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January 7, 2020

2019/20 Urban Touring Series finale – Report

The 2019/20 season of the Urban Touring Series UTS concluded this past weekend at Urban RC’s rooftop raceway in downtown Singapore. A total of 41 entries across three classes made this one of the largest local races and was a fitting way to end the 4th season of UTS racing. Making it’s debut as an exhibition class was the 45+ Veterans Touring Car class, which attracted 13 entries, with several local legends returning to racing after being out of action for decades. First up was the premier Touring Car class of 17.5T Blinky which attracted a total of 25 entries. Setting the pace in qualifying was local ace, Nicholas Lee, who secured overall TQ with three perfect qualifying runs. Dominic Quek’s best opportunity for a TQ run was in Q1 where he started his qualifying with a blistering pace in the opening laps. However, a spin in the middle dog-leg in lap 4 meant Dominic had to settle for 2nd for the round and overall. PY Tang qualified 3rd, Esmail Apandi 4th, Sean Lee in 5th and making his first UTS A-Main was 13-year old, Zaccheus Lam. Bumping up from the B-final into the A-Main were Allan Tan and Sebastian Lee.

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January 7, 2020

Yokomo deal for Loic Jasmin

Yokomo have announced the return of multi-time French champion, Loic Jasmin, to their factory racing team. Loic previously raced for Yokomo a few years ago, where he scored multiple A-Main appearances in major events such as the ETS and Euros, and a career highlight of a sixth place finish at the 2012 World Championships. Set to debut his new BD10 chassis at next week’s GP3F event at his home club of MRC Longwy, Yokomo look forward to having Loic represent them on the track and support all our customers in France through 2020 and beyond.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

January 6, 2020

Anthony Schimizzi wins at FNS Rd3

Round 3 of the Florida Nitro Series was held at Nuggets Ranch Raceway in Arcadia, Florida this past weekend in several nitro on-road classes. In 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan it was Dorian Tisdale with the overall TQ, however after the 30-minute A-main event it was Anthony Schimizzi with the win some 0.9 seconds in front of Chris Lefebvre in 2nd. 6th place qualifier, Will Carrera came in 3rd, some eight seconds behind Chris while Jerry Guerra would finish the race on the same lap as the top 3, only 4.5 seconds behind Will. TQ holder Dorian had to settle for 5th overall, a lap down.

Image: Wallace Motorsports [wallacemotorsports.net]

January 6, 2020

Clean sweep for Nagashima at OneTen Shanghai

Completing the perfect weekend, topping all sessions over both rounds 5 and 6 of the OneTen Series in RCI V2, Yugo Nagashima took a commanding win in the 8-minute A-main after the battle with JJ Wang failed to materialise, despite the American putting in the fastest lap of the race. Motor King would complete the round 6 podium after Rocket Zhang started to feel unwell near the end of the race while in 3rd, eventually finishing in 4th. While the win looked straight forward, Yugo was quick to say it was ‘not easy’, elaborating by saying that his car was super loose in the opening 2 minutes, while JJ’s car was very competitive at the start. Making a small mistake in the chicane while being chased, when the tires came good he could get his head down and drive a controlled race, winning by a 4.5 second margin.

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January 6, 2020

Yugo Nagashima signs with Dash RC

Dash have announced the signing of Japanese on-road frontrunner, Yugo Nagashima to their factory team. Yugo comes fresh from a commanding weekend at round 5 and 6 of the OneTen series and he will be using Dash RC‘s line of brushless motors, speed controllers and accessories at all major national and international events from now on. The Serpent factory driver has the following to say about the deal:

After using many different brands of electronics over the years, I really like what Dash has to offer. The powerband and reliability is second to none. It suits my driving style and has good speed to compete against the best drivers. The stylish black and gold design looks trendy and I hope to take advantage of this opportunity.

Source: Dash [dash-rc.com]

January 6, 2020

Ronald Völker TQs & wins at 2020 MCSS Open

The 2020 MCSS Open was hosted by the MCSS Althengstett club in Germany this past weekend. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker with a clean sweep in the qualifiers, winning all five rounds for the overall TQ. The triple A-main events then again saw Ronald leading the way and with three wins he took the overall title from Awesomatix’s Michele Manzo in 2nd while Xray’s Marco Kaufmann came in 3rd overall. Dionys Stadler and Carl Friedrich Groessel completed the top 5 results.

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January 6, 2020

2020 DHI-Cup – Report

The 2020 edition of the popular DHI-Cup was hosted by the Odense RC Minirace team this past weekend. The race was held in Touring Modified, Touring Super Stock, Front Wheel Drive and Formula classes and it attracted many of Europe’s fast electric on-road racers. In the Touring Modified class, Patrick Hornum took the overall TQ and he also took a commanding win in leg 1 of the A-mains and although having a few problems with traffic in leg 2, Hornum also managed to win the second A-main for an early overall title. Florian Joos from Belgium did his best to challenge Hornum in the third and final race of the weekend – and ended up winning A3 after Hornum was off track in an incident on the deciding laps of A3. Jakub Rozycki made it through to 2nd on this occasion, while Hornum managed to cling on to 3rd. The A3 win handed Florian Joos a 2nd place overall in Modified while Jakub Rozycki took 3rd. Mike Hansen was close to Rozycki but had to stick with 4th overall ahead of Moritz Flügge.

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January 6, 2020

Ielasi Tuned sign Mattia Collavo

Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of Italian top on-road racer, Mattia Collavo to their factory team for the 2020 season. Mattia will power his 1/8th scale Shepherd rides using the Ielasi Tuned’s Raptor .21 engine at events such as the Italian Nationals, the EFRA European Championships and other select high-class events throughout the season.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]