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December 3, 2018

Winyard & Williams win at RC Racing Europe GP

This past weekend the RC Racing Europe GP took place at the Sheffield RC Racing club in England. The event attracted a strong field of Touring and GT12 racers to the Yorkshire based track. The race featured a new larger track, control tyres and full scrutineering checks. The race format also included some seeding round to make sure everything was fair for all racers. After seeding it was Chris Lovely who was leading the way the Touring Blinky, closely followed by team mate Nathan Winyard and local racer Rickey Lee. GT12 also looked close between David Underwood, Chris Parrot and Gareth Williams. Underwood managed to take the seeding honours on the final round. The Tamiya support class was producing great entertainment from with the off with John Yarnall showing the fastest pace.

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December 3, 2018

Ryan Cavalieri sweeps Team Associated Top Gun Shootout

The 2018 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout was held at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California this past weekend, attracting many of the fast locals. The premier 2WD Open Buggy class saw Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri taking the win from Jake Mayo and Broc Champlin (both Team Associated) in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Over in the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was again Ryan Cavalieri with the win, steering what is understood to be a prototype of the forthcoming B64.1 buggy. Ron Devoll came in 2nd and Jake Mayo rounded out an all-AE top 3 podium.

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December 3, 2018

Gunnarson & Berg win at Winter Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish Winter Cup was held at the Klippan RC Club this past weekend. Jesper Rasmussen was the man to beat in the 2WD Modified Buggy qualifying as he made a clean sweep after the triple qualifiers, leaving behind Victor Gunnarsson in 2nd and Hampus Berg in 3rd. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was Hampus Berg with the TQ from David Hassel and Alexander Landen.

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December 3, 2018

Sobue & Rathiesky complete the double double

Akio Sobue put in a dominant performance in what was mostly a precessional race in the Sweep Modified class at TRC this afternoon. Never really challenged, the Japanese driver was able to pull clear of the chasing pack early on and build up a substantial lead by the end. Behind, Nicholas Lee had what can be described a lonely race in 2nd. While Jin Sawada and a very fast starting Jan Ratheisky, starting in 8th, had a good battle for 4th. That battle would become for 3rd as just ahead Andy Moore had a big moment coming onto the main straight and stuffed it into the wall on the main straight but somehow only lost 2 positions and was able to bring it home in 5th. Jin could stay in front of the German to take the final step on the podium with Jan finishing in 4th.

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December 3, 2018

Wynen & van Helmond successful at IIOC Rd2

The second round of the 2018/19 International Indoor Off-road Cup was held at Model Indoor Oss in the Netherlands this past weekend. The race was held in 2WD Modified Buggy and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was Thibault Jacqueloot (Team Associated) with the TQ after the qualifiers as Jens Becker (Xray) and Wesley van Helmond (Schumacher) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. After the triple A-mains however it was Wouter Wynen (Team Associated) who would hold the upper hand with 1-2-3 finishes as Jens Becker, scoring two 3rd place finished in A1 and A2 as well as the win in A3 had to settle for 2nd overall, tie on points with Wesley van Helmond.

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December 3, 2018

Kodera & Sugiura win 2018 JMRCA 1/10th Buggy titles

The JMRCA 1/10th Buggy National Championships were held at the iconic Yatabe Arena this past weekend. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Kaito Kodera with the overall TQ and he would also be on top after the A-mains to take the championship title. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was Yusuke Sugiura who took the TQ and win for another national championship title.

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December 3, 2018

Meen Vejrak TQs & wins at EastRC Invitational

The 2018 EastRC Invitational was held at the EastRC Speedway in Jakarta, Indonesia this past weekend. The race attracted regional racers as well as guests from Thailand, Singapore and any other cities of Indonesia. The 2-day race saw five qualifying rounds and triple finals and it was run in the four classes of Touring Car, Front Wheel Drive, M-Chassis and Dancing Rider and in the premier Touring class it was Meen Vejrak with the TQ and new track record after the five hard-fought qualifiers in which Charlee Phutiyotin, Dominic Quek and Bowie Ginting all scored round TQs. The opening A-main then was a really close and tight one as the top 4 went away from the field to fight for the lead. In the end Meen, Charlee and Bowie finished within less than a second of each other. A2 almost delivered the same story before Charlee and Dominic made contact, which let Meen and Bowie fight for the lead. Meen finally secured the overall win after winning A2, 0.4 seconds ahead of Bowie and five seconds clear of Surikarn who recovered from 7th. With Meen sitting out A3, it would be the decisive round for the remaining podium spots. Dominic passed Charlee to spread some gap while Izzah made a full use of his new tyres to pass Bowie for 2nd place.

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December 3, 2018

DiBrino wins at Rockstar Winter Off-Road Series Rd3

Round 3 of the Rockstar Winter Off-Road Series was held at PDX Underground in Portland, Oregon this past weekend. So far this year, round 3 was the biggest one yet with 79 entries and the track layout worked very well as the split lane option was a great feature. The 2WD Modified Buggy class was once again the premier class of the night with many of the Northwest heavy hitters in attendance. Andy DiBrino took the TQ an win with his Yokomo while Mikey Brown once again laid it down and showed great speed with his Schumacher to take 2nd. Yokomo’s Joe Pillars put in a solid drive during the A-Main to finish on the podium in 3rd.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]