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March 10, 2016

Paolo Morganti wins 2016 Pacific Cup

The 2016 Pacific Cup was held this past weekend. The fast track offered high speed sweepers, a wide open chicane and a couple of hairpins, making it tricky to find the best setup in order to go fast but not destroy the tyres, specially in the GT class. The schedule was pretty straight forward with practice on Friday, qualifiers on Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the GT class the race was on between Fabrizio Martello and Paolo Morganti, the later having some setup issues during the qualifiers so Paolo had to go through the semifinal which gave him some extra time to work on the adjustments. Both ran 1-2 in the opening stages of the main final until Fabrizio ran into some problems. This gave Paolo the lead and the ability to focus on build an advantage and at the same time save as much tyre as possible. The strategy paid off and after a trouble free one hour final, Paolo was able to take the win from Fabrizio Martello in second and Rino Lino in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 10, 2016

Adams takes ROAR Carpet Nationals Modified TC title

ProlevelRC in Saint Louis, Missouri was the host of the 2016 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals. The Modified Touring Car class had some of the closest racing all weekend long with world class drivers battling it out for the top spot. Chris Adams set TQ in round 4 and would start from the point in the triple A-mains. The Xray driver drove two flawless runs in A2 and A3, securing the Nationals Title in front of Paul Lemieux and Andrew Hardman in second and third respectively.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

March 9, 2016

2016 IRCC Airport Race – Announcement

The annual IRCC Airport Race will take place from the 10th to 12th of June at the Chubu International Airport in Japan. As usual a purpose-build track will be laid out in an event hall near the arrivals section. With the airport having a hotel and restaurants, you won’t need to do much travelling and can in fact access the track by foot. The race will see the running of several on-road classes including Stock TC, FWD, Modified and Stock 1/12th scale, Formula, World GT and more with racers from the USA, Korea, Macao and other countries being awaited. Sign-up starts on 10th of March and racers interested can visit the official event site here and the IRCC Facebook page here.

March 9, 2016

Esmail Apandi doubles at Singapore Buggy Nats Rd2

Singapore’s 2016 Electric Buggy National Series returned to Urban PlaySpace’s astro turf track for round 2 this past weekend. A small but quality field of racers signed up to challenge themselves on the technical high-grip track. In the 2WD class, round 1 winner Esmail Apandi showed he remained the man to beat as he TQed rounds 1 and 2 of qualifying to secure the overall TQ spot, ahead of Dominic Quek in 2nd, while fast improving Eugene Goh secured the 3rd spot on the grid.

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March 9, 2016

Victor Pelaez successful at Spanish 200mm nationals

The opening round of the Spanish Nitro Touring Nationals was held at the Almussafes track this past weekend. The event was the first to be held under the new national rules including a Super Pole event and after the qualifiers Sergi Franch came out fastest from Jonhi Pastor and Nacho Lopez. Victor Pelaez would round out the top 4 with the latter three would run in the Super Pole format to evaluate the starting grid positions behind Sergi, with Victor coming out fastest from Nacho and Jonhi. The main final then saw Victor Pelaez taking the win in the 30 minute encounter following some struggling in the opening stages when the top 4 drivers were in tight battles for the positions. Behind Victor, Jonhi Pastor would grab the runner-up spot from David Belen. Jose Antonio Aldudo and Nacho Lopez rounded out the top 5.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 9, 2016

Cody King wins at Extreme RPM Series Rd1

The Extreme RPM Series kicked off at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California this past weekend and in the 1/8th Buggy Expert class Kyosho’s Cody King would make a clean sweep by TQing and later winning the race some three laps in front of Anthony Westergaard (Tekno). Shaun Kirkman (Tekno) ended the 35 minute A-main another lap down.

Image: Thunder Alley RC Raceway [facebook.com]

March 9, 2016

Adam Drake sweeps Tico-Tico GP

This past weekend the Punta Del Este race was held at Tico-Tico Raceway in Uruguay. The event played host to drivers from Uruguay, Argentina, as well as Adam Drake from the USA. The qualifying on Saturday consisted of three 12 minute rounds, using the best two out of three qualifiers. Adam Drake was the top qualifier in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truck with the finals being on Sunday. The track crew did a great job to get the track in shape after a lot of rain on Saturday night and Sunday morning and Adam was able to conserve his qualifying performances to grab the win in both the 60 minute Nitro Buggy and 45 minute Nitro Truck final to become crowned the double Tico-Tico GP champion.

View the Truggy podium here

March 8, 2016

Thilo Tödtmann wins Xray Nitro Challenge Greece

The same day as round four of the Greek Xray Winter Series the Fanatix Racing Track held the Xray Nitro Challenge Greece. Right from the start Xray driver Dimitriou made his intentions clear as he won all qualifiers to take a dominant overall TQ. Only German guest driver Thilo Tödtmann (Capricorn) was able to come close, allowing him to line up in second.

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