The final round of the Italian National GT Championship was held at the Lombrico track in Milazzo, Sicily. Alessio Mazzeo would take the day’s win in front of Fabio Boero and Michele Baruzzi and with the win Alessio would also take the overall title in the GT Expert category.
Source: Pepe Group [pepegroup.net]
The final round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Thionville in the north of France. In the 10.5T Touring class Alexandre Duchet swept the qualifying by taking five round TQs to obtain the pole position from Michael Jasmin and Pierre Delorme. In the finals Alexandre confirmed his domination by winning the opening two legs while Michael Jasmin and Pierre Delorme also maintained their second and third places. Alexandre Kunkler came in fourth from Mathieu Picaudé in fifth.
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T-Works have announced the signing of Team Associated’s Randy Caster. The California-based on-road specialist, who achieved a 4th place overall at the recent ROAR Paved On-road Nationals, will use T-Works accessories and option parts in his rides from now on.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
The 2016 Guankou Sunpadow Cross-Strait RC Car Grand Prix will be held at the ARC international raceway in Xiamen, China from November 18th to 20th. The race will be held in several electric and nitro on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Pro Stock and 1/8th Nitro On-road with more than 180 drivers from around the world in attendance. Drivers like Viktor Wilck, Adrien Bertin and Takaaki Shimo already signed in to race for a total prize money of 15,000 US$. Sign up for the event, hotel information and many more can be found on the official event website here and for further details you can contact the organisers using the official contact email 921397952@qq.com.
For the penultimate round of the BRCA 1/10th IC national series, the Adur club situated on the South coast of the county would be the venue. Unfortunately, due to the travel time required, many racers made the decision to not attend the meeting meaning that 23 drivers would compete with four drivers attending to race the 1/8th GT support class. The weather for the weekend proved to be cooler on the Saturday practice day with the temperatures rising for the main event.
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The annual KO Grand Prix was held at Greater LA RC in Gardena, California and in the 1/8th Expert class it was Mugen’s Takaaki Shimo who took the top qualifying honours. In the main final Takaaki would again excel to grab the day’s win and the 2016 title from Xray’s Mike Swauger.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugenracing.com]
The sixth and final round of Czech 1/10th Buggy national championship was held this past weekend in Velke Opatovice. Saturday’s qualifying started out wet and it was Ales Bidovsky who made the best out of the changing conditions by taking the TQ from Xray team mate Kaja Novotny. In the 4WD class Kaja was a class of his own as he TQed all rounds to grab the overall TQ from Alex Bidovsky and Marek Schiller (PR).
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Round two of the Spanish GT Championship was held at the ARCA Circuito Grande track in several 1/8th GT classes including shaft-driven GT and belt-driven Super-GT categories. UK’s Glyn Beal made the trip over to Spain to race in the Nitro GT class in which he was a class of his own, taking the TQ for the 20-minute main final that he would eventually win in front of Toni Santana and Alberto Ibanez de Opacua in second and third respectively.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
