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February 2, 2017

Xray Racing Series Slovakia Rd3 – Report

Round three of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena and with over 100 entries for a total of nine classes. The premier class of Touring Car Modified was dominated by Martin Hudy who took the TQ and overall win. Behind him, the race was on for the remaining podium spots and it would be Oliver Havranek, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, and Arkadiusz Smyk from P6 who grabbed the final podium spots.

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February 2, 2017

2017 JConcepts Indoor Off-Road Championship – Report

The 2017 JConcepts Indoor Off-Road Championship was held in Rockford, Illinois, at Race ‘Em R/C. This event was highlighted with some of the best drivers in attendance raising the level of competition to elite status. Temps were below freezing, but the action was hot in Illinois. 2WD Modified was led by newly signed Team Associated driver, Dustin Evans, who was able to set the fastest qualifying times in rounds one and three to take the overall TQ. In the triple A-mains, Evans would go on to win A1 while Team Associated’s Chad Due would take victory in A2 to set up for a final showdown in A3. However, Evans proved to be too strong and would go on to win a decisive A3 and take the overall win in 2WD modified class. The Wisconsin legend, Chad Due, would finish second using his A1 and A2 scores consisting of a third and first while Team Associated’s rising star, Cole Tollard would round out the podium in third with excellent driving from fifth on the grid.

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February 1, 2017

Schumacher Indoor Masters Rd5 – Report

The fifth round of the Schumacher Indoor Masters was held at Worksop this past weekend. There were once again 14 full heats of entries across the two classes of 2WD and 4WD buggy. Doors opened at the venue at 7am prompt, there was a vast amount of racers ready to get out of the cold and into the nice warm venue. As always the qualifying format was round by round, with the best 2 results to count towards the final and grid position. In 2WD it was Greg Williams on top form, taking TQ in 3 out of 4 rounds to line up on pole position, ahead of Richard Lowe and Tom Cockerill. In 4WD it was Richard Lowe who dominated qualifying taking TQ in all four rounds, this would line him up on pole position ahead of Jack Neal and Danny McGee.

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February 1, 2017

Buschor & Hofer successful at GP Arbon

The Swiss GP Arbon race was recently held on a nice but very low-grip carpet track. In the 4WD class Michel Buschor took the TQ from Mario di Bella in second and Osi Oswald in third. In the finals Michel continued to dominate, taking three wins and with it the overall victory from Mario di Bella and Kevon Prinz for an all-Xray podium sweep. In the 2WD buggy class Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) was unbeatable, taking the overall win from Mario di Bella (Yokomo) in second and Mathias Domig (Xray) third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 1, 2017

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd2 – Report

The second round of the XRS Germany was held in Augsburg and it saw a total of 58 drivers battle it out in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T Stock, Formula and 1/12th scale. The club laid out a nice 400 square metre track using ETS carpet that made for high traction and fun races. Racing-wise and in the 1/12th scale class it was young Antonio Theofilou to take TQ but after the final Bernd Wiesenberger held the upper hand to bring home the day’s win from Antonio and Christian.

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February 1, 2017

5th Hungarian Serpent S411 Endurance Race – Report

The 5th Hungarian Serpent S411 Endurace Race was held at the Sportolda sportshall in Pecs, Hungary with a a total of five teams battling for the win. The race was held in a unique format of six 50-minute stints with 15-minute breaks in-between. At halftime the teams also had an official lunchbreak with the cars sitting in the parc ferme. Before the race the identically prepared Serpent S411 RTR cars were given to the racers that were allowed to use their own batteries and radios. In the end team All Stars would take the win with 1712 laps from team Elza es Tarsai (1642 laps) and team Peströ gyuttunk (1639 laps). In total more than 8100 laps or 611km were completed by the teams.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 31, 2017

2017 Castle Creations Off-Road Jam – Report

The 2017 Castle Creations Off-Road Jam was held at Fastlane Raceway in Kansas City, Missouri. Kyosho’s Mitchel Gardner was able to TQ the 2WD modified class ahead of his fellow teammates, Team Associated’s Brad Dean and Xray’s Dillon Caldwell. In the single A-main, it was Dean who would best the field to take the win with Caldwell clawing his way back to 2nd place from a horrific start. Gardner would round out the podium making it a brilliant JConcepts sweep in 2WD Modified.

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January 31, 2017

Peter Roeygens wins Stock class at Lovan Challenge Rd3

Last weekend round three of the Belgian Lovan RC-Challenge was held and in the Touring Stock class it was Peter Roeygens who took the TQ position by a narrow 0.9s from Christophe Wojsznis and Mathias Van Laere in second and third respectively. The opening A-main then went to Christophe Libeer who came from the 4 spot on the grid, while pole setter Peter stroke back in A2 and A3 to grab the day’s win from Christophe in second and Mathias Van Laere, who scored to second place finishes, in third.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]