The Cork Radio Control Car Club will play host to the Southern Dirt Challenge on the weekend of the 24th of June in Ballinhassig, Cork. Classes run are 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy with the event kicking off on Saturday with practice from 12pm to 5pm followed by heats and finals on Sunday. More information can be found on the club’s website here, on social media here or by emailing the club at crccc@eircom.net.
Thunder Alley Raceway of Wilson, North Carolina held their season opening race recently and in Nitro Buggy it was Brennan Schimmel with the overall TQ. At the start of the main final Austin Woodyard and Brennan Schimmel moved away from the pack and Brennan made a small bobble and Austin took the corner. Schimmel kept in touch for part of the race but had to do a extra pit and some trouble with lap traffic, meaning Austin would take the win from Brennan 2nd and Ken Rand 3rd. In Nitro Truggy it was again Brennan Schimmel with the TQ and at the start of the race he clipped a pipe and dropped to about 5th but he worked his way back up and battled with Michael Kramer for a few minutes and started to check out and go on the lap the field to take the overall win. from Michael Kraemer in 2nd and Leornard Murray in 3rd.
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Controlled Practice is in full swing here in Xiamen, China and it is Japanese Kyosho driver Yusuke Sugiura who heads the Nitro times with an impressive 2nd round run that saw him move to the top of the times, leapfrogging Ryan Lutz, the American failing to improve after trying a complete setup change. Chinese National Champion Hu Weiping would remain in 3rd, who along with young Hong Kong driver Jonathan Yeung, failed to improve in the 2nd round as track conditions changed and the surface got more dusty.
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The final round of the INES points series was hosted by 46RC recently. With watering mid-round the grip was more consistent but the tight, red clay track required running extra soft slicks with aggressive tyre sauce. In the 2WD and 4WD classes Jared Phair finished 2nd to take the overall titles from Stephen Maizer (PR Racing) 2nd and Bryan Kata (Team Associated) on the 3 spot with the two also rounding out the championship top 3 results.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Czech National Electric Off-road Championship was held in Hrotovice at the same venue as the popular Mibosport Cup. The organisers used the same track layout as during the Mibosport Cup final, meaning things would be pretty close up front. Already in practice Xray’s Kaja Novotny showed a pretty amazing performance in 2WD and Truck, however he struggled a bit in 4WD. The 2WD class then saw Kaja taking the overall TQ from Max Götzl and Ales Bidovsky in 2nd and 3rd.
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The 2018 ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals were held at Apex RC and Hobbies in Murfreesboro, Tennessee last weekend. In the Modified Sedan class, Sam Isaacs and Mike Gee were battling the entire weekend for the top spot and after four rounds of qualifying Sam Isaacs would retain the TQ with Mike Gee in 2nd. Sam then was able to put down two dominating runs in the first two mains to secure the overall title with Mike Gee finishing 2nd overall from Keven Hebert 3rd.
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The sixth season of the Japanese Speed King Tour kicked off at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track in the Aichi prefecture last weekend. The event offered Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Oval class racing and saw the Super Pole format being used for the Mod class, a special 1-lap race that sees the top 5 after the third qualifying round battle it out for the overall TQ spot. The 1-lap time attack race was won by ARC driver Yusuke Goto while the TQ after Q3, Infinity’s Akio Sobue, had to settle for a lower starting position.
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Last week saw the FEMCA Asia On-road Championship taking place at Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong. The race was saw an exciting qualification in which two rounds had been won by Germany’s Thilo Tödtmann with Meen Meen taking the final three. After the qualification the super-pole took place and Thilo was able to lay down the fastest lap taking the second direct place in the main final. For the grand final Thilo opted not to change tyres while Meen started on small tyres planning to do a tyre change. At the beginning of the race Meen slowly pulled away from Thilo while Chau Man Chan blocked his position against Nicholas Lee and Felix Law further down the order. When his car’s tyres finally came in, Thilo was able to set the fastest lap of the race and the gap to Meen didn’t increase anymore, staying at about eight to ten seconds. Everybody was waiting for the showdown of Meen and Thilo battling it out in the second part of the race. Unfortunately a collision with a mechanic on the track ended Meen’s chances. With his main competitor having had to retire Thilo switched to cruise mode for the remaining 25 minutes and took the 2018 International FEMCA titel in front of Felix Law and Chau Man Chan.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
