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August 16, 2018

Coelho fastest after Day 1 in South Africa

Bruno Coelho is the fastest man in South Africa at the end of the opening day of the 10th running of the IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Championships. The Xray driver was fastest with his time from the penultimate round of the day’s eight rounds of free practice moving ahead of reigning champion Ronald Volker. Volker who was fastest for the first part of the day with his Round 4 time standing his best of the day would top the final practice but overall was 3/10ths off Coelho, a margin that is smaller that it sounds given the fastest 3-consecutive laps is 1:10.736. Christopher Krapp backed up Yokomo’s form at the Welkom RC Arena by posting the 3rd fastest time of the day posting his best laps in Round 7. While drivers reported the otherwise pretty consistent track to be slightly slower for the final practice, Freddy Sudhoff managed to improve on his time ending the day 4th ahead of Swedes Viktor Wilck and Alexander Hagberg.

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August 16, 2018

Volker sets early pace at World Championships

Ronald Volker is the early pace setter at the 1:10 Electric Touring Car World Championships in South Africa. With four of the opening day’s 8 scheduled free practice sessions complete, the reigning Champion’s Yokomo was fastest over 3-consecutive laps of the impressive Welkom RC Arena track from Bruno Coelho. The 10th running of the Touring Car World Championships, this will be the first title to be decided indoors since the inaugural Worlds back in 2000 but such is the size of the brand new facility the fastest laps seen so far are taking a rather lengthy 23-seconds. Behind Volker and Coelho it was Freddy Sudhoff who was third quickest ahead of Viktor Wilck who completed the Top 4 to represent the fourth of the manufacturers with factory team representation at the event. Behind Wilck, Christopher Krapp was 5th fastest ahead of new 1:12 World Champion Alexander Hagberg.

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August 16, 2018

Liptak & Havranek win at Czech IC Track Nats Rd3

The 3rd round of Czech Championship saw Tomas Liptak taking the pole position in the 1/8th Nitro class while Michal Abrahamek walked away with the pole in the 200mm Nitro Touring category. The race on Saturday would start a little bit later due the overnight rain but the remainder of the day would went smoothly. In the 30-minute long 1/8th class final things would start to become tense in the closing stages when Tomas Liptak was chased by Martin Zvara after Tomas had a crash with another car. In the end he would take the win only four seconds in front of Martin. Miroslav Jurenka would complete the top 3 podium result.

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August 15, 2018

Anders Mikkelsen takes Norwegian 1/10 IC title

The Norwegian National 1/10 IC Track Championship was held at the Valdres track last weekend. The track is known as one of the most beautiful and challenging tracks in Norway with its 4 meter elevation differences and tight turns. Anders Mikkelsen started from the 3rd position into the A-main and right after the start Mikkelsen got up to 2nd and chased down the leader for the next six minutes before he managed to get by to take over the lead. From that moment on, he kept the lead for the remainder of the race, taking the win with a comfortable margin in front of Christian Hovden and Petter Solvberg to become the 2018 Norwegian 1/10 IC Champion.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 15, 2018

Alexander Hagberg crowned 1/12th scale World Champion

The 2018 IFMAR Electric On-road World Championships are held in Welkom, South Africa this week, hosted by the amazing Welkom RC Arena. The facility was built especially for the event and it is a true world-class one. The event kicked off with the 1/12th scale classes with an open Modified and supporting Stock 13.5T class being run at the event. Unfortunately only 29 entries were received for both categories, giving the feeling of a club race event with international participation. Despite the very low turnout racing was tight, however in the Modified it was Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who stood out by making a clean sweep in qualifying to take an easy overall TQ from Morotech’s Hideo Kitazawa and Xray’s Florian Joos.

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August 14, 2018

Rinderknecht wins closest 3-way finish in VRC history

The recent round 2 of the VRC 2018 Season 2 Nitro Buggies Series, run at the at the 2012 Psycho Nitro Blast track, saw the closest 3-way finish ever recorded in VRC history. Tom Rinderknecht (USA) came out on top just 0.031 seconds ahead of Marshal Kirkholm (USA), and 0.071 seconds ahead of Robert Hillman from Sweden. Hillman led most of the race but was passed in the final stretch from the Works wall to the finish line. View all the action from this exciting final here.

Source: VRC [vrcworld.com]

August 14, 2018

Daniel Blake scores maiden BRCA IC track win

Round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit National Championship was held at the Cotswold track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro class and after qualifying on P6, Daniel Blake could finally bring home his first win at a 1/8 Circuit National race. Overtaking many of the top-class drivers during the rain affected final, Daniel took the win with a comfortable lead of three laps in front of teammate Tim Wood while Chris Snell completed the podium in 3rd place.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

August 14, 2018

Adam Drake trifecta at JBRL Nitro Series Rd5

Round 5 of the 2018 JBRL Nitro Series was held at Empire RC in Brentwood, California this past weekend. The event had a great turnout with 160 entries and Mugen’s Adam Drake was in control all day as he took the overall TQs in Nitro Buggy, Electric Buggy and Open Truggy. Drake then also went on to sweep the A-mains as in Expert Buggy Adam would take the win with a lap margin over Team Associated’s Kyle Layton in 2nd and Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo rounded out the top 3.

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