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July 12, 2016

Quentin Leroux takes French 200mm Championship

Round four of the French 200mm National Championship was held in sunny weather conditions and hot temperatures. Going into the penultimate round, Quentin Leroux and Basile Concialdi both were in the position to grab the overall win early with a second place being good enough for Quentin to take the title. The qualifiers were run in a best of three consecutive laps mode and the opening qualifier went to Basile with a 52.65s in front of Quentin with a 52.95s. Following some setup changes Quentin was able to better his time to a 51.92s, also setting a new track record with a 17.31s. Q3 then held no improvements as a slower track allowed Quentin to grab the overall TQ from Basile who was followed by Nicolas Bougnoteau and Michael Derderian.

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July 12, 2016

Maurice Lüscher wins at Swiss 200mm Nationals Rd4

Maurice Lüscher wins at Swiss 200mm Nats Rd4

Round four of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Langenthal track. In the 1/10th 200mm main final Xray’s Maurice Lüscher walked away with the win from Raphael Wicki (Xray) and Traugott Schär (Xray) in second and third respectively. Kevin Lehnherr (Xray) and Dominik Mucnjak (Shepherd) completed the top 5 result.

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July 12, 2016

Belgian SCT Cup Rd3 – Report

Round three of the Belgian SCT Cup was held at the Buggy Racing Tournai club and on an unanimously praised new layout. Unfortunately, like last year in May, the weather had different plans for the weekend. Massive rain during the week before the race meant the club members had to work hard in order to prep the track and the surroundings and it was even possible to start the race on Sunday but more heavy rainfall around noon left the organisers with no choice but to cancel the event. Thankfully the qualifiers were done at that point and therefore the qualifying ranking was used to determine the final ranking.

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July 11, 2016

Kobbevik wins 4WD title at Swedish Off-road Champs

Last weekend’s Swedish Electric Off-road Championships saw Yokomo driver Daniel Kobbevik taking control of the proceedings in the 4WD class. Putting some two seconds on the second placed driver in the best three consecutive laps Daniel was also the only one to break into the 23 seconds barrier when it came to the fastest single lap. The track was pretty beaten up from the 2WD portion of the event and it looked like the conditions would be pretty changeable during the day.

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July 11, 2016

Kostas Katsadonis wins RCriver Summer Cup

The recent RCriver Summer Cup was held in Amaliada, Greece with drivers from Athens, Amaliada, Agrinio, Corfu/Kerkyra and Aigio in attendance. Xray driver Kostas Katsadonis would bring home the win from Tekno’s Ilias Arkoudaris and Kyosho driver Giannis Papanikolaou. Harris Katsadonis (Xray) and Basilis Stathopoulos (Kyosho) would round out the top 5.

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July 11, 2016

JConcepts Summer Indoor National Series – Report

This past weekend was the last indoor race ever to be held at Outback Raceway located in the warehouse of Amain Hobbies in Chico, California. Without a doubt, this raceway will be missed as it has held countless memorable moments for many racers near and far. However, the racing in Chico won’t disappear, but rather move to Amain’s Silver Dollar Raceway outdoor facility that once held the IFMAR World Championships in 2013. With nearly 300 entries, the final race was a complete success and the racing top notch. In addition, world famous and the voice of RC, Scotty Ernst was on the mic bringing his unique, energetic style making this race one to remember. Master track builder, Kevin Jelich and his track crew did a fabulous job building a layout that was technical and flowy, challenging all racers of all levels.

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July 11, 2016

Novak & Olesiuk win at Oder Pomerania Cup

The recent 2016 Oder Pomerania Cup was held in Murowana Goslina, Poland in challenging weather conditions. Saturday’s race was interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm but thanks to the great job of the RC club Poznan the race would continue on Sunday with good track conditions. In the 2WD class, Maciej Nowak would take the day’s win from Pawel Ntkovca and Krzysztof Siemianowicz in second and third respectively.

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July 11, 2016

MC Ettlingen hosted inaugural electric race – Report

The German MC Ettlingen club hosted its first ever electric race in 40 years of club history this past weekend. The event attracted a good amount of racers from France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany to race in the four classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock, as part of the RC Lemans South series, as well as 1/8th Electric On-road Modified and Stock. In 1/8th Modified it was nitro specialist Patrick Nähr who secured TQs in all three qualifiers while also setting an unofficial new track record of 12.5s during Saturday’s practice. Oliver Mühlhauser and Adrian Burren completed the top 3 result.

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