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February 15, 2018

Nico Schmid wins at Swiss EP Off-road Nationals Rd1

Round 1 of the Swiss Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the Poly-Fix Arena in Freienbach last weekend. The smooth and technical track was a real challenge for the drivers and while Patrick Hofer brought home the win in the 2WD Buggy class it was Nico Schmid who was the man to beat in 4WD. After sweeping the qualifiers Nico would also excel in the A-mains, taking the day’s win from his brother Florian as Fabian Luca Widmer snatched the final podium spot.

View the final results here

February 14, 2018

Maxim Laverychev takes Russian Touring Car title

The Russian Electric On-road Nationals were held in the city of Vladimir recently and it was Maxim Laverychev who took the title in the premier Touring Modified class. Denis Zuykov came in 2nd while Nikita Ignatiev completed the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

February 14, 2018

Johnny Carey TQs & wins at Snowbird Nationals

The recent 2018 Snowbird Nationals, held in Kissimmee, Florida, was as usual run in a multitude of classes. In the 17.5T Pro10 category it was SpeedMerchant’s Johnny Carey with the TQ and win using a SMC and Team Scream powered car. Arnaud Lemperiere (SpeedMerchant/Team Scream/SMC) would snatch the runner-up spot in the single A-main from Ray Darroch (SpeedMerchant/Team Scream/Fantom) in 3rd.

Source: SpeedMerchant [teamspeedmerchant.com]

February 14, 2018

JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals – Report

The annual JConcepts Winter Indoor Nationals was hosted by SmacTrac in St. Louis, Missouri last weekend. The anticipation flies high for one of the best races of the year and for 2018, there was massive improvements to the clay surface that was welcomed by all. With the four extra, tandem dump truck loads of clay mixed in, the crew at SmacTrac was able to add more elevation to the layout making it, even more, three dimensional along with upping the grip by a lot. Friday practice was a lot easier to manage with the cars having extra grip and by Sunday, the track came around nicely with more than adequate amounts of traction that made for high-speed, close racing all weekend.

Continue reading the report here

February 13, 2018

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd5 – Report

The Arena33 in Andernach played host to the fifth and penultimate round of the Xray Racing Series Germany. A good amount of drivers made their entry for the second appearance of the XRS at the already famous indoor track and following an intensive days of practice, 51 drivers joined the competition. In the Touring Modified class it was Awesomatix’s Max Maechler with the overall win as the battle for the runner-up spot was on between Xray racer Patrick Mueller and Mugen racer Oliver Kaufmann. With lap times nearly identical, it was Mueller who ultimately earned the 2nd spot ahead of Kaufmann.

Continue reading the report here

February 13, 2018

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd6 – Report

This past weekend was the sixth round of the Worksop Series, there was once again a great entry of 14 heats of drivers, this was across the three classes of 2WD, 4WD and a vintage buggy class. 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 was dominated by Craig Collinson who took TQ in three out of four rounds, so therefore he would line up on pole.

Continue reading the report here

February 13, 2018

2017/18 WBC Series Rd3 – Report

The third round of the 2017/18 WBC Series was hosted by the Boras Miniracing Klubb and held in Viskafors, Sweden on a mixed track that offered both tight and technical sections as well as high speed sweepers. Saturday was 2WD day and in the mains it was Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen who had found a good pace and brought home wins in the opening two A-mains to snatch the overall victory early. Wilhelm Skjöldebrand (Team Associated) came in 2nd from Niclas Mansson, who grabbed the final podium spot from Alexander Landen (Xray) on the 4th spot.

Continue reading the report here

February 13, 2018

Ethan Lefebvre wins at Thornhill Spring Series Rd1

The opening round of the Thornhill Spring Series was held recently at the facility’s Jr. carpet track and in the 4WD Buggy class it was Xray’s Ethan Lefebvre with the win despite track building duties on Thornhill’s big track that weekend. Lance Myhre (Xray) would come in 2nd from 3rd placed Jason Christie who rounded out an all-Xray podium.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]