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April 28, 2014

Singapore RCMC GP Serie Rd4 – Report

The 4th round of the Singapore RCMC GP Series was held at last weekend with the racers arriving to a wet track in the morning after overnight rain. Thanks to the hard work by some of the drivers, 3 rounds of qualifying got soon underway. In the 1/8th class, Nelson Lee led the way in the first 2 rounds but a fast run by Nicholas Lee in the last qualifier meant that Nelson would start from 2nd in the final. Alvin Ng had a very strong qualifying as well managing to line up 3rd on the grid.

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April 28, 2014

Nick Chong wins at Malaysian on-road GP series Rd2

For round 2 of the Malaysian National GP on-road series, the drivers travelled up North to Dungun, a sunny resort town. The track is considerably smaller compared to other Malaysian tracks but always makes for challenging races and it has plenty of traction but heavy tyre wear to offer. In 1/8th scale Team Serpent driver, Nick Chong took advantage of the cooler conditions in the morning to set the fastest lap time of 15.7 sec, which eventually saw him take the TQ position in the first qualifier as the track got slower throughout the day. Nick was the only driver to score a 19 lap run at 5.09, whilst Kenny Ow, last year’s top qualifier, settled for an 18 lap run in 5.04.

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April 28, 2014

Robert Battle takes Spanish buggy nats Rd1

The 1st round of the Spanish nitro off-road nationals took place at the challenging Antas track. In qualifying, to the surprise of many, multi-national champion, Robert Battle (Mugen/Novarossi) only placed himself in 2nd position as Neo14 Junior champion, Oscar Baldo (Mugen/Novarossi), took the overall TQ. Oscar then also went on to win the semi A while Robert successfully ended the semi B but but with a slower time, handing Oscar the pole position for the final.

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April 28, 2014

Renaud Savoya wins at French Buggy nats Rd2

The 2nd round of the French 1/8th off-road nationals was held in Toulouse in very rainy conditions. The race marked the last chance for many drivers to qualify for the World Championships and in the final the race was on between Jerome Aigoin (Kyosho) who took TQ, his brother Yannick (Team Associated) and Renaud Savoya (Xray). At the end it was Renaud who came in first after a long battle with Yannick and Jerome. Yannick grabbed the runner-up spot some 18 second behind the Xray drivers while Jerome completed the podium in 3rd. Jerome Sartel and Edouardo Hugon completed the top 5 result.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

April 24, 2014

Belgian Touring Car nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Belgian Electric Touringcar Championship was held last weekend in Zarren. Racers from around Belgium and Holland came to battle for the win in the Efra, Stock and supporting F1 class. In the very competitive Efra class it was Olivier Bultynck who was fast all weekend and he had a great last qualifier to put himself on the pole. In second spot sat Nick Joosens followed by Nicolas Delisé and Rico Claeys.

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April 24, 2014

PA Tri-County Summer Sizzler – Announcement

The Tri-County Summer Sizzler off-road series will take place during June and August at Trains and Lanes Hobbies, Mushroom Bowl RC, and Hobbyhut Raceway who are all working together to provide racers with a local 3-race off-road series. Each individual race will have door prizes, provided by race series sponsors, raffled off to entered racers with cash awards will be presented at the last race. The series sees Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy classes along 4WD SC, 2WD SC Modified and 2WD SC Young Guns. The series kicks off on the 7th of June at the Mushroom Bowl Speedway in Kennet Square, PA. More information about the series along with the other race dates can be found here and here.

April 23, 2014

Green & Thompson win at BRCA 1/10th Nitro opener

The first race of the 1/10th British National Championships was held last weekend at the Cotswold Race Track in the heart of the UK with 41 drivers attending. Saturday’s practice was in dry conditions but Sunday’s weather forecast saw rain from 13:00, so 3 rounds of qualifying were completed in the dry and then on time the rain started. No drivers when out for their last race, this left Mark Green and Glyn Beal on TQ for Touring Cars and GT respectively.

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April 23, 2014

Turner & Cavalieri win at JBRL Rd2

Round 2 of the South Californian Jimmy Babcock Racing League took place last weekend at the Coyote Hobbies Raceway in Victorville. The one day event saw the attendance of Pros and talented local racers alike and had Cody Turner taking the win in the highly contested 2WD Modified Buggy class. TQ Ryan Cavalieri scored a DNF making way for runner-up Cody who left Kevin Motter and Rudy Rico behind.

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