Xray have announced that the off-road portion of the Xray Racing Series Australia will be held on the weekend of the 11th of December at Castle Hill Off Road RC Club. Classes run are 2WD and 4WD Modified, 2WD and 4WD Stock as well as 2WD Junior Stock, SCT and Stadium Truck. Open practice will be held on Saturday with the qualifier and finals run on Sunday. More information and sign up can be found here.
This past weekend Loganville RC Speedway hosted the Halloween Havoc Retro Race. Instead of IFMAR style qualifying, the organizers went back to the old school gate starts. It was really fun to experience the gate starts again, and really made for some exciting qualifiers. There were also no Pro and Sportsman classes, it was just Buggy and Truggy with the event attracting around 85 entries. In the Buggy class and after some crazy qualifying, Team Associated’s Shay Brand took the TQ. In the main, Shay was able to get a pretty good start, but got shuffled around a little after a few turns. He was able to find his way back to the front though and never looked back to take the overall win for the race.
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The opening round of the Winter Cup series was held at the David Ronnefalk owned HB Orion Racetrack. Jesper Rasmussen got off to a good start already in practice in which he came out fastest from David Ronnefalk and Malin Karlsen. In the qualifiers the battle was on between newly crowned 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion, David Ronnefalk and Jesper Rasmussen. The opening qualifier saw mistakes of both drivers with David still being able to take the top spot from Jesper in second and Frederik in third. Q2 then had Jesper laying down a flawless run to take the TQ from Malin and David and Jesper was also unstoppable in Q3, taking the round TQ from Jessica and Frederik. The final qualifier again saw Jesper excel, this time in front of David and Niclas.
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The eight and final round of the OMK Fall Classic title was recently held at the OMK astro turf track. As usual the race format was three rounds of qualifying with triple mains and much like the previous round the track was once again soaking wet and in combination with the low temperatures traction was really low. Malin Karlsen (Xray) took all qualifiers in style to grab the pole position for the A-mains. Malin was also in control of things in the opening A-main despite some bobbles due to the slippery surface but she walked away with a convincing first win of the evening. A2 then was a different affair as, after opening a small gap on the field, she got caught out by a pipe after loosing traction, causing her to loose the lead and also valuable time. Getting her head down she quickly was able to fight for the lead again but the leader would not be easy to pass, so Malin waited until what she thought was the final lap to make an attack at the table top jump leading into the last corner and she even managed to win the drag race to the finish line until both realised that they crossed the finish line tenth of a second before the time was up. With her opponent realising the fact earlier Malin had to settle for second in leg 2. For A3 Malin decided to make up for the confusion earlier so she laid down a flawless run to take the win almost a lap ahead of the field to take the win, the overall victory at round eight and with it the OMK Fall Classic title. Marius Kristensen (Serpent) would end the day on the two spot from Morten Bremsrud (Team Associated) in third.
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The second round of the Israeli League was held at the recently renewed Omer-Ring race track. After the four rounds of qualifying on the technical and challenging track it was Yaniv Sivan who took the top qualifier spot. Right at the start of the 40-minute main final Yaniv jumped the lead followed by Tal Siles and Ido Carmon but an early mistake of Tal cost him the second spot, promoting Ido into the runner-up position. Behind the two the battle was on for the final podium spot between Aviv Maymon and Ofir Avitan. Ultimately Aviv would hold the upper hand to take the final podium spot behind winner Yaniv and second placed Ido.
The Adventscup Warm-up race was held this past weekend at the Czypu-Drom indoor off-road dirt track in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. About 60 drivers signed in for the 1/8th E-buggy class and after the opening qualifier on Saturday it looked like a lot of drivers would battle for the overall win with Carsten Keller, Luca Rau, Philip Lüdgart and Burak Kilic all being in the mix. After the qualifiers on Sunday, Burak Kilic (Agama) held the upper hand over the other drivers and he would take the win in the main final from tone to tone, leaving Philip Lüdgart (Kyosho) and Luca Rau (Kyosho) behind in second and third respectively.
Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.
The city of Sochi, located on the Black Sea coast recently played host to this year’s Russian 1/10th Off-road Championships. In the 4WD Buggy class it was multi-time winner, Roman Larkin who brought home leg wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall victory for the third time in a row.
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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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