The opening round of the Malaysian Electric On-road Nationals was held recently, attracting nearly 90 entries for the touring and formula classes. In the Touring Modified class it was special guest, Dominic Quek who would hold the upper hand. taking the TQ and win from teammate Shahrin as Wong Kok Wai rounded out the top 3 results.
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The 2019 season of Speed King Tour kicked off at Rajikon Tengoku Nagoya indoor tarmac track last weekend. This series caters for 1/10th electric touring car freaks since 2013 with many Japanese and oversea pro and amateur drivers attending this event which makes it one of top competition race series in Japan. This time, modified and stock touring class were run but also an oval class will be added if the race track layout allows. In qualifying for the modified class, Infinity driver Akio Sobue got the most points but young Xray racer Takuma Sasaki took fastest lap time during the ‘Super lap’ session, which was raced by top 5 qualifiers following the 3 rounds of qualifying, which meant Akio would start 2nd, ahead of Sota Goto in third.
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Gens Ace have announced the signing of Haifeng Wang (aka Motor King) to their racing team. Haifeng Wang is considered as one of the best RC drivers from China, with 7 1/10 Chinese national titles, 6 time Hobbywing Cup Champion, Tamiya Asian Cup 4WD GT Champion and TITC stock class champion. In 2019 season, he will use Gens Ace batteries in all major Asian events as well as international races. Haifeng said ‘I’m very happy to join in Gens ACE racing team, with latest racing performance LIPO development from the factory, I’m excited to pursue more titles in 2019 season.’
Source: Gens Ace [gensace.com]
Round 3 of CTS4 was held in the middle of nowhere at a secret hidden spot in Dale Texas called N-Control RC Raceway. The track has smooth asphalt that has held a ROAR Nationals, multiple ROAR Regional races, EOS champs and it’s first CTS event ever. Weather was a bit cooler than expected which made the tires for everyone exceptional but with proper tire warmer equipment, it didn’t stop the cars from performing well.
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The 2018/19 Essex Winter Series presented by Infinity concluded last weekend. With only one of the championship titles decided, everything was still to play for and the series saw a complete sell out for its final event. In the Scorpion Modified class, Xray’s Elliott Harper had already sealed the overall title at the previous event. But he wasn’t resting on his laurels as he opened up qualifying with the fastest time, three seconds up on Matthew White’s Associated, with Olly Jefferies taking third for Schumacher, and Stefan Chodzynski (private Xray) and Alan Bickerstaff (Associated) rounding out the top five. Elliott also topped Q2, as Olly moved into second ahead of Matthew, with Matt’s Associated team mate Chris Grainger into fourth ahead of Belgian youngster Florian Joos. Matthew had a chance of taking third overall in the series, with Kyle Branson absent from the finale due to his nitro racing commitments, and securing a top-three starting position would be vital for this. Elliott secured the overall pole position, his fourteenth at EWS, with the best time in the third qualifier, with Olly again second, Stefan in third, ahead of Chris and Alan. Elliott made it a clean sweep by taking the final qualifier, ahead of Olly, Chris and Matt – meaning Matthew would line up third on the grid ahead of his two Associated team mates.
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Round six and the final round of the Schumacher Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place this past weekend. A strong entry of drivers would attend this meeting, drivers taking to the technical layout that the club had laid out, running the four classes of 13.5 Blinky, 17.5 boosted, GT12 and Tamiya Euro Truck. In 13.5 Blinky the qualifying would be very close for the top spot. Ricky Lee would continue his fine form at Louth by taking the top spot with his Awesomatix and with his TQ would secure his championship. Nathan Winyard would lead the Xray charge followed by Chris Lovely and Andrew Green. Kyle would show well in front of Daniel Burks, the Capricorn of Mikey Mansell and 17.5 champion Jason Lovely would make up the A final.
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This year’s ROAR Carpet Nationals were held at ProLevel RC in Chesterfield, Missouri last weekend. There were five touring car classes ranging from Modified to 25.5 VTA and Awesomatix drivers were at the top of all classes throughout the event. Seating rounds occurred on Thursday. 21.5 Touring Car would have Awesomatix lock out the top 5 spots with Michael Toth taking 1st, Brent Klingforth 2nd and Dustin Layne 3rd. USGT would see Awesomatix lock out the top 6 spots with Kemp Anderson 1st, Clayton Young 2nd, and Chris Kemper 3rd. Last, but not least, VTA would see Clayton Young (Awesomatix) taking the top spot with David Panter (Xray) 2nd and Myron Kinnard (Team Associated) 3rd.
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ProLevel RC of Chesterfield, Missouri held the 2019 ROAR Electric On-road Carpet Nationals last weekend. In the competitive 1/12th 17.5 class John Wiita took the overall TQ after the qualifiers with Kevin Van Ert in a close 2nd. The opening A-main then saw Kemp Anderson with the win, however coming out on top of the pack in A2 and A3 secured John the overall title as Kevin van Ert came in 2nd with 4-2-2 finished. Jeff Dayger, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, would obtain the final podium spot for an all-CRC top 3.
Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]
