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November 6, 2013

Midwest Indoor Championship – Report

For the 3rd consecutive year, the newly constructed Genesis RC Raceway in Marshall, Minnesota hosted the Midwest Indoor Championship. With racers attending from Canada and 7 states through out the upper Midwest, the race fell victim to some of the top drivers in the county in their respected classes. After four rounds of very tight qualifying, the mains were set and first up was the WGT class. The TQ holder Tony Block broke out and was able to hold on for the win with current national champion and CRC teammate Randy Grosse taking 2nd and John Wiita rounding out the podium.

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November 6, 2013

Schwendimann wins at 2013 French TC nationals

Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) has won the Touring Car stock class in this year’s French Touring Car championships. Consisting of five rounds in total Nicolas was able to TQ four and win three meetings along a second and a third place at the Nanates and Montbrison rounds respectively. Thomas Vigneron and Jérôme Permentier completed the top three overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2013

Arrowmax Honeycomb arm reamer set

Arrowmax now have an arm reamer set out of their Honeycomb line of tools available Included are 3.0mm, 3.5mm and 4.0mm reamers that are ideal to widen the pivot pin holes of wishbones, suspension blocks, C-hubs and rear hubs in order to create a binding-free suspension movement. All tools feature lightweight honeycomb design aluminium handles and 120mm long tool tips.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

November 6, 2013

Hayato Ishioka wins at Speed King Tour 2013 Rd4

The final round of the 2013 Speed King Tour championship took place at Crest Speed Way in the Gunma prefecture. Yugo Nagashima already secured the overall Modified TC title as did Tadashi Hattori in the GT500 class, but 3 drivers still had the possibility to grab the Stock TC championship. Therefore the Stock A-final was highly contested and female racer TQ driver Mio Hakamata took lead and never looked back taking the race win. Tomoyuki Ooshima finished second which was enough to secure him the overall championship title. In the GT500 class Tadashi Hattori took the win while Hideharu Seto came in first in the JMRCA Stock class. The main category of this event was the Modified class that was dominated by Hayato Ishioka. He took TQ and never lost his top position during the A-final race. Next year’s Speed King Tour starts at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track on February 9th with the race will see the addition of a new Formula 1 class.

Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]

November 5, 2013

David Perez wins Spanish TC Stock championships

Xray’s David Perez has won the 2013 Spanish Stock touring car championships. The young man, a former 1/5 scale European junior champion, only started electric stock class touring car racing this year after a first try at the Gran Canarian round of the ETS. By winning two out of the four races and scoring a runner-up spot, David took the overall win in front of Carlos Lambas Diaz and Jon Ander Lorenzo.

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November 5, 2013

Tadahiko Sahashi wins at final PGTC race

The final round of the PGTC 1/10 GP Touring Car series took place at the Hokusei track in Japan. New KM Racing factory driver Shimazaki Shinya took TQ in the Super Expert class and he also lead the main final until minutes from the end when a rain storm flooded the track handing newly crowned World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi the win just in front of Shimazaki.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]

November 5, 2013

Atsushi Hara wins at Ride Cup Rd3

The 3rd round of the 2013 Ride Cup was held at the recently opened Huge R/C circuit. The world class indoor asphalt track includes covered pit areas, a covered drift track and a fully stocked hobby shop. In addition to the five usual cup classes this time also a Modified Touring Car class was run that saw the attendance of three World Champions in the form of Atsushi Hara, Jilles Groskamp and Meen Vejrak. After a close battle in qualifying Atsushi claimed TQ ahead of Jilles by less than one second, with both drivers running 20 laps in 5:04. The finals once again saw a close battle between Atsushi (ARC) and Jilles (Tamiya), with Hara managing to win the first two A final legs and therefore the overall event. With the first two podium spots already locked away both drivers used the 3rd A final to make some changes using the great track conditions to try settings for the upcoming TITC 2014 to be held at the same circuit, with Hara again being the winner after very close racing. The final podium spot went to Paphon Chanyasak (Xray).

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]

November 5, 2013

EFRA releases 2014 race calendar

Following last weekend’s EFRA AGM in Zagreb, the European governing body have announced the (provisional) dates for next year’s European Championships with the 1/10 IC Track Euro date still needs to be finalised. A busy summer season with 3 ‘B’ championships, a 1/8th flat chassis Euros and 2 40+ titles along with the usual ‘A’ titles up for grabs. Full AGM details can be found here.

March 20-23 – 1/12th scale Euros – Scandiano, Italy
May 5-10 – 1/10th on road ‘B’ Euros – Madrid, Spain
May 26-31 – 1/8th on road ‘B’ Euros – Bologna, Italy
June 6-8 – 1/8th off road ‘B’ Euros – Madrid, Spain
July 11-13 – 1/8th off road 40+ Euros – Fehring, Austria
July 14-19 – 1/10th EP off road Euros – Trelleborg, Sweden
July 21-26 – 1/8th on road ‘A’ Euros – Kirchberg, Austria
July 31 – August 3 – 1/10th EP on road Euros – Madrid, Spain
August 1-2 – 1/8th on road Flat chassis Euros – Gubbio, Italy
August 4-9 – 1/8th off road ‘A’ Euros – Sand am Main, Germany
August 11-16 – 1/10th on road ‘A’ Euros – Autet, Spain
August 18-23 – 1/8th & 1/10th on road 40+ Euros – Ruphen, Netherlands

View the full calendar here (XLS).