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November 20, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch TQs IFMAR 1/8th Worlds in Brazil

The 2015 IFMAR 1/8th Nitro On-road World Championships are taking place this week in Americana City, Brazil, around 160 kilometres away from Sao Paulo. The event attracted around 75 drivers, most of which are from Brazil and Argentina, to compete at the Zeca Elias high-speed track whose concrete barriers are not allowing for many mistakes to be made. So far the temperatures were hot all week, varying between 27 and 32 degrees Celsius but up until now the rain has passed the track daily, with only a small shower that caused a delay of round 5. Racing wise Swiss ace Simon Kurzbuch has pretty much dominated the qualifying which is run using the points system. On Wednesday Simon made a clean sweep by winning three of the three qualifiers and another round TQ in the fourth qualifier on Thursday as well as a second place in the final round, following a DNF in round five, cemented Simon’s overall TQ with Takaaki Shimo on the 2 spot and Dario Balestri rounding out the top 3. The lower finals are set for Friday with the quarter, semi and main final to be held on Saturday.

View the qualifying top 10 here

November 19, 2015

2nd Annual Georgia Indoor Championships – Report

The 2nd Annual Georgia Indoor Championships was once again hosted by HotshotRC Raceway in Marietta, GA. The track was beautifully manicured, hard packed, pure Georgia red clay. With 175 entries, race director Lance MacDonald made the decision to let the track go dry as it would take too much time to keep it wet. Qualifying got underway Saturday morning and in 2WD Mod Buggy and Mod Truck it was young Daimon Borkowicz who took the overall TQs while veteran racer JR Mitch came out fastest in 4WD Mod Buggy.

Continue reading the report here

November 19, 2015

Rivals seek to deny Xray home EOS win

The Euro Offroad Series takes competitors to Slovakia this weekend (20-22 November) with the Hudy Racing Arena playing host to the second round of Season #5, the venue having hosted the championship’s final & deciding round last season. After a double win at the 2015/16 season opener at the Nurburgring in Germany in September, it is reigning 2 and 4WD Champion Lee Martin who heads the entry but the Yokomo driver is fully expectant of a tough weekend at what is the home track of Xray and their new 4WD World Champion Bruno Coelho. For the past two season Xray’s Martin Bayer, who has been responsible for both the development of the XB2 and XB4, has enjoyed EOS victories at the Hudy Arena, doing the double in Season #3 and winning 4WD last time round.

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November 19, 2015

Dutch Formula & 1/12th Winter Race Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Dutch Indoor Winter Formula and 1/12th Series was held at the The Border indoor track. 15 drivers attended in the Formula class while the 1/12th category attracted only seven racers. After the triple 7 minute qualifiers of the Formula category, that uses ETS rules with the addition of Shimizu tyres, Michel v.d. Velde (Xray) set the early pace, putting at least one lap on the second place driver. Michel then would also easily take the win in the double 10 minute finals to grab the overall victory from Nick Anneveld (Xray) and Dennis v. Lammeren (Xray) while setting a new track record of 9.967s in the progress.

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November 19, 2015

2015 SARDA Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The South African On-Road Electric National Championship recently concluded and in Touring Modified Jason Hillcoat (Xray) managed to defend his 2013 and 2014 titles with consistent performance in the season making it three in a row with his teammate Deon Gove (Xray) achieving the vice-championship title. Antonio Caroli (Xray) would grab the final podium spot from Anderton Smith (Yokomo) in fourth.

Continue reading the report here

November 19, 2015

Kyle McBride takes double Australian 1/10th titles

The recent 1/10th EP Australian Nationals were hosted by Chargers RC race club and in the 2WD Buggy class Kyle McBride managed to TQ all four rounds of qualifying. Once finals came around, Kyle dominated A1 and A2 to take the 2WD National championship early. 4WD was up the next day and the drivers were only allowed one practice round in the morning and then they went straight into the same qualifying and finals setup. The track had really come up to a very high traction, even more so than in 2WD. Kyle again managed to take the overall TQ, having won three out of the four qualifiers. In the finals McBride would continue to dominate by taking the win in A1 and A2 to grab his second title of the weekend.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 19, 2015

WCICS Rd2 – Report

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 2 was held among the beautiful wine country of Penticton, British Columbia. Hosted by the PRCC Club, this race just keeps on growing. After doubling last year, they were again up an astounding 50 percent, due in large part to the amazing creativity of the organizers. This year, every racer received a WCICS 25th Anniversary pit towel, personalized with their name. In addition, as the race weekend fell on WCICS President Josh Carter’s birthday, this club surprised him with a beautiful cake, and an entire gymnasium of RC racers singing Happy Birthday. On the racing side of things in the Modified Touring class National Champion, Xray driver Blake Bell drove his T4 from pole to checkered without looking back. But he was never alone, with Orca’s Keith Yu close behind in 2nd, and Awesomatix’s Korgae Scales in third, the three crossing the line just a few seconds apart, with almost exactly the same fast lap times.

Continue reading the report here

November 18, 2015

Travis Amescua TQs & wins at 2015 NEiC race

Maximus Raceway in York, Maine held the 2015 North East Indoor Championship race over the weekend. The event attracted more than 140 entries and Travis Amescua (Team Durango) would TQ and win both the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified classes in stile. In the 2WD class Matt Olsen (Team Associated) came in second, coming from the 3 spot on the grid while runner-up after the qualifiers, Alex Miller (Team Associated), ended the 5 minute A-main in third. In the 4WD class Matt Olsen (HB) would defend his runner-up spot while Alex Miller (Team Associated) was able to grab the final podium spot, coming from 4th after the qualifiers.

View the 4WD podium here