Round 5 of the Mauritian Electric On-road Championship was held last weekend in the three classes of 1/8th BL Open, 1/8th BL Promo, and 1/10th Touring 10.5T Boosted. In 1/8th BL Open it was Jovanni Appasamy with the overall TQ and he also brought home the win after the A-mains from Clarel Lacour in 2nd place. Christophe Cazin completed the top 3 results while also scoring the fastest lap.
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The Chesterfield Auto Racing Society held round 3 of the CARS Summer ShootOut Series this past weekend. LMP12 13.5 was won by David Spashett from Ollie Payne in 2nd and Andrew Smith in 3rd. LMP12 17.5 had Gavin Clinch coming out on top from Glenn Atterton 2nd and Kevin Creaser 3rd. In GT12 it was Simon Pole with the day’s win from Justin Heath and Trevor Coult while WGT saw Dave Sedgwick walking away with the silverware from Gareth Preece and Kevin Creaser.
The Illinois Indoor State Championship was held at Impact RC Raceway in Morris, Illinois this past weekend. The event was run on indoor clay and attracted over 100 entries that spread over several 1/10th off-road classes classes. In 13.5T 4WD Buggy it was Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and he also brought home a pretty dominant win in the single 7-minute A-main event, leaving behind Brad Prenger in 2nd and Adam Rayls in 3rd. Over in the 17.5T 2WD Buggy class it was again Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and win as Brad Prenger scored another runner-up spot. Codi Lundberg would round out the top 3 podium result.
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The third round of the Italian ACI Sport IC Track Championships was held in Bologna this past weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track Expert class it was Infinity’s Lamberto Collari with the overall TQ and the multi-time World Champion would also come out on top after the 30-minute main final, leaving behind his Infinity teammates, Alberto Picco and Francesco Tironi in 2nd and 3rd respectively with all three finishing on the same lap.
Image: Lamberto Collari
The MC Ettlingen club in the South-West part of Germany held a qualifying round to the German IC Track Nationals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Mugen driver Steven Cuypers with the overall TQ and also a pretty dominating win in the 30-minute A-main final. Five laps behind it was Serpent’s Jörg Wäldle on the runner-up spot as Infinity’s Oliver Mack, who had gearbox issues, came in 3rd, another two laps behind.
Image: Steven Cuypers
East RC of Jakarta, Indonesia held their 2019 East Summer Race this past weekend. With a fresh asphalt which resulted almost 1.5 seconds improvement of laptime, it was Meen Vejrak took the TQ spot in the Modified class, followed by Nicholas Lee and Bowie Ginting in 2nd and 3rd, while Charlee Phutiyotin rounded up the 4th and Muhammad Izzah secured 5th on the grid. The main final delivered some of interesting races as Meen took an easy win in A1 in front of Nicholas and Christian. Meen was pushed to retired in A2, allowing Nicholas to take the win in front of Bowie and Izzah. The deciding A3 went to Meen with a comfortable gap ahead of Nicholas. With this result Meen took the overall win followed by Nicholas and Bowie.
Last weekend’s round 4 of the Slough Summer Series was also the unofficial warm-up to the BRCA Rallycross Nationals that will be held later this year. The Nitro Buggy class saw a healthy 77 drivers entry and in the end it was Agama’s Joni Skidmore with the overall TQ and also the win in the 20-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing’s Graham Alsop in 2nd. William Skidmore came in 3rd to round out the podium. Michael Lewis (Team Associated) in 4th and Kevin Brunsden (SWorkz) in 5th completed the top 5 results.
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The Xray Racing Series Australia round 3 took place under control of the Whalan club. With the rain forecast it was always going to be a hit and miss weekend, right up until Sunday morning the event had rain forecast but somehow it decided to stay away. The racing didn’t disappoint as both 13.5T Touring and 1/12th scale came down to the last final and the very last corner. In 13.5T Touring it was Peter Wong (Yokomo) with the overall from Damien Zarb (Yokomo) in 2nd and Nathan Tanti (Xray) in 3rd.
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