Wallace Motorsports have announced the signing of past ROAR National Champion Vincent Jackson to their team. Vincent will be going for two more titles piloting his new WRC cars at the Fuel Nationals in Lincoln, Nebraska at the end of September.
Source: Wallace Motorsports [wallacemotorsports.net]
The fifth round of the Dutch 1/10th 200mm National Championship was held at the Real 80 track in Groningen this past weekend. The qualifying saw Milan Holthuis (Capricorn) taking the pole position for the main final with the Serpent duo of Daan Jacobs and Julius Kolff in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The double 20-minute mains saw again Milan holding the upper hand while Daan and Julius rounded out the top 3, just like after the qualifiers. The final round of the nationals will be held on the 16th and 17th of September in Rucphen with the championship now being a very close affair.
Thanks to Mark Holthuis for the report.
The final round of the Xray Race Series Alpe Adria was held at the LAMAC track in Austria this past weekend. ARC’s Herfried Pucher would take the win with his Picco-powered ride from Jernej Vuga (Xray/Reds Racing) 2nd and Hans Jörg Röschen (ARC/Picco) 3rd. In the overall championship it was again Herfried who took the winning honours, tie on points with Vernej, while Neijc Mihelic (ARC/Picco) completed the overall top 3 result.
Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]
SRT have announced the signing of 2016/17 ETS Pro Stock champion, Alexandre Duchet to their team. Formerly using Highest servos, Alexandre now made the switch to SRT to campaign their low-profile servos such as the BH8015 HV brushless servo. Alex says:
SRT servos are of high quality and flexibility. I am very happy to join in the SRT team and get the support.
Source: SRT [srt-rc.com]
The final round of the Danish DRCMU On-road Nationals was held at the ORCM track just outside of Odense. Saturday’s practice was pretty much washed away although in the morning some runs could be completed. Sunday race day and the weather was much better and in the Touring 13.5T class the race for the title was on between Steven Olsen and local driver Niklas Engholm. Ultimately Steven would hold the upper hand, taking the P2 spot on the grid behind local driver Jesper Rasmussen and in front of Niklas. While Jesper checked out in every A-main leg Steven concentrated on bringing home the runner-up spot which would be enough to win the championship and ultimately he was able to do so. The final results would see Jesper in front of Steven and Ole Villumsen while Niklas had to settle for 4th overall. As for the championship, Steven Olsen (Xray) would take the Super Stock title from Niklas Engholm (Team Associated) and Jesper Rasmussen (Team Associated). Ole Villumsen (Xray) and Peter Strandskov (Xray) rounded out the top 5 result.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 5 of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held at the technical track of Deventer. The small track offers plenty of grip but also high kerbs which would play a major role in the race. The premier Touring Modified class is run according to EFRA rules and only a single set of Volante 36R tyres is allowed for the entire race. In Q1 and on new tyres, Mitchell Van Es (Awesomatix) took P1 in front of Florian Joos (Tamiya) and Sidney Blokker (Yokomo). Then Florian managed to win Q2 thanks to an error from Mitchell in the last lap but Mitchell stroke back and won Q3 in front of Sidney and Florian. This meant Mitchell would take P1 on the grid in front of Florian, Sidney, Rick van den Akker (Xray) and Niek Middelkoop (Xray).
Continue reading the report here
The EWS Events team has announced the 2017/18 Essex Winter Series presented by Infinity. The seventh season of one of the biggest on-road series in Europe will again feature the huge 24×34 metres ETS carpet track, and cater for touring cars in two classes – Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Blinky. Sweep Racing continue as the tyre supplier, with the unique EWS-branded tyres available from most good model shops, or on the day at the event from the organisers. The series will again feature five, one-day events throughout the winter months with entries now open and expected to fill up very quickly. More details, dates and rules can be found on the EWS website where entries can also be made, or on the EWS Facebook page.
Round 5 of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held at the technical Hotwheels Deventer track. In the Touring Stock class Rob Janssen would take the TQ from Wesley van Dijken 2nd and Sybrand de Boer 3rd. In the finals Rob would make a clean sweep, taking wins in all three legs to snatch the overall win while Wesley and Sybrand battled for the runner-up spot, which further helped Rob up front. Ultimately Sybrand would prevail and take the 2 spot from Sybrand who rounded out the podium result.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
