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May 25, 2018

Wins for Sobue, Wang and Wilck in RROC 2nd round

The second round of racing at the Reedy Race of Champions produced an all new batch of winners with Akio Sobue, JJ Wang and Viktor Wilck registering their first wins of the event. In the first of the 3 encounters, Infinity’s Sobue recovered from a first lap altercation with the Tamiya Raceway’s kink to come from the back to win ahead of Meen Vejrak. Also recovering from an early incident, when he caught the kernbing in the sweeper and rolled, Christopher Krapp completed the Top 3 ahead of pole sitter Keven Hebert. Having failed to start in Round 1, Xray’s JJ Wang would bounce back in the best way possible take the Race 2 win ahead of Jilles Groskamp and Nicolas Lee while pole sitter & offroad ace Ryan Cavalieri had a tough race dropping back to 6th. The main attention however would be on the stacked Race 3 in which both title favourites Marc Rheinard and Ronald Volker lined up against Wilck. Both Wilck and Volker had bad starts while Rheinard got things wrong in the chicane while holding third. This and an incident between Volker and Barry Baker played into the hands of the recovering Wilck he would take the win ahead of Volker, with whom he now shares the points lead together with Sobue. A disappointing race for Rheinard given he started ahead of his title rivals he would have to settle for third.

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May 25, 2018

Champion Rheinard opens 21st Reedy Race with win

Reigning Champion Marc Rheinard has opened the 21st running of the Reedy Race of Champions in the best way possible winning the opening race of the first round of racing at Tamiya Raceway in California. Starting on pole for the opening race, the Infinity driver took an easy win ahead of no.2 starter Viktor Wilck with Christopher Krapp moving up one place to complete the Top 3 ahead of Jilles Groskamp. Posting the fastest winning time of the 3 races, Rheinard was also the only driver to post an 11-second lap with the best lap of 11.958. Race 2 of the opening round would produce the best lead battle with Andy Moore coming under intense pressure from Infinity team-mate Akio Sobue but the pole sitter held on for the win despite the pair making contact a number of times. Behind Xray’s Jan Ratheisky completed the Top 3 from 5th on the grid. After a delayed started to Race 3, JJ Wang having an electrical issue that prevented the Xray driver who second fastest in practice yesterday from taking the start, it would be Ronald Volker who came out on top. Fastest in practice yesterday, the Yokomo driver started third behind team-mates Meen Vejrak and Nicholas Lee who was on pole. A great pass around the outside of Lee moved Volker up to second and that soon became the lead when Vejrak became the first casualty of the kink. Rick Hohwart would come through for second from P5 on the grid as Lee and Vejrak battled for third, Lee holding on for the position.

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May 25, 2018

Volker set pace ahead of 21st Reedy Race of Champions

With the 21st running of the Reedy Race of Champions getting underway tomorrow with the first of 12 rounds of heads up racing over 3 days it was Ronald Volker who set the pace in practice today at Tamiya Raceway. The final time the legendary race will take place at the iconic track which come September will no longer be, a wet surface greeted competitors this morning resulting a 2-hour delay to the start of practice. While the track dried, drivers faced much cooler conditions than normal as the sun never managed to break through the thick cloud cover with it particularly cold for the 4th and final round of practice. Fastest both in outright lap time and over 3-consecutive laps, Volker led the way from JJ Wang with Christopher Krapp third quickest. For reigning champion Marc Rheinard the day would end with him 5th fastest with him declaring he is ‘not as confident as I was after practice last year’.

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May 22, 2018

Vogl & Havranek win Touring Car Euros warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2018 EFRA Electric Touring Car European Championship was held at the 1. MRC Wiener Neustadt track in Vienna, Austria last weekend. In the premier Touring Modified class, that attracted a total of 17 entries, it was Infinity’s Dominic Vogl with the overall TQ after coming out fastest in two of the four qualifiers. Xray’s Oliver Havranek and Alessio Menicucci, who won a qualifier each, came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In Touring 13.5T Stock Oliver made a near clean sweep, winning three qualifying rounds as Awesomatix’s Max Mächler, with one round TQ, came in 2nd.

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May 22, 2018

Nicholas Lee wins at Team James Cup

The Team James Cup was held this past weekend at the SportsSeoul GRC Track in Kimpo, Korea. The race was attracted by top international drivers as well as local talents but bad weather limited the amount of practice before the event, however things turned to the better on Saturday that was all sunshine. The day started off with three free practice rounds followed by one controlled practice round and three qualifiers with the nice day of racing ending under the floodlights. In the first qualifier, it was Alexander Hagberg who would take the TQ after swapping the lead with Nicholas Lee a couple of times, but the later made a mistake in the final corner. EC Kim would finish 2nd for the round with Lee coming in 3rd, not able to complete his final lap. Hagberg would again TQ in the second qualifier by 0.9s ahead of Lee, with another top local Korean driver, Ahn, coming in 3rd. The last qualifier would be ran under the floodlights. Hagberg would again go out on new tires to secure the overall TQ ahead of Lee on used tires and EC Kim in 3rd with new tires.

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May 21, 2018

2nd Annual Pan Car Masters – Report

The 2nd Annual Pan Car Masters was held at the MRTM Lostallo track in Switzerland over the weekend. The event is also known as the unofficial Pro10 World Championship with this year’s race attracting entries from Austria, Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic and the hosting country Switzerland. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t the best, however nearly 50 drivers made the trip to race at the iconic Swiss track. The event was held in several 1/10th and 1/8th Electric classes and although free practice was held in dry conditions, things turned to the worse for the timed practice, qualifiers and finals that were all run in the wet.

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May 21, 2018

Toni Gruber double TQs & wins EFRA GP Series Rd2

Round two of the EFRA GP Series was held at the RACG track in Montbonnot, France this past weekend. Germany’s Toni Gruber was in control of things all weekend as he was able to take a double TQ in 1/8th IC Track and 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring and he would also come out successful in both A-main events. Carmine Raiola would come in 2nd in the 1/8th class from Alberto Picco 3rd as Brice Turco and Ludovic Long rounded out the top 3 results in the Nitro Touring class.

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May 20, 2018

David Ronnefalk TQs & wins 1/8 Buggy World warm-up

The warm-up race for the 2018 IFMAR 1/8 Gas Buggy World Championship was held in Perth, Australia this week. The event saw the attendance of some of the world’s fastest racers with also a strong European contingent making the trip to down under. At the end of a long week it was HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk with the overall TQ and the win in the hour-long A-main event. Team Associated’s Kyle McBride came in 2nd, some two laps down as Kyosho’s Elliott Boots rounded out the top 3 another lap down.

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