The recent Russian Grand Prix was held in Moscow with the event attracting some of the fastest Russian drivers to compete on a purpose-built, complex, and high-bite carpet indoor track. In the 4WD Buggy class ETS A-finalist Maxim Laverychev and Dmitry Malyshko battled for the TQ with the better end for Dmitry but Maxim stroke back in the finals as he was able to come out fastest in A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early.
Round one of the Dutch BL-Cup was held at the RC de Fivelcrossers track in Appingedam. After a week of rain and cold weather the drivers were greeted by a dry and sunny weekend and a track that soon started to dry once the opening round of qualifiers was done. Bart Mullink would come out fastest in the qualifiers from Kris la Gasse and Wintercup winner Patrick Carels. For 2016 the organisers introduced a new last change heat for the 12 dropouts before the main final and Mike Plekkepoel and Tim Donk were the first to enjoy this new opportunity. The main final then saw Bart dropping the second early but the lap after Bart took over the lead from Kris and from that moment on he never looked back to take the win with a 15 seconds gap on Kris while Patrick rounded out the top 3 result.
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The first inaugural Le Mans and Historic RC meeting was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. The one day event attracted about 50 drivers from three countries to compete in the three classes of vintage 1/8th on-road, Le Mans and Formula. In the Historic RC Veteran Tour class, vintage 1/8th cars line the SG Futura, SG Columbia, Cumis, Graupner or Hudy were raced with Jarda Beran driving an original Juraj Hudy constructed car taking the TQ with 31 laps ahead of Pekarek and Blaha, both using very nice home-made BMW CSL bodyshells on their Cumis chassis. The quickest car was a McLaren M8F on a Graupner Club 90 chassis driven by Roman Krejci but unfortunately he did not finish this heat.
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Yokomo have announced that Germany’s Marc Rheinard will run the company’s all-new YRX12 1/12th pan car at the forthcoming IFMAR 1/12th scale World Championships in Beijing, China. The Tamiya Factory driver already chooses Yokomo buggies for his 1/10th off-road outings and he will now also run the Japanese manufacturer’s competition on-road pan car at an international level.
Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]
Round two of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championships was held at the Graha Raya track. A total of 48 drivers attended and the racers were greeted by a wet and muddy track due to overnight rain. Team Associated driver Rama Tribudiman would put his O.S. powered buggy on TQ but in the 45-minute A-main it was John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) who came out fastest from Adrian Susanto (TLR/O.S.) who ended the race 14 second down in second. Only 1.3 seconds behind Susanto, Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) completed the podium result. Behind the three Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) and Kenji Liono (SWorkz/SPower) rounded out the top 5. TQ holder Rama unfortunately ran into problems in the race, eventually ending it in 14th position.
Having become the new 4WD Champion of the Euro Offroad Series this morning at the Nurburgring by claiming the TQ at the season finale, Bruno Coelho has capped of a successful rookie campaign with a third consecutive victory. Making his EOS debut at the iconic motor racing circuit back in September before going onto become World Champion, Coelho’s title marks the first for Xray who become only the third manufacturer to win Europe’s premiere championship. Behind Coelho the podium in Germany would be completed by outgoing Champion Lee Martin, winner of A3, and Martin Wollanka – this was also how they would finish up in the final Season #5 standings.
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The opening round of the North German Nitro On-road Championships was held at the Munster track, located between Hamburg and Hanover. In the 1/10th 200mm class Kristof Sielaff would grab the pole position for the 30-minute A-main with his Siemotu Nova-powered KM car. The main final then saw Kristof defending the top spot and he would end the main one lap ahead of Rico Kröber (Capricorn/Orcan) and Kai Bode (Serpent/Siemotu Nova). Stefan Heisterkamp (KM/Siemotu Nova) and Bernd Hasselbring (Shepherd/Orcan) would complete the top 5 result.
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The annual Spring Sting was held at The Badlands in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with a total of 214 entries. With the race being a one day event and so many people, the organisers choose to run only two rounds of rocket round qualifying and in Pro Electric Buggy, Serpent driver Griffin Hanna and John Michael Mcginty III would battle back and forth for the top spot. Ultimately John would grab the TQ spot after the two rounds.
