The 2017 TQ Carpet Championship Summer Series concluded this past weekend, attracting 83 racers and a total of 559 entries during the ten rounds of racing this summer. In the Sportsman Sedan class it was Gino Kwan with the overall from William Yip Sam Ip who ended the series tie on points with the better tie-breaker handing William the overall runner-up spot.
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The opening round of the Lestr Cup series took place last weekend in Prague. The organisers prepared tight and technical track using EOS carpet which made for good traction conditions. In the 2WD Buggy class Kaja Novotny lead Milan Mudra and Max Götzl who both had very closes finished. The 4WD qualifiers were a blueprint of the 2WD class as Kaja TQ’d all qualifiers to secure the pole position from Milan and Max.
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The Copa Mitad Del Mundo 2017 was held in Quito, Ecuador this past weekend, attracting some of the fastest North and South American nitro on-road drivers. In the premier 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Rodrigo Grijalva with the win from Felipe Bastidas in 2nd and Agusto Quinteros, who rounded out the top 3 podium result.
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The opening round of the Polish Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the EOS Warsaw Expo track. Saturday’s qualifiers were lead by Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski followed by the Yokomo duo of Bartek Zambrzycki and Bartek Zalewski. The final qualifiers on Sunday, with the absence of Michal Orlowski, saw Bartek Zambrzycki taking the pole position for the A-mains and he would also sweep the finals to make the double in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy. Bartek Zalewski and Sebastian Migel (Schumacher) had nice battles for the 2 and 3 spots on the podium and ultimately they would finish in this order in both classes.
Round 6 of the Danish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was hosted by Sydvestjysk RC this past weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, run on Sunday, it was Pelle Culmsee with the TQ and win to further underline his domination in this class this year. Having already wrapped up the championship going into round 6, it was one for the history books and by also taking the win in the 45-minute main final he further stamped his authority. Four laps behind Pelle, Peter Harder would come in 2nd from Florian Müller 3rd.
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The Protoform Cup 2017 was held at Cal Raceway in Orange, California this past weekend. In the premier Touring Modified class Rick Hohwart, JJ Wang and Randy Caster all battled for the overall TQ with all three scoring round TQs and the tie-breaker deciding the grid positions. Ultimately it was Rick who took the pole position for the triple A-mains by 0.13 seconds. JJ would line up 2nd from Randy in 3rd. In the finals Rick Hohwart (Team Associated) made a clean sweep, taking all three qualifiers for the overall win from 2nd placed Randy Caster (Team Associated) who would lead most of A2 but last lap traffic and a tangle meant Rick would take the overall early. 3rd placed JJ Wang (Xray) had some mixed finals, ending the day on the final podium spot.
Last weekend saw the final round of the Croatian Touring Stock Championship. The weekend started off with nice weather on Saturday and Patrik Pozgaj was able to take the two opening qualifiers to gain the overnight TQ from Zeljko Selman and Borna Pliskovac. A final round of qualifiers would be held on Sunday but lower temperatures and clouds meant Saturday’s setups were made redundant. However it was still Patrik Pozgaj on top of the timing sheets and he would continue to perform in the triple A-mains were he set a new Stock class track record with a 20.094, beating Selman and Pliskovac in the progress and also taking the 2017 Croatian Touring Stock title.
The Arizona State Championships were held recently at Hobby Action raceway. The layout for the track was welcomed by many and a huge triple and a quad section was something different for an indoor track and a nice change of pace for indoors. The single 8-minute 4WD main on Sunday saw Xray’s Tanner Stees walking away with the win. Coming from the 2 spot on the grid, Tanner would gain the lead after a couple of laps and he was able to break away from the 2nd placed driver until Tanner had a problem with lap traffic and had to be marshalled were he fell back down to 2nd. The battle continued on once again until the leader made a mistake and Stees was able to take the lead and get a gap going until the end of the race, where he finished 1st from Team Associated’s Ashe Deering 2nd and Tekno’s Billy Fischer 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
