The recent GP of Pierrefeu in France saw Xray’s Yannick Aigoin walking away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class. HB Racing’s Thomas Musso ended the day on the 2 spot from Julien Lattanzio (Xray) 3rd.
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
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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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.
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]
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]
Round three of the Danish DRCMU series was held in Randers last weekend. The large track was laid out with grey ETS carpet and after some very competitive qualifiers it was Patrick Folman with the TQ in the Touring Super Stock class from Mike Gosvig 2nd and Kevin Nielsen 3rd. In the A-mains it was Patrick with the win in A1 while Mike came out fastest in A2 to shift the decision for the overall win to the third and final main. A3 then saw again Patrick taking a narrow 0.3s win from Mike while Kevin came in 3rd, only 1.4s short of Mike. Overall it was Patrick with the win from Mike 2nd and Kevin 3rd.
The Czech Modelklub RK club played host to a round of the Top Speed Challenge last weekend. The race was held on a tight and technical track and in the Formula class it was Simon Horak (Xray) with the TQ and win in the A-main from the Xray duo of Radek Rusmich and Petr Svaták.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
