July 4, 2013

Vekemans wins Superstock at Belgian champs Rd4

The fourth round of the 2013 Belgian Championship took place in Genk and it was Stefan Rommens who took TQ in the touring car Superstock class by laying down a super fast last qualifier. Geoffrey Vekemans claimed the runner-up spot with Maxim Naegels putting his car third on the grid. The first A final saw a mix-up in positions after Geoffrey and Stefan had a coming together in the fourth lap. Maxim Naegels and Christophe Charlier took profit of the situation and went for a 1-2 finish with a recovered Geoffrey taking the third position.

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July 4, 2013

Hung Cheung Hang doubles at HK Novarossi Cup

The 2013 Hong Kong Novarossi Cup took place at the TRC track and it was KM Racing driver Hung Cheung Hang who took the pole position in both the 1/8th and the 1/10th 200mm  on-road classes. Come the A mains, TQ Hung secured the win one lap ahead of second placed Ng Kwok Fai with his KM K8 prototype car in the 1/8th class and some six laps in front of his second placed KM team mate Leung Chun Wai in the 1/10th 200mm class.

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July 3, 2013

Laszlo Kiss-Orban wins Hungarian 200mm nats Rd5

The fifth round of the Hungarian on-road national championship series took place in Oroshaza and it was Team Xray Hungary’s Laszlo Kiss-Orban who secured himself the pole position in the 1/10th 200mm class with his Reds-powered NT1. At the start of the 30 minutes long main final Laszlo was able pull away first but he slowed down to save on tyres as the track with its high speed left hand corners was tough on the black gold. The slower pace cost him two positions but around the 10 minutes mark he was back on top again and started to build a 10 lap gap on second placed Gergo Lehner until the end. Balazs Bihari rounded up the podium in third place. Due to the win Laszlo is now leading the series with 16 points on team mate Zsolt Bajusz with three rounds to go.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

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July 3, 2013

Orlowski & Novotny win at Mibosport Offroad Meeting

The Yokomo-supported Mibosport Offroad Meeting 2013 was run at the Mibosport astro turf track in Trebic last weekend. The follow-up race of the very successful Winter race series was run from Friday to Sunday and saw two rounds of controlled practice followed by five qualifiers on Saturday. Sunday was used for a final practice and the main finals. Star of the race was young Vojta Flek, brother of famous Radek Flek. His third place in 4WD buggy qualification just behind Michal Orlowski and Kaja Novotny was a testament to his speed.

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July 2, 2013

Jörn Neumann wins 2wd at NRW Offroad Cup Rd7

Last weekend saw Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann attend the NRW Offroad Cup for the second time. Since its creation in 2009, the NORC has become one of the most popular German electric offroad series on the club racing level and occasionally also attracts drivers from Luxembourg and the Netherlands. As other races in the region proved not to be as attractive in the past few years, the clubs involved decided to hold the West German regional meetings together with the NORC in 2013. As a result, Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann joined the NORC crowd again for an intense weekend of racing at the MC Dortmund’s clay track. Dominated by Short Course racing in the last few years, the NORC has recently experienced a surge in the buggy groups. Being the only driver to manage 15 laps, Jörn’s win in 2WD was never at risk, but the battle for runner up was interesting to watch, and a tight affair between the two Yokomo B-Max2 MR drivers Yannic Prümper and Jens Becker.

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July 2, 2013

Daniele Ielasi wins final round of Italian Champs

The final round of the Italian nitro on-road championship was held at Cassino last weekend. New Capricorn signing Daniele Ielasi took the win in the 1/8th expert class with his Lab C801 car from the second spot on the grid after his team mates Dario Balestri and Lamberto Collari hit trouble during the final. Carmine Raiola and Andrea Pirani completed the podium one and three laps down respectively.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

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July 1, 2013

Cockerill & Van Helmond win 2013 Belgium GP

Last weekend was the 23rd running of the annual Belgium GP, under its new name ‘International Race Kampenhout’. The event is very popular, with many people requesting entries, but due to the nature of the event and venue the organisers keep an entry limit of 80 in 2wd and 70 in 4wd, allowing reasonable length days and plenty of track time, with open practice in the days preceding the event. It really is a great event, very relaxed atmosphere and a showcase for RC racing with is location in a park, where many activities take place over the weekend, drawing in many spectators and drivers from 8 countries.

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July 1, 2013

Jakarta Regional Rd3 win for Bowie Ginting

Round 3 of the Jakarta Regional 1/10 EP Championship was held at the Jakarta International Twin Circuit Senayan which is normally a nitro track, but had a modification to accommodate EP cars done and then ran in counter-clockwise direction. In the primary superstock 10.5 boosted class, Bowie Ginting took the TQ spot from Teddy Syach with only 0.037 seconds separated them. Heri Susanto completed the top 3. In Stock class, Ronald Kasengkang took a comfortable TQ by 6 seconds from Robert Hendrawan and Ignatius Ryan, while young racer Muhammad Izzah also took an easy TQ in the FWD class.

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