The 2015 China Teenager Nationals were recently held in Guangzhou in several electric on-road and off-road classes. Young Dai Shuxia driving a Yokomo took the TQ and win in the Under 12 Touring Car class ahead of Minhao Lao in 2nd and Haoran Ma in 3rd. In the Under 18 4WD Off-road class Chen Xia Xuan, driving a Yokomo, came out successful after taking the TQ in the qualifiers.
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This week the EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championships are held at the Robin Hood Raceway in the UK. Yokomo’s Lee Martin would make a clean sweep in the 2WD qualifiers by taking the TQ from Neil Cragg (Team Associated) with whom he was tie on points but a 4 seconds faster time secured him the pole position for the triple A-mains. Marc Rheinard (Yokomo) would complete the top three after the qualifiers. Lee then went on to win A1 and A2 in style to snatch the 2WD title from Neil. Marc ended tie on points with Cragg who took the win in the third A-main while Lee sit out the leg. David Ronnefalk moved up one spot and Jörn Neumann rounded out the top 5 result.
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This past weekend the BRCA 1/8th Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy Nationals were held at the Slough track. Mugen’s Jack Embling was the man to beat in the Truggy class as, after taking the TQ in the qualifiers, he would also take the day’s win and with it the overall title.
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Round 4 of this year’s Dutch BL-Cup was held at the Mach-one circuit in Helmond. The winner of the previous two races, Bart Mullink, was attending a different event, giving other drivers the chance to score maximum points for the overall standings. This turned out to be a bit more difficult than expected as a few local drivers of the Mach-one club participated for the first time in the BL-Cup and one of them was Sander van Genechten who ultimately took the win. The 2nd place went to Stefan Petrich followed by Erik Wadners in 3rd.
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The 5th annual Canadian International Championships were held in Ottawa, Canada at Sutton Aviation Raceway, which is located just outside on the side of the hangar of Sutton Aviation, the track covered by a circus tent. Owner and racer Billy Sutton puts in countless hours of work for this event, and it is working. This year the attendance was 370 entries, making it the largest electric race in Canada. Pitting is inside the hangar with just a short walk to the racing circuit, and the pits were packed. With a manufactures row, all of the racers had easy access to many of the teams and could ask questions, or get set up advice easily.
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Round four of the German West division 1/8th E-Buggy regionals was held at the RCRT Duisburg track. Hot weather made for dry and dusty conditions and this caused some headache for the drivers and after the qualifiers it was Chris Kammann who came out fastest from Lukas Strothmann an Max Kempchen. In the single 10-minute A-main leg Chris was able to conserve his performance to take a commanding win some 14 seconds in front of second placed Lukas Strothmann. Peter Schulte-Batenbrock would round out the podium in 3rd.
Source: Team Durango [team-durango.com]
The OS/Futaba Nitro Challenge was held at the St. Louis Dirtburners track with a turnout of over 200 entries. The Levi Jackson built track was a lot of fun, watered and the grip level was pretty decent. As the sun got strong though the track began to dry quicker and it was made a decision to let it groove in early and hopes were it would hold together. By the end of practice on Friday everyone became aware that this wasn’t going as planned. The track got super dry and while there was a nice groove it had little holes in that groove that continually grew and spit out sand, dirt, and rocks. By the end of the weekend the track was a complete challenge as finding a setup to traverse the conditions was tricky. Everyone bemoaned about finding consistency and some found themselves using medium hardness tires, even though the conditions were loose.
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Glostrup RC track in Denmark will play host for the Xray Work.Shop Denmark on the 8th and 9th of August. Xray’s Mike Gosvig will sit down with interested Xray owners to provide technical and setup support for the company’s T4, XB4 2WD and 4WD cars. More information can be found here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
