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July 5, 2016

Norwegian Championships & Swedish Cup Rd3 – Report

The Norwegian 1/8th IC Track Championships and round three of the Swedish Cup where held at the Hverven Raceway, outside of Oslo. Mixed weather conditions made it difficult to complete the race as planned, but the drivers would get at least two rounds of dry track qualifying on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. After the qualifiers, Lars Haugen (NOR) would hold the TQ position in front of Tom Erik Haaversen (NOR), Trygve Berntsen (NOR) and Karl Ullenius (SWE), who completed the top four.

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July 5, 2016

Jacques Libar wins at Luxembourg Nationals Rd3

Round three of the Luxembourg Nationals was held at the iconic Mini Circuit Ville de Luxembourg track. With three TQ runs, Jacque Libar would take the TQ from Joe Streff and Gilles Choque. In the finals, Jacque continued to dominate, bringing home the win from Gilles Choque, while Laurent Libar rounded out the podium in third.

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July 5, 2016

SARDA Electric On-road Nationals Rd4 – Report

The 2016 South-African ORE national championship moved to Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province at the Diaz RC Club for round 4 of the series. With the third round being rained out, the challenge to gain championship points was on between the drivers. Some of the drivers could not make the event but quite a few of the country’s top drivers still participated. The track and “tennis court” surface was new to most drivers and the fast technical layout proved to be great for racing. Free practise started on Thursday but a cold front hit the coastal city on Friday with strong winds and cold rain. The rain stayed away for the weekend but the track surface gathered lots of sand and water, and the cold temperature made for low traction. The first qualification round started late on Saturday and the drivers were urged to do lots of practise laps to help clear the track of the fine sand that blew in from the coast.

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July 4, 2016

2016 Schumacher BTCC Rd4 – Report

This past weekend saw the Schumacher BTCC drivers visit the super fast circuit of Halifax for the fourth round of the championship. As usual on Saturday many drivers turned up to practice, the weather was mixed and there was also the occasional heavy downpour of rain, however due to the temperature it meant that the track would dry very quickly. A few drivers braved the wet conditions but most waited for it to pass. Sunday was a totally different story, everyone woke up to bright sunshine and it would stay for most of the day. In the Modified class Elliott Harper was away at the touring car Euros in Slovakia for this event, however there were still many fast drivers in attendance. It was Olly Jefferies who took three out of the four qualifying rounds to secure himself pole position for the final. Behind Olly it was a very close battle between Chris Grainger and Kyle Branson. With Chris winning the final qualifying round, this meant he would line up 2nd on the grid and Kyle 3rd.

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July 4, 2016

Rob Janssen wins AMCA club race Rd3

The Dutch AMCA club recently held their third club race on the popular Appeldoorn race track. Rob Janssen would take the TQ from Eric Mulder and Richard Arts and Rob would also sweep the triple A-mains to take the day’s win from Richard Arts and Jan Kraanen while also scoring the fastest lap. Runner-up after the qualifiers, Eric Mulder would come in fourth while Elibert Sievers completed the top 5 result.

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July 4, 2016

Lucas Grainer doubles at Slovakian Nationals Rd3

Round three of the Slovakian 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the RC-Comorra Raceway in Komarno. Hot weather made for dusty track conditions and it was Team Associated driver Lucas Greiner who took a double TQ to start both the 2WD and 4WD A-mains from the pole position. At the end of the day he would also bring home the wins in both classes, although it took him some time to find the rhythm and pace in each leg. Michal Nagy would come in second in the 2WD class while Adam Urban rounded out the top 3 result.

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July 4, 2016

Nor-Cal On-road Championships – Report

For the first time ever, on-road racers were given a chance to compete in the Nor-Cal Champs and have a shot at taking home one of the coveted Boxing Belts. The format was Rocket Round for qualifying with a last chance qualifier on Sunday before the triple A-Mains in all classes. Modified Touring Car drew in some heavy hitters like Eric Albano, Lex Tyler, Ethan Erchinger, Joe Nolasco and Elliot Miyashiro though it would be EJ Evans to take home the belt from Leo Zaho and James Davenport.

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July 3, 2016

Völker & Ratheisky win 2016 European titles

The 2016 EFRA European Electric On-road Championships were held this weekend at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. Classes run were the usual Touring Modified and Touring Stock categories as well as, for the first time, a 1/10th Formula class. Ronald Völker (Yokomo) and Jan Ratheisky (Xray) would grab the TQs in the Touring classes while Mike Gosvig (Xray) took the top qualifier honours in Formula. In the opening Touring Modified A-main a collision between Bruno Coelho (Xray) and pole position holder Ronald made way for Alexander Hagberg (Xray) and Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) with the latter holding the upper hand thanks to a very late move on Alex.

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