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February 15, 2017

FinTrack Tour Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Finnish Touring Car Nationals took place just outside of the southwestern city of Kouvola. Nearly 100 entries were on hand for the two-day event that featured Touring Car and Formula classes. In the Pro Stock 13.5 class Kalle Lehto, Kim Elfstrom and Vesa Yli were battling closely for the top spots. Previous round winner Kalle Lehto eventually earned the TQ position, followed closely by Kim in second with Vesa earning a second-row start in fourth. In the finals, Kalle took advantage of his pole position start to win in all three legs. Kim finished a close second with Vesa moving up a spot to finish third. With three rounds completed and one remaining, the 2017 Pro Stock championship comes down to a showdown between Kalle and Vesa – the dominant drivers in the class over the last two years.

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February 15, 2017

2017 Winter Indoor National Series – Report

This past weekend kicked off the first race of the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National Series at SmacTrac. Now in it’s 7th year, tweaks were made to add more top drivers, more support, and the results were already felt at the Winter INS with over 300 entries of the region’s best drivers along with top world talent as well. Smac Trac is no stranger to hosting the Winter INS and this year’s layout was extremely challenging, technical, and a whole lot of fun. The design consisted of a full-length straightaway paired with a classic sweeper that increased in radius which all flowed very well. Next, racers had to navigate a cut back step-on, step-off pie turn that required trigger mastery and timing genius. Perhaps the most difficult section on the track was the 90-degree hill turn that flowed into a double which landed into a left turn. Many cars were crashing or losing time here, but the ones that could execute it perfectly would gain a huge advantage. The risk was entirely up to the drivers as this section clearly marked the separation of driver skill level.

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February 15, 2017

Ethan Lefebvre triples at Thornhill Jr. club race

The recent Thornhill Jr. club race in Hutto, Texas saw Xray driver Ethan Lefebvre taking the TQ in the 2WD Buggy and Mod Truck classes. Ethan would then also take wins in both classes thanks to decent runs in the A-mains. Tyler Hooks (TLR) and Alex Vaughan (Xray) would round out the 2WD Buggy podium while Alex Vaughan (Xray) and Bill Delong (TLR) completed the Mod Truck top 3. Elsewhere in the 4WD Buggy class it was again Ethan Lefebvre (Xray) who came out on top of things after the A-main. Starting from the 2 spot on the grid after some troubled qualifiers, he was following the leader for about six minutes and with about one minute to go he was able to capitalise from lap traffic to take his third win of the weekend. The TLR duo of Tyler Hooks and Chris Allison would complete the top 3.

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February 14, 2017

Yardy & Crompton score at Silverstone Winter Series Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Silverstone Winter Series saw Tom Yardy walking away with the TQ and win in the hotly contested 2WD class. In the final he was pushed hard by Charlie Ware. The two collided halfway through and Charlie showed great sportsmanship by giving the lead back to Tom who then held on to win by a tenth of a second, with Dave Poulter in 3rd.

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February 14, 2017

Adrian Wicaksono wins HTS Grand Opening race

Hobby Track Sukoharjo, in Solo, Central Java held their grand opening race this past weekend. The first permanent indoor track in Indonesia measures 70x40m and the event attracted over 50 drivers from Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Jogjakarta, Medan, Kupang, Bali as well as many local drivers. The race format would be six rounds of 10 minute qualifying with the four best rounds to count followed by bump-up finals. Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) would take the TQ honours, but in the 60-minute final it was HB Racing/Reds Racing’s Adrian Wicaksono who came out on top from Jason with Kyosho/O.S. pilot, Hariadi Lie in third.

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February 14, 2017

Pijpers & van Katwijk win at MIO Race Rd4

Round four of the Model Indoor Oss race series was recently held and it saw Jarno Pijpers taking the TQ in the 2WD Buggy class. Jarno then also took the win in the opening final but mistakes in A2 promoted Wouter Wijnen into the lead that he could hold onto until the checkered flag. The third and final main would then decide for the day’s win and holding his nerves together allowed Jarno to come out on top and to take overall victory from Wouter Wijnen in second and Steve Lamberts in third.

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February 14, 2017

Austrian Indoor Nationals – Report

The Austrian town of Mistelbach near Vienna played host to the Austrian Indoor Nationals. The event was held in a total of five electric on-road classes and it attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers. In the premier class of Touring Modified Patrick Gollner would take a dominant overall TQ after coming out fastest in four of the five qualifiers and he would also sweep the A-mains by winning all three legs. Sascha Klug would take the runner-up spot after some nice racing with Patrick while Christian Fraunschuh completed the top 3 result.

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February 14, 2017

Adam Drake sweeps Top Notch Tour

Dialed In Raceway played host to the final round of the Top Notch Tour this past weekend. The event had 100 entries and Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck. Unfortunately the main events got rained out and the finishing order was awarded based on qualifying. With the result Drake also got overall champion in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck.

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