Picco have announced the return of Germany’s Oliver Mack to their racing team for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The former EFRA 1/8th scale A European Champion will power his Infinity ride using Picco’s Monza 3.5cc engine starting immediately.
Source: Picco [teampicco.com]
Round 3 of 5 of the Heat Wave Series was held at Ripon RC Speedway and Hobbies in Ripon, California this past Saturday with 83 entries for the multiple electric on-road classes. The premier class of Touring Modified would see top qualifier, Lex Tyler taking home the win from veteran racer, Rick Hohwart in 2nd, who ended the single-leg 5-minute A-main only 1.1 seconds behind. 4th place qualifier, Aaron Lewis would complete the top 3 result from Kyle Colbert in 4th.
Image: Lex Tyler
The opening round of the Italian ACI Nitro On-road Championship was held in Vallelunga this past weekend. In the 1/8th Expert class it was Xray driver, Jonatan Gandin with the overall TQ after the qualifiers and also the win in the 45-minute main final, some 4.5 seconds in front of Infinity’s Francesco Tironi. Emanuele Adami (Xray) came in 3rd overall, two laps behind the top 2.
Image: Matrix Racing Tires [matrixtires.it]
Round 3 of the Mauritian Electric On-road Championship was held this past weekend. In 1/10th Touring 10.5T Boosted to was Jovanni Appasamy with the win from Danen Conjamalay in 2nd. Vansh Anjasheb came in 3rd overall to round out the podium.
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The third round of the GenevaModelCars Series 2020 was held recently at the GEMC track in Meyrin, Geneva with 39 drivers attending in the premier classes of Touring 13.5T boosted and Formula 21.5T zero timing. The layout chosen for this round was a little bit less technical as usual, mainly because many of the drivers could not run for months. In the Touring 13.5T boosted class, that is run using Hudy A1-36 spec tyres and without traction compound, Arnaud Soulignac (Awesomatix) secured the pole position followed by Bastien De Marco (Awesomatix) and Xavier Deparde (Xray). After three entertaining A-mains, Bastien took the overall win, in front of Arnaud and Xavier.
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Round 7 and 8 of the Swiss MC Best Series was held in Sitterdorf last weekend in perfect weather conditions. The event saw the running of 1/10th and 1/8th IC Track classes with round 7, being held on Saturday, being won by Ales Hajdekr who lead the 1/8th scale class from Ruedi Scherer and Beat Heiniger. Nick Zünd came in 4th overall.
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The AC Raceway in Pusan, South Korea hosted their Championship race last weekend. In the 13.5T Touring Super Stock class it was Park Ki-Jeong (Xray) with the win from Awesomatix driver, Yu Chang-Sun. Park Sung-Kwang (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the 2020 1/10th IC Track British Open was held at the Colchester Model Car Club last weekend. The event saw the running of 200mm Nitro Touring, 220mm, and GT8 classes and after qualifying on the Sunday the fastest qualifying time in 200mm was set by Alex Thurston, Mark Green in 220mm and Glyn Beal in GT8. The 200mm A-final ultimately was won by Alex Thurston from James Conolly in 2nd and Dev Mahatme in 3rd.
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