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January 20, 2017

Estonian Onroad Racing Series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Estonian Onroad Racing Series was held last weekend in Tallinn, Estonia. Seven rounds of Reedy Race style heats made for exciting racing and in the end Karl Kasekamp (Team Durango) would take the win in the 1/10th Stock class from Risto Haug (Xray) and Henri Nurmela (Yokomo). Reimo Kosk (Awesomatix) and Raivo Laak (3Racing) completed the top 5 result. In the Formula class Rainer Ressar (Xray) took the overall win from Reimo Kosk (Yokomo) and Kaley Lukk (Yokomo) while the GT12 category was won by Henri Nurmela (Schumacher) from Hans Mötshärg (Schumacher).

View the Formula and GT12 podium here

January 20, 2017

Jack Neal TQs & wins at Silverstone Winter Series Rd4

Round four of the Silverstone Winter Series was held with 94 entries and in the premier 2WD class racing was pretty close. Jack Neal, Tom Yardy, Dave Poulter and Ian Mellish each TQ’d a qualifying round. In the final Jack drove a faultless race from the front to win, closely followed by Jonathan Skidmore and Richard Barton. In 4WD Paul Crompton won with Jonathan Skidmore 2nd and Felix de Hamel 3rd.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

January 20, 2017

XRS Slovenia Rd2 – Report

Round two of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia was held at the newly resurfaced track in Maribor. The new layout in combination with the proven ETS carpet made for close racing and in the Formula category it was Damir Cindrić to take the TQ after three round of qualifying in front of Matevž Furlan and Sašo Kramljak. The Touring Stock class had Jan Popič coming out fastest from Rok Rudl and Viktor Bolšec while in the fastest class of the weekend, 1/12th scale, Alojzij Osvald took the top qualifying honours from Herfried Pucher and Nejc Mihelič.

Continue reading the report here

January 20, 2017

Serpent welcome Walter Diaz

Serpent have announced the return of Walter Diaz to their US on-road team. After a stint with Capricorn Walter will run Serpent’s gas and electric on-road cars at events throughout the country and he has the following to say:

Thank you for the opportunity to be back and part of the team again, I really appreciate it and I am looking forward to a great year.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 20, 2017

William Piper wins at RCE Snow Ball Race

RC Excitement of Fitchburg, Massachusetts recently held their 12th annual Snow Ball Race. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was William Piper (Xray)who came out on top in the A-main but not after working hard as a first lap carnage had send him dead last with the first place driver nearly a lap in front. But after six minutes William was able to get within striking distance when a bobble by first place let William get by with a minute to go, allowing him to cruise to the win from Caleb Jennings (TLR) in second and Stephen Maizer (Team Associated) third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 19, 2017

Modelix Racing sign Jean-Perrick Sartel

Modelix Racing have announced the signing of Jean-Pierrick Sartel to their world racing team. JP is a very promising and talented French driver that will be running and helping on the development of the Procircuit tyres, Ultimate engines and other Ultimate Racing products.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

January 19, 2017

Drew Butcher wins at Tasmanian State Championships

The recent 2017 Tasmanian State Championships saw Drew Butcher taking the TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. The opening two qualifiers were won by Steven Madziara and Daniel Lokos respectively but Drew found his rhythm for the next four qualifiers in a row, giving him TQ and pole position for the finals. In the first A-main Drew managed a first place with Steven having a little crash on the last corner of the last lap. A2 saw Daniel coming out fastest from Drew so the final main would bring the decision. Drew was lucky enough to get off to a very clean start building a 7 second gap on the first lap, and then just kept it safe for the remainder of the race knowing that everyone else would be pushing that bit harder to try and catch up. Drew managed an overall consistency of 0.53 seconds a lap in that last final, which topped the weekend off just nicely. Behind him, Daniel Lokos and Steven Madziara completed the top 3 podium result.

View the top 5 results here

January 19, 2017

Maclan sign Chui & Lo to their factory team

Maclan Racing have announced the signing of two new factory team drivers in Hong Kong. Keith Chui and Ivan Lo are both front runners in the Hong Kong on-road community. Both drivers participated in a lot of developmental testing of Maclan’s MMax Pro ESC and the two will be running Maclan Racing ESCs and motors in the 2017 season.

View Ivan Lo here