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December 16, 2015

BRCA 1/12th National Series Rd3 – Report

The 2015/16 1/12th National Series headed to Tamworth for the 3rd round of the series. Tamworth is one of the regular venues and is always one to get mentioned at the EGM for the amount of work that the Tamworth club put in to making it happen. In Saturday’s 10.5 Stock qualifying David Spashett showed the same lightning pace seen at Crewe by dominating qualifying, 3 out of 4 times going a lap quicker than the entire field. Mark Stiles, Mick Farrell and Chris Kerswell all swapped positions through qualifying. Spashett will take pole from Kerswell and Stiles with just 0.15 seconds between 2nd and 3rd.

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December 15, 2015

Xray Winter Series Greece Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Race Track with a good amount of drivers in attendance. The event was held in several classes including 1/10th Touring, Formula and a foam tyre class that had 1/10th and 1/12th scale cars racing together. In the Touring Car class John Doukakis (Awesomatix) took the overall TQ and he would come out fastest in the opening A-main but Georgiadis (Xray) held the upper hand in A2 and A3 to grab the overall win from Doukakis in second and Niotis (Xray) in third.

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December 15, 2015

JR Mitch doubles at Thunder Alley Christmas Race

Thunder Alley RC Speedway in Wilson, North Carolina hosted their Christmas Race this past weekend. Florida’s JR Mitch was the man to beat as he set the TQ and took the win in the Nitro Buggy class and to back up his Nitro Buggy efforts, Mitch also set the TQ and took the win in the E-Buggy class. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truggy class rising star Austin Woodward laid it down by taking the TQ and the win.

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December 14, 2015

Nico Risser joins Hitec

Hitec have announced the signing of reigning French and Belgium 1/10th electric off-road champion, Nico Risser to their team. Nico, who also won this year’s Belgion 1/8th E-Buggy nationals, will use Hitec’s Lynx 4S radio system in his upcoming campaign and he has the following to say:

I am really happy to be part of Team Hitec, the Lynx 4S is perfect in every aspect.

Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]

December 14, 2015

Ryan Cavalieri doubles at Top Gun Shootout

The 4th annual Top Gun Shootout was held at SDRC in San Diego, California with just under 200 entries. In the premier class of 2WD Modified Buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri would grab the TQ and also the win in the A-mains from 2015 IMFAR 2WD Buggy World Champion Spencer Rivkin. Fellow Team Associated driver Christian Toic rounded out the podium result in 3rd. In the 4WD Modified Buggy class it was again Ryan Cavalieri who came out fastest after the qualifiers and just like in the 2WD class he was able to conserve his qualifying performance to bring home the title from Spencer. Tyler Hicks in third would round out the all Team Associated podium. Elsewhere in the Racing Truck class Brent Thielke would grab the overall win from Kevin Kimberly and Reed Harper.

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December 14, 2015

Harrington & Wise win at Virginia State Champs

The 2015 Virginia State Championships were held at MBR Speed Shop, in Salem Virginia with drivers from Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina as well as host state Virginia in attendance. In a highly contested Touring car class that featured some pretty stiff drivers from the surrounding states Tim Harrington took the TQ and he led a 3-car freight train separated from the pack. Mike wise, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, made an unforced error, and slipped to 3d, and that he held till the end while up front Tim Harrington would take the win from runner-up Blake Ryan.

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December 11, 2015

Panik Grand Prix – Announcement

Following the overwhelming response to their revised track, the Panik Team Troisdorf club teamed up with Tonisport to announce the first ever Panik Grand Prix. Scheduled for the weekend of the 12th of June 2016 the race will be held on the club’s flowing yet technical astroturf track near the Cologne Airport. The event will adapt the EOS rules and entries will be limited to 100 drivers for 2WD, 80 for 4WD and 20 for Mod Truck respectively. More information will follow soon on the club’s Facebook page, including details on registration and hotels.

December 10, 2015

Libar wins 1/12th class at MRCL Winter Series Rd2

Last weekend’s second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series not only saw the running of Modified and 10.5T Touring classes but also 1/12th scale racing. Jacques Libar would grab the overall TQ in the 10-car field some 1.7 seconds in front of Marc Schilling, with Krist Bultynck completing the top 3 one lap down. In the triple A-mains Marc would come out fastest in the opening leg but commanding wins in A2 and A3 handed Jacques the overall victory from Marc and Krist in second and third respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]