EC Kim wins Touring Modified class at 2019 GIRC

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

Ronald Völker TQs & wins at Mon-Tech NYGP

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.

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RC-Lemans Series Rd6 – Report

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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2019 EWS International – Announcement

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.

2019 International Indoor Championships – Report

The 2019 Edition of the Annual International Indoor Championships were held at 702 RC Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national and international drivers with this year’s race drawing over 170 entries. In the Modified Touring class it was Alexander Hagberg who would lead the way but 2nd place qualifier Brandon Clements was putting on a formidable challenge. Able to see Hagberg just a few turns ahead of him, Clements threw down excellent and super consistent runs being 4-tenths of each other to score him a solid overall second place. The rest of the pack had assorted finishing positions and times that it had to go to the scoring cards with Drew Ellis emerging as the overall as the overall all third place finisher.

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