The Templestowe Flat Track Racers of Templestowe, Victoria, Australia recently held their Pan Car Challenge 2018 in Pro10, Formula and 1/12th scale classes. In Pro10 it was Andrew Cooke with the TQ after the qualifiers and thanks to wins in A1 and A3 he also walked away with the overall win from A2 winner Paul Sims in 2nd. Warren Buttriss, with 3-3-3 finishes would round out the podium result.
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Capricorn have announced the signing of Italian nitro on-road frontrunner, Mirko Salemi to their factory team. Mirko already had the first outing for his new chassis sponsor, taking the win at the year end race in Fiorano with his LAB C803 car. Mirko had the following to say about the deal:
I would like to thank Patrizio Rossi for the opportunity to run with Capricorn, test new parts and share the results with the team.
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This past weekend the RC Racing Europe GP took place at the Sheffield RC Racing club in England. The event attracted a strong field of Touring and GT12 racers to the Yorkshire based track. The race featured a new larger track, control tyres and full scrutineering checks. The race format also included some seeding round to make sure everything was fair for all racers. After seeding it was Chris Lovely who was leading the way the Touring Blinky, closely followed by team mate Nathan Winyard and local racer Rickey Lee. GT12 also looked close between David Underwood, Chris Parrot and Gareth Williams. Underwood managed to take the seeding honours on the final round. The Tamiya support class was producing great entertainment from with the off with John Yarnall showing the fastest pace.
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Akio Sobue put in a dominant performance in what was mostly a precessional race in the Sweep Modified class at TRC this afternoon. Never really challenged, the Japanese driver was able to pull clear of the chasing pack early on and build up a substantial lead by the end. Behind, Nicholas Lee had what can be described a lonely race in 2nd. While Jin Sawada and a very fast starting Jan Ratheisky, starting in 8th, had a good battle for 4th. That battle would become for 3rd as just ahead Andy Moore had a big moment coming onto the main straight and stuffed it into the wall on the main straight but somehow only lost 2 positions and was able to bring it home in 5th. Jin could stay in front of the German to take the final step on the podium with Jan finishing in 4th.
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The 2018 EastRC Invitational was held at the EastRC Speedway in Jakarta, Indonesia this past weekend. The race attracted regional racers as well as guests from Thailand, Singapore and any other cities of Indonesia. The 2-day race saw five qualifying rounds and triple finals and it was run in the four classes of Touring Car, Front Wheel Drive, M-Chassis and Dancing Rider and in the premier Touring class it was Meen Vejrak with the TQ and new track record after the five hard-fought qualifiers in which Charlee Phutiyotin, Dominic Quek and Bowie Ginting all scored round TQs. The opening A-main then was a really close and tight one as the top 4 went away from the field to fight for the lead. In the end Meen, Charlee and Bowie finished within less than a second of each other. A2 almost delivered the same story before Charlee and Dominic made contact, which let Meen and Bowie fight for the lead. Meen finally secured the overall win after winning A2, 0.4 seconds ahead of Bowie and five seconds clear of Surikarn who recovered from 7th. With Meen sitting out A3, it would be the decisive round for the remaining podium spots. Dominic passed Charlee to spread some gap while Izzah made a full use of his new tyres to pass Bowie for 2nd place.
The 2018 US Nitro World Cup was held at the Homestead RC Raceway, host of this year’s IFMAR 1/10th Nitro Touring World Championships, this past weekend. The event was held in four Nitro on-road classes and in 1/8th Open it was Infinity’s Carmine Raiola with the TQ and win, leaving behind Infinity teammate Dario Balestri in 2nd, a lap down. Alberto Picco would end the 45-minute main final in 3rd, some 8.2s down on Dario. Another Italian, Marco Vanni would come in 4th, 13 laps in front o Roniel Regalado.
Akio Sobue will start from pole position in round 4 of the OneTen series having taking his 2nd TQ run of the day. Nicholas Lee will start from 2nd position, the Yokomo driver tying on points with Andy Moore but having the faster time thanks to his Q3 run. Jin Sawada and Felix Law complete the top half of the grid. Sobue was the only driver in the top heat on new tires but due to the heat felt the track was more loose than before. The Infinity driver also noticing a more considerable drop off in pace later in the run compared to earlier. For the final, Akio said he will simply mount his final set of tires.
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Andy Moore has TQd the 2nd round of qualifying at the OneTen series in Hong Kong, the Infinity driver heading home Nicholas Lee, Jan Ratheisky and Felix Law, the top 4 all deciding to run one of their new sets of Sweep tires for this round. Jin Sawada was quickest of the drivers who decided to use old tires, team mate Akio Sobue ending in 9th having run 2 run old tires. With the knowledge of his team mates running old tires Andy Moore bolted one of his 2 remaining fresh sets, the result being that he now has a 1st and a 2nd and at a minimum will give him a 3rd on the grid, saying he doesn’t believe he can produce a better result in the remaining two rounds.
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