The 2019 Mon-Tech NYGP was held at 360v2 RC in New Rochelle, New York last weekend. The event saw Ronald Völker (Yokomo) walking away with the win in Touring Modified while Awesomatix’s Max Mächler TQed and won the TC Stock CanAm A-main, leaving behind Awesomatix’s Bill Sydor in 2nd and Yokomo’s Phil Matthews in 3rd.
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Thunder Alley Raceway held the 4th and final round of the 2019 RCGP series last weekend. In the RC2 class it was HB Racing’s Camden Lime with the overall TQ from Team Associated’s Ryan Pavidis and Richard Saxton. In the 45-minute A-main final Camden had a bit of a rough start but about 13 minutes into the race he took over the lead from TLR’s Anthony Westergaard and from there he never looked back to bring home the win some 25 seconds in front of Anthony. Team Associated’s Aaron Dexter would complete the top 3 results from Colin Herzig 4th and Kody Watson 5th.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]
The 2019 International Offroad Carpet Championship was held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. The event took place back-to-back with the International Indoor Championships the week before and adding some nice obstacles converted the indoor on-road track into a challenging off-road circuit. At this year’s IOCC, it seemed to be Broc Champlin’s weekend with his 4WD car throwing down some of the only 18-lap runs of the event. In the A1 of 4WD Mod Buggy, Broc would finish a full lap ahead of his brother Blake to take the first win. It wouldn’t be so easy in the second main. As the two were slicing and dicing through traffic, Blake had to the goods to make the pass on his brother if only his brother left an opening. Excellent defensive driving would earn Broc a second win and over all win.
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Former IFMAR 2WD World Champion, Hayato Matsuzaki has announced his departure from Yokomo. Hayato spent seven years with the iconic Japanese manufacturer following a successful stint with HPI Racing. Part of the development team Hayato worked on the BD touring car and YD-2 series drift car platforms with his most recent duties being team mechanic for Yokomo drivers such as Ronald Völker. The departure of Hayato means another set back for Yokomo who are currently undergoing a restructuring process following the recent leave of founder and president, Tom Yokobori. This is what Hayato has to say about his departure:
I spent really exciting time with Yokomo team, customer ,Yokomo family! Speciality YD2 project and BD9 project was really big for me. I learn a lot of things during those project with Team member of Yokomo family!
The 2019 GRC International RC Car Championship GIRC was held at the GRC Raceway in Gimpo, South Korea over the weekend. The event attracted over 100 entires including guests from abroad such as Germany’s Marc Rheinard and Singapore’s Dominic Quek. In the Touring Modified class it was Zero Tribe’s EC Kim with the overall TQ from Infinity’s Marc Rheinard on the 2 spot after the qualifiers. A1 and A2 then saw pretty dominant wins of EC for the early overall victory while the remaining podium spots were hard fought for. Ultimately it was Xray’s Dominic Quek with the runner-up spots following 2-3-1 results in the finals as Yokomo’s Dong Uk Jang came in 3rd with 3-4-2 finishes. Marc Rheinard suffered of some problems in the A-mains and had to settle for 4th overall with 4-2-8 results.
Image: Dominic Quek
360v2 RC of New Rochelle, New York played host to the 2019 Mon-Tech NYGP this past weekend. The event attracted nearly 200 entries not only from the U.S. but also from Europe, making for some very competitive racing in the several 1/10th and 1/12th scale classes. In Touring Modified it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker from Germany with the overall TQ thanks to winning three of the four qualifiers. Xray’s top Swede, Alexander Hagberg came in 2nd with a single round TQ from U.S. boy Sam Isaacs (Awesomatix) in 3rd. The A-mains then saw Ronald making a clean sweep in A1 and A2 for the early overall win from A3 winner, Sam Isaacs in 2nd. Alexander Hagberg scored 2nd place finished in A1 and A3 but suffered a DNF in A2 meaning he had to settle for 3rd overall after the tie-breaker.
The 6th and final round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held in Velp, The Netherlands. With Timo and Rainer Schad having already secured the overall titles in the LMP1 and LMP2 classes, the race was all about the final podium spots. Practice on Saturday would be held in nice Fall weather with sun and mild temperatures making for good racing conditions. The weather for Sunday however looked less promising with showers coming during the qualifiers and the remainder of the day being run under heavy rain. The LMP1 class was held in full wet conditions and it were Andreas Dick, Reinder Wilms and Tobias Weist who would score round TQs. Ultimately it was Andy with the fastest time to take the pole position from Tobias and Reinder. Timo Schad and Peter Plümacher completed the top 5, also in the tie-breaker.
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The Essex Winter Series team announce the details of their 2019 EWS International event. The event will take place over the weekend of the 6th to 8th of December 2019, at their indoor facility in the South-East of the UK, just outside London. Following the success of the event in previous years, the format will remain largely the same, with classes for Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Blinky Touring, using Volante tyres, and this year a Front Wheel Drive class, with hand-out 17.5T motors and ETS-spec Ride tyres. To highlight the quality of the event, many drivers from across Europe have already confirmed they will return to the race, including Yannic Prumper, Ronald Volker, Max Machler, Christian Donath, Christopher Krapp, and more. Entries are limited to 140 to allow for a reasonable finish time each day, and are now open. Full rules and a link to the entry page can be found on the EWS website here. For questions about the race, travel arrangements or making an entry from outside the UK, please email Oli Meggitt at oli.meggitt@gmail.com.
