The fifth and final round of the Austrian Sweep Challenge was held at Trinko Modellsport in Mistelbach this past weekend. The event was held in several electric on-road and a single off-road class. In 13.5T Touring it was Dionys Stadler with a clean sweep after the qualifiers as winning all four rounds secured him the overall TQ from Sascha Klug and Tim Benson. In the Formula class it was David Ehrbar with the TQ from Tim Benson and Christian Schmid.
The fourth and final round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend. 80 entries made for competitive racing although some familiar faces were absent from the race due to oversea duties. The Touring Modified class saw Loic Jasmin taking the top qualifier honours from Marcel Geiger. In triple A-mains the top 3 order would remain the same as Loic brought home three straight wins from Marcel as Mika Jasmin rounded out the top 3 results both in the mains and overall.
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The final rounds of the Finnish 12Track Tour were held this past weekend and it was Destiny’s Vesa Yli with the overall titles in both the 1/12th Modified and 13.5T GT classes. Round 3 was held on Saturday and Vesa would take the TQs and wins in Modified and 13.5T GT as he would on Sunday’s round 4 to seal up the 2017/18 championships. After obtaining the Mod class runner-up spots on Saturday and Sunday, Panu Vehniäinen (Destiny) would snatch the Modified vice-championship as did A-P Kyykkä (Destiny) in 13.5T GT. A-P would also round out the Modified overall top 3 while Jani Hovi (Yokomo) completed the 13.5T GT overall podium.
Round 2 of CTS3 was once again hosted at 209 Raceway in Stockton, California. In the Modified division it was RC Veteran and Team AE driver David Jun who captured the TQ honours by Top Qualifying over his team mate Randy Caster in Q2 and Q3. From tone to tone Jun’s car showed dominant performance in the main taking the win over Awesomatix driver Brandon Clements and EJ Evans.
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Round 5 of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held at the Vislanda track this weekend. In the Touring Modified class it was Xray’s Markus Hellquist who lead the proceedings and after coming out fastest after the practice rounds he would also take the overall TQ and thus pole position for the triple mains. With wins in A1 and A2 Markus would seal the day’s win with one leg to spare, taking the day’s win from Team Associated’s Daniel Carlsson on the runner-up spot and 3rd placed Erik Ström (Xray).
Image: Markus Hellquist
The 2018 Batam Challenge was held this past weekend at the Banana RC track in Batam, Indonesia. The track is accessible from Singapore by ferry in only 40 minutes and it is host for the 2018 FEMCA event in April. A total of 34 drivers from Singapore, Jakarta, Bandung, Banjarmasin, Pontianak as well as local drivers attended the event and after four rounds of 10-minutes qualifying it was Xray’s Jason Nugroho with the overall TQ. Jason then also went on to win the 45-minute main final from HB Racing’s Stanley Wangsanegara 2nd and Kyosho’s John Agus 3rd.
Thornhill Racing Circuits held their inaugural Turf Tamer race this past weekend. The race was held in several 1/10th classes and in 2WD Mod Buggy it was Tyler Hooks with the TQ and win from Rhett McNair in 2nd. Chris Allison, Bryan Justice and Sean Nunamaker would round out the top 5 result. Over in 4WD Mod Buggy it was Rhett McNair, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, with wins in A2 and A3 for the overall victory from Tyler Hooks and Chris Allison. Bryan Justice and John Brett completed the top 5.
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The Holiday Hangover RC Arenacross 2018 was held in Moses Lake, Washington this past weekend in several 1/8th and 1/10th off-road classes. Ryan Lutz again made a clean sweep in all classes he entered and would walk away with the TQ and wins in 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and Expert E-Buggy. Jason Hunt and Carson Phipps would round out the Nitro Buggy top 3 while Carson Phipps and Bryce Beaver accompanied Ryan on the Nitro Truggy podium. Over in Expert E-Buggy it was Tyler Wilbur with the runner-up spot from Derek Rasheed 3rd.
Image: Ryan Lutz
