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March 11, 2016

Mike Gee doubles at ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals

Last weekend’s 2016 ROAR Carpet On-road Nationals at ProlevelRC in St. Louis, Missouri not only saw the running of a Touring Modified class but also the usual array of Stock racing categories. Starting with Touring Stock 13.5T, the class had Mike Gee coming out fastest after the triple A-mains from Matt Lyons and Kyle Klingforth in second and third respectively. Top qualifier Sam Isaacs had to settle for fifth behind fourth placed Eric Anderson.

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March 10, 2016

Oliver Speith wins 2WD class at MIO Winter Cup finale

The final round of the MIO Winter Cup was held at the Model Indoor Oss facility in the Netherlands. Germany’s Oliver Speith would grab the TQ in the 2WD class qualifiers from Jarno Pijpers and Luca Jost who lined up second and third respectively. In the opening A-main, after a tough fight and a final lap tangle with Oliver, Jarno came out successful but Oliver stroke back in A2 to shift the decision about the day’s win to A3. The final leg then again had Oliver Speith (Schumacher) coming out successful as Jarno made to many mistakes to challenge Oliver for the win. Overall Jarno Pijpers (Xray) still managed to grab the runner-up spot from Nigel van Katwijk (Yokomo) in third.

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March 10, 2016

Markus Hellquist wins at SSIC finale

The final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Alvesta, hosted by the Wäxjö MS club. The track was quite technical and it offered high traction, making a lot of drivers suffer from traction rolling. In the practice rounds Marc Fisher laid down the two best laps combined ahead of Markus Hellquist and Viktor Wilck, being less than a tenth behind. The qualifying result was based on the best single result, out of three rounds in total. After three rounds Viktor Wilck placed himself on the top spot, 0.052 seconds ahead of Markus Hellquist, and 2 seconds ahead of Marc Fisher. The finals then saw some really close racing between the top three drivers. After incidents that lead to the winner of the opening A-final being disqualified, and after the leader of the second final accidentally hit a car rolling across the track, Markus Hellquist managed to come out successful in A1 and A2 to grab the overall victory. Marc Fischer would end the day on the runner-up spot from Viktor Wilck in third.

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March 10, 2016

Tasos Paparegas wins at Greek National Cup

The Greek National Cup was held at the Zorri RC dirt track. The event was held using a completely new layout, making for equal conditions for all drivers. Tasos Paparegas soon made his intensions clear by winning three of the four qualifiers to take the overall TQ from Papanikolaou and Terzis. The main final then was an easy job again for Paparegas (Xray) thanks to some very fast and consistent driving. Tasis won the final, and with it another national title, a little less than 2 laps ahead of Anapoliotakis (Mugen) who took the second place from Terzis (Mugen) in third.

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March 10, 2016

HIT Winter Racing Series final round – Report

The final round of the Czech 2015/16 HIT Winter Racing Series was held with over 80 entries in several electric on-road classes. The event took place in the sports hall of the city of Holešov and it attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers. In the Touring Open class Kuba Simurda took wins in A1 and A2 to grab the day’s win with one final to spare. The fight for the runner-up spot was thrilling until the last final leg, when Ludvík Kurečka set a very strong pace, taking a tone-to-tone victory. Oliver Havránek chased Ludvík for more than half of the race, but mistakes in the second half of the leg did cost him dearly. Finally he had to satisfy himself with the third spot overall. The fourth place went to Radek Voda, who wasn’t able to match his excellent performance from the qualifiers.

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March 10, 2016

Paolo Morganti wins 2016 Pacific Cup

The 2016 Pacific Cup was held this past weekend. The fast track offered high speed sweepers, a wide open chicane and a couple of hairpins, making it tricky to find the best setup in order to go fast but not destroy the tyres, specially in the GT class. The schedule was pretty straight forward with practice on Friday, qualifiers on Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the GT class the race was on between Fabrizio Martello and Paolo Morganti, the later having some setup issues during the qualifiers so Paolo had to go through the semifinal which gave him some extra time to work on the adjustments. Both ran 1-2 in the opening stages of the main final until Fabrizio ran into some problems. This gave Paolo the lead and the ability to focus on build an advantage and at the same time save as much tyre as possible. The strategy paid off and after a trouble free one hour final, Paolo was able to take the win from Fabrizio Martello in second and Rino Lino in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 10, 2016

Adams takes ROAR Carpet Nationals Modified TC title

ProlevelRC in Saint Louis, Missouri was the host of the 2016 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals. The Modified Touring Car class had some of the closest racing all weekend long with world class drivers battling it out for the top spot. Chris Adams set TQ in round 4 and would start from the point in the triple A-mains. The Xray driver drove two flawless runs in A2 and A3, securing the Nationals Title in front of Paul Lemieux and Andrew Hardman in second and third respectively.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

March 9, 2016

Esmail Apandi doubles at Singapore Buggy Nats Rd2

Singapore’s 2016 Electric Buggy National Series returned to Urban PlaySpace’s astro turf track for round 2 this past weekend. A small but quality field of racers signed up to challenge themselves on the technical high-grip track. In the 2WD class, round 1 winner Esmail Apandi showed he remained the man to beat as he TQed rounds 1 and 2 of qualifying to secure the overall TQ spot, ahead of Dominic Quek in 2nd, while fast improving Eugene Goh secured the 3rd spot on the grid.

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