The 2016 Bring the Heat was held at Flowood R/C Indoor Park in Flowood, Mississippi. In the 1/8th Expert Nitro Buggy class, Ryan Lutz would take the TQ honours and he would go onto dominate the 35-minute A-main event by lapping the entire field to take the win from Cole Ogden and Blake Boggs.
The popular Riccione track in Italy played host to the 2016 Hot Race Beach Cup over the weekend. Despite being a fun event the race attracted about 100 drivers from seven nations to battle it out in a total of five different electric on-road classes. As usual the organisers not only catered for hot racing on the track but also a bunch of other activities such as the iconic Saturday night beach party, a kart race at the famous Misano track or a track side lounge area. Racing-wise it was Alexander Hagberg who took the TQ in the Touring Modified class while Jan Ratheisky swept the Touring Stock, Formula, Pan car and Cinquone 299 categories.
Italian company WRC have introduces the GTX EP 1/8th electric on-road kit. Based off of the nitro-powered GTX car the electric-powered variant features a floating radio plate, a longer rear body centring plate as well as an improved front upper arm support. New for the EP is also an innovative battery connection system. The car was designed for the use with 2S shorty LiPo packs that require to be of a “through type” connector tube design to allow them to sit in-line which results in a very centralised weight distribution. Other features include a heavy duty 5mm 7075 aluminium main chassis, 2.5mm carbon fibre upper deck, a Kevlar pulley kit, symmetrical suspension parts as well as a new body support, and wheel lock system.
The recent 8th round of the Singapore Urban Touring Series welcomed its largest race turnout at the weekend with a total of 40 entries thanks to the newly added Formula class. Most of Singapore’s top EP racers were in attendance, ensuring a super competitive field. In the Touring Open class a total of 16 racers took the start and at the end of qualifying, it would be Yokomo’s factory driver Nicholas Lee who would dominate, winning all four rounds of qualifying. Despite an absence of eight months from racing, Xray’s Daryl Thong would qualify second, while Destiny’s Esmail Apandi ended up third.
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Swiss top driver Silvio Hächler has joined Team Shepherd for the World Championship in Gubbio. Being without a ride in the 1/10th scale class, Silvio has chosen the Velox V10 Pro as the best option for him. Silvio had a maiden run with the car this past weekend and he has the following to say:
I want to thank Patrick and the whole Team Shepherd for the opportunity to race in such great team together with my good friend Simon Kurzbuch. I’m really looking forward to the World Championship in Gubbio which starts end of this week.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The Schumacher BTCC series moved on to another very fast circuit this past weekend in the form of Mendip. The championship is still very much wide open in all three classes, so it was set to be a great event. Lots of drivers were in attendance on Saturday for some practice and to get their cars set up to their liking. Unlike other rounds the weather was lovely sunshine and hot temperatures, this was how it stayed for the whole weekend. On to Sunday and race day, we had the usual open practice session first thing and then it was into qualifying mode. The race format was the usual format of round by round qualifying, however this time the organisers managed to get an extra round of qualifying into the schedule so it was the best three from five rounds to count. This was good practice for the drivers attending the National in two weeks.
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Round three of the Indonesia Buggy National Championship was held at the popular C-Netic Track in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. A total of 81 drivers attended from Jakarta, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Batam, Bali, Palembang, Aceh, Kendari, Kupang, Banjarmasin, Balikpapan, Palangkaraya and Medan with the race format being six rounds of ten minutes qualifying with the four best rounds to count. Hot weather with 35 degree Celsius air and nearly 50 degree track temperature made things pretty challenging. After the six rounds of qualifying Xray’s Jason Nugroho would take the TQ with his Novarossi-powered buggy from Ery Setiawan (Kyosho/O.S.) and Hariadi Lie (Kyosho/O.S.). In the 60-minute A-main Jason would continue to be on top of the field and he took the win from Ery Setiawan and Hariadi Lie who maintained their qualifying positions.
Last weekend’s Siderwinder Nitro Explosion held at RC Tracks of Las Vegas not only saw 1/8th Nitro Off-road racing but also the running of an 1/8th E-Buggy class. Spencer Rivkin would set the TQ to put his buggy on the pole position for the triple A-main events what he would from Tyler Vik who started from the 2 spot into the finals. Tyler would take the win in the opening leg but commanding wins in A2 and A3 handed Rivkin the overall victory from Vik in second and Anthony Westergaard in third.
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