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March 27, 2019

Winter Jumps Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Winter Jumps Series was held at the permanent indoor track in Vaasa. The 2011 IFMAR Worlds organisation team did a great job running the event that was held on a tile track and using control Schumacher Mini Pin tyres. Saturday was 2WD day and right from the get go it was Jamiel Gabrielsson and Lauri Ruotsalainen who were showing the best pace and after four rounds of qualifying both Jamiel and Lauri had two TQ rounds but Jamiel was handed the overall TQ by the tie-breaker. Behind the two, local driver Oskari Mäki lined up 3rd, Arttu Syrjänen 4th, Jarno Siltanen 5th, Max Söderlund 6th, Jani Mäkinen 7th, Pekko Iivonen 8th, Markku Honkanen 9th and Jarno Pottonen 10th.

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March 27, 2019

Malaysian Electric On-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Malaysian Electric On-road Nationals was held recently, attracting nearly 90 entries for the touring and formula classes. In the Touring Modified class it was special guest, Dominic Quek who would hold the upper hand. taking the TQ and win from teammate Shahrin as Wong Kok Wai rounded out the top 3 results.

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March 27, 2019

Maifield doubles at inaugural JConcepts NCTS

Last weekend the inaugural JConcepts NCTS kicked off at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Testing the waters a few years back, JConcepts launched the JConcepts Turf Nationals in Enfield, CT and the growth and interest has been well received as entries now hover around 350. Last year, JC joined up with Northwest Hobbies in Albany, OR and created the NW Carpet Nationals, which also saw a lot of positive feedback. After a few emails and phone calls with a couple of different tracks, the JConcepts NCTS was born and the United States’ first-ever national carpet and turf series was created.

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March 27, 2019

Kyle Turner doubles at St. Patrick’s Day Hangover Race

Empire RC Raceway of Brentwood, California recently held their St. Patrick’s Day Hangover Race and it was Kyle Turner with a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. In the 30-minute Pro Buggy main Kyle managed to clinch the win over TQ Mason Eppley after a back and forth battle throughout the 30-minute main. Chet Miller would round out the top 3 results. Mason then top qualified in the E-Buggy class and ended up winning in the end. Zach Sievert and Andrew Herring came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

View the E-Buggy podium here

March 27, 2019

Ioannidis Dimitris wins XRS Greece Rd3

Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Greece Off-road was held at the Fanatix Racing Track near Athens last weekend. Ioannidis Dimitris (Xray) would take the overall TQ in the sole 2WD Modified Buggy class following wins in Q1 and Q3, setting his best time with a 9-seconds margin on his best run. With clean wins in the opening two A-mains Ioannidis then also secured himself the overall win with one round to spare. In A3 the young man would win again, however he had to defend himself from Manolis Kalantzakis (Xray) with whom he had a close and clean run. Team Associated driver Dimitris Kouretas would round out the top 3 after the finals.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 27, 2019

Marcel Schneider sweeps NRW Off-road Cup opener

The opening round of the popular NRW Off-road Cup was held at the Racing Aren Limburg recently. After the three qualifiers and in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes it was Marcel Schneider who would hold the upper hand, TQ-ing both classes. In the finals it was again an all-Marcel show and with victories in both categories he made a clean sweep to round out a perfect weekend.

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March 23, 2019

Akio Sobue wins Speed King Tour Rd1

The 2019 season of Speed King Tour kicked off at Rajikon Tengoku Nagoya indoor tarmac track last weekend. This series caters for 1/10th electric touring car freaks since 2013 with many Japanese and oversea pro and amateur drivers attending this event which makes it one of top competition race series in Japan. This time, modified and stock touring class were run but also an oval class will be added if the race track layout allows. In qualifying for the modified class, Infinity driver Akio Sobue got the most points but young Xray racer Takuma Sasaki took fastest lap time during the ‘Super lap’ session, which was raced by top 5 qualifiers following the 3 rounds of qualifying, which meant Akio would start 2nd, ahead of Sota Goto in third.

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March 21, 2019

CTS4 Rd 3 – Report

Round 3 of CTS4 was held in the middle of nowhere at a secret hidden spot in Dale Texas called N-Control RC Raceway. The track has smooth asphalt that has held a ROAR Nationals, multiple ROAR Regional races, EOS champs and it’s first CTS event ever. Weather was a bit cooler than expected which made the tires for everyone exceptional but with proper tire warmer equipment, it didn’t stop the cars from performing well.

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