The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena this past weekend in the six classes of Touring Car Modified and Stock, Pan Car, Formula and 2WD and 4WD Buggy. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by Martin Hudy who won all qualifiers and finals to grab the day’s win. David Nemcek came in 2nd while Igor Liptak rounded out the top 3 result. Lacko Toth and Daniel Zak completed the top 5 result.
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The Navan Winter Series attracted drivers from all over Ireland and it finished up at the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Jason Noonan took 3rd, Jakub Wawrzacz 2nd and Barkley Abernethy took the overall win for an all-Agama podium lock-out while in E-Buggy Agama driver Colin Whelan grabbed the overall win.
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The final round of the SITCC attracted 70 drivers including participants from France. French guests Arnaud Soulignac and Walter Pollet Villard put their cars on 1st and 2nd on the grid while Cham Dassanayake came in 3rd with Kevin Zwahlen rounding out the top 4. After the 6 minute A-mains the top 3 order remained the same with Arnaud taking the win from Walter and Cham.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the Belgian Electric Touring Nationals was held at GTM in Vosselaar on a small and technical indoor track, attracting 52 entries. In the Efra class it was 6-times champion Olivier Bultynck who took TQ after the qualifiers. Behind him the race was on between Nick Joosens, Nicolas Delisé, Thomas Stockman and Mitchell Van Es with Mitchell eventually taking the 2nd spot in front of Thomas.
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With industry veteran Billy Fischer Tekno RC announce the latest addition to their team. Billy is well known around the world for his speed, setup knowledge, and willingness to help others off the track. He is already up to speed and will debut his new ride at the upcoming Silver State Nitro Challenge. Billy had this to say:
I’m really excited to join the Tekno team! I’d like to thank Daniel Lewis and Matt Wolter for the opportunity, and Casey Peck for initiating this relationship. The product quality is amazing and the performance has been great right from the start. I really look forward to working with such an awesome group of people and can’t wait for the first race!
Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]
Last weekend the Silver State warm-up race was held in Las Vegas. Local track record holder Kyle Johnson TQ’d over JQ Racing’s Joseph Quagraine after two rounds of qualifying. The A-main was 25 minutes long, and after a fun race on a true offroad track, bumpy and difficult, JQ took the win with former World Champion Greg Degani (JQ Racing) finishing 2nd at one of his first outings after coming out of retirement. Track owner Chris Tocco got 3rd with his Kyosho to complete the podium.
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Round 3 of the Singapore National GP Series was held with racers from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia in attendance. In the 1/8th on-road class Nelson Lee grabbed the TQ with the only 26 laps run in the qualifiers while in the highly competitive 1/8th GT class Pason Phua came out fastest. The 1/8th class final then saw Nelson opening a 2-lap gap in the early stages but an incident exiting the pits after a fuel stop resulted in a crash and a flameout. Fortunately he was able to restart and reenter the race in 2nd, a lap down on the leader but a great race allowed him to take the lead back and to win the main in the progress. Elsewhere in the 1/8th GT class final TQ Pason Phua took the win after being in the lead most of the time.
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Round 5 and the grand finale of the 2014/15 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend with a total of 180 entries that split into 83 on-road and 97 off-road entries. The premier Touring Car Modified class saw a fight between Kuba Šimurda and Jiří Vyšín with the two also dominating the previous round 4. In qualifying Kuba took the TQ ahead of Jiří with Mario Sowka sitting in 3rd spot. In the first two A-mains, Kuba Šimurda and Jiří Vyšín both scored a win with Mario being the only driver who could catch up with the two front runners. Kuba was then leading A-main 3 and did not allow Jiří to overtake him so Kuba took the overall win with Jiří Vyšín coming in 2nd ahead of Mario Sowka.
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