Alexander Hagberg has ended the Hot Race Winter Shootout, held this past weekend at the RCLania facilities in Scandiano, Italy, on the highest step of both the Touring Modified and 1/12th scale podium. Team mate Marco Kaufmann would sideline Alexander on the Touring Modified podium as he had to settle for second despite putting much pressure on the Swede in the finals. The third and final podium spot went to Patrick Folman.
The 2016 Hot Race Winter Shootout is taking place this weekend at the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy. The 2-day event has attracted 90 drivers from seven different countries to compete in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and 1/12th scale. The race format saw free practice, two qualifiers and the Shootout Race on Saturday with two more qualifying rounds and the finals to follow on Sunday. After two rounds of qualifying Alexander Hagberg is sitting on top in the Touring Modified and 1/12th scale class with Marco Kaufmann, Dionys Stadler, Mattia Collina, Fabrizio Manicardi and off-road racer Marco Baruffolo being in chase of Alexander in the Modified category. Fastest in the Touring Stock class so far is Simone Alleotti while Simone Brocca is holding the overnight TQ in the Formula class.
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The final round of the Automodelli.it series was held at the Indoor Racing Chilelli track. Roberto Fabiano would take a close TQ in the 13.5T Touring class but with a win in the second A-main and a second place finish in A3, Andrea Valerio would grab the overall win at the final round. Davide Gianuzzi snatched the runner-up spot from pole position holder Roberto Fabiano. Andrea Simari and Giuseppe de Liquori would round out the top 5 result.
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Last weekend saw Singapore holding its first ever Offroad Indoor Carpet Event – aptly named ICE – at the nation’s famous Science Centre. Over 60 racers signed in for the three classes of 2WD Open, 4WD Open and a Junior under-12 race. The event was run on a custom-built carpet track and saw all racers running on the new track with a new layout on new tires for the first time. These conditions, coupled with a strict no-additive rule, made for an incredibly fair and exciting race. The 2WD Open Buggy practice and qualifying saw racers clocking faster laptimes with every round as setups were tuned and the handout Sweep Nonslip tyres started to groove in and generate more grip. Topping the table on 2 of the 3 qualifying runs, Mark Lim would take a convincing TQ position with Vincent Yong in second and Jeremy Hong qualifying third.
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The Xray Work.Shop Italy will be held on the 7th and 8th of March at the Hot Race Track in Teverola, Italy. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg and Nicola Marrone will introduce the forthcoming NT1’16 1/10th scale 200mm nitro touring car in an exclusive pre-release and they will also be doing some track testing with the latest incarnation of Xray’s World Championship winning platform.
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The King of Whiteman race was held at the MORBC track in Perth, Australia, on their newly refurbished clay surface track. The one day race meeting had three qualifiers and A/B/C finals with 30 minute mains. The Nitro Buggy A-main had Kyle Francis (Tekno) having a great start, as he passed the leader on the opening lap but a collision let him drop back to 7th. He then played catchup for the next 20 minutes and ultimately managed to close on the leading group of Josh Pain (SWorkz) and Steve Smith (Mugen). At the 24 minute mark Kyle was able to take the lead and at the end he took the win some 9 seconds in front of Josh. Steve would round out the podium in third. The 30 minute Truggy main again saw Kyle Francis (Tekno) running into trouble on the opening lap, that let him drop to 7th. Up front Aaron Dexter (Xray) and Fabio Silvi (SWorkz) battled for the lead but on lap 12 Kyle got into front and never looked back. Behind him Aaron and Dexter were in a fight for the runner-up spot and ultimately Aaron would come out successful when Fabio crashed his truck on the final lap. This allows Aaron to take the second place behind Kyle while Fabio had to settle for third.
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Going into its 11th season the 2016 RC Lemans Series will kick off on the weekend of the 24th of April at the iconic Appeldoorn track in the Netherlands. Run in the two Pro10 classes of LMP1 Modified and LMP2 10.5T Stock the series will visit seven different tracks in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany with the 2015 instalment having attracted drivers from five different countries. New for 2016 is also the South German RC Lemans Series with the August round at the Rötz track also being the German Nationals warm-up race. More information, the race calendar and more can be found on the series’ website here.
The fifth round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the iconic Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The event saw the running of several electric on-road and off-road classes and it not only attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers but also guests from Austria and Germany. The Touring Modified class was won by Xray’s own Martin Hudy from team mate Patrick Gollner. Capricorn driver Zdeno Kunak rounded out the top 3 after the A-mains.
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