Round four of the Malaysian National Electric On-road Championship was held recently with more that 70 participants making for a great day of racing. The race was held in the four classes of 13.5T Boosted Touring, 17.5T Stock Touring, M-Chassis, Tamiya Truck. In the Boosted Super Stock class, Azri Amri took the overall TQ, but it was Michael Lo who took the overall win. Adik Haikal and Michael Lim joined him on podium.
Sunpadow have announced the signing of Singapore’s rising star Dominic Quek to their factory team. The 16-years old youngster already can look back on twelve years of RC racing with highlights so fat being the runner-up spit at the Formula World Cup that was held at the 2018 ISTC Worlds in South Africa. Dominic will be using Sunpadow LiPo batteries to power his Xray cars from now on with his campaign including all major national and international events. Dominic says:
I am pleased and honoured to join the Sunpadow racing team. I believe with the new LiPo packs I will have a better performance in the new season.
Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]
Palm Desert R/C Raceway hosted the 14th Annual Toys for Tots Race this past weekend. Adam Drake led a Mugen Seiki sweep in the Expert Nitro Buggy class with Ronda Drake finishing 2nd and Travis Cory in 3rd.
The fifth round of the HNMC Winter Series was held last weekend in changing winter weather conditions. Almost 60 drivers entered the round with the TQ in Nitro Buggy going to Lewis Jones while the E-Buggy class was lead by Darred Hayed-Ball while George Miller wrapped up the Truggy class qualifiers. Onto the finals and in the Buggy A-main it was Graham Alsop with the overall from Chaz Godwin 2nd and Darren Hayden-Ball 3rd. E-Buggy saw Darren Hayden-Ball taking the day’s win from Danny Conway 2nd and Jack Clifford 3rd. Finally in the Nitro Truggy class it was George Miller with the win from Brinley Tourle and Warabe Tatekoji.
Source: BRCA [brca.org]
The third round of the RC Kongen Winterseries was held at the RC Kongen indoor track in Sonderso, Denmark recently. The popular event is constantly growing with the third round having attracted 50 entries for the four classes of 2WD Mod Buggy, 4WD Mod Buggy, 13.5T Stock Buggy and Mod Racing Truck. The race was held at RC Kongen’s EOS carpet track and the layout offered a good mix of open and tight corners along with a wall of death and some nice jumps. With drives from all over the country, as well as a handful of pilots from Germany, 4WD Mod Buggy is the biggest class. Marcus Kaerup is one of the best 4WD drivers in Denmark, despite his young age and his main competitor would be Pelle Culmsee. He is one of Europe’s best 1/8th scale nitro racers and is currently under contract with Hot Bodies Racing. Those two had a race of their own in qualifying. Marcus won two rounds and would start from pole, after setting a new fastest lap of 15.1s, and he also was the first ever to score 20 laps in 5 minutes. Quite a few Germans also made their entry, most of them competing in the 4WD class. They were very fast, and the best of them was Melina Ratzlaff, a 17-year-old girl. She almost made the A-main with her well-prepared Xray.
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The Templestowe Flat Track Racers of Templestowe, Victoria, Australia recently held their Pan Car Challenge 2018 in Pro10, Formula and 1/12th scale classes. In Pro10 it was Andrew Cooke with the TQ after the qualifiers and thanks to wins in A1 and A3 he also walked away with the overall win from A2 winner Paul Sims in 2nd. Warren Buttriss, with 3-3-3 finishes would round out the podium result.
Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]
Capricorn have announced the signing of Italian nitro on-road frontrunner, Mirko Salemi to their factory team. Mirko already had the first outing for his new chassis sponsor, taking the win at the year end race in Fiorano with his LAB C803 car. Mirko had the following to say about the deal:
I would like to thank Patrizio Rossi for the opportunity to run with Capricorn, test new parts and share the results with the team.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The Spanish 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was held in Valladolid this past weekend. Alberto Garcia and Jorge Soler battled it out for the overall TQ with the better end for Alberto who snatched the pole position in the tie-breaker as Joan Espasa, who also scored a qualifying round TQ, had to settle for 3rd overall. The opening 10-minute A-main was won by Carlos Pineda from Alberto Garcia in 2nd, however in A2 and A3 it was Jorge Soler who would hold the upper hand as Alberto scored to more P2 finished. In there overall ranging it was Jorge Soler with the win from Carlos Pineda in 2nd and Albert Garcia in 3rd, the latter two being tie on points. Borja Hernandez came in 4th from Alex Valls 5th.
Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]
