric On-road Nationals was held in Faxe last weekend. The track was a bit on the bumpy side due to not being used for over year which made finding the right setup a bit difficult. In the Touring Stock class it was Martin Vandborg with the win while Patrick Danielsen and Casper Lund came in 2nd and 3rd respectively for an all-Xray podium result.
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The XRS EuroRC Finland race was held last weekend at the FullspeedRC on-road track in Hakkila, Finland. The relaxed format of the race attracted some of the fastest on-road drivers from all over the country, Estonia and Russia to attend in Touring Car Modified and Stock classes, Euro Truck, C-12 and GT-12 categories. In the beginning it was obvious that local hero Karri Salmela (Team Associated) was the man to beat in the Touring Modified class and on home soil. He had spent thousands laps to refine his equipment, however Karri was struggling to keep all his car‘s wheels on the ground while Juho Levänen (Xray) clocked the fastest times in two of the three qualifiers and took a valued TQ spot followed by Karri in 2nd and Pekko Iivonen (Schumacher) in 3rd.
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