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December 1, 2017

BRCA Formula National Series Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the BRCA Formula National Series brought the drivers to the fantastic Rug Racers venue in Hertfordshire. A great track layout awaited drivers with a long straight, sweeper and a few tricky chicanes to tackle on the infield. Qualifying ramped up in pace as the track cleaned up and fastest lap times were very close across five to six drivers but who could keep it on the road and out of the barriers for five minutes? It was Luke Lee (Xray) setting the fastest time in all three rounds and claiming pole position with James Greener (Team Associated) in 2nd and Michael Lee (Xray) driving well to 3rd on the grid despite lack of running on carpet.

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November 30, 2017

Caroli & Laubscher take South-African 1/12th scale titles

The 2017 season of the South African On-Road Electric 1/12th scale National Championship recently concluded and in the Modified class Antonio Caroli managed to win the title in a great battle with Hein Kotze, Shaun Schutte, Marius van Niekerk and Andre Greeff. Over in 1/12th Stock 13.5T, the series hosted a great battle between the youngsters Brandon Solomon and Francois Laubscher with Francois managing to take the title.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 30, 2017

Jarno Pijpers joins SWorkz

SWorkz have announced the signing of Dutch frontrunner, Jarno Pijpers to their team. Jarno will be running the company’s 1/8th and 1/10th scale kits in the 2018 season and he has the following to say about the deal:

The past years were some really good ones I was able to take the Dutch championship. I am really impressed by the SWorkz cars and the support of the team. In the winter I drive 2wd and 4wd 1:10. 1:8 nitro is the main class, I will drive the E-Buggy too in the Dutch championship. Specials thanks to Max Sonnleitner, MW RC Cars and SWorkz Europe.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

November 29, 2017

Kokemper wins 200mm class at South Brazilian Champs

The Conesul track in Portao hosted the 2017 South Brazilian On-road Championship recently with the event being highly impacted by the weather. The schedule already saw some limitations and even the 40-minute 200mm A-main had to be canceled at the 37-minute mark due to rain, handing Bernardo Kokemper the win and title from Luciano Aquino 2nd and Diego Nogueira 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 29, 2017

Polish Electric Off-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Polish Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Warsaw Comic Con and Ptak Expo in front of thousands of spectators. While 2WD Buggy class was pretty much controlled from the very beginning until the very end by Yokomo driver Bartek Zambrzycki, 4WD appeared to be an open battle between three drivers: Bartek Zambrzycki (Yokomo), Sebastian Migal (Xray), and Bartek Zalewski (Xray). Lap times were close together and the qualifying results only varied by seconds. However, it is Bartek Zambrzycki again who took TQ and top podium position after the deciding third A-main. The runner-up spot in both classes went to Sebastian Migal from Bartek Zalewski who rounded out the podium results.

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November 29, 2017

Xray Racing Series Slovakia Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The event was held in multiple electric on-road and off-road classes and in the premier Touring Modified class it was young Oliver Havranek with the win from Xray’s own Martin Hudy while Zdenko Kunak completed the podium in 3rd.

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November 29, 2017

Dytor & Hamon win Australian IC On-Road titles

This past weekend the 2017 Australian IC On-Road Championship were held in New South Wales, Australia. In the 45-minute 1/8th nitro on-road A-main it was Leigh Dytor with a close 3-seconds win from David Craft on the runner-up spot. Jeff Hamon would round out the top 3 result some two laps down.

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November 29, 2017

Knapp & Firsching dominate U.S. Indoor Champs

The 37th annual U.S. Indoor Championships were held in Cleveland, Ohio last weekend with almost 500 entries making this event the largest road race in the U.S.. With almost 40 years of racing heritage, the U.S. Indoor Champs attracted all the big names in the country with some of the largest class entry numbers ever. In 1/12th Modified it was Andrew Knapp who would lead the pack in the A-main. Having no intention to run the class, a little kick in the bottom by his chassis sponsor meant Andrew would only start with Q2 and with no result going into that round, he was resorted to dead last in the bottom heat. He poked around the track feeling out the power and handling of 1/12th scale Modified gaining him a 3rd qualifying position. Now sorted into the A-heat in third, Andrew pushed a bit harder with more confidence in round 3 gaining him a close 2nd, just missing TQ. For round 4, Knapp and motor man Jim Dieter threw it all out there and he ripped the car around for a TQ spot. In the A-main, Andrew was simply on a different level. He drove away from the competition at times making it look easy as he bantered jokingly with other drivers on the stand.

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