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October 17, 2017

Vincent Van Gansen successful at Just For Fun race

The Just For Fun Indoor Challenge was held in Vlimmeren, Belgium last weekend. In the Touring Stock 13.5T class it was Vincent Van Gansen (Xray) with the TQ from the Team Magic duo of Jari van de Wal and Pasquinel Neys. In the triple A-mains Vincent took convenient wins to grab the overall victory from Jari in 2nd. Pasquinel had to deal with some problems that included tyres and a ruined ball bearing but he still ended on the final podium spot while Mathias van Laere and Bart Acda rounded out the top 5 results.

View the final results here

October 17, 2017

Pro-Stock Series finale – Report

The final round of this year’s Pro-Stock Series was hosted by Germany’s Minidrom Ettlingen track. During the year the series was held in several regional races with a single national final concluding the season. A total of 52 drivers signed in for the final round that was held in the best possible weather conditions and in the 1/8th Stock class, run with mandatory 5-port Novarossi or Picco engines as well as a control BrilliantRC body shell, it was Jürgen Bähr (Shepherd) who took the TQ honours from Peter Poldvere (Infinity) and young David Kröger (Shepherd), the latter being a regular podium finisher in the Western division in his maiden nitro season.

Continue reading the report here

October 17, 2017

Nejc Mihelic takes Austrian 1/8th On-road title

The Austrian 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship concluded recently at the SFMAV Nußdorfring track and it was Nejc Mihelic (ARC/Picco/UFRA/Runner Time) with the overall title win. Herfried Pucher (ARC, Picco, UFRA, Runner Time) took the vice-championship from 3rd placed Alain Levy (Shepard, O.S., Matrix, Orcan) while young Pascal Knöller (ARC) was crowned the Austrian Youth Champion.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

October 16, 2017

Arrowmax Cup Singapore Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Arrowmax Cup Singapore Series was held this past weekend. In the Modified class, which concurrently served as the second round of the Singapore National Series, Dominic Quek (Xray) battled it out with Nicholas Lee (Yokomo). Taking TQ after the four rounds of qualifying, Nicholas had the edge going into the triple finals. A1 went Nicholas’ way with a strong run despite early pressure from Dominic.

Continue reading the report here

October 16, 2017

2017/18 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the popular 2017/18 Mibosport Cup kicked off in Hrotovice with 225 entries for the eight on-road and off-road classes. New for this season are a 2WD Stock Buggy and the 1/10th Pan Car class to offer the drivers even more possibilities to show their potential. The weekend started off on Friday afternoon when drivers were able to set up their pit areas and later free and controlled practice was offered to seed the drivers for Saturday’s qualifiers. On Saturday morning a couple of runs were reserved for the drivers who did not made it to the track on Friday and soon after the event officially kicked off.

Continue reading the report here

October 13, 2017

VRC Pro Winter Season – Preview

In their latest column VRC Pro report about their forthcoming 1/8th scale GT3 class, their new bump-up finals race format and the upcoming VRC Worlds. Starting with the GT3 class, the vehicles use front and rear differentials and rubber tyres to create a different driving experience at about 90 percent of the performance level of the 1/8 nitro sportscar class. This new class should be easy and fun to drive and therefore will have very limited setup options. VRC expect to see some very exciting and close racing in this new class. Release is planned for the 2017 VRC Worlds starting middle of November 2017.

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October 13, 2017

Hungarian Electric Championship Rd1

The opening round of the 2017/18 Hungarian Electric Championship kicked off in Kartal, Hungary. The series will be held during Fall and Winter on several carpet tracks and in both off-road and on-road classes. In 2WD Buggy Zsolt Bajusz Junior, Balint Rajki and Zsolt Bajusz made up the top 3 positions after the qualifying. In the opening A-main Zsolt Jr. and Rajki had a nice run with Balint waiting for a mistake of Zsolt but the latter had a flawless run and so the two would come in 1-2 and separated by only 0.2s. The second main was a different affair though as Balint made an early mistake while the leader had a comfortable gap. The lead would change many times though and ultimately it was Balint with the win in A2. For A3 Zsolt Jr. tried different tyres but it did not went to plan for him and Balint was able to get into the lead and bring home the win and with it the overall victory from Zsolt Bajusz Jr. and Daniel Schweizer.

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October 12, 2017

Mario Spiniello wins at Italian 1/10th Champs Rd3

The third and final round of the Italian IC Track Nationals was held in Gubbio last weekend and in the 1/10th 200mm Touring Expert class it was Mario Spiniello (BMT) with the win from Dante Piersante (Xray) on the runner-up spot. Alessio Mazzeo (Xray) would round out the podium result in 3rd.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]