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October 11, 2016

Utah State Championships – Announcement

Murf’s Intermountain RC Raceway will play host to the Utah State Championships November 3rd through the 6th. Home of the April Fools Classic, the famous clay racing surface will have a fresh layout for this event. The schedule includes a round of seating practice on Thursday evening, one round of qualifying on Friday, three rounds of qualifying on Saturday and the mains on Sunday. There will be a resort of qualifying after the second round for anyone that can’t make Thursday’s seating practice round. Categories run include Modified and Stock Buggy, Truck and SCT as well as 1/8th E-Buggy. More information including the schedule and rules can be found here.

October 11, 2016

Agustin Rodriguez takes Spanish Nitro Touring B title

The recent final round of the Spanish Nitro Touring Nationals was hosted by the Carsol Elche club. With a second place behind final round winner Antonio Gonzales, Agustin Rodriguez would take the Championship B title. Pablo Lopez completed the day’s A-main result in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 11, 2016

Czech 1/8th Off-road National Champs Rd4 – Report

The fourth and final round of Czech 1/8th Off-road National Championship took place last weekend in Kolin. Steady rain the week before the race questioned the condition of the track on race day but the club did an amazing job to prepare the venue for the event. The Nitro Buggy class qualifying was lead by Jiri Mara from Max Gotzl and Frantisek Kalenda while the E-Buggy category had Kaja Novotny coming out fastest despite skipping Q2 due to rain. Max Gotzl and Milan Mudra came in second and third.

Continue reading the report here

October 11, 2016

Park Jooshin wins at Korean National Championship

The final round of the Korean KMRCA National Championship was recently held and the event saw Park Jooshin (Xray) walking away with the TQ and win in the 13.5T Super Sports touring class. Serpent driver Kim Sungmin, campaigning the company’s new Project 4X touring car, ended the day on the runner-up spot from Yokomo driver Ra Sungwhan.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 11, 2016

RC-Lemans Series Rd7 – Report

The seventh and final round of the 2016 RC-Lemans Series was held in Hildesheim near Hanover. Despite the cold weather and predicted rain some drivers opted to show up already on Saturday morning and they would be able to get some practice laps under their belts until it started to rain later that day. Sunday morning started off wet meaning the opening qualifier would be held in damp conditions while Q2 and Q3 would be run on a soaking wet track. In the Modified class local hero Timo Schad, newly crowned 40+ German Champion Joachim Behnken as well as Tobias Weist all scored TQ runs with the tie-breaker handing Joachim the overall TQ from Timo and Tobias.

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October 11, 2016

Sylvain Gallo-Selva takes 2WD French Cup title

The 2016 1/10th Electric Off-road French Cup was held this past weekend in Reims, Champagne. Held at the new indoor facility of the Reims Enduro Model Car Club the event attracted some of the country’s quickest drivers and in the 2WD Buggy class it was TQ holder Sylvain Gallo-Selva who came out in front after the A-mains to take the 2016 2WD French Cup title.

Source: Yokomo France [facebook.com]

October 11, 2016

Montech and A+Paint Trophy Italy – Report

The recent Montech and A+Paint Trophy took place at the Minicar Fontanellato track in Fontanellato, Italy. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pan Car. In Touring Modified Mattia Collina took the TQ in front of Silvio Boni and Luca Torreggiani. In the final Collina would confirmed his dominant performance while Torreggiani and Boni would swap placed on the podium.

Continue reading the report here

October 10, 2016

Fotinos successful at Greek EP Off-road nationals Rd3

Round three of the Greek electric off-road nationals was held at the Zorri RC track in Athens. In the 4WD class Delbederis took the overall TQ thanks to round TQs in Q2 and Q3 but the finals were a different affair as the TQ holder struggled with traction in the opening main but he would come out fastest in A2. A3 then saw Delbederis being dead last after an incident with another car and he was only able to recover to third. Overall Fotinos (Yokomo) would take the win from Delbederis (Xray) in second and Papanikolaou (Kyosho) in third. With two races left, and thanks to his second place at round three, Delbederis now leads the overall championship.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]