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January 25, 2016

Kaja Novotny doubles at Czech XWS Rd4

Round four of the Czech Xray Winter Series was held this past weekend in Kolin, Czech Republic. Just like the previous rounds the event saw both on-road and off-road racing with the buggies being required to run Sweep slick tyres to not harm the carpet surface. Young Kaja Novotny (Xray) would take the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes and he continue to dominate the 2WD class by taking win in A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early. Martin Korinek (Xray) and Milan Mudra (Xray) rounded out the top 3 result. The 4WD class was a different affair though as Kaja messed up the second A-main due to a different tyre preparation. Nevertheless, wins in A1 and A3 secured him his second victory of the weekend from Milan Mudra (Xray) in second and Jiri Vysin (Xray) in third. In the Touring Modified class Jiri Vysin grabbed the day’s win from a hard charging Dominic Sulc while in the Touring Stock class it was Vitezslav Hola who ended the day on the top spot.

View the 4WD Buggy podium here

January 25, 2016

SHRCCC & TORCH Summer Series – Announcement

The UK clubs Surrey & Hants and TORCH have announced that the club’s Summer series are going to be combined. There will be six rounds in total – three at each club and four out of the six to count towards the overall results. All drivers will get four rounds of qualifying and three rounds of finals in the 2WD, 4WD and Junior classes while there is also a buddy race championship throughout the series for a little bit of more relaxed racing fun. More information and all dates can be found on the SHRCCC’s Facebook page here.

January 25, 2016

Marvin Fritschler wins at Messe Cup

The annual Messe Cup was held last weekend during a hobby fair in Bad Salzuflen, Germany. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was SOAR/Graupner driver Marvin Fritschler, reigning German national 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy champion, who took the day’s win from Dutch racer Bart Mullink (Agama). Young Burak Kilic (Agama/Graupner) snatched the final podium spot from Sebastian Winterstein (Mugen). Agama/Graupner teammates Berkan Kilic and Yanic Grieger rounded out the top 5 result.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

January 25, 2016

Ronald Völker & Jan Ratheisky win at GP3F

The annual Grand Prix des 3 Frontieres was held this past weekend in Longwy, France, with the usual mix of national talent and international pro drivers in attendance. In the Touring Modified class, with a total of 33 entries, Germany’s Ronald Völker soon made his intentions clear to bring home the win as he dominated the field from the first practice session on. The Yokomo driver would then sweep the qualifiers to grab the overall TQ from Viljami Kutvonen (Awesomatix) and Lucas Urbain (VBC Racing) who ended the qualifiers in second and third respectively.

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January 25, 2016

Jason Nugroho wins at 6th annual MRCC Challenge

The 6th annual MRCC Challenge was held at the MRCC track in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia with almost 60 drivers from Taiwan, Malaysia, Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Batam, Bali, Palembang, Aceh and Medan in attendance. In the 60 minute main final Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) took the win, coming from the 2 spot on the grid. At first Jason tried to maintain the second spot but about 20 minutes into the race he was able to pass the leader and he never looked back from that moment on. Behind Jason, Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) ultimately grabbed the runner-up spot from third placed John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.).

View the A-main result here

January 25, 2016

Nico Schmid wins at Islikon OffRoad Masters Rd2

Round two of the Islikon OffRoad Masters saw Team Associated driver Nico Schmid bringing home the win in the 2WD Buggy class. Sven Zünd (Schumacher) snatched the runner-up spot from Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) who had to settle for third in front of team mate Florian Schmid.

Source: HRC [hrcdistribution.com]

January 25, 2016

2016 Euro Contest – Announcement

Bittydesign have announced the 2016 Euro Contest, held at the Barco-Off racetrack in Italy from June 17th to 19th. Situated around an hour’s drive from the Bologna airport the track offers a unique “US style” layout that will receive some big changes for the 2016 race. Entries for the 3-day event are limited to 192 drivers and the schedule sees free practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and the Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) followed by the superpole and finals on Sunday. The race is held in Nitro Pro and Open Buggy classes as well as an 1/8th E-Buggy category. More information and registration is available here.

January 25, 2016

Rivkin & Maifield clash, Phend right in contention

The penultimate round of racing at the 22nd running of the Reedy Race of Champions produced fireworks at OCRC as Spencer Rivkin clashed with Ryan Maifield, the reigning champion coming off the worst. The opening race of the fifth round of 4WD would see Maifield start 4th and Rivkin 8th with the pair going to the front when Dustin Evans had a rollover on the step down half way through the race. Running on his mentor’s rear wing for 5 laps, Rivkin would attempt an ambitious inside pass through the sweeper which he couldn’t execute. Making contact with Maifield the incident was exacerbated when a delayed Maifield could connect with team-mate Dustin Evans over the following double sending Maifield tumbling. With Rivkin coming out in front, Maifield would resume in fifth but with just three laps to recover could only salvage third behind JP Richards. While Rivkin felt the second incident with Evans was Maifield’s undoing Maifield had a very different view saying ‘he (Rivkin) lost a friend in that deal’. With Jared Tebo going on to claim his first 4WD win in Race 2 ahead of Kyle McBride, the significant result of the round would come in Race 3 with Dakotah Phend winning from 9th on the grid. Describing it as a ‘very important’ result the win now puts the TLR driver in contention for the Reedy Race title with him equal on points with Rivkin when dropped scores are taken into account with Maifield one point behind them.

Continue reading this report here or view our full event coverage here.