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July 24, 2017

Akio Sobue takes JMRCA Super Expert Touring title

This past weekend the Japanese JMRCA All Japan Touring Outdoor Championship was held at Keitune Racing Speedway. In the Super Expert class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ from Infinity teammate Akio Sobue in 2nd. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker, who made an appearance at the race as did fellow Yokomo driver and countryman, Christopher Krapp, came in 3rd after the qualifiers. After the exciting triple A-mains, that saw Naoto taking the win in A1 and Akio coming out fastest in A2, it was Akio with the championship title from Naoto 2nd and Ronald 3rd.

Image: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

July 24, 2017

ROAR 1/8th Electric & 4WD SCT Nationals – Report

The 2017 ROAR 1/8th Off-road and 4WD SCT Nationals were held at Silver Dollar RC Raceway this past weekend. The event drew near 110 entries for the 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD SCT classes and in E-Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield who swept the event by TQing all four rounds of qualifying and bringing home the wins in the opening two A-mains to wrap up his third consecutive ROAR 1/8th Electric Buggy National Championship. Xray’s Ty Tessmann would come 2nd place from Team Associated’s Dreighton Stoub in 3rd.

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July 24, 2017

Xray Racing Series Austria – Report

The MRC Wr. Neustadt club played host to the Xray Racing Series Austria this past weekend. The event started off windy and in changing weather conditions on Saturday but this did not keep the 30 drivers from enjoying a full day of practice that was highlighted by racing under floodlights on Saturday evening. Sunday started off wet but after prepping the track everyone was good to go for the first round of qualifiers and in the Touring Modified class it was Patrick Gollner who swept the qualifiers with three round TQs. In the A-main it was Dominik Vogl who held the upper hand on newer tyres with Patrick Gollner coming in 2nd and Sascha Klug rounding out the podium result in 3rd.

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July 24, 2017

Zhang Wai Hong takes Formula class win at MTS Rd2

The second round of the Muchmore Touring Series MTS was recently held in Shanghai and it was Xray driver Zhang Wai Hong with the win in the hotly contested Formula class. Luk Yi Heng (Yokomo) would end the day on the runner-up spot from fellow Yokomo driver Cheng Feng Chau in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 24, 2017

Rick Hohwart wins Mod Touring class at CTS2 Rd5

Round 5 of the CTS2 was held in Ripon, California this past weekend. As the season is getting closer to the final round, this weekend’s TQ and winner for Modified Touring is Team Associated veteran driver Rick Hohwart as he secures top honors followed by Awesomatix’ latest addition to the team, Brandon Clements and David Jun (Team Associated), a blast from the past, in 3rd. Since coming back to the sport, David Jun qualified mid pack and shows his classic pro driving skills working his way through the competition to podium. This round looks promising for the points chase Hohwart has locked up. The finals will be held August 12th to 13th at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California.

Source: CTS [facebook.com]

July 24, 2017

Jokerteam GT12 Championship Rd6 – Report

With round 5 of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship, initially scheduled for July 2nd, postponed to September 24th, round 6 kicked off regularly in sunny and hot conditions. As the qualification rounds got under way, it was a very close race between the top 2 across qualifying with both Mattia Dall’Oca and Ivan Milesi being the only drivers to score 27 lap runs. With the track conditions getting hotter, drivers found it hard to find the best set-up as well as tyre compound. Dall’Oca continued his good form from previous rounds of the Championship, taking pole position from Ivan Milesi and Alessandro Rampini. It was then a fierce battle among the top three qualifiers in the A-mains. In A1 Mattia Dall’Oca hit troubles allowing both Ivan Milesi and Alessandro Rampini to take 1st and 2nd with solid runs. In A2 Mattia delivered a faultless drive closely followed by Ivan and Alessandro Rampini. Finally, in the deciding A3, it was Ivan Milesi who held it down and took the win using his experience and talent. Ivan would capitalise on Mattia’s early mistake and never looked back, while Alessandro Rampini finished strong and wrapped up 3rd. A change in the Championship’s calendar will now see round 7 (initially scheduled for August 27th) postponed to October 8th in order to avoid conflict with the recently announced 2017 Italian UISP Championship which, for the first time in Italy, will include the GT12 class.

Source: Jokerteam [jokerteam.it]

July 23, 2017

Eventful A1 allows Wang to take easy win

Following the final two qualifiers in the morning, the finals at RCI V2 in Shanghai finally got underway. In the opening modified class A-main TQ driver JJ Wang pulled away right from the start and was able to quickly build up a large lead while the rest of the field had a rough start following an early coming together. In the end the Xray factory driver cruised to the win ahead of Serpent team driver Felix Law, who following a tough battle emerged in 2nd place while under huge pressure from Nicholas Lee, managing to hold off the Singaporean driver by 0.5 seconds at the end. Just behind the ‘unlucky’ Yokomo driver, Rocket Zhang finished the final just 0.38 seconds back and took 4th position, the gap from 2nd to 4th being covered by less than a second at the end of the 5 minute run. Young Xray driver Lao Min Hao held 2nd position early in the race but fell back to end the race behind Motor King in 6th.

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July 23, 2017

JJ Wang secures CETC pole position in Q3

Xray continued to dominate qualifying in the Modified class as JJ Wang secured the overall TQ, taking the 3rd round this morning at RCI V2 in Shanghai at Rd3 of the CETC presented by Infinity. The factory Xray driver quickly built up a lead from the start and ended the race 2.5 seconds up on Yokomo team driver Nicholas Lee to claim pole position for this afternoon’s triple A-mains. Awesomatix driver Rocket Zhang was in 2nd position at the halfway point in the run but he was overtaken by Lee and Lao Min Hao, but in the final minute the local Shanghai driver found pace to get back passed Hao and take 3rd at the end. After 3 rounds Rocket is sitting in fourth behind Lao Min Hao in the overall classification, while Serpent driver Felix Law had a repeat of his performance in Q1, taking 5th position.

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