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January 22, 2018

Prümper & Bultynck win at GP3F

The Grand Prix des 3 Frontiers, also known as GP3F was held by the French MRC Longwy club this past weekend. As usual the event attracts some of Europe’s fastest drivers to battle it out in the Touring Modified and Touring Stock classes. The 2018 edition made no exception and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Germany’s Yannic Prümper who lead a Yokomo 1-2-3 after the qualifiers with fellow countrymen Ronald Völker and Christopher Krapp completing the top 3 as Marc Rheinard and Thimo Weissbauer came in 4th and 5th.

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January 22, 2018

Scottish GT12 Regionals Rd1 – Report

The first round of the BRCA Scottish GT12 regionals 2018 was hosted by Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub. This was the first round of a four round series involving Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub, Grampian Radio Car Club and Lothian Radio Control Car Club. The series is now in its fifth year and continued the successful format of previous years of 4 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all racers. As well as GT12 cars support classes for 13.5 blinky touring cars and Formula 1 cars were also offered.

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January 22, 2018

Mibosport Winter Cup Rd4 – Report

The penultimate round of the 2017/18 Mibosport Winter Cup was held in Hrotovice this past weekend. Fresh off the Christmas break a total of 220 drivers signed in for the event that was held in the usual mix of electric on-road and off-road class with 103 entries for the on-road and 117 entries for the off-road categories. Drivers from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and even Italy signed in as did some well-known named from series such as the ETS and EOS. In Touring Modified, Dominic Vogl did not feel confident in qualifications, but it was a brand new story in the final legs. In the first one Oliver Havranek crashed on the roll out lap so that he was forced to score a DNS and nothing could prevent Dominic from taking the win. In the second leg Oliver kept the doors shut setting the final run to be the decider. It was a great fight between those two guys and finally Dominic passed Oliver for the overall. Matej Sulc completed the as Patrick Gollner lost a few spots compared to his starting position and finished 4th in front of Zdeno Kunak.

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January 19, 2018

Arrowmax Asia Race Cup finale – Report

The Arrowmax Asia Race Cup finale was held at the Japanese Yatabe arena with 60 drivers signing in for the four electric on-road classes. In addition to some of the countries fastest drivers, the event also saw the attendance of drivers from China, Malaysia and Singapore as these countries also hosted rounds of the Arrowmax Asia Race Cup. In the premier Touring Modified class it was a four-way battle between four manufacturers. Akio Sobue (Infinity), Naoki Akiyama (Yokomo), Jin Sawada (Destiny) and Viktor Wilck (Serpent). The closest battle was in the opening A-main when Akio Sobue, the TQ holder, was put under pressure by Naoki Akiyama. The two would fight for five minutes but Naoki did not find a way past Akio who would bring home the win in A1. A2 and A3 then saw less action up front and Akio would be able to bring home the overall win from Naoki Akiyama and Jin Sawada.

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January 19, 2018

EZ Power sign Matteo Bozzoni

EZ Power have announced the signing of Italian Stock Bike World Champion, Matteo Bozzoni to their team. Matteo will use EZ Power’s high-performance LiPo battery packs in his campaign that will see attendances at all major races.

Source: EZ Power [ezpower.it]

January 18, 2018

Champion Touring Series CTS3 – Announcement

For the 3rd Season, the CTS is making its way to 2018 with this time, seven rounds of racing for the points chase. Included are two new tracks in SoCal and one remodeled track in Norcal giving the series a variety of places to race. The first and second race will be on both old and new CRC carpet to start off the winter followed by asphalt to complete the series. The name has also changed for this year to Champion Touring Series allowing more racers from across the US and different parts of the world to compete. With the momentum in popularity of the CTS growing, expanding the series will make it more interesting to racers outside California. The season opener started on February 10th and 11th and more information can be found here.

January 18, 2018

Olly Jefferies teams up with EZ Power

EZ Power have announced the signing of UK’s Olly Jefferies to their team. The Xray factory team driver will use EZ Power batteries in all of his electric rides from now on.

Source: EZ Power [ezpower.it]

January 18, 2018

Simon Horák doubles at PLMS Poland Rd5

The fifth round of the Polish PLMS series was held last weekend on a fast and flowing track. In the Touring Stock category it was Simon Horak with the TQ and he would also come out on top after the triple A-mains, handing him the win from Jakub Michalski and Mariusz Zachacz, making it an all-Xray podium.

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