July 29, 2019

Jonathan Skidmore wins at Slough Summer Series Rd4

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.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

July 26, 2019

Xray Racing Series Australia Rd3 – Report

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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July 26, 2019

Antonia Kovalszki wins at SRCM track opening race

The SRCM track in Gyor, Hungary recently held their track opening race. After some thrilling qualifications in the E-Buggy class, Antonia Kovalszki managed to take the overall TQ while Robert Fekete started 2nd and Stefan Lutka 3rd. Antonia and Stefan had some entertaining battles for the top spot in all three finals and in the end it was Antonia Kovalszki who took the overall win in front of Stefan Lutka, while Zsombor Fekete came in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 26, 2019

Portuguese Electric On-road Championship Rd4 – Report

The fourth and penultimate round of the Portuguese Electric On-road Championship was held at the ARMAIA track last weekend, attracting 25 drivers for the Touring and twelve entries for the Formula classes. In Touring Car, Hugo Miguel would take the TQ, however in the A-finals Carlos Manuel (Capricorn) would find his way to the top taking the win in front of Hugo (Serpent) and Francisco (Xray). In Formula some intense racing with lots of overtaking was showcased. João Nascimento took the overall TQ but it was Paulo Bartolo (Serpent) with the overall win from the Xray duo of Luís Simões and João Nascimento.

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July 25, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim track near Hanover in the Northern part of Germany played host to round 4 of this year’s RC-Lemans Series last weekend. The weather was good all weekend except from a quite heavy rain shower on Saturday evening. The fast LMP1 class saw local hero and point standings leader Timo Schad leading the way in the qualifiers where he made a clean sweep to take the pole position for the triple A-mains from Tobias Weist on the 2 spot. Joachim Behnken, Reinder Wilms and Josip Bogdanovic followed behind while the swift Altmann duo of Kai and Tim were absent at round 4.

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July 24, 2019

HNMC Summer Series Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the Herts Nitro Model Club Summer Series was held last weekend. The congested calendar meant that this round clashed with the BRCA national but still almost 60 drivers attended the event. Qualifying would be the best three from four rounds with the Buggy TQ being Jay Williams, TQ in E-Buggy was Holger Lykke and the Truggy TQ went to George Miller. In the 20-minute Nitro Buggy A-main it was Wayne Buckhorn with the overall win some 20 seconds in front of John Niall. Jeremy Irving came in 3rd, only some two seconds behind John. E-Buggy saw Duncan Balgrove walking away with the win from Holger Lykke and Tony Verboom while in Truggy it was George Miller from John Afshin.

Source: BRCA [brca.org]

July 23, 2019

Branislav Panak wins at Timar Laszlo Memorial Race

The Timar Laszlo Memorial Race was held at the Morac-Ring track near Graz in Austria recently. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday with qualifying starting on Saturday noon with both days being affected by the weather. Xray’s Branislav Panak would lead qualifying in the damp and he also led the dry main final from tone to tone to take the win on Saturday some two laps in front of Anton Sloboda (Xray) while Filip Uher (Xray) came in 3rd another three laps down.

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