A round of the RCK Challenge East Division was held in Aken, Germany last weekend. The tight and challenging track made for some close racing and in Touring Stock 13.5T it was Stefan Schulz with the overall TQ, overall win and also a new track record. Behind him it was Steffen Stein on the runner-up spot, coming from 4th on the grid, as Johann Thiersch completed the top 3 result.
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The organisers of the OneTen Series presented by Infinity are delighted to announce the return of Marc Rheinard to the series for Rd5 & 6 in Shanghai, the German making his series debut at last season’s finale in Hong Kong. With the championship returning to RCI V2 on January 4th & 5th, having also hosted the opening two rounds, the 4x World Champion will be making his first ever trip to Shanghai and the Infinity driver’s first race in mainland China since the World Championships in Beijing in 2016. Making a big impression when he joined the OneTen series at PYC back in March, winning on his debut, this time he will be running indoor on carpet and will be going up against a very on-form teammate Jin Sawada who has won all 4 rounds of the series to date. With the double header running alongside the exciting new SGP1 Formula series, we will announce a number of other big names that will attend in the coming days. More information on the event can be found here and entry for all classes, Modified and Stock, can be submitted here or directly at RCI V2.
Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Germany was hosted by the RC-Schwalmracern club recently. The event kicked off on Saturday morning with practice with Sunday being the main race day and classes run included 1/10th Touring Stock, Touring FWD and 1/12th GT. In the premier class of Touring Stock it was Jannick Namyslo with the overall TQ in front of Tobias Schuch and Marc Stubben. When the dust had settled after the finals it was still Jannick on top with Marc Stubbed and Jens Haller coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively for an all-Xray top 3 result.
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The 2019 Australian Nitro On-Road GP National Championships were held at RRCSA in Littlehampton, Adelaide last weekend. In 1/8th scale it was Jesse Davis taking the TQ spot over Luke Duthie in 2nd and Steven Jovanovic in 3rd. In the main final it was factory Infinity driver Jesse Davis comfortably taking the win over 2nd placed Nick Salib (Infinity) by five laps and making up the podium in 3rd was Capricorn’s Steven Jovanovic.
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The opening round of the Danish DASU Electric On-road Nationals was held in Faxe last weekend. The track was a bit on the bumpy side due to not being used for over year which made finding the right setup a bit difficult. In the Touring Stock class it was Martin Vandborg with the win while Patrick Danielsen and Casper Lund came in 2nd and 3rd respectively for an all-Xray podium result.
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The XRS EuroRC Finland race was held last weekend at the FullspeedRC on-road track in Hakkila, Finland. The relaxed format of the race attracted some of the fastest on-road drivers from all over the country, Estonia and Russia to attend in Touring Car Modified and Stock classes, Euro Truck, C-12 and GT-12 categories. In the beginning it was obvious that local hero Karri Salmela (Team Associated) was the man to beat in the Touring Modified class and on home soil. He had spent thousands laps to refine his equipment, however Karri was struggling to keep all his car‘s wheels on the ground while Juho Levänen (Xray) clocked the fastest times in two of the three qualifiers and took a valued TQ spot followed by Karri in 2nd and Pekko Iivonen (Schumacher) in 3rd.
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The fifth and final round of the Greek 1/10th 200mm IC Track Nationals was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens. Having shown a great performance in the previous four rounds, Vasilis Lykaris was also able to also dominate the season finale of the national championship. For the 5th time in a row he claimed the pole position followed by a convincing victory. Labros Tsiklitiras finished the main final in 2nd place while Spyros Sotiropoulos completed the podium. In the overall championship Vasilis took the victory with the maximum points result in front of Nikos Karampelas and Spyros Sotiropoulos in 3rd place.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The second round of the Czech Open Challenge took place in Prague with over 70 participants, which made for some good racing. In the premier Touring Modified category Matej Sulc (Xray) led the opening two qualifiers to secure the TQ spot in front of Jakub Rozycki (Xray) and Zdenek Hamak (Serpent). In the finals Matej scored wins in all three A-mains to take the overall victory in front of Jakub and Zdenek.
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