Round 4 of the Heart of America Series was held this past weekend in 1/8th Open, 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan and GT8 classes. In the 1/8th Open class it was Eric Jones (Capricorn) with the overall TQ and also the win in the 30-minute A-main as Mugen’s Bob Block and Capricorn’s Jason Reger came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The Czech RC MCC Brno club held round 3 of the club racing series this past weekend in pretty hot weather conditions. In the Formula EFRA class it was Lukas Hoch with a pretty dominant TQ some four seconds in front of Tomas Sova. When the dust had settled after the four A-mains, it was still Lukas on top after winning all four legs for the overall victory in front of Tomas Sova in 2nd and Marek Sova in 3rd. Ales Horak and Marek Hradisky came in 4th and 5th respectively.
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APEX Raceway and Hobbies of Murfreesboro, Tennessee will host the 2020 U.S. VTA Nationals from the 17th to 20th of September. This year the organizers are looking to make the event the best its ever been, offering many great things including low entry prices, more practice and setup time, 1st and 2nd places trophy for B mains, plenty of door prizes, and many more things to be added later. The event will still have the signature 1-minute VTA qualifier as well as the all important TQ sign-up and paid, that gets a free entry to the VTA class. This year track owner Eric “EA” Anderson has made some very important changes and upgrades to the track and the layout will be very racer friendly while still being technical for the most advance driver. More details can be found on social media here.
The 1/8 Circuit British Open Championship 2020 finally started with a full entry at the famous Halifax circuit in the UK. Limited numbers were allowed in each race and precautions in place to follow Coronavirus guidance and keep racers safe. Both nitro and electric classes were popular with many new drivers trying their hand at 1/8 after lockdown, the British weather played its part with a damp track at times, in qualifying Alex Thurston lead the way in the nitro class from Tim Wood and James Conolly. In the electric class it was a close battle with Jamie Paton, newcomer Mikey Mansell, Rob Scott and Michael Lee with Capricorn driver Mikey taking TQ.
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The opening round of the 2020 RC-Lemans Series was hosted by the MCC Rhein Ahr track in Germany last weekend. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic the event was a maiden one this year for many drivers and thus Saturday’s practice was extensively used to get in the first runs of the season. Both the club and the drivers swiftly adapted to the new measures that had to be taken to guarantee everyone’s safety and things really worked out great from the get go. Sunday kicked off less smoothly however as overnight rain forced the organisers to delay the start of the race for about an hour. When things finally started off and in the fast LMP1 Modified class, it was Tim Altmann who set the pace in the opening qualifier. He took the round with a lap margin from last year’s vice champion, Tobias Weist and his brother Kai Altmann.
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The opening round of the Danish DASU IC Track Nationals was hosted by the Hillerod RC Racing club last weekend in 1/8th Nitro, 1/10th Nitro, 1/8th GTe and 1/5th scale classes. 1/8th IC Track would see Anders Lind (Xray) taking the overall TQ and he also came out on top after the 30-minute A-main event, leaving behind Marcus Christian Nordberg in 2nd and Morten Skov Nielsen (Xray) in 3rd.
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The opening round of the Austrian IC Track Nationals was held at the popular Aigen track last weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track class it was Nejc Mihelič who set the early pace in free practice. After three rounds of qualifying Nejc also took the TQ in front of Leonardo Varga and Herfried Pucher as rain interrupted the 4th qualification round. In the wet Superpole race it was Herfried Pucher who took the win and joined Nejc Mihelič as direct main finalist. In the dry final Nejc Mihelič (Xray) set the fastest lap of the weekend and he went on to win the race followed by Herfried Pucher (ARC) in 2nd and Bernd Koller (Mugen) in 3rd. Over in the Juniors ranking, it was young Bjan Mikložič (Xray) with the win. The 1/10th Nitro Touring class was lead by Stefan Strasser in front of Christoph Rohrmoser and Lovro Susteric.
This past weekend the second round of the Polish Electric On-road Nationals was held in the city of Ruda Slaska in great weather conditions. In Touring Stock 13.5T Lukasz Mach (Xray) showed some great performance, taking the TQ and win and also the only sup-16 seconds lap time. Piotr Bigaj (ARC) came in 2nd overall from Krzysztof Ruman (Yokomo) in 3rd.
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