Xray have announced the XRS UK Off-road series for the coming Fall and Winter season. Held at Midlands Raceway the series will kick off on October 1st with the finale being held on March 4th. The series will be held in 2WD Open, 2WD 13.5T Stock, 4WD Open and Truck Open classes and full event information and sign-up is available here.
The final round of the Norwegian 1/8th Nitro Off-road Nationals was hosted by the KMBK Raceway in Kristiansand in nice weather conditions. The challenging astro turf track made for some close racing and the race for the championship was on between Bjorn Ivar Haug and Daniel Kobbevik – the latter only attended at two races but he won both of them so he was in a good position for the overall championship as Bjorn needed a win and Daniel a 2nd place to secure the championship. Bjorn Ivar opened the qualifiers with a TQ in round one while Daniel had to work his way through the field as there is no reseeding in the championship. He fought back in Q2 and Q3 though only to suffer from traffic in the final two qualifiers and so Bjorn Ivar took the TQ from Daniel in 2nd and Gisle Brovig 3rd.
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The Serpent Cup Japan will be held at the Yatabe Arena on the 1st of October. The event will see the running of the 17.5T Touring Serpent Cup class, 13.5T and Modified Touring racing as well as a range of 1/12th scale Stock and Modified classes and also a 30.5T Formula category. Serpent designer and ETS Formula champion David Ehrbar will be resent at the event and more information will be available on the official Yataba Arena website here or by mailing Japanese Serpent distributors Asuka Create at info@asukacreate.com.
The Tamiya Inf1nity PRCA Singapore Championship will be held on the 21st and 22nd of October at the Marine Parade Radio Modellers Track in Singapore. The race is run in Touring Modified and Open Brushless as well as Tamiya M-Chassis and Racing Truck classes and it will see the attendance of both local driver and guests from abroad with Serpent’s Viktor Wilck, Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee and several Infinity team drivers having already signed in. More information can be found on social media here.
The ADAC RC Touring-Cup was held at the world-famous Nürburgring last weekend. Run in several electric on-road classes it was Ronald Völker with the TQ in the Touring Modified category from Thimo Weissbauer and Marco Kaufmann. In the Touring Stock class Max Mächler and Alex Kunkler battled for the overall TQ and in the end it was Max who held the upper hand to take the pole position for the finals.
The 2017 Korean 1/8th Gas Off-road National was held at Banwol Raceway in Ansan, South Korea this past weekend. Dani Choi was the man to beat in the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes as he not only took the TQ position in both categories but also walked away with the overall win in both Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck.
The ROAR Invitational race was held with about 70 entries at the G’s RC Raceway in Pennsylvania recently. In the 4WD Modified Buggy and Modified Stadium Truck class it was Jorge Flores with the TQs and wins. Howard Anderson and Rob Regl would come in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Buggy class while Rob Regl and Brandon Stevenson rounded out the Truck podium.
View the Mod Truck podium here
The final round of the DTR Series was held at Revelation Raceway this past weekend. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in the Nitro Buggy class and went on to win the 30-minute main final. With the victory Drake also sealed the overall title in the Nitro Buggy class.
View the overall top 3 podium here
