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July 14, 2020

Alex Aroca wins at Spanish EP On-road Champs Rd1

Round 1 of the Spanish Electric On-road Championship was hosted by the ARCA club in Madrid last weekend in Touring Stock, Formula, and Tamiya Euro Stock Truck classes. In the Formula category it was Alex Aroca with the overall TQ after winning three of the five qualifying rounds. Miguel Fernandez came in 2nd, winning a single qualifier, as Jose Antonio De Lara came in 3rd on the grid, also TQing a single qualifying round. The triple A-mains saw a clean sweep of Alex who went on to win all three legs while Miguel Fernandez ended the day on the runner-up spot. The final podium spot was hard fought for with Jose Antonio De Lara, Francisco Macias and Pablo Martos all ending tie on points. Ultimately to was Jose Antonio who would hold the upper hand in the tie-breaker, snatching the final podium spot.

Source: Roche [rocherc.com]

July 14, 2020

Xtreme Aerodynamics sign Dominic Greiner

Xtreme Aerodynamics have announced the addition of Germany’s Dominic Greiner to their racing team. The 2016 IFMAR World and reigning EFRA 1/10th Nitro Touring European Champion will be using the company’s popular body shells to deck out all of his Capricorn nitro and electric rides starting immediately.

Source: Xtreme Aerodynamics [xtremeaerodynamics.it]

July 13, 2020

Myron Kinnard wins USGT at ROAR Region 3 Champs

The 2020 ROAR Region 3 Championships here held at Apex RC Raceway in Murfreesboro, Tennessee this past weekend. The event drew racers from all over the region and beyond, including Ohio, Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Illinois and Indiana. Friday was an all day practice day. New layout and new drivers all over made for some good runs and the field of drivers was a who is who of National Champions including Eric Anderson, Kemp Anderson, Bill Sydor, John Barron, Justin Lyons and others top drivers that were set to all go after top 3 podium spots. As qualifying got under way, Team Associated/Reedy’s Myron Kinnard was able to take the TQ in round one of USGT from Ohio’s hotshot Von Perry of Capricorn/Motiv. In round 2 Myron was able to make some minor adjustments to his USGT car that put him two seconds ahead of his current TQ and at 98.9%. For the final round of the event Myron was able to hold on to his TQ for the event in USGT, just one second over Perry.

Continue reading the report here

July 13, 2020

Kenrick Fong wins at HKRCSA Series Rd1

The opening round of the HKRCSA Series was held at the TRC outdoor track in Hong Kong over the weekend. In the premier class of Touring Modified it was Kenrick Fong (Yokomo/Team Powers) with the win from Hay (Xpress/Dash) on the runner-up spot. YH Cheung (Xpress/ORCA) came in 3rd overall while Stick King (Serpent/Scorpion) and Tong Chung (Xpress/Hobbywing) completed the top 5 results.

Source: Xpress [rc-xpress.com]

July 13, 2020

Jesper Rasmussen TQs & wins at Odense club series Rd1

The Danish Odense RC Minirace club hosted round 1 of their popular club racing series this past weekend. In the combined Stock/FWD 17.5T JuStock class it was electric off-road ace, Jesper Rasmussen with the overall TQ after winning all three qualifying rounds. In the triple A-finals Jesper would hold onto the lead despite a hard charging field to take the win in front of Mads Koue in 2nd and Rasmus Andersen in 3rd.

Image: Jesper Rasmussen

July 13, 2020

Max Mächler TQs & wins at RCK Challenge

A round of the RCK Challenge Central/West Division was held at the recently renewed outdoor asphalt track of the DJK Andernach club. The event saw the running of four electric on-road classes and in Touring Super Stock it was Awesomatix’s own Max Mächler with the overall TQ after a clean sweep in all four qualifying rounds. The triple A-mains then again saw Max out in front and by winning A1 and A2 he grabbed the overall win with one leg to spare. A3 winner, Manuel Wagner (Xray) came in 2nd overall from Jill Bartsch (Awesomatix) in 3rd.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

July 13, 2020

Xtreme Aerodynamics sign Merlin Depta

Xtreme Aerodynamics have announced the signing of German nitro on-road frontrunner, Merlin Depta to their team. Merlin will be using the Italian company’s successful body shells from now on, decking out his Serpent rides at national and international races.

Source: Xtreme Aerodynamics [xtremeaerodynamics.it]

July 13, 2020

Mota & Tolomelli win at One12 Series Rd5

Round 5 of the 2019/2020 One12 Series was hosted by the Jokerteam Bolzano this past weekend. The event was held in 1/12th Open and GT12 classes and in 1/12th Open it was Alessio Mota who would dominate the proceedings with Alessandro Giubbilei coming in 2nd overall. Luca Tassinari would round out the top 3 result. Over in GT12 it was Alessio Tolomelli with the win from Mattia Dall’Oca in 2nd and Guido Carbognani in 3rd overall.

View the GT12 podium here