May 18, 2013

Johor Indoor Carpet Masters 2013 – report

Johor Indoor Carpet Masters 2013 - report

The inaugural Johor Indoor Carpet Master 2013 was held recently in a sleepy town best known for seafood in Pontian, Johor, a town located down south in Malaysia. The race was organised on a racer for racer concept by Ken Ng who managed to pull some resources as there is no indoor racing track facility  in Malaysia. The response for the race was great with some 80 entries from Malaysia and Singapore. The track used was a rather big temporary carpet track and motors being limited to brushless 13.5T. The class was run on hand-out Ride 32R tires. The race saw five rounds of qualifying with the three best would be chosen to determine the final grid. The first four rounds were held on Saturday and recent TITC attendees PY Tang and Azri Amri proved to be very fast. Both secured two wins each round of qualifying however, due to tie break of two combined best rounds, Azri took TQ by 3 seconds over PY, thus handing him overnight TQ on Saturday evening. Come Sunday morning, it was time for the penultimate round of qualifying and everyone had high hopes to do better and staying in the A Main. So the pressure was high and it was PY Tang who came in first thus securing him the top qualifier honours.

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May 16, 2013

Barry Baker doubles at DE/Panther Racing Series

Barry Baker doubles at DE/Panther Racing Series

San Diego RC Raceway has been host to the 1st annual DE/Panther Racing Series this year and it has been a huge success. Tekno RC’s Barry Baker finished the series with a 1st place overall in both 1/8th Buggy and Pro4. Josh Bertrand and Pres Ilog continued the series podium sweep in 1/8th Buggy, finishing 1st and 2nd overall with their Tekno EB48 electric buggies. In Pro4 the results were similar and Tekno RC would claim the entire podium again. Pres Ilog finished 2nd place and Charles Dunn finished up the series in 3rd. All podium finishes were made with the Tekno RC SCT410.

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May 16, 2013

ROAR paved on-road nats – report

ROAR paved on-road nats – report

The 2013 ROAR paved on-road nationals was held in West Palm, Florida and was hosted by Tim Potter and Village raceway with help from ROAR Race management team. The format for the race was one day of practice on Thursday, two rounds of qualifying on Friday, two more rounds on Saturday and the finals on Sunday. The qualifying format was qualifying points with best two rounds out of 4 counting for final qualifying position. Everyone showed up early Thursday morning with hopes of getting in a full day of practice, soon it became apparent that was not going to be the case, most drivers were able to get in a run or two before the downpours came. With the track so was fresh in the morning and lower than expected grip all teams were scratching their heads not knowing whether to change their cars or not. Due to all the rain on Thursday ROAR allowed for some extra practice on Friday which was nice. In the Mod TC class it was Andrew Hardman, Ralph Burch, Paul Lemieux along with Keven Hebert who looked to be the fastest in the limited bit of practice. In the 17.5 TC division it was Scotty Gray leading the way, Scotty is most known for his talents in nitro racing but with the Nationals close to home he came out and was impressively fast in the 17.5 division. In the 13.5TC division Kory Parsons , Josh Cyrul and Andrew Knapp were all looking fast.

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May 16, 2013

Glyn Beal wins Rd3 of BRCA Sports GT series

Glyn Beal wins Rd3 of BRCA Sports GT series

For Round 3 of the BRCA 1/10th Sports GT Championship, the series visited the newly renovated Halifax track. With the track due to hold the 1/8th European Championships later this year, a new raised pit lane and covered pit area have been introduced to raise the clubs profile. The weather forecast for the weekend was for hot temperatures on both days and the Sports GT class saw 17 entries. On Saturday it was the unbeaten Glyn Beal setting the pace with Adam Crossland and Ryk Pryke continuing their good form from Wombwell and those 3 drivers would also make up the top 3 qualifiers after 4 rounds on Sunday.

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May 15, 2013

Mark Green remains unbeaten with 3rd win

Mark Green remains unbeaten with 3rd win

For the 3rd round of the British 200mm Championship we visited the excellent Halifax circuit in West Yorkshire. The venue has recently undergone big improvements with a new raised pit lane and fantastic covered pits, in preparation for the upcoming 1/8th European Championships. Saturday’s practice started off with many drivers suffering with rear stability on their cars but the traction gradually improved throughout the day. It was Mark Green setting the pace getting down to 16.2 lap times, Joe Kerry very close behind with his 747 on 16.3 laps.

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May 15, 2013

Juan Pablo Golobic wins Aregntine season opener

Juan Pablo Golobic wins Aregntine season opener

Last weekend in Buenos Aires’s city the first round of the Argentine 1/10 on road national championships took place at the at the Hernan Matticoli track. In Saturday’s qualifying the TQ went to Juan Pablo Golobic (Capricorn/Novarossi), who maintained his pace on Sunday taking the win in the main final. Second place went to mate team Sebastian Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi) with third position going to Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi).

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]


May 15, 2013

Alberto Garcia wins Rd2 of Spanish 1/8th EP Nats

Alberto Garcia wins Rd2 of Spanish 1/8th EP Nats

The second round of the Spanish 1/8th EP off-road nationals took place this past weekend at the Pical track in Valladolid. After qualifying, Serpent drivers Alberto Garcia got TQ setting the fastest time in the last three qualifying rounds followed by 2nd placed team mate Sergio Martinez in 2nd with Roberto Garcia 3rd. The finals were really exciting. Garcia dominated the two first finals, getting the victory. For the last final, without winner Garcia, Sergio Martinez put in a great performance to win the final, getting the second place overall in front of former European champion Daniel Vega.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]


May 15, 2013

Julius Kolff wins Rd2 of Dutch 1/10th Nationals

Julius Kolff wins Rd2 of Dutch 1/10th Nationals

Round 2 of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm National Championship took place this past weekend at the RACO2000 track in Utrecht. Rain was to make Saturday an all but complete washout so drivers went into race day with little or no practice. Sunday was to begin wet with qualifying round 3 being the best time to set a fast time as the track conditions improved. In the NK class former European Champion Julius Kolff took a clear TQ spot ahead of Sander Borghoff and Ruud Schuitmaker. Defending champion Pedro Rombouts was unable to attend this round. In the 30 minute main final Kolff would dominate the race to win by more than 3 laps ahead of Borghoff in 2nd, with Rik Meijeren taking the final podium spot. Schuitmaker would gamble on the rain returning during the final but it never materialized and he would end the race 9th. In the Kyosho sport class it was a clear win for Hans Westerveld, beating pole man Mathieu van der Hoeven by over 5 laps with Jogn Weytboer taking 3rd.

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