The 5th round of the 2018 APPA Championship was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil last weekend, attracting both nitro and electric drivers to compete in several classes. In 1/8th Nitro On-road it was Felix Floriano (Mugen/Gimar) with the win from Kazuo Ohara (Kyosho/O.S. Engines) and Roberto Nunes (Mugen/Novarossi).
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The opening round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin last weekend. The event was held in several electric off-road and on-road classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was a pretty close affair between Martin Bayer and Kaja Novotny and eventually the overall TQ went to Martin. Kaja was starting from the 2 spot with Max Gotzl on the 3 spot on the grid. In the A-mains it was smooth sailing for Martin who brought home the win from Kaja 2nd – the latter having the pace for more but mishaps did prevent him from challenging Martin. Max Gotzl completed the podium in 3rd for an all-Xray 1-2-3 after some close fights with Matus Benetin and Bartek Kramza.
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Last weekend saw the running of the opening round of the Swedish Winter Indoor RB series held in Eskilstuna. The fairly small track was laid out with some old school on-road carpet, making for lower-than-normal traction levels as they are experienced on EOS-style carpet. In the 4WD Buggy class it was Xray’s Alexander Landen with the overall TQ after winning the opening two rounds. As overtaking on the small track was very difficult the pole position would proof to be a real advantage and Alexander was able to bring home the win in A1 with a tone-to-tone win.
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Last weekend was the first round of the very popular Worksop Series, with a huge entry of 167 drivers across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and vintage buggy. The race was held using the new Schumacher Honeycomb control tyre and all competitors in both 2WD and 4WD buggy must now use a brand new pair of marked rear tyres at each event. Entered for this event were some World class drivers, Michal Orlowski, Neil Cragg and Lee Martin, so the racing was going to be brilliant to see. As always it was round by round qualifying as the racing format, with the best two results from four rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. Qualifying in 2WD saw Neil Cragg take pole position from Michal Orlowski and Lee Martin.
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The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 1 arrived at the capital city of Edmonton, Alberta to kick off the new season. NASCAR hosted a great race, with a team of volunteers, in a new venue which had a perfectly flat surface over a plastic subfloor that provided incredibly consistent grip and a flowing layout that put the focus on the racing. WCICS continued with the Sweep QTS-32 BK Black Carpet edition as the spec touring tire, which worked so well out of the box that some of the podium finishers in Touring Modified didn’t glue the sidewalls at all. In Touring Mod the TQ was traded back and forth between Dennis Beck and his VBC and Josh Carter and his Xray, with Dennis taking TQ on the last lap of Q3. Then they went on to finish 1-2 for the first two A-mains, with Dennis taking the overall win, and Josh taking the win in A3, taking 2nd overall. Chris Jackman drove his Team Associated to a solid 3rd overall.
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The 3rd Annual Northeast World GT-R Championships were held at CRC Raceway in Rome, New York last weekend. With over 30 entries in World GT-R only, the race was well attended with drivers from Ohio, Canada, Western New York as well as a great group from central NY in attendance. In addition to World GT-R, drivers would do battle in 1/12th scale, Legends and Euro Trucks. The race featured CRC’s race point format that allows any racer to be on top by winning their heat with drivers of near equal ability. Race control re-sort every round by the fastest three consecutive laps so that every heat is stacked with drivers of near equal ability. To win the event overall, the drivers in their respective heat have to be beaten. The scoring system rewards consistency and “driving to your ability”. Going into the final round, the format produced a number of racers that could win the overall. In the end it was Tom Firsching (CRC) with the overall victory from Julianna Roman (CRC) and Kevin Large (Speedmerchant). Dan Holcomb (CRC) and Christopher Howard (CRC) would round out the top 5.
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The opening round of the 6-race MRCP Arena Winter Championship was held at the newly designed MRCP Arena indoor race track in Dagmersellen, Switzerland. The event was held in the three categories of Touring ProStock, Formula and Race Truck and in ProStock it was Norwegian driver Andreas Daving taking the win in front of Nuno Huber and Boris Siladi. It was a very strong and clear win for Andreas but behind there was nothing decided until final A-main.
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The fourth round of the Andalusian Championships was hosted by the San Jose de la Rinconda club and held at the Fernando Robles track last weekend. Mugen’s Juan Carlos Canas was on a high all weekend long, taking the overall TQ and win in the 45-minute A-main event. Francisco Hidalgo came in 2nd from Zacarias Villalba, who had a troubled A-main, starting from the 2 spot on the grid, but rewarded himself with the final podium spot.
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