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September 6, 2018

Kyle McBride wins 2018 Indonesian Challenge

The Indonesia R/C Car Community (IRCC) together with Infinity hosted the recent 2018 Indonesian Challenge at Hobby Track Sukoharjo, an indoor track located in central Java, Solo. The event was attended by Racers from several countries, including, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and also from various provinces across Indonesia, the most notable overseas drivers were Naoto Matsukura and Kyle McBride. The format of the race is run with 4 Qualifying Rounds and Bump up Finals. Kyle McBride took the opening round TQ, followed by Matsukura in the second round. While Matsukura was not able to run the 3rd round, McBride easily took his second TQ, but Matsukura bounced back and got the TQ for the last round and with a faster time took the overall TQ.

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September 5, 2018

Hupo Honigl wraps up 2018 Austrian EP titles

The 4th and penultimate round of the Austrian Nationals was held on the beautiful, high speed,and high traction astro turf track of the ERT Steyregg near Linz. Xray team driver Hupo Honigl managed to TQ and win both classes and with it wrapped up both National Titles with one round still to run. In 4wd it was a very close battle for the remaining podium spots and it came down to the very last corner of A3 where Martin Kreil made a mistake and Lucas Grainer could finish 2nd while Martin had to settle for 3rd.

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September 4, 2018

2018 Protoform Cup – Report

The 2nd annual Protoform Cup ran this weekend at beautiful Steel City R/C Speedway in Fontana, California. A great field of drivers from Southern and Northern California, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada tackled a special layout designed specifically for electric cars across 6 classes: Mod & Stock Touring, USGT, F1, PRO-10 and a new addition to the American on-road scene, 1:8 Electric. Practice Friday was followed by 3 rounds of qual points Saturday and Triple Finals for all racers on Sunday. A couple unique aspects of this race were handout fixed-timing motors for the three spec classes, provided by Reedy, and a strict limit on how the Solaris spec tires were used, to eliminate all “tire games” and force all drivers to drive hard every round on the track. The weather was unseasonably cool with high’s in the low-mid 80s F (27 C) for the event, which was definitely welcomed by racers.

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September 4, 2018

Bayer & Bidovsky take Rd4 in the Czech Republic

The 4th round of 1/8 Czech Nationals took place last weekend in Skripov. The track is known for its bumpy, technical layout with some unique features (and it always rains there). This year Nationals weren’t any exception and Friday open practice was very soon cut short because of rain. On Saturday morning racers arrived to a flooded track and everybody thought the race was done, but the organisers decided we shall carry on.

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September 4, 2018

BRCA Clubman’s Championship Rd6 – Report

Last weekend saw the BRCA Clubman’s Championship headed to the Midlands for Round 6 at Stafford RCMCC. Not the biggest of tracks on the Racing calendar but a real favourite of the Clubman’s racers as it’s quite challenging and when you get it right you are greatly rewarded. There was a near full entry for race day and there were also 60 plus drivers practicing on Saturday, this shows that this series is so popular as we only had two rounds of the championship remaining. For practice day we had seven timed runs for all classes in heat order, so plenty of opportunity to adjust to track conditions. The usual three classes were running, 17.5 Blinky, 13.5 Open and Formula One.

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September 3, 2018

Daniel Kobbevik wraps up Norwegian National titles

The final race of the Norwegian EP Buggy nationals was held at Hverven Raceway in Oslo on astro turf. The track was rebuilt for this race, so everybody came to a new track and so nobody had home track advantage. This part of the year is naturally slippery in the morning with more grip during the day, and a little less grip in afternoon. There was only a little free practice in morning, and then right into reseeding, to get it as fair as it could be for this championship. Daniel Kobbevik was much faster than the competition with his Xray XB2. This weekend it was especially one driver that stood out from the rest and it was Yokomo driver Eirik Andreassen. He had really good pace and was second fastest on lap times, so it was more about who was going to start from third to 10 in A-main. After reseeding it was Daniel that topped all those rounds, and it looked the same after quails was done. 4 rounds with TQ.

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September 3, 2018

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The 5th of the 7 rounds of the Belgian FBA nationals for 1/10 electric cars was held over the weekend of September 1st at the MRCZ track in Zwevegem. This temporary and technical track is laid out on an very smooth asphalt track. The club did their upmost to get the grip levels up from Saturday onwards. Their efforts provided sufficient grip for the races, which were held on Sunday. As always, the racers could choose from 4 different classes, Touring modified, touring stock (the biggest class), touring rookie and F1. F1 has currently a dip in popularity and only 3 racers attended the race in this class.

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August 29, 2018

Ty Tessmann sweeps 2018 Quebec Classic

The 2018 Quebec Classic was held in Napierville, Quebec and hosted by the BegoRC Raceway. The track was a lot of fun with just enough challenge to keep everyone on their toes. The track surface was very unique but also very consistent throughout the day and held up very well. The cars came off clean after a run and there was virtually no tire wear which made for a really good racing surface from a club level all the way up to a high profile international race level. Thursday was open practice and we decided to do a clinic in the morning for any of the drivers that wanted to attend to ask questions or get help with setup. Once the clinic was over we got on the track for some practice, we worked on the setup and got the cars feeling really good. Friday kicked off with controlled practice and one qualifier later in the afternoon. Saturday had two more rounds of qualifying and a 10-minute super pole race to determine starting positions on the grid for Nitro Buggy. Ty Tessmann was able to TQ both rounds of E-Buggy and Nitro Buggy on Saturday to take the overall TQ with David Ronnefalk qualifying 2nd overall in both classes. Ty was also able to win the super pole race and started 1st on the grid for the main on Sunday with David lining up in the 2nd spot.

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