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August 23, 2016

2016 USVTA Summer Slam – Report

The second annual Summer Slam hosted by NORCAR at The Gate in Brunswick, Ohio not only marks the nearing of the end to Summer and the start of the indoor carpet season in the U.S. Midwest region, but also the final weekend of the popular annual USVTA National Points Series. This event only offers rubber tire chassis’, this year saw Formula, VTA, USGT, GT-R, and Touring 17.5. The event saw a growth from the inaugural year due to the unique layouts that can be achieved with a rubber-tire only event. Lots of dots were used, okay … an exorbitant amount of dots were used and the Ring of Death made its reappearance. Saturday’s qualifying heated up quickly in round 1. In Formula Wayne Gerber set the early TQ in front of Brian Wynn, the only two to post early 38 lap runs.

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August 23, 2016

Bornhorst & Lutz win at Wicked Weekend

The Wicked Weekend was held in Gainesville, Georgia with a record amount of 640 entries. This made for long days but the program moved along quickly thanks to the race directing by Lance McDonald. The track layout put in by Bobby Moore was relatively easy and had good flow which provided close racing. For qualifying, Ryan Lutz seemed to be unbeatable by TQ’ing both rounds of all three classes. In Nitro Truggy Ryan set sail early and left the pack. Joe Bornhorst had some early mistakes but came back to 2nd place late in the race, leaving Blake Boggs behind in third.

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August 22, 2016

Matsukura is 1:12 World Champion

Naoto Matsukura is the 1:12 World Champion for a fourth time. The Japanese ace, who burst onto the international r/c scene when he won his first World title in 2008 aged 15, took back the sport’s biggest prize with an impressive recovery drive to make it 2 wins from 2 in the second A-Main in Beijing. Starting P2, China being his first Worlds not being the Top Qualifier, Matsukura came out best from a third lap pile up involving the Top 3 to go to the lead but almost immediately threw it away with a mistake of his own dropping back to fifth. With Sobue the new leader, Matsukura set about his recovery with his Roche clearly the fastest car on the track. On the limit trying to keep his lead and under pressure from Matsukura, Sobue would too lose the lead with a mistake and once passed Matsukura took complete control of the race to win ahead of Rheinard to put himself into the history books as the first driver to hold both the 1:12 and Electric Touring Car World titles simultaneously. A win of a very entertaining A3 would give Rheinard the overall runner-up spot with 1:12 Worlds debutant Sobue completing the podium for the 18th running of the championships.

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August 22, 2016

Adrian Wicaksono TQs & wins at Jakarta Regional Rd4

This past weekend round four of the Jakarta regional Buggy Championship was hosted by the Graha Raya track, in Serpong, West Java. A total of 53 drivers attended this event with the race format being three rounds of ten minutes qualifying of which the best two would count. For the finals the best five drivers would bump up and after the three rounds of qualifying it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) who took the TQ honours. In the 45-minute main final it was again Adrian who came out fastest with John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) taking the runner-up spot some 10 seconds down. In third Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) completed the podium result.

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August 22, 2016

Schumacher BTCC Rd6 – Report

This past weekend it was time to visit the Stafford circuit in the Midlands for round six of the Schumacher BTCC. Saturday saw some drivers turn up to try and get some practice and get their cars set to their liking, however they managed to get a few runs between the rain showers until a huge downpour ended things in the afternoon. Sunday morning drivers were greeted by a damp race track and showers on and off throughout the day. Stafford’s John Robson and Schumachers Mark Musgrove gave the drivers briefing and explained the details for the day. This was the regular format of round by round qualifying, with two from four rounds to count. The Modified class was unfortunately low on entries, due to some of the top drivers away on duty at the Worlds event in China and also due to there being no Modified National event this year at the track. However for the drivers that were there, they had a great time and enjoyed themselves. It was Olly Jefferies who would TQ all four rounds and line up on Pole ahead of David Hall and Marcus Askell.

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August 22, 2016

Matsukura takes A1 in Beijing

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Naoto Matsukura has won the opening A-Main at the 1:12 World Championships in Beijing. After shadowing Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard for 3-minutes, the former champion went to the front as the defending champion got sideways right in front of the drivers stand. With Rheinard then left to fend off Sobue, the touring car team-mates coming together, it was clear that the German was struggling. With Sobue eventually getting through, Rheinard would drop to fifth by the end of the 8-minutes with Hideo Kitazawa getting through for third as well as Keven Hebert. An inspection of his Yokomo afterwards would find the diff had broken in Rheinard’s car.

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August 22, 2016

Pichakorn & Anutin score at Huge RC Club Race Rd5

Round five of this year’s Huge RC Club Race series was held over the weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class Serpent’s Pichakorn would take the TQ and the A-main final would see a close fight between the TQ holder and Mugen’s Supawoot with both being never separated by more than 3 seconds the whole race. At the end Pichakorn’s driving and strategy would win him the race from Supawoot with Yingyos (Xray) taking the final podium spot.

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August 22, 2016

Neumann takes German 4WD Buggy & Racing Truck title

The 4WD and Stadium Truck portion of this year’s German 1/10th Electric Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the MSV Hürtgenwald club. After winning the 2WD Modified event some two weeks ago, Jörn Neumann was again the driver to beat and he would TQ and win the 4WD Modified class in style while taking the Racing Truck title also. On the 4WD podium Jörn was sidelined by Luca Rau and Michael Lepuschuitz while Björn Prümper and Marcel Schneider rounded out the top 5 results.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]