February 24, 2020

TQ & win for JC Canas at Spanish E-Buggy opener

The opening round of the Spanish 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals was held at the La Jara club this past weekend. Juan Carlos Canas (SWorkz/Maclan Racing) took the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the A-mains, leaving behind young David Todd (Mugen/Ultimate) in 2nd and Carlos Pineda (Team Associated/Reedy) in 3rd. Joan Espasa (Xray/Reds Racing) and Jaume Figuls (Team Associated/Hobbywing) would round out the top 5 results.

Source: InfoRC [inforc.net]

February 24, 2020

Joni & Will Skidmore sign with Mugen

Mugen Seiki Europe have announced the signing of Joni and Will Skidmore to their team. The two will campaign Mugen’s MBX8 platform at all major 1/8th off-road races across the UK and Europe and Mugen are happy to have the two onboard for this season.

Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]

February 24, 2020

JJ Wang wins at Full Throttle Championship

The RC Car Club of America RCCA track in Fort Worth, Texas held the Full Throttle Championship this past weekend, attracting 110 entries from Texas, California, Canada and Arizona to battle it out in several electric on-road classes. In Touring Modified it was Xray’s Chris Adams with the overall TQ but when the dust had settled it was Xray’s JJ Wang with the overall win from Chris on the runner-up spot. Lex Tyler came in 3rd to round out the all-Xray top 3 results.

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February 24, 2020

Jesper Rasmussen doubles at Pan Car Grand Prix

The 2020 Pan Car Grand Prix was held at the Aalborg RC club in Denmark in a single Formula and two 1/12th scale classes over the weekend. The Formula category, that unfortunately lacked some entires, saw Jesper Rasmussen taking the TQ and win from Mads Koue on the runner-up spot. Lars Christensen came in 3rd and Sara Koue rounded out the top 4. Over in 1/12th scale Stock it was again Jesper Rasmussen who would dominate the proceedings, taking the TQ and win from Michael Buch Strandholdt in 2nd and Joakim Larsen in 3rd.

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February 24, 2020

Tony McMahon TQs & wins at TFTR Masters

The 2020 edition of the TFTR Masters was hosted by the Templestowe Flat Track Racers in Templestow, Melbourne this past weekend. In the highly competitive 13.5T Touring class it was Tony McMahon (Xpress) with the overall TQ and he would also come out on top in the end, taking the win from John Krilis (Xray) on the 2 spot. Glenn Wilson (Xray) would come in 3rd to round out the podium.

Source: Smokem Racing [smokem-racing.com]

February 23, 2020

X-Factory UK Winter Series Rd5 – Report

This past Saturday saw the fifth and penultimate round of the X-Factory UK Winter Series take place, with a nice break indoors away from the torrential wind and rain happening outside. A twisty, tricky and technical track greeted the racers for this round and after all four qualifiers had run it was Mark Lewis (Team Associated) who would take the TQ in the 2WD class with his round 3 time, followed by Alex Haywood (Team Associated) in 2nd who just missed out on TQ in round 4 by just over 1.5 seconds, Kevin Hunt, who was switching cars all day (Team Associated/X-Factory UK) completed the top 3 qualifying in 3rd. Richard Miller (Yokomo) was in 4th, Abe Lyons (Schumacher) was 5th and Mark Keen (Schumacher) was last man straight into the A in 6th, the remaining A-final spots would be decided as usual via the bump-ups and those who would promote from the B-final.

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February 22, 2020

BRCA Scottish GT regionals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the BRCA Scottish GT regionals took place at the Dundee and Angus Radio Control Car Klub. This was the second visit to Dundee in this series and the club laid out a new circuit with a challenging centre section that was tough to master but very rewarding for those that did. Qualifying saw a three way battle for pole position between championship leader John Simpson, Kenneth Rogers and James Eaves. John would open up a gap to line up on pole ahead of Kenneth and James. Colin Leslie, David Bruce, and Fraser Leslie would complete the top final.

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