The Hong-Kong-based PYC track hosted the Chinese New Year cup race last weekend. The event was held in several electric on-road classes and in the Touring Modified category it was Thomas Hui with the win from 13-years old Kimi Yam. Kenrick Fong would round out the top 3 result.
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Season 5 of the Urban Touring Series UTS got underway this past weekend with the opening race attracting a record 41 racers. The season opener also saw the expansion of the series to officially include the 45+ Masters TC Class (13.5T Spec Blinky), which saw a strong 16-car grid take to the start. In the premier 17.5T Blinky Touring class, qualifying was a close run affair with three different racers taking TQs in the three qualifying rounds. The TQ tiebreak would go to PY Tang, who edged out Dominic Quek and Esmail Apandi. Making his first A-Main appearance in the class was young 14-years old Ethan Cheng, who joined 13-years old Zaccheus Lam in his 2nd consecutive A-Main.
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Round 3 of the popular Longwy Winter Series was held last weekend, attracting a somewhat lower entry of 80 drivers due to other big races being held in the area the same weekend. This didn’t affect the atmosphere though as it made for lots of track time for everyone. Touring Modified saw Lucas Urbain taking the overall TQ only 0.005 seconds in front of Ronald Völker with Antoine Brunet coming in P3. The A-main again saw Lucas in front and walking away with the win as Ronald came in 2nd overall from Antoine in 3rd.
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Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held at the Atlas Arena in Lodz last weekend, attracting more than 230 entries for the multiple electric on-road and off-road classes. The Buggy Modified classes saw an unstoppable Bartek Zambrzycki (Yokomo) who again took the TQ and win in both the 2WD and 4WD categories. The Xray duo of Bartosz Zalewski and Wojciech Rzepecki would complete the top 3 result in 2WD.
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The final round of the 11th Annual Rockstar Winter Off-road Series was held at PDX Underground in Portland, Oregon last weekend. When the dust had settled it was Andy DiBrino with the overall win in the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class from Joe Pillars on the runner-up spot. Ryan Reavis would complete the overall top 3 result.
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The warm-up race to the Czech Electric On-road Nationals was held in Jedovnice this past weekend. The weekend kicked off with a 3-hour practice session on Friday night, allowing the driver to get into the groove on the somewhat low-traction track. Racing-wise and in the Formula class it was Lukas Hoch who would win the opening A-main, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, however he had to settle for 2nd place in A2 following an incident with another driver that tweaked Lukas’ car. In A3 Lukas was hot on the heels of leader Simon Horak as Hoch needed to win in order to secure the overall victory and eventually Lukas found away past Simon and was able to stretch the lead, allowing him to take the win and with the the overall from Simon Horak in 2nd and Svetlin Douhlevski in 3rd.
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The Danish RC Kongen track held round 4 of their Winter Race series this past weekend. In the 2WD Buggy class it was Yokomo’s Frederik Hovgaard who would walk away with the day’s win from Xray’s Michael Hovgaard in 2nd. Team Associated’s Mathias Douglas came in 3rd to complete the top 3 results. Over in the 4WD Buggy class it was Michael Douglas with the win as Pelle Martin and Oliver Nielsen came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Image: Frederik Hovgaard
The Nitro Compound of Maricopa, Arizona played host to the TNC Madness season warm-up race this past weekend, attracting over 80 entries including some of country’s fastest 1/8th off-road racers. In Pro Nitro Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield with the overall TQ, however Ryan wasn’t able to start the main, making way for 2nd place qualifier, Spencer Rivkin (Team Associated) as Mugen’s Tanner Denney came in 2nd overall in the 30-minute A-main, some twelve seconds behind. TLR’s Anthony Westergaard retained his qualifying spot, a lap behind. Over in Open Nitro Truggy it was Tanner Denney with the overall TQ and also the win in the 30-minute A-main, leaving behind 12th place qualifier, Anthony Westergaard in 2nd from 2nd place qualifier, Chris Wheeler (TLR) in 3rd.
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