The Hot Race Trophy Rome was held at the Gianni Modellismo track in both electric and nitro classes. The 1-day race saw three qualifiers of which the best round counted. In Electric Touring Car Modified Alessio Menicucci took the pole position for the mains from Nicola Marrone and Simone D’Ottavio while the Touring 13.5T blinky class was lead by Valter Cola from Flavio Buzi and Djalma Bochicchio.
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Round one of the Xray Racing Series Australia was held at the revamped Sydney Model Autosports track. The surface was treated with sugar and the grip was perfect but as for the weather; mid to high 30 Degrees on both Saturday and Sunday was hard to deal with for man and machine. In the premier ISTC Modified class Awesomatix’s Jeffery Mackie would bring home the win from Ari Bakla (Xray) in second and Lionel Saunders (Yokomo) third.
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This past weekend saw the annual British Winter Open event, a type of indoor national – this year hosted by the Maritime Raceway in Kent and run by the BRCA. The track was extremely fast but had a nice flow to it and average laps of 18s for 4WD and 19s for 2WD. The surface was very short pile blue Astro which had previously been surface utilised by the Silverstone club. The Saturday saw the 2WD class and odds on favourite for the event was TLR’s Ellis Stafford, former European champion and a regular at the Maritime venue. Qualifying was fast and furious with the TQ position to be decided in the fourth and final round – on the tight indoor track, passing places were limited so pole was highly sought. Coming down to the final few laps of the final qualifier, Ellis would put his local experience to use and just edge out Tom by a second to take TQ, with Schumacher’s Tom Yardy 2nd and Jack Neal in 3rd from Richard Barton and Charlie Ware who lined up 4th and 5th.
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SWorkz have announced the signing of UK veteran racer, Simon Reeves to their team. Simon brings many years of experience and outstanding pace to the SWorkz family and this is what Simon Reeves has to say:
During testing I have been highly impressed with the materials and construction of the S35-3 and found great pace even early on with the platform. I look forward to a fantastic 2017 with SWorkz.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
This past weekend was the first of four rounds for the Region 4 Championships held at the Arcadia track in Florida. DJ Apolaro (Capricorn) took the overall TQ of the 200mm class after sweeping each round of qualifying. In the main final, DJ continued to dominate, bringing home the win two laps ahead of second placed Junior Castellanos (Mugen) and third placed Jerry Guerra (Mugen).
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The fourth round of DRCMU Danish Nationals was held in Skanderborg on a purpose-built track laid out with grey ETS carpet and located in a sportshall. Xray’s Mike Gosvig would bring home the win from young Kevin Nielsen (Xray) and VBC Racing driver Frederik Broløs Mikkelsen.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The recent fifth round of the CWIC Xray Racing Series UK saw ever increasing entries with some top names either making their debut or a return to the series. Olly Jefferies continued his dominance in the Super Touring class taking TQ and back to back final wins. from Alex Thurston (Serpent) and Chris Grainger (Team Associated).
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Modelix Racing have announced the return of Italian frontrunner, Riccardo Rabitti to their world factory team. The multi-national champion and international events A-main finisher will be running Procircuit tyres, Nitrolux fuel as well as Ultimate Racing products and accessories from now on.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]
