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June 27, 2016

Smyk & Pyrka take Polish Open Summer Indoor titles

The Polish Open Summer Indoor Championship was recently held in Warsaw as part of an Expo. The event was run on a fast and technical track laid out with ETS carpet, making for nice racing conditions. In the Touring Modified class, Arkadiusz Smyk would take the TQ after the qualifiers and he would continue to dominate the field in the A-mains that he won in front of Bartosz Pochopien and Michal Wojcik in second and third respectively. Tomasz Niemczewski and Wojciech Rzepecki completed the top 5 result.

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June 27, 2016

Yeol & Choi successful at I-Cheon Championship

The I-Cheon Championship was held at the newly opened Mate RC Raceway near Seoul. In the 1/10th 200mm Touring class, Kim Gi Yeol (Serpent) would take the TQ and win from Park Ki Jeong (Serpent) and Mugen driver Kim Yeoncheol. In the 1/8th GT class, Naksung Choi (Serpent) would bring home the win from Yoo Jegook (Hong Nor) and Park Chanyong (Mugen).

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June 27, 2016

Hayato Ishioka wins JMRCA 1/12th Modified title

The world-famous Yatabe Arena in Japan played host to the 2016 JMRCA 1/12th Nationals this past weekend. In the Modified class, CRC’s Hayato Ishioka took the TQ with his Trinity-powered ride from Takaua Ito (Kyosho/Trinity) and Kosuke Suzuki (CRC/Trinity). In the A-mains, Hayato again came out fastest with things behind him mixed up heavily. At the end Toto Ebukuro (Yokomo/Yokomo) grabbed the runner-up spot, coming from the 6 spot on the grid, from Yokomo teammate Masatsugu Ito (Yokomo/Yokomo), who climbed up from 7th on the grid.

Source: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.jp]

June 27, 2016

Reno Savoya TQs & wins French Buggy Nats Rd4

Round four of the French Nitro Off-road Nationals was held this past weekend at the CARCA track near Noeux les Mines. Home track of the Sartel family the location offers a nice and technical track that also hosted the recent TLR Cup. TLR’s Reno Savoya was the driver to beat this weekend, taking the firt four qualifying rounds to take the overall TQ from Jean-Pierrick Sartel (TLR) who scored the fastest time in Q5 to take the 2 spot. The semis were then won by Reno Savoya and Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) with the faster time handing Reno the pole position for the main final. In the 45 minute A-main, Reno would be in the lead for almost the whole race while his main contenders, Yannick and Jerome Aigoin faced engine problems, denying them podium finishes. Instead young Thomas Musso (TLR) would grab the runner-up spot from Jean-Pierrick while Jerome Sartel (TLR) rounded out an all-TLR top 4.

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June 26, 2016

Norwegian National Cup Rd3 – Report

Round three of the Norwegian National Cup was held at the Hverven Raceway off-road track in Oslo in several categories including a recruit and senior class. In the 2WD class, Yokomo’s Daniel Kobbevik was on fire right from the start, winning both reseeding rounds and all four qualifiers to grab the overall TQ from Xray’s Malin Karlsen and Yokomo driver Eirik Andreassen. In the opening A-main, Daniel instantly pulled a gap to the rest of the field and he would have opened a gap of about half a lap until a last lap incident, a marshal crossed the track to recover another car, had Daniel crashing into him. Daniel was able to recover though and he managed to bring home the win with a very small margin on Malin on the runner-up spot.

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June 24, 2016

Helder Silva successful at Portuguese TC Nats Rd4

Round four of the Portuguese Touring Stock 10.5T National Championship was recently held in the city of Coimbra. After winning three of the four qualifying rounds, Fred Santos (Xray) would take the pole position for the triple A-mains. A1 then had Capricorn’s Helder Silva coming out fastest after a last lap crash with a spinning car causing trouble for Fred. In A2 and after some position swaps with Fred, it was again Helder who came out in front to take the day’s win early. In the third and final A-main again bad luck stroke for Fred who was still able to take the overall runner-up spot behind Helder. Schumacher driver Jorge Chalupa completed the top 3 result.
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June 24, 2016

Rigert & Asendorf win at Swiss EP On-road Nats Rd3

The famous Lostallo track played host to round three of the Swiss electric on-road nationals. As usual with the current European Summer, parts of the race were held in wet conditions. After a partly rain soaked qualifying, Michele Manzo would place his car on the 1 spot in the Touring Modified class, from Huber, Isler, Rigert and Krähemann. At the end Mario Rigert (Xray) would take the overall win after coming out fastest in A1 and A3. Oliver Krähemann (Xray) grabbed the runner-up spot while Philipp Huber (Team Durango) had to settle for third.

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June 23, 2016

Hovgaard & Gosvig win at Danish EP Off-road Nats Rd4

Round four of the Danish Electric Off-road Nationals was held in Sommersted on a super high-bite and technical track. In the 2WD class, Frederik Hovgaard took the TQ from Mike Gosvig, who struggled a bit with the hotter and slightly lower grip conditions compared to the practice sessions before. The opening A-main then saw Frederik continue to dominate as he won from Jesper Rasmussen in second and Marcus Kærup in third. Mike ran into some trouble and wasn’t able to finish in the top 3.

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