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January 13, 2020

John Ermen wins at Indoor 2020 Saint Brieuc

The Saint Brieuc Mini Bolides club hosted the Indoor 2020 Saint Brieuc race this past weekend. The event was held in 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road as well as an 1/8th electric classes and in 1/8th IC Track it was John Ermen (ARC) with the overall TQ some 0.9 seconds in front of Richard Volta (Mugen). The 30-minute saw John opening a gap from the get go and by the second fuel stop, he already was in the lead by about half a lap. However shortly after the second stop John faced some mechanical issues which reduced his lead and after two unplanned stops he lost more than one lap on the lead car. In the second half of the race Ermen was able to up his pace again and to un-lap himself, chasing down the leader. Ultimately John was able to regain the lead with Richard Volta having to settle for 2nd overall, a lap behind. Rick Vrielijnck (Infinity) came in 3rd, another lap down.

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January 13, 2020

Vincent K. wins at 1/8th GT GQ Cup

The TRC track in Hong Kong played host to the 1/8th scale GT GQ Cup this past weekend. When the dust had settled it was the Hong Nor trio of Vincent K., Ka Wah and Cheung Kwok Wai who took the top 3 honours after the 40-minute A-main final.

Source: Hong Nor [hongnor-racing.com]

January 13, 2020

Xray Racing Series Germany Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Xray Racing Series Germany was held in Leipzig recently. The event saw the running of several electric on-road classes and in Touring FWD it was Stefan Schulz with the overall win from Sven Muller in 2nd and Michael Klaus in 3rd.

Touring Stock saw Stefan Schulz walking away with the win from Tim Schulte in 2nd and Michael Zierold in 3rd while in the Touring 17.5T class Peter Stein took the day’s win from Julius Stein on the runner-up spot as Mirko Schulze completed the top 3 results.

The Formula class had Andreas Beier taking the win from Enrico Hahn 2nd and Sebastian Keller in 3rd.

Lastly in the 1/12th scale pan car class Dirk Brauer took the win from Philipp Lischke 2nd and Christopher Bergholz 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 13, 2020

Rheinard & Murray crowned 1/12th scale World Champs

The 2020 IFMAR 1/12th scale World Championship were held in Milton Keynes, UK, attracting nearly 60 entries for the LMP Modified and 60 entires for the LMP Stock class. The event was held on a purpose-built track within the large Centre:MK shopping mall, ensuring a good exposure of the sport to potential new racers. Free practice of the Modified class was lead by Alexander Hagberg while Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa took the seeding practice. Michal Orlowski then snatched the overall TQ, winning four of the six qualifiers from single round TQ, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa. Olly Jefferies came in 3rd with a steady performance as single round TQ and former 1/12th scale World Champ, Marc Rheinard put his car in 4th overall. A-main 1 then saw Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa taking the win with a 1-second margin from Marc as Ollie Payne came in 3rd, another second behind. TQ Michal lacked a bit of speed and had to settle for 5th.

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January 13, 2020

Phend trifecta at CRCRC Winter Midwest Champs

The Ohio RC Factory of Jeffersonville, Ohio held the 2020 CRCRC Winter Midwest Championship this past weekend, attracting nearly 330 entries including some of the country’s fastest 1/10th off-road pilots. TLR’s Dakotah Phend was in full swing, taking the overall TQs in 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy and Stadium Truck. The triple 5-minute A-mains saw Dakotah taking wins in A1 and A2 for an early overall as A3 winner Cole Tollard (Team Associated) cemented his runner-up spot from Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin in 3rd.

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January 12, 2020

Xray factory ride for Jonathan Gandin

Xray have announced the signing of young Italian nitro on-road talent, Jonathan Gandin to their factory team. The former ARC pilot will campaign Xray’s RX8 1/8th and XT1 1/10th scale nitro platforms at events such as the IFMAR World and EFRA European Championships, the EFRA GPs, ENS events and Italian Nationals.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 10, 2020

An introduction to SGP1

This past weekend at RCI V2 in Shanghai, China, running alongside the OneTen Series for touring cars, the all new SGP1 Formula One series kicked off its inaugural season. An ultra fun, team-based series, running realistically painted body-shells to some very unique and interesting rules, all those in attendance seemed genuinely excited to be taking part and while competitive everyone seemed to be having fun, with teams not only competing on the track but off the track too with light hearted banter in the pits. Bringing fun back into RC and getting people back racing F1 was the goal of Rick Wang and Ben Lai and it has been very well received with the limited team spots selling out and a full grid at the opening round. We talked with the man behind SGP1, Rick Wang, to get a clearer insight into the concept and future plans for SGP1.

Read the complete interview here

January 9, 2020

Avery Pierce TQs & wins at FNS Rd3

Nuggets Ranch Raceway of Arcadia, Florida played host to round 3 of the Florida Nitro Series last weekend. In the GT8 class it was Avery Pierce with the overall TQ and he would also dominate the 30-minute main final, bringing home the win five laps in front of Howard Stamen. J.R. Gassett had to settle for 3rd overall while Mile Miesel and TJ Johnson completed the top 5 results.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]