Round 2 of the Xray Winter Series Morava was again held at the Jedovnice sports hall. The event attracted 64 racers to compete in the five classes of Touring Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. The Touring Open class was dominated by the fight between the two teammates David Nemcek and Kuba Simurda. In the finals Kuba held the upper hand over David to take the day’s win while Michal Vitamvas would round out the top 3 result.
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This past weekend the MRTO Challenge was held with around 150 drivers from Switzerland, Austria and Germany in attendance. The purpose-built track offered a lot of grip and the different jumps present made for an entertaining time. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer was on a mission, TQing all three classes of 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and 2WD Truck. On Sunday Patrick would continue to be on top of the field, taking the win in the 2WD class from Schumacher driver Micha Widmeier and Kyosho’s Luca Rau. In the 4WD class Patrick lead a Team Associated trifecta with Markus Metsch and Nico Schmid sidelining Patrick on the podium in second and third respectively. Finally in the 2WD Truck class Mr. Hofer would come out successful from Jan Dissler and Jakob Pirolt.
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The inaugural US Open Fuel Championships race was held at the Fear Farm Raceway this past weekend. A number of Pro drivers made the journey and it was raced like the “old days” where there was just one class per vehicle. Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz would have a mixed Nitro Truggy qualifier but he would end up with the TQ spot and in the main final and right from the tone Lutz was in front of TLR’s Ryan Maifield as the top four made a breakaway from the pack. Maifield would challenge Lutz early on but he started to fall back as the Tekno driver found his groove and began to pull away. Soon Lutz had a 5 second lead and it continued to grow. His closest competitors mid race both had issues thus allowing him an even greater margin to 2nd. In the end of the 45 min A-main Lutz was able to win by about 1.5 laps over his Tekno teammate Joe Bornhorst. Serpent’s Mike Truhe would round out the top 3.
Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]
The first ever Alpha Plus Cup was held at the KRC track in Shenzhen, China with local racers and also guests from Taiwan and Hong Kong in attendance. Entries were limited at 70 for the one day event that was run with mandatory Alpha Dragon III engines and Alpha’s own 2130 exhaust. In the 8 minute qualifiers Taiwanese driver Chen took the TQ for the 45 minute main final but he had to retire early in the race due to a servo failure. Ultimately Keung from Hong Kong would take the day’s win from Taiwanese driver Siu on the runner-up spot. Yeung, also from Taiwan, would grab the final podium spot to round out the top 3.
Thanks to John Ho for the report.
Round 1 of the SoCal RC Scale Series was held at TQ RC Racing in Chino. With Summer coming to an end, it was time to return to begin the second year of the popular Winter Series. Five race days comprise the series and a drivers’ best four event results count toward the end of series awards for both Sportsman and Expert drivers. The Formula cars were first to set qualifying times for their race heats for the day. The series’ unique system uses a three minute qualifying run to set the five best (non-consecutive) laps averaged together. Josh Tran would hold the initial TQ spot with his qualifying time of 11.320 in the first group but there were some heavy hitters eager to best Josh’s time. When the dust settled, Craig “Cuda” Hammon, after a lot of hard work to get his carpet competitiveness close to his outdoor pace, took the top spot; narrowly besting Aaron Lane with a five lap average of 10.656 to Aaron’s 10.667, just 0.011 second gap. Third qualifier would be Kevin “Panda” Cole with a 10.938 effort. The difference between 3rd to 9th qualifiers was only 0.2 seconds. The change this season from 21.5 to 25.5 motors has closed the overall gap and would make for some very exciting racing.
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The recent Turkey Race at Revelation Raceway saw Mugen’s Adam Drake walking away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class. HB driver Victor Guerrero came in second while Ricky Rodriguez rounded out the podium in third place.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Round 2 of the South German regionals was held in Gottmadingen on a technical yet low-grip track. In the Touring Modified class Dionys Stadler would take the TQ for the triple A-mains that he went on to win with a good margin on the second place driver. Carl Groessel would end the day on the second place while Christian Gerlach completed the top 3 result. In the 1/12th class it was again Dionys, in only his second 1/12th race, who took the TQ and the win in the main finals. As in the Touring class Carl and Christian would come in second and third respectively.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round two of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena with 85 drivers in attendance including the likes of Martin and Ales Bayer as well as Austria’s Martin Wollanka all of which looked for some last minute practice before last weekend’s second round of the 2015/16 EOS. Beside the 1/10th Buggy classes the event also offered a variety of electric on-road categories with the fastest of them, Touring Modified, attracted a total of 13 drivers. Xray’s Martin Hudy would bring home the win in front of David Nemcek (Xray) and Zdenko Kunak (Capricorn) with the letter two showing some entertaining fights during the finals.
