The recent Chunchoen Worldleisure 1/8th Offroad Championships were held in Korea with high temperatures making for a tough day for both men and machine. Kyosho driver Wattaru Takashiro would make the best out of the conditions by taking the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy main from Agama pilot Si Minsu and Jang Wonseok (Serpent). Dani Choi (Kyosho) and Jeon Hanyoung (Serpent) completed the top 5 result.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The damp and bumpy astroturf track at Bury Metro in the north of England saw Ben Smith taking the BRCA 4WD Buggy Junior under 13’s title. Ben drove a very mature race to win the first two legs of the A-final to take the title and elsewhere in the 2WD class he would finish 2nd to round out a great weekend.
Source: Schumacher [racing-carc.com]
After an 8-week break the 2016 RC-Lemans Series continued with round six held at the RMC Düren track. The weather forecast for the weekend promised unsteady weather with Saturday’s practice underwent in cold but dry conditions. The opening round of qualifiers on Sunday morning would then be held on a dry track but in time for round 2 it started to get wet meaning all drivers would opt to sit out the remainder of the morning. Thankfully in time for the finals the weather cleared up and the mains would be run on a dry track.
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The second annual Summer Slam hosted by NORCAR at The Gate in Brunswick, Ohio not only marks the nearing of the end to Summer and the start of the indoor carpet season in the U.S. Midwest region, but also the final weekend of the popular annual USVTA National Points Series. This event only offers rubber tire chassis’, this year saw Formula, VTA, USGT, GT-R, and Touring 17.5. The event saw a growth from the inaugural year due to the unique layouts that can be achieved with a rubber-tire only event. Lots of dots were used, okay … an exorbitant amount of dots were used and the Ring of Death made its reappearance. Saturday’s qualifying heated up quickly in round 1. In Formula Wayne Gerber set the early TQ in front of Brian Wynn, the only two to post early 38 lap runs.
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The Wicked Weekend was held in Gainesville, Georgia with a record amount of 640 entries. This made for long days but the program moved along quickly thanks to the race directing by Lance McDonald. The track layout put in by Bobby Moore was relatively easy and had good flow which provided close racing. For qualifying, Ryan Lutz seemed to be unbeatable by TQ’ing both rounds of all three classes. In Nitro Truggy Ryan set sail early and left the pack. Joe Bornhorst had some early mistakes but came back to 2nd place late in the race, leaving Blake Boggs behind in third.
This past weekend round four of the Jakarta regional Buggy Championship was hosted by the Graha Raya track, in Serpong, West Java. A total of 53 drivers attended this event with the race format being three rounds of ten minutes qualifying of which the best two would count. For the finals the best five drivers would bump up and after the three rounds of qualifying it was Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) who took the TQ honours. In the 45-minute main final it was again Adrian who came out fastest with John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) taking the runner-up spot some 10 seconds down. In third Rama Tribudiman (Team Associated/O.S.) completed the podium result.
This past weekend it was time to visit the Stafford circuit in the Midlands for round six of the Schumacher BTCC. Saturday saw some drivers turn up to try and get some practice and get their cars set to their liking, however they managed to get a few runs between the rain showers until a huge downpour ended things in the afternoon. Sunday morning drivers were greeted by a damp race track and showers on and off throughout the day. Stafford’s John Robson and Schumachers Mark Musgrove gave the drivers briefing and explained the details for the day. This was the regular format of round by round qualifying, with two from four rounds to count. The Modified class was unfortunately low on entries, due to some of the top drivers away on duty at the Worlds event in China and also due to there being no Modified National event this year at the track. However for the drivers that were there, they had a great time and enjoyed themselves. It was Olly Jefferies who would TQ all four rounds and line up on Pole ahead of David Hall and Marcus Askell.
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Round five of this year’s Huge RC Club Race series was held over the weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class Serpent’s Pichakorn would take the TQ and the A-main final would see a close fight between the TQ holder and Mugen’s Supawoot with both being never separated by more than 3 seconds the whole race. At the end Pichakorn’s driving and strategy would win him the race from Supawoot with Yingyos (Xray) taking the final podium spot.
