Round 6 of the 2019 JBRL Electric Off-Road Series was held at Freedom Park Raceway in Camarillo, California last weekend, attracting nearly 150 entries. The premier 2WD Open Buggy class saw Carlos Arredondo walking away with the win from Tyler Fenster in 2nd and Luke Kalaitzian in 3rd.
Round 4 of the 2019 Speed King Tour was held at the NEXT circuit in the Chiba prefecture recently. Thanks to being located quite close to the Narita International Airport the race was easy to reach for drivers from far away and another plus was the quite new and very smooth surface that made for a lot of high-speed battles throughout the field. Classes run this time were Touring Modified and Touring Stock with the Oval category being scrapped this time due to the track layout. Yokomo driver Hayato Ishioka showed his speed right from the free practice on and he took the TQ in all three qualifying rounds of Touring Modified. Hayato also clocked the fastest lap time in the “Super Lap” session for the top 5 qualifiers to take the pole position for the single A-main.
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Schumacher have announced the popular Schumacher GP Series for the coming 2019/20 indoor season. The 3-race series will be held at the MB Raceway in Leeds and will cater for GT12, Touring 17.5T Blinky Hobbywing Handout, Touring 13.5T Blinky, and LMP12 classes. All classes will run to BRCA Rules, the GT12 class will run on Contact “Green Stripe” the Touring class on Sorex XG-28RK and LMP12 on “Orange Stripe” control tyres. There will be a 100 driver limit, initially 50 x GT12, 16 x 17.5T Hobbywing Handout Touring, 24 x 13.5T Touring, 10 x LMP12. Entries and paypal payment will be taken through www.centralbooking.org on a first come first served basis. Full details, rules and dates can be found here.
Last weekend saw the running of the 2019 Hungarian IC Track Championship that was held in Graz, Austria. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Oliver Havranek who would bring home the win in the main final following a short battle with Simon Ciudar in the opening stages of the race. Ultimately Simon had to settle for 2nd overall while Tamas Sagi came in 3rd to round out the podium.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 4 of the 2019 Swiss Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Mini Racing Cars Aigle & Lausanne club last weekend. In the Touring Pro Stock class it was Awesomatix’s Boris Siladi with a near clean sweep in the qualifiers, taking three of the four rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Cham Dassanayake, who won a single qualifying round. The triple A-mains then saw more dominating runs from Boris who took wins in all three mains for the overall from Cham on the runner-up spot. Cédric Ansermoz (Awesomatix) would come in 3rd to round out the podium. With the win at round 4 Boris would also wrap up the overall title, making it a back-to-back championship after taking home the indoor title earlier this year.
Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]
Oli Meggitt and the EWS Events team have announced the details of the 2019/2020 Essex Winter Series. Now entering its ninth season, the championship will take place at the regular EWS indoor venue in the South-East of the UK. The championship will consist of five rounds, starting in October and running through to March. There will be classes for Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Blinky touring car, running on the EWS Sweep controlled tyre, along with Front Wheel Drive (17.5 handout motor), using the popular Ride tyre. A controlled additive will be in place this year to help provide the best possible grip on the ETS carpet used for the track. All the information on the series, along with the entry form, can be found on the official website here. Entries are expected to fill quickly. More details on the popular “EWS International” event, which is separate to the series and will take place in December, will be announced soon. For more information, visit the EWS social media page, or email the EWS team at ewsevents@mail.com.
Last weekend the final round of the Belgian IC Track Nationals took place in Bierset, a high speed track with two full throttle chicanes. After qualifying Steven Cuypers managed to take the overall TQ in front of Robin D’hondt and Renaud Velkeneers. In the 30-minute final Steven finished 2nd behind winner Robin D’hondt and in front of 3rd placed Augustin Mejor, which was enough to take the overall 2019 Belgian Championship title.
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The annual US GP took place for the second time last weekend. It was once again held at the superb venue in Connecticut of RC Madness. Chris Marcy and his team of people had done a superb job at preparing the track and facilities ready for this event. They even managed to organise the lovely sunshine this year too. Friday was a day of practice and many drivers turned up for this. In the end there were almost 200 entries across all classes. Michal Orlowski and his father Maciej had made the trip across from Poland, they were of course on hand for any technical questions and set up advice that anyone needed. Qualifying took place on Saturday and there was one more qualifying round followed by all mains on Sunday. There was some very close qualifying times, which would mean some superb finals. When the dust had settled it was Michal with the 2WD Mod A-final win from Jeff Statkiewicz in 2nd and Keith Smart in 3rd.
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