VP Fuels USA have announced the signing of top Japanese pilot, Wataru Takashiro to their team for 2018. Wataru will use VP fuels throughout his campaign that will see appearances at all major races in Japan and overseas, such as the IFMAR World Championship in Australia, while he will also be offering trackside support.
Source: VP Fuels [vpracingfuels.com]
Team Losi Racing have announced the return of 2-times IFMAR 2WD Buggy World Champion, Brian Kinwald to their team. The multi-time national champion brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to TLR’s racing team and he will work closely with the outfit’s development team along with their young and talented racing team to help mold them into title contenders for the future.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
The third round of the HB Racing Winter Series was held at the PDMCC club in Nelson, UK. The event was rescheduled and it was HB Racing’s David Crompton who took the win from Ashley Owen (Xray) on the runner-up spot. JQ Racing’s Gavin Ottley ended the day on the final podium spot.
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For the 3rd Season, the CTS is making its way to 2018 with this time, seven rounds of racing for the points chase. Included are two new tracks in SoCal and one remodeled track in Norcal giving the series a variety of places to race. The first and second race will be on both old and new CRC carpet to start off the winter followed by asphalt to complete the series. The name has also changed for this year to Champion Touring Series allowing more racers from across the US and different parts of the world to compete. With the momentum in popularity of the CTS growing, expanding the series will make it more interesting to racers outside California. The season opener started on February 10th and 11th and more information can be found here.
The Italian Rapallo track recently held a Trophy race and it was Marco Baruffolo who walked away with the win in both the 1/8th Nitro and Electric off-road classes. Valente would come in 2nd in the nitro class from Camamo in 3rd while Marco was sidelined by Sbrana and Formisano on the electric podium.
The fifth round of the Polish PLMS series was held last weekend on a fast and flowing track. In the Touring Stock category it was Simon Horak with the TQ and he would also come out on top after the triple A-mains, handing him the win from Jakub Michalski and Mariusz Zachacz, making it an all-Xray podium.
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The second round of the Xray Racing Series Italy was held at the stunning SRC E-Track facilities in Pescara. More than 100 drivers attended the event that saw the running of six different electric classes. The high-grip indoor asphalt track proved to be a real challenge for the drivers and in the Touring Modified class it was Alexander Hagberg with the win from Dario Balestri and Alessio Menicucci.
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The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 flew into the beautiful Pacific island town of Victoria (Sidney), British Columbia for the Speed Weekend. Hosted by IROCC, the team of volunteers led by track builder extraordinaire Craig Roberts put down yet another great track. High speed and flowing, it put the focus on the racing, while the brand new spec tire, the Sweep QTS-32 BK Black Carpet edition tire provided the perfect tire for the high grip, fast layout. With racers flying in from all over Western Canada and the northern US, it was once again a great event. In Touring Modified, Team Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah, last year’s TC Mod Champion, is currently on a perfect streak of TQs and wins, and lands in Victoria and continues to tear it up. Setting a fast TQ over a great field, edging out Xray’s Korey Harbke and Luke Pittman. Wayne then went on to a perfect double win, to watch the battle for the rest of the podium in A3. Dave Ehrlick would drive his Xray to the win in R3, and end up 2nd overall, with Korey completing the podium.
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