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June 8, 2018

Intense 1:10 battle expected at ENS Germany

After a successful opening round to the 2018 Infinity Euro Nitro Series in the Netherlands last month, Round 2 of the high profile Onroad Nitro Championship is back on familiar asphalt as the world’s best drivers descend on the Minidrom Ettlingen track in Germany this weekend (8-10 June). With the championship’s debut in Rucphen adding two new winner’s names to the ENS roll of honour, Jilles Groskamp taking 1:10 and Robin D’hondt winning 1:8, Ettlingen is a track which presents its own unique challenges. The fourth year of inclusion on the ENS calendar, the track has a traditional nitro layout but has one particularly distinct characteristic, a very fine asphalt from the 2014 resurfacing of the track. In terms of winners, in 1:10, the class proving ultra competitive given it is a World Championship year for touring cars, the track has produced a different winner each visit. In 1:8, Simon Kurzbuch has won on the previous two visits with Dario Balestri winning on the track’s first appearance on the ENS calendar in 2015, but with the championship’s 17th race attracting over 110 entries the battle for victory will be as intense as ever.

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June 8, 2018

BRCA 1/10th Off-Road National Series Rd3 – Report

The BRCA 1/10th Off-Road National Series made its way down south for round 3 last weekend, at the TORCH Model Car Club in Titchfield, near Southampton. As with the previous rounds, a full entry of 120 drivers was present over the two days of 2WD and 4WD competition, with blue skies and high temperatures setting the scene for some fast paced action on the astroturf track. On Saturday’s 2WD portion of the event and despite the warm weather, traction was in relatively short supply during practice as many drivers struggled to find consistency on the challenging layout. No such issues however for Yokomo’s Lee Martin. Always tough to beat at the TORCH facility, Martin would set the pace in all four qualifiers to claim the bonus TQ point early. Championship rival and defending National Champion Neil Cragg would put his Associated 2nd on the grid with Martin’s team mate Tom Cockerill rounding out the top 3, though Martin’s gap over the field looked ominous.

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June 8, 2018

International RC Car Championship 2018 – Report

The annual International RC Car Championship IRCC was held at the Centrai International Airport in the Japanese Aichi prefecture last weekend. This unique event is held at the airport’s event hall meaning oversea drivers can reach the track very easily with also the hotels, restaurants, shops etc. being within very short distance. The event was held in seven classes and as usual star MC, Scotty Ernst was there to announce the race and he even made his entry in the AOC FWD class, eventually finishing in 6th position. Full results of the event can be found here.

Source: IRCC [ircc.jp]

June 8, 2018

Speed King Tour Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the RC Stadium Sodegaura outdoor tarmac track in the Chiba prefecture last weekend in Touring Modified and Stock classes as well as the popular Oval category. In the Modified class’ Super Pole session, Infinity driver Akio Sobue took the TQ and pole position for the A-main final after being already fastest after the regular qualifiers. Rush driver Hayato Ishioka came in 2nd to round out the front row of the grid. In the 5-minutes Modified A-main final, Akio laid down a perfect race, bringing home the win from tone to tone. Hayato finished 2nd with his Kyosho and privateer Naoki Akiyama obtained the final spot on the podium.

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June 7, 2018

Green & Nutting win at British Open

Round four of the BRCA 1/8 Circuit Nationals took place down in Kent at the Brookland circuit in a joint meeting with the 1/10 section, around 80 drivers were competing which made for a good atmosphere. The Brookland circuit layout is made up of big straights and hairpins with a chicane in the middle meaning horsepower and good fuel consumption is very important. For this year the circuit was partly resurfaced and much better than the previous years although still quite unforgiving if you touched the high kerbs. Temperatures were high with sunshine throughout the weekend, qualifying used the round by round system for this event with Mark Green (Serpent) taking pole position having found an engine to do five minutes without a fuel stop, ahead of Alex Thurston (Serpent), Tim Wood (Shepherd), Andy Hastings (Shepherd) and John Carr (Shepherd). For the 30-minute final many of the key front runners had technical issues allowing Mark to win by three laps from John Carr and Neal King (Capricorn).

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June 7, 2018

XRS South-East Asia Philippines – Report

The Philippines-based Bacolod Ceres Speedway recently played host to round one of the Xray Racing Series South East Asia. Racers from all over the country attended the race that was held in 13.5T and 17.5T Touring classes. Rain delayed the start, however that also meant racers would avoid the hot asphalt conditions, equalling faster lap times and even closer qualifiers. In the 13.5 class, Taka Yuichiro would take commanding 1st place finishes while Paolo Rojas would take 2nd and Gabby Vargas would take 3rd. In the 3rd round, Paolo Rojas would lead the qualifier over Taka but a small error would eventually cost him the position and awarded the overall TQ to Taka, after having taking 1st in three of the four qualifiers. In the last qualifying heat, Gabby Vargas would make a few set up changes to edge out Paolo Rojas which would prove sufficient to place him in 2nd on the grid over Paolo who finished 2nd in each heat.

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June 6, 2018

2018/19 Xray Racing Series UK – Announcement

For the 2018/19 season of the XRS UK the popular series is going to have some improvements including a change of a venue. The races will be held on a large 30x16m indoor ETS carpet track with a large pitting area and in a heated, centrally located location. Saturday is race day and the series kicks off on the 13th of October at the Newbury RCC in Newbury, UK. More information can be found here.

June 6, 2018

Cutini doubles at South American Off-road Champs

The South American Off-road Championship was held in San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay last weekend. The weekend started off wet but the organisers made their best efforts to ensure good track conditions. Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi) would double TQ the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes and he also came out on top after the A-main, leaving behind Nicolas Bregante (Xray/Novarossi) and Lucas Pons (Mugen/Ninja) in Buggy while the Truggy podium was completed by Federico Davico (HB Racing/Reds Racing) and Nicolas Bregante (Xray/Novarossi).

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