November 14, 2017

Winter Jumps Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series was held last weekend. The event was held at the Vaasa indoor track, one of four slippery tracks in the series this season while races 5 and 6 will be held on EOS type carpet tracks. Friday was the official practise day and the fastest cars on track were the buggies of last season’s double champion, Konsta Saarinen and it seemed that Konsta could challenge multiple EOS A-main driver Joona Haatanen during the weekend. The 2WD race started on Saturday in Joona’s command. Joona TQ’d all four rounds, local star Oskari Mäki was 2nd and Konsta 3rd after the qualifications. In the finals Joona continued to dominate by winning all three A-mains. Konsta came in 2nd while Oskari rounded out the overall top 3.

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November 13, 2017

Tedeschi & Scaglioni win at CRNS Championship Rd4

The famous Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter in Fiorano, Italy played host for fourth round of CRNS Championship, one of the last races in Italy before the winter break. In the Open 1/8th Nitro category it was Alberto Tedeschi who took home the win after a error-free drive. Following him on the podium was Emanuele Comoglio with Claudio Codazzi completing the podium another lap down.

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November 13, 2017

Ryan Lutz trifecta at Battle of the Sikest

The annual Battle of the Sikest race was held at Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas this past weekend. Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz would make a clean sweep, taking the TQ and win in Pro Nitro Buggy, Open Nitro Truck and Open E-Buggy while his teammate, Joe Bornhorst would come 2nd in all three categories despite winning the opening E-Buggy A-main. Brandon Rose (Team Associated) would come in 3rd in the Nitro Buggy class while Dillon Caldwell (Xray) completed the Nitro Truggy podium. Finally in E-Buggy it was Jake Dellinger (Team Associated) who rounded out the top 3 results.

Image: Ryan Lutz

November 13, 2017

LTCC 2017 & FinTrack Tour opener – Report

The famous LTCC race, the opening round of Finnish Electric On-road Nationals Series FinTrack Tour, took place at a handcraft and hobby expo in Lahti, southern Finland. Nearly 100 entries made the race quite a spectacle once again with Touring Modified and Stock classes being run on Saturday, while Touring Prostock as well as the Formula and GT-12 support categories were held on Sunday. As usual the LTCC King title would be awarded after the race to the driver with the best combined Stock and Prostock or Modified and Prostock results. The highly competitive Modified field saw many ETS and EOS stars including Viljami Kutvonen, Karri Salmela and Joel Valander among top russian drivers like Georgy Chmigal and Maxim Laverychev. With 45 entries the Modified class draw the most drivers in many years and it was welcomed by many to see drivers are getting back to Modified racing.

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November 12, 2017

Daniel Carlsson wins at Middle Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2

The second round of the Middle Swedish Indoor Cup was held this Saturday in Tibro, Sweden on a tight, high grip track that was a big challenge for all drivers. In the Touring Superstock class it was Daniel Carlsson (Team Associated) who took TQ one second ahead of Nathan Parker (Schumacher) in 2nd and Per Lindqvist (Team Associated) third. The finals saw Daniel leading the pack and in the first two legs stretch it our and win with almost a lap over Per. In the third final Nathan got the rhythm and did try to follow Daniel, and in the end it was five seconds between them over the line. Overall and behind Daniel, Per and Nathan would round out the top 3 results.

Thanks to Daniel Carlsson for the report.

November 10, 2017

Andrei takes double Fxracing Indoor Series title

The final round of the 2017 UCS Fxracing Indoor Series was held recently. After an intense first two rounds, multiple national champion Jako Zsolt and current Mini-Z class champion Stroe Razvan were the main contenders. In the Buggy Stock 13.5T class, Andrei managed to take the victory after two heats, followed closely by Zsolt, Razvan and Liviu. Andrei then took the overall victory and was crowned Indoor Series Champion. In the 2WD Modified Short Course class, Andrei had strong competition from Zsolt but in the end, Andrei again took the victory and overall crown in this class.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 8, 2017

Simon Kurzbuch sweeps Guan Kou Sunpadow Grand Prix

The Guan Kou Sunpadow RC Car Grand Prix was held in Xiamen last weekend and it was Simon Kurzbuch who swept the 1/8th Nitro On-road class. In qualifying Simon took the TQ honors with a good margin over freshly crowned Italian champion Marco Vanni and in the main final Simon quickly stormed away from the rest of the field. Controlling the race from the top he was never challenged for the lead and took a convincing victory.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

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