A round of the Finnish Winter Jumps series was held in the Helsinki area this past weekend. The event was organised by Finland’s biggest RC club, Fullspeed RC and Joona Haatanen was once again the fastest driver of weekend as he TQ’d and won both the 2WD and 4WD classes. In 2WD the best of the rest was lead by local star Tuomo Otsavaara from Mikko Luopajärvi in 3rd.
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The Racing Arena Limburg in Sittard, Holland, played host to the opening round of the Dutch National Indoor Championship. This ETS carpet equipped indoor track offers extremely high grip and would prove a challenge for the drivers of the Touring Modified, Stock, Formula and 1/12th Stock classes. The the rubber tyre classes Volante tyres were used with the mandatory Stock motor being the old ETS type for touring and the current Scorpion combo for Formula as the 1/12th cars ran on 1S batteries and 13.5T motors with blinky speedos. In Touring Modified the man to bear was John Ermen. He put his ARC car on pole, in front of Florian Joos (Xray), Marcel Koch (Infinity) and the ARC duo of Robbin Hertong and current Dutch Modified champion Sidney Blokker.
Last weekend the opening round of the 2017/18 Ruddog Cup took place at the RC-Indoor-Arena in Köstendorf, Austria. Both of the Modified Off-road classes were dominated by Patrick Hofer, who took the win in 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy. In 2WD he was followed by Michael Kloibhofer and Martin Lindner while in the 4WD class it was Christian Wukonig and Andreas Mayr who took the final podium spots.
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Round 1 of the Xray Racing Series Austria was held at the small and technical track of the Carpet Brothers in Leopoldsdorf in the east of Vienna. The mains were run with 10-car fields, making for some eventful and hectic races. In the end it was Hupo Hönigl with the win in the 2WD Buggy class from Lucas Grainer 2nd and Peter Lonscar 3rd. Roland Hauleitner would come in 4th from Thomas Pumpler 5th.
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The recent second round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK again attracted over 100 entries with the most popular being the XRS Stock class. The new ETS style carpet has been working real well and only gets better and better each round as it clean up. This round seen some new faces to the Modified class with Harley Eldridge (Yokomo) looking good to keep Xray’s Olly Jefferies on his toes.
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The inaugural KRacing Winter Edition race was held at the La Nucia track in Spain this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro with the TQ from Mugen’s Robert Batlle and Team Associated driver Tom Robin. In the main final however it was Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton, coming from way down the field, who scored a popular win from Davide in 2nd as Kyosho’s João Figueiredo snatched the final podium spot. Alex Zanchettin (Tekno) came in 4th, Robert Batlle had to settle for 5th overall after some problems. Over in 1/8th E-Buggy it was also Davide Ongaro (Team Associated) with the overall TQ and by scoring wins in the opening two A-mains he would also take the overall victory from Mugen’s Robert Batlle 2nd and Tekno’s Alex Zanchettin 3rd.
Source: InfoRC [inforc.net] | Image: João Figueiredo
Yokomo have announced another big signing this year to the Yokomo USA race team with JP Richards. Over the past couple years, JP has put together an impressive racing resume, driving for Team Durango and TLR, that would be hard to match. JP has dominated the racing scene in the Midwest, while also making the highly contested 2WD Modified Buggy A-main events at the past two ROAR 1/10 Electric Off-Road Nationals. JP will make his official Yokomo debut with the World Championship Winning YZ-2 DTM 2WD buggy and YZ-4 SF 4WD buggy next week at the 2017 JConcepts Indoor National series finale at Speed RC in North Carolina.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Arrowmax have announced the signing of Chinese top driver Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang to their factory team. Zhang will be using Arrowmax’s tools, accessories and LiPo batteries in his forthcoming campaign and he has the following to say about the deal:
I’m so glad to join Team Arrowmax. Thanks to Arrowmax offer me this opportunity.All AM products are very nice and high quality.I believe AM products will help me achieve much better race results in the future.
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
