The recent third round of the Czech Rebels Race again attracted nearly 100 entries with the most popular category being the Touring Modified class. Race day was dominated by the battle between three top guys from the Czech Republic. Matěj Šulc, Michal Blahovský, and Petr Grof were fighting for the highest positions. Ultimately it was Matěj with the win from Michal and Petr.
Continue reading the report here
The 2017 U.S. Indoor Champs was held at the Embassy Suite Hotel outside Cleveland, Ohio. It is one of the oldest on-road carpet events with almost 40 years under its belt. The event has become more popular over the last few years, with entry count going over the 400 mark, this year reaching 496, just a few shy of 500. Reigning USVTA National Champion Adam Hutchinson took TQ in the opening two USVTA qualifiers while round 3 belonged to Myron Kinnard. Q4 again went toMyron and Sunday, main event day he knew he needed to pull away before the first corner, and with a slight adjustment in his normal drive line, he was able to do so. Clean start and another 20/5:01 with 98% insured the Championship that he lost last year by less than 0.082 would not be a repeat.Myron turned in three identical runs back to back to back to finally take home the USIC VTA title with TQ. With two of his teammates right behind me making it a clean sweep for Team Associated with Tom second and Will third.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
WRC Racing have announced the signing of Italian frontrunner Mirko Salemi to their factory team. Mirko will campaign the company’s 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road kits in his upcoming campaign that will see appearances at national and international level events.
Source: WRC Racing [wrc-racing.com]
The third round of the Arrowmax Asia Race Cup was held in GuanZhou recently and it saw Xray’s Alfred Lao taking the top qualifier honours in the Touring Modified class. In the opening A-main it was again Alfred on top but in A2 he made an unforced error which ended his race. For A3 the up and coming racer was reminded to keep his cool and this was exactly what he did and by bringing home the win in A3 he also secured himself the overall win from Zhang Zhou (Serpent) 2nd and Li Cong (Serpent) 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The HVBRS club of Islikon, Switzerland recently hosted the opening round of the Carpet Master series. Team Magic’s Philipp Huber was the man to beat in the Touring Car class as he took all three qualifiers and the triple finals to take the day’s win from Roland Kupper (Awesomatix) 2nd and Nuno Huber (Xray) 3rd.
Huge RC Circuit of Bangkok, Thailand played host to the 2017 International Touring Car Manufacturers Championship last weekend. The event attracted about 70 entries to compete in several electric and nitro on-road classes. In the premier EP category of Touring Modified it was Meen V. with the TQ, however after the A-mains Atsushi Hara found himself on top of the podium with Surikarn C. and Mongol Span rounding out the top 3 result as Suphathat K. and
Tanit K. completed the top 5 podium.
Source: ITCMC [itcmc.net]
Last weekend’s US World Nitro Cup saw Rafael Angulo pulling the hat trick in the GT8 ROAR 5-port Spec class. Rafael would be taking the TQ honours, victory and fastest lap of the event, leaving behind Joel Aubrey in 2nd and Tim Caporal 3rd.
Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]
The Racing Arena Limburg in Sittard, Holland, played host to the opening round of the Dutch National Indoor Championship. This ETS carpet equipped indoor track offers extremely high grip and would prove a challenge for the drivers of the Touring Modified, Stock, Formula and 1/12th Stock classes. The the rubber tyre classes Volante tyres were used with the mandatory Stock motor being the old ETS type for touring and the current Scorpion combo for Formula as the 1/12th cars ran on 1S batteries and 13.5T motors with blinky speedos. In Touring Modified the man to bear was John Ermen. He put his ARC car on pole, in front of Florian Joos (Xray), Marcel Koch (Infinity) and the ARC duo of Robbin Hertong and current Dutch Modified champion Sidney Blokker.
