Red RC » Events

May 6, 2016

Dragon Stone Asian Buggy Champs – Announcement

Scotty Ernst Productions have announced the Dragon Stone Asian Buggy Championship from September 1st to 4th 2016 in Liaoyang, China. The Asian Buggy Championship is an international 1/8th Buggy event that will be held at the Dragon Stone RC Facility that includes both 1/8th offroad and onroad tracks as well as all the amenities a racer would want. Some of the World’s top drivers have already confirmed their attendance like Ryan Maifield and Reno Savoya, with more to follow. Industry manufacturers will also be attending this event such as JConcept’s Jason and Allison Ruona and Jerome Treignier from RC Concepts among others. The Championship is open to all drivers from around the World regardless of ability. International racers attending the event will be treated to a very VIP experience such as a shuttle service to and from the track as well as an airport shuttle. Classes run include 1/8th Nitro Buggy, 1/8th Electric Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy. Detailed information of the event can be found on the event website as well as on the Dragon Stone Facebook page. Racers that are interested in joining the event should email Scotty Ernst at scottyernst@gmail.com.

May 6, 2016

Blake Bell takes Protoform WCICS Touring Modified title

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series WCICS, which celebrated its 25th Anniversary this season, again hosted eight events across Western Canada. The Touring Modified class was dominated by Xray’s Blake Bell with a perfect top 4 record of four TQs and four wins. Team Xray’s Danny Buck finished 2nd overall, and Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah came in 3rd. In their best season yet the series grew 34 percent over last year and the 2016/17 season will begin September 23rd in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

May 5, 2016

Masao Tanaka wins at Sagamido Challenge

The Sagamido Challenge was recently held at the SRT track in Aikou, Japan in the four nitro on-road classes of 1/8th Expert, 1/8th Sport, 1/10th GPT and 1/8th GT. A total of 55 drivers attended and in the 1/8th Expert category it was Worlds runner-up, Takahaki Shimo who set the TQ after the two rounds of 4 minute qualifying, followed by young and talented Shoki Takahata and Keisuke Fukuda in second and third respectively. Masao Tanaka would follow in fourth. The 20 minute A-main was sort of a sprint race with the top drivers pulling away swiftly while Masao Tanaka suffered a first corner crash, but he would recover soon, eventually passing Fukuda during the early stages of the race. Mid-race the traction conditions changed instantly with the previously low grip track changed to high grip as the dust got whipped away, causing a lot of trouble for many drivers. Traction rolling was soon a problem for most with Masao taking profit of the situation as he was able to grab the win one lap head of Takahaki Shimo.

Source: Infinity [creationmodel.net]

May 5, 2016

Adam Catchpole wins the BRCA GT national champs

At the recent final round of the BRCA GT national championships and after securing the WGT championship on the Saturday Adam Catchpole’s form continued into Sunday, as he took the TQ and win and with it the overall GT12 title for the season.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

May 5, 2016

Nicolas Bregante takes South American title

The 2016 South American Championship and FAMAR Cup was recently held in the city of Medellin, Colombia. With the track being located 3000 metres above sea level everyone had a hard time adjusting the engines to the conditions. The opening qualifier was held on Thursday with Q2 and Q3 being run on Friday but due to rain the final qualifier had to be postponed until Saturday. Nicolas Bregante would come out fastest in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy qualifiers to grab the overall TQ and he would also take the pole position for the hour long A-main after winning his semifinal in very muddy conditions due to a big storm. Nicolas continued to dominate the race by also coming out fastest in the A-main to take the South American Championship title from runner-up, Carlos Segui.

View the final result here

May 4, 2016

Michael Schäfer takes 200mm class win at SRC

Michael Schäfer take 200mm class win at SRC

The first round of the Swiss Racing Cup was recently held at the iconic Lostallo track. Xray’s Michael Schäfer took the TQ after the qualifiers from Xray team mate Patrick Fankhauser in second. The main final then was a pretty difficult affair as it started to rain some eight minutes into the race but it only was a short shower of a couple of minutes and so the track started to dry soon after. At the end Michael was able to bring home the win in front of Stefan Wüthrich (Xray) and Philipp Bühler (Xray), making it an Xray podium lock-out.

View the top 10 result here

May 4, 2016

Niblett, Hazlewood & Currie win at SRS Rd2

The second round of the SRS 2016 series was held on a glorious day at Herts over the weekend. Warm and sunny weather and a recently revamped track brought the drivers out in their droves for this round and they would not be disappointed, with excellent track conditions and great weather. The main Nitro buggy class was, as is always the case at Herts, a very closely fought competition and it was a bunch of juniors who dominated the qualifying sessions with Callum Niblett coming out on top, with Ollie Currie second and Jonny Skidmore third. The times were ever so close however, as Callum took round two by only 2/10’s of a second from Jonny would prove. Tony Truman was having a low key day, but he was still in the main final and would be a threat come final time.

Continue reading the report here

May 4, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd1 – Report

The season opening round of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the RC@CZ club whose track is located within the full scale Zolder Circuit. A big track surrounded by pine trees the facility made for a perfect place to start the new season that also attracted a record entry of drivers. In the Pro2 class, Samuel Castel (TLR) took the opening qualifier with Géry Ledocq (Kyosho) coming out fastest in the second round while Nicolas Evens (TLR) TQ’d the third and final qualifier. Overall the pole position for the finals would be taken by Nicolas with Géry and Samuel lining up in second and third. The three drivers had quite a similar pace with Tom Pierard (TLR), Laurent Halluin (TeamC) and Philippe Hautecoeur (Team Associated) battling for the 4th spot.

Continue reading the report here