This past weekend the Rumble in the Asphalt Jungle race was held in Austin, Texas at the newest permanent on-road track in the United States, called N-Control RC Racing Circuit. This was the track’s first big race and in the 1/10th Nitro Sedan class it was Loran Whiting who was able to take the TQ and she would also lead the 20-minute A-main from start to finish to take the day’s win.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice, Czech Republic and it saw a total of 233 entries for the four on-road and two off-road classes. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by reigning IFMAR Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker (Yokomo) who won the qualifying and took the overall TQ without any problems. Behind him Viktor Wilck (Serpent) and Tobias Seidl (Schumacher) made up the top 3 while, after some very strong runs in the qualifiers, Czech driver Radek Flek came in fourth.
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The Korean KMRCA Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend. Newly signed Sweep Racing driver, Dani Choi (Kyosho) would walk away with the win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and 1/8th Nitro Truggy class to round out a perfect weekend. In the Nitro Buggy class and behind Dani it were Si Minsu and Jang Wonseok that rounded out the top 3 result.
Source: Sweep [sweepracing.com]
The recent 2016 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals were held at the Homestead RC Raceway in Florida. The 1/8th Masters class was TQ’d and won by Joaquin Desoto Sr. with a 1-lap margin on Dana Smeltzer while Greg Esser ended the race another three laps down. In 1/8th GT ROAR Spec Joaquin Desoto Jr. brought home the win from TQ holder Scotty Gray by a narrow 7 seconds after the 45-minute finale. Robbie Cerrato completed the top 3 result.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The sixth and final round of the Malaysia National Championships was recently held with about 80 drivers attending in the Touring Modified, Super Stock and Stock classes. In Touring Modified TQ holder Adik Haikal (Xray) would bring home the day’s win from Norazam (Xray) and Michael Lim (Xray). Shahrin (Yokomo) and Wong Kok Wai (Awesomatix) would round out the top 5 result.
Mooreback Raceway will hold a round of the Xray Racing Series Australia on the weekend of the 6th of November. Classes run are 1/8th on-road, 1/10th on-road and 1/8th GT and the schedule sees free practice on Saturday and official racing on Sunday. More infos and sign-up can be found here.
The 2016 Italian AMSCI 1/10th Off-road Championships were held last weekend and it was Beppe Fermi who walked away with the win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Francesco Fasetta and Nathan Senesi would complete the top 3 result in the 2WD class while Marco Baruffolo and Mattea Speranza rounded out the podium in 4WD.
The final round of the German Sachsen Cup series was held in Munzig near Dresden in the eastern part of the country. The race attracted nearly 60 racers to compete in several classes with Burak Kilic taking the win in the 30-minute Nitro Buggy main final. Ronny Schiffner ended the A-main on the runner-up spot from Berkan Kilic, who suffered from a flame out but he was still able to take the final podium spot for an all-Agama top 3.
Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.
