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April 7, 2016

WA EP Offroad State Titles – Report

West Coast Model RC played host to the recent 2016 Carisma AARCMCC Western Australian EP Off Road State Titles. Over 103 entries across the weekend came in to do battle and with the weather on track to be nice and warm, all the stars seemed to align for a great weekend of racing action on the club’s natural outdoor clay surface. Racers poured into the facility from all across Western Australia, and some from as far as Melbourne, Victoria and Brisbane, Queensland came across to take part in the event and get a feel for the upcoming Australian EP Off Road titles in November. Practice started early Friday morning with many drivers taking to the track early to maximise their track time, the clay surface quickly developed more grip as more cars ran on it, and the lap times continued to fall, by the end of practice on Friday evening the collective group of drivers felt very happy with the grip on track.

Continue reading the report here

April 6, 2016

Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 chosen for Reedy TC ROC

The Reedy Race have announced that the Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 (EXP36RPP) has been chosen as the spec tire for the 2016 Reedy International Touring Car Race of Champions. Lead test driver Rick Hohwart shared his thoughts about Evo-R 36: “On the recently resurfaced and now fully cured Tamiya America racetrack, the Evo-R 36 is capable of record lap times with consistent performance from run to run and throughout the day. These qualities make the EVO-R 36 the natural choice for the Reedy Race.” Remember that each paid entry includes one set of marked and numbered Sweep EXP Evo-R 36 tires. Drivers will be allowed to purchase an additional three sets of marked and numbered tires for use as they please for qualifying and triple main events. There is no limit to the number of tires a driver may purchase for practice, but tires used during controlled practice seeding rounds must be marked tires purchased at the event.

Source: Reedy Race [reedyrace.com]

April 6, 2016

Robert Pietsch joins Xtreme Aerodynamics

Xtreme Aerodynamics are delighted to announce the signing of former World and European Champion Robert Pietsch. The Mugen on-road designer will run the Xtreme line of bodies in both the 1/10th 200mm class and in the 1/8th class and will also have a key role in the design and development of new products.

Source: Xtreme [xtremeaerodynamics.com]

April 6, 2016

Nejc Mihelič wins TopRC Track Masters Rd1

The first round of TopRC Track Masters 2016 was held in Cervignano, Italy in dry and nice weather all weekend. Nejc Mihelič took the TQ in the 1/8th nitro on-road class following by Jernej Vuga and Herfried Pucher. In the main A final we saw different tyre and pitting strategies among the favourites. Mihelic made an early mistake and had a coming together with another driver, which allowed Vuga to lead by a few seconds over Mihelic and Pucher. Pucher’s strategy to refuel one more time and only change the outside tires came to an end when he had a coming together with another driver. Mihelic did a very fast full tyre change meaning he had to come back from a full lap and a few seconds while Vuga took the risk with no tyre change. Mihelic’s strategy paid off in the last minute by overtaking Vuga. It was Nejc Mihelič (ARC/Picco) who took the win and the best lap of the weekend, closely followed by Vuga and Stefano Restivo.

Thanks to Nejc Mihelič for the report.

April 6, 2016

2016 AKA GP – Announcement

2016 AKA GP - Announcement

The organisers of the AKA GP have been in touch to tell us about the event which will take place from Saturday the 28th to Monday the 30th of May at HNMC track in the UK, home of last year’s European B Championship. The event is open to Nitro buggy and truggy as well as eBuggy and will run a controlled tire, AKA Catapult for buggy and any AKA tire for truggy. Entry is open and can be made here and all entries received a free set of AKA Catapult tires and a free t-shirt.

April 5, 2016

Sinclair & Bryant win at Michigan Indoor R/C Open

X Factory drivers took home the top prize in mod short course and mod stadium truck at Saturday’s Michigan Indoor R/C Open held at DirtBurners R/C in Livonia, Mich, a suburb of Detroit. Even though it snowed outside most of the day on April 2nd (!) racing was hot inside with over 100 entries. In mod short course, X Factory’s Paul Sinclair started second on the grid, passed into the lead in the second corner of the flowing clay track, and never looked back. The TQ then made a couple mistakes while Sinclair motored off. Later in the race, with the TQ truck charging hard it became interesting near the end, but Sinclair kept his SCX-61 glued to the line turning a succession of fast laps to finish about three seconds in front. In mod truck, it was privateer Russ Bryant driving the Infinity T5M on pole for the A main. Russ fell back as the race started but worked his way into contention and, with two laps to go, passed into the lead, holding on until the end. The last five laps were a great three-way battle, and X Factory congratulates Russ on the win.

Source: X Factory [xfactoryrc.com]

April 5, 2016

Asian Onroad Championship Rd1 – Announcement

Asian Onroad Championship Rd1 - Announcement

The Asian Onroad Championship produced by Scotty Ernst will be kicking off its 4th season on April 14-16 In Shanghai China. The opening round will be held at the beautiful RCI V2 Raceway and it is attracting some of the biggest names in the onroad racing World. Names like Volker, Matsukura, Groskamp, Ratheisky, Wang, plus many others will join and share in the fun and competition. This years AOC which is presented by Scorpion Power Systems, Yokomo, Xray and Sweep will travel throughout Asia and the Pacific making stops in China, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan. Red RC will be attending Rd1 providing event coverage so stay tuned for updates.

Source: AOC [aocrc.com]

April 4, 2016

Hagberg & Honigl retain European 1/12th titles

The 2016 European Championships in the classic 1/12 pan car class was held at the Hudy Arena, in Trencin, Slovakia last weekend and Alexander Hagberg gave the following report. ‘The race saw a good field of drivers in both modified and stock 13.5T blinky categories, with drivers from 16 different countries in attendance. In the modified class, I managed to set the pace throughout practice, as well as winning 4 out of 6 qualifiers, it meant that I would start first on the grid come Sunday. I was closely followed at times by my team mate Olly Jefferies from the UK, who put his X12 car 2nd on the grid with 1 TQ run and a solid performance throughout qualifying. The young and talented Dionys Stadler, also put in a great TQ run in Q4, and would eventually qualify 4th overall. This meant that the X12 car would TQ every single round of qualifying in modified, with three different drivers fighting for the TQ.

Continue reading Alex’s report here