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September 4, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins Jakarta On-road regionals Rd3

The third round of the Jakarta 1/10 Electric On-road regional championship was held at East RC Speedway in East Jakarta. The race was held in very sunny weather with Touring 13.5 Boosted as the only class. It was Bowie Ginting who scored the overall TQ by securing the first two rounds of qualifying followed by Teddy Syach and Muhammad Izzah. Bowie then would able to converted his pole into a win in the main final followed by Izzah and Teddy who swapped their starting positions into 2nd and 3rd place finishes respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 4, 2017

David Ronnefalk sweeps 2017 EFRA 1/8th E-Buggy Euros

The 2017 EFRA 1/8th Electric Buggy European Championship was held this past weekend in Velika Gorcia, Croatia. Unseasonal heavy rain had put the final Open Championship of the EFRA season in considerable doubt, as Saturday’s running had seen just one round of qualification run before the heavens opened, dropping biblical amounts of rain onto an already drenched surface in Velika Gorica. Luckily the rain stopped during the night and after some intensive track prep and several bags of sawdust the event was ready to go with a packed program of two qualifiers and then 3-legged finals for all.

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September 4, 2017

Urban Touring Series Rd9 – Report

The penultimate round of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend at Singapore’s Urban Onroad Raceway. The event saw the return of Daryl Thong (Xray), a past TITC A-main podium finisher, who had been missing from racing action for some time due to his on-going National Service commitments. Daryl missed the early action and could only complete one of the four rounds of qualifying, meaning he would start last in the finals. Hasron Robana (Xray) topped the first three rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ honours for the day. 13-year old Sean Lee (Tamiya) gave everyone notice when he pushed Hasron hard in Q1 and Q2, and was in fact on pace for TQ in both rounds when he encountered unfortunate back-marker incidents. With Hasron sitting out Q4, Sean gained some comfort with a TQ run in the round to qualify overall 2nd. Qualifying 3rd was Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo).

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September 4, 2017

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship Rd7 – Report

Round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship headed south only a short distance from the channel tunnel crossing to France to the revitalised Brookland Circuit in Kent. The circuit having undergone upgrades to the surface and facilities with more changes planned for the future. The circuit being more ideal size for 1/8th cars and allowing them to be pushed to the max on the main sweeper and straight. The Nitro class was going to be another close encounter with a few big names away, Tim Wood took pole position narrowly from Neal King and David Spashett. Andy Mollett showed all his practice had paid off achieving 10th overall to qualify with his Mugen for his first A-final of the year. Chris Simons also made it in and Jack Garrett-Lines qualified an impressive 6th place.

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September 1, 2017

Wesley van Helmond takes Belgian 2WD title

Round 5 of the Belgium 1/10th electric off-road championship was held at the MAC Vlijmen track recently. Wesley van Helmond was on fire in the 2WD Buggy class, taking the overall TQ and also the day’s win from Brent Ausloos 2nd and Wouter Wynen 3rd. With the win Wesley wrapped up the 2WD title, something he will also try to accomplish in the 4WD class at the forthcoming final round of the championship in a few weeks time.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

September 1, 2017

Morganti & Apolaro win at Great Lakes Challenge

The Great Lakes Challenge was held recently with this year was the most competition for a few years, providing very tight racing in all classes. In the 1/8th class the fight for the TQ was very close. DJ Apolaro TQ’d three of the five rounds beating out Joaquin Desoto Jr by only 4 tenths. He also set the new track record with 18 laps in 5:05.561 and the top 5 after qualifying would be DJ Apolaro, Joaquin Desoto Jr., Paolo Morganti, Paul Lemieux and Ralph Burch.

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August 31, 2017

Joe Kerry sweeps British Open GP

The 2017 British Open GP took place at the Cotswolds track situated within Kemble airfield. The forecast for the whole weekend was looking very good with temperatures in excess of 23 degrees Celsius. As well as being the Open GP, the event would also double up and use its results as Rd6 of the national series. After four rounds of qualifying it was the Joe Kerry who took the TQ with 2014 World Champion Alexander Hagberg 2nd, and Alex Thurston 3rd. The final got under way with Joe pulling away very quickly at the front in the first few laps. Alex was fighting with Alexander for 2nd place which only helped Joe pull further away. When the first fuel stops had played out, Joe was able to start saving tyres whilst still increasing the gap. After 30 minutes of racing Joe Kerry (Capricorn) took the win two laps ahead of John Zottl (Serpent) who just came through to take 2nd with Alexander Hagberg (Xray) completing the podium in 3rd.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

August 31, 2017

Jamie Clancy wins at 2017 Herts GP

The annual Herts GP was held last weekend at the Herts Nitro Model Club. Jamie Clancy would sweep the Nitro Buggy qualifying and he also came out on top in the 45-minute A-main after some nice battles with Jonni Skidmore and Jack Embling. All three matched very closely in lap times but Jamie would have an advantage over the distance while Jonni and Jack battled for the overall runner-up spot. In the end one extra pit stop and some mistakes cost Jack a 2nd place finish and he eventually brought home a 3rd place.

Image: Jack Embling [facebook.com]