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July 22, 2020

Jesper Rasmussen teams up with ARC

Danish off-road and on-road frontrunner, Jesper Rasmussen has announced his new deal with ARC to run the company’s popular electric on-road kits. It is understood that Jesper will continue to run Team Associated off-road machinery, however after Team Associated scrapped their on-road program, Jesper had to look for alternatives that he now found in the form of ARC and German distributor LMI Racing. Jesper has the following to say about the deal:

I’m so happy to announce that I have teamed up with LMI-Racing and will be running ARC on-road cars. I will like thank Henrik Heitsch and Stephan Eberding for opportunity to be part of LMI-Racing team. I have been at Arena33 and do some testing over past 3 days, cars is felling great already but still some improvement on driver and car to get maximum out of it.

July 21, 2020

Giovanni Verbrugghe wins at Euro Large Scale Event

The Euro Large Scale Event was held at the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter track in Fiorano Modenese, Italy last weekend. The race saw the running of Expert, Standard and Rookie 1/5th scale on-road classes and in the Expert category it was Giovanni Verbrugghe with the win in the main final, a lap in front of Marko Grigic in 2nd. Gianmarco Martelli came in 3rd overall to round out the podium result in front of 4th placed Michael Donovan.

Source: GRP [grpgandini.it] | Image: Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter [minicarfiorano.it]

July 21, 2020

Jeff Hamon TQs & wins at Speedy RC IC Series Rd2

England Park Raceway of Brisbane, Australia hosted round 2 of the Speedy RC IC Series last weekend. In the premier 1/8th IC Track class it was Serpent’s Jeff Hamon with the overall TQ and he also went on to win the 30-minute A-main event in style, leaving behind Jason Dorn (Infinity) in 2nd already seven laps down. Michael Kirby (Mugen) ended the race in 3rd, three seconds behind Jason.

Image: Jeff Hamon

July 21, 2020

Manuel Ortiz wins at 2020 Copa Kyosho

The 2020 Copa Kyosho was held at the Circuito Kyosho Ajusco in Mexico City, Mexico this past weekend. In the 1/10th Nitro Touring Pro class it was Juan Carlos Herrero with the overall TQ, some 0.7 seconds in front of Manual Ortiz and David Ortiz. The 40-minute main final then saw lots of position changes up front with Manuel Ortiz (Capricorn) eventually establishing himself in the lead in the closing stages after he had dropped down to being dead last in the early stages of the main. In the end Manual took the win a lap in front of Emiliano Robles (Infinity) in 2nd and Juan Carlos Gonzalez (Capricorn) in 3rd.

Source: RCTarget [rctarget.com]

July 20, 2020

Belgian Tamiya Cup Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Belgian Tamiya Cup was held at the Motorsport Arena in Genk this past weekend. The MRG track is located between a karting and MX track, which makes it the perfect location for petrol heads. Due to the Coronavirus measures, the drivers needed to wear masks, which made social interaction a bit strange. The race was held in perfect conditions though as most drivers were eager to rock their rides after such a long break. The fastest class of the day was Euro GT. Run with mostly TRF cars and powered by a Carson 12T combo these cars achieve similar speeds to the 13.5 class. After an absence of four years from the drivers rostrum, David Joos decided to make his comeback at this nice track of MRG Genk. Claude Gyselinck (TRF420) achieved a very popular TQ, his first TQ ever. He was followed by David Joos (TRF420), Steve Heyman (TRF419X) and the surprising Hannu Coopman who ran a TA07R. Hannu even finished a fine P2 in the opening A-main with his TA07 and grabbed a nice P4 overall in front of the unlucky Claude Gyselinck who couldn’t capitalise of his great TQ. The final victory went to David Joos, Wesley Desmet (TRF419XR), who won A3, finished in a fine P2 overall in front of Kenneth Meisters.

Continue reading the report here

July 20, 2020

Ollie Payne wins at King Of Clubs Rd1

The opening round of the King Of Clubs championship was held at the West London Racing Centre last weekend and while Billy Fletcher snatched the win in Touring 17.5T Blinky it was Ollie Payne with the TQ and win in 13.5T Blinky. Sunday morning the drivers were greeted with a wet track and Ollie missed practice and round 1 however he managed to take the TQ in rounds 3 and 4 which put him on pole for the single A-main. The final went smoothly and he managed to take the win in front of Ashley Wiffen in 2nd and Liam Hendy in 3rd, making it an all-Awesomatix top 3.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

July 20, 2020

Lex Tyler wins at High Rollers race

702 RC Raceway of Las Vegas, Nevada hosted the High Rollers indoor on-road race this past weekend. The event attracted over 75 entries and in Touring Modified it was Xray’s Lex Tyler with the overall TQ and also the wins in A1 and A2. Taking the title early allowed him to sit out A3 which was won by young Yokomo driver, Jacob Cruz who cemented his runner-up position from Katunyu Chom-im in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 20, 2020

Billy Fletcher wins at King Of Clubs opener

Round 1 of the Kings Of Clubs series was held at the West London Racing Centre in the UK this past weekend. In the Touring 17.5T Blinky class it was Billy Fletcher with the win and a new track record, leaving behind Ben Cane in 2nd, a lap down. Mark Trinder would come in 3rd, just 0.05 seconds behind Ben.

Source: 1up Racing [1upracing.com]