Round six of he Czech Off-road Party Cup was held in Kolin and the race saw Max Götzl taking the TQ in both the 1/8th nitro and E-buggy classes. Max dominated the nitro finals to take his first win of the weekend and he would also come out on top of the field in E-buggy although he had some problems in the opening A-main. Ultimately he would bring home A2 and A3 for the overall win and his second title of the day.
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The fifth and final round of the Danish Electric On-road National Championship was held at the fast Næstved track. With both the Touring Modified and Stock Championship already decided in favour of Xray’s Mike Gosvig, the race was on the for the remaining podium spots in the Superstock class. Mike wanted to end the year on a high and still competed in both categories and despite some problems with tyre preparation and a transponder he took the TQ in both classes.
Homestead RC Raceway of Florida, USA, was selected to host the 2018 IFMAR 200mm Nitro On-road World Championships. Home of the 2011 1/8th Worlds that gave Mugen Seiki’s Robert Pietsch his first IFMAR title, the club is used to organising high-class events on his long 305 metres track with the next one being the 2016 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals in October.
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Round six of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the RCR-Linz club in perfect weather conditions. Pretty uneven grip conditions on the track made things a bit difficult in terms of car setup but this did not keep the drivers from scoring fast laps and in Touring Modified the top 10 drivers all finished within two seconds in qualifying. Pre-event favourite, Patrick Gollner, had some bad luck with his tyres and only finished in P6 but with a new set of rubber he was able to take the overall second place in the finals behind Dominic Vogl which in turn also meant the Austrian National title for Patrick. The podium at round six was completed by Manuel Gremlica.
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The Xray Racing Series Slovenia will kick off on the 20th of November in Medeuzza, Italy. Round two will be held in Maribor, Slovenia with round 3 taking place on the 22n of January, again in Medeuzza. The finale will be held on the 19th of February in Maribor and more information about the series along with the classes run will become available soon.
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Round three and four of the Swiss 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals were held in Lütisburg on the astroturf track of the BC Hornets club. Round 3 of the championship was hosted on Saturday and it was the duo of Patrick Hofer and Kevin Zwahlen that battled for the victory with Patrick ultimately taking the winning honours and he was able to keep the momentum for Sunday’s round four that he would TQ and win in style to round out a perfect weekend.
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The fourth round of the 2016 South-African ORE National Championship was hosted by the Welkom RC Club, home of the 2018 IFMAR ISTC 1/12 world championships. The track had great traction with a technical but fast layout for the event. As a result of the 2018 IFMAR Worlds being hosted in South Africa, some of the young talented drivers came out of “retirement” to start their qualifying quest for the worlds. The Touring Modified class is steadily growing, and the drivers needed to be at their best to qualify for the A-mains. Alexander Hagberg participated as invitational pro driver, and his presence motivated the local drivers to push hard and go faster. Alexander showed his world class talent and pace, and dominated the event from practise through qualifying, and also the A-finals. The battle for the podium was intense, with great runs from Anderton Smith, Antonio Caroli, Ashley Hurley and Shaun Schutte. Youngster Ashley Hurley showed great pace and consolidated the second place with Shaun Schutte taking the third podium spot. On Sunday Alex grabbed the overall win early courtesy of wins in A1 and A2, and then took some more risks in A3 and set a new lap record of 12.8s. With only one round remaining in the South African championship, Jason Hillcoat is on the brink of winning the SA Championship Title for 2016, after winning round 1 and 3.
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The sixth and final round of the Xray Turkish On-road Championships were held at the Bursa Bumod track. This was actually the fifth round this year as round five was cancelled due to sanctions all of the country at that time. The 1/10th 200mm Nitro A-main saw Mustafa Alp loosing the lead in the opening stages as he took off a little bit late which allowed P2 starter, Halit Körpe to jumbo into the lead. Mustafa though was able to soon pass Halit for the lead and he started to pull away right away. At about 6 minutes into the race Alp already started to lap the field and from that moment on the went into cruise mode. About 50 laps into the race, Halit ran into issues and he had to retire, promoting Alain into second place. A planned stop for tyres didn’t change anything up front and so Mustafa took an easy win some six laps ahead of Alan with Onur rounding out the top 3 result. Overall in the championship Mustafa brought home the tittle from Halit Körpe on the runner-up spot and Alain Sarafyan who completed the championship podium.
