The French Mag Race 2016 was held this past weekend in Les Pennes Mirabeaux near Marseille. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Jerome Aigoin would lay down a dominating performance by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and bringing home the win in the A-main one lap ahead of Julien Lattanzio. Baptiste Debrooux would round out the podium result in third.
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Round 5 of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series took place this past weekend at the city-centre circuit of Urban PlaySpace with the event once again being a concurrent points scoring round for the Singapore national EP on-road series. In the Touring Open Class, a modified Reedy Race format was run, with two qualifiers to sort out the grid followed by five finals. Taking TQ would be Esmail Apandi (Awesomatix), with Dominic Quek (Xray) starting in 2nd. In the finals, Esmail drew first blood with a win in leg 1 while Dominic suffered a DNF. In leg 2, it would be Esmail’s turn to DNF, however the win would go to Eugene Goh (Yokomo). In legs 3 and 4, Esmail bounced right back to take both wins and with it the overall victory. Eugene continued to put in a strong performance with two 2nd place finishes. In the final leg, Dominic finally managed to put a win in the books.
The opening round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend at the Kiddermister multi-sufrace track in demanding weather conditions. Sunday’s 4WD competition would be held in relatively settled weather conditions and Team Associated’s Neil Cragg would take the TQ and the win in the A-mains from Yokomo’s Lee Martin while veteran racer Ellis Stafford (TLR) would round out the podium result in third. The day before the 2WD race was held in typical European month of April weather with snow fall greeting the drivers early in the morning. The day ended with sun beaming down and it was Lee Martin (Yokomo) who laid down a dominant performance by taking the day’s win from Yokomo team mate Simon Moss. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) completed the top 3 result.
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Watch JJ Wang take his first big international electric touring win at the opening round of the Asian Onroad Championships in Shanghai, China. Full coverage of this event including more videos and a complete image gallery can be found on our Events page.
With a very strong performance in A2, LRP driver JJ Wang has taken overall victory at the opening round of the AOC held at RCI V2 in Shanghai. In a straight up battle with Ronald Volker the local ace took a decisive win over the German, ending the Yokomo driver’s 100% winning record at the AOC. Jan Ratheisky improved upon his A1 finish by taking 3rd place after another incident involving Naoto Matsukura, this time with Jilles Groskamp, allowed him to get through. Naoto would recover from 6th to 4th after a very late incident between the Dutch driver and local driver Rocket Zhang.
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Local ace JJ Wang has taken a clear win in the first Modified A-main at RCI V2 in Shanghai, taking the hole shot and never being challenged, also helped by an early incident between Ronald Volker and Naoto Matsukura that allowed him to build an early gap. The beneficiary of the incident was Jilles Groskamp, who managed to sneak passed the carnage and up into 2nd. A mid race pass on 4th place finisher Jan Ratheisky gave Chinese legend Motor King the 3rd position.
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The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 8 finals brought racing excitement to Canada’s beleaguered Oil capital, Calgary, and was met by the largest turnout ever for a carpet race in Alberta. Hosted by CarCar it was a great Finals race weekend. As usual, CarCar’s long time track director Jim created a layout that perfectly balanced driving skills in the tight sections, with multiple passing opportunities. In the Touring Modified class TQ, Xray’s Blake Bell would lead from the tone for the first 5 laps, when an infield touch would drop him to 2nd, and Team Associated’s Peter Toszer would take the lead. A pattern that would repeat several times during this great race, with Team Awesomatix’ Wayne Mah joining the party in the second half. The last 10 laps were nose to tail, some of the best racing all weekend, with Toszer/Bell/Mah coming across the line just a second apart.
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JJ Wang is top qualifier in Shanghai having topped the final round in qualifying in what were quicker track conditions as heavy rain outside lowered the track temperature and increased humidity. The only driver to manage a 31 lap run all weekend, he also set a new fastest lap on his way to the top spot. Ronald Volker will start 2nd, having also improved his time despite a heavy hit against the barriers early in the race tweaked his car. Naoto Matsukura takes 3rd with a solid run that saw him break into the 9 second lap times, leap frogging a disappointed Jilles Groskamp who also made a mistake and will now start from fourth on the grid.
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