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November 2, 2016

Rumble in the Asphalt Jungle – Report

The newly established N-Control RC Racing Circuit in Dale, Texas held its grand opening race this past weekend hosting 68 entries from across the state of Texas. Texas’s newest permanent on-road facility, and site of the 2017 Roar Electric On Road Paved Nationals, saw close racing across 10 different classes. The event took place over two days with Saturday holding three rounds of rocket qualifying, and Sunday offering a final round of qualifying followed by mains. Triple A-mains were held for the electric classes, and single 20-minute mains were run for all nitro races. The track was fast and flowing with consistently high traction offering up for some exciting racing all weekend.

Continue reading the report here

November 2, 2016

Shay Brand successful at Halloween Havoc Retro Race

This past weekend Loganville RC Speedway hosted the Halloween Havoc Retro Race. Instead of IFMAR style qualifying, the organizers went back to the old school gate starts. It was really fun to experience the gate starts again, and really made for some exciting qualifiers. There were also no Pro and Sportsman classes, it was just Buggy and Truggy with the event attracting around 85 entries. In the Buggy class and after some crazy qualifying, Team Associated’s Shay Brand took the TQ. In the main, Shay was able to get a pretty good start, but got shuffled around a little after a few turns. He was able to find his way back to the front though and never looked back to take the overall win for the race.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

November 2, 2016

Mattia Pesenti wins at German Indoor Masters

The recent German Indoor Masters were held as part of the Faszination Modellbau fair in Friedrichshafen. In the 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Mattia Pesenti (Xray) who took the win despite a bad start into the final. Dropping back to the seventh spot he soon was able to challenge the leader and when Manuela Raso made a mistake, Mattia was able to take profit of the situation, holding the lead until the end of the 30-minute encounter. Armin Baier (Capricorn) would end the day on the runner-up spot with ARC driver Renato Ali (ARC) completing the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 2, 2016

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League Rd2

The second round of the Israeli League was held at the recently renewed Omer-Ring race track. After the four rounds of qualifying on the technical and challenging track it was Yaniv Sivan who took the top qualifier spot. Right at the start of the 40-minute main final Yaniv jumped the lead followed by Tal Siles and Ido Carmon but an early mistake of Tal cost him the second spot, promoting Ido into the runner-up position. Behind the two the battle was on for the final podium spot between Aviv Maymon and Ofir Avitan. Ultimately Aviv would hold the upper hand to take the final podium spot behind winner Yaniv and second placed Ido.

View the final results here

November 1, 2016

Team 46 wins Team C GT 5 hours endurance race

This past weekend the Team C GT 5 hours endurance race was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong. A total of 14 teams battled for the victory with each team consisting of four members. The rules were pretty open with free chassis and body choice but SP control tyres had to be used. The race started at 11 a.m. on Sunday and after 300 intense minutes it was Team 46 (Serpent) that walked away with the win from Team C (Team C) with Team HEC (Mugen) rounding out the podium result.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

October 31, 2016

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins at GP of Marseille

The Grand Prix of Marseille was held this past weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took the TQ from Adrien Bertin (HB Racing) and Christophe Louis in second and third respectively. At the end of the 30-minute main final Anthony retained his position with Adrien ending the race some three seconds down. Two laps behind Mathias Kalaris (Capricorn) completed the podium result in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 31, 2016

Loran Whiting TQs & wins at Texas Rumble

This past weekend the Rumble in the Asphalt Jungle race was held in Austin, Texas at the newest permanent on-road track in the United States, called N-Control RC Racing Circuit. This was the track’s first big race and in the 1/10th Nitro Sedan class it was Loran Whiting who was able to take the TQ and she would also lead the 20-minute A-main from start to finish to take the day’s win.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 31, 2016

Dani Choi doubles at KMRCA Off-road Championships

The Korean KMRCA Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend. Newly signed Sweep Racing driver, Dani Choi (Kyosho) would walk away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy class to round out a perfect weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class and behind Dani it were Si Minsu and Jang Wonseok that rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]