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January 24, 2017

Horizon Hobby supported JP Montoya takes ROC title

This past weekend not only the annual Reedy International Offroad Race of Champions was held but it also saw the running of the iconic Race of Champions, an annual event that draws many of the biggest names from across the world of racing. Formula 1, NASCAR, World Rally Cross, MotoGP – they all come to one spot where they go head-to-head on the same track in identical cars. The 2017 edition, held at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida, saw Colombian motorsport great, Horizon Hobby sponsored Juan Pablo Montoya taking on a field of the world’s best drivers in front of 15,000 fans to win the title of Champion of Champions. In addition to Montoya, this year’s roster of competitors included other notables such as Tom “Mr. Le Mans” Kristensen, four-time Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel (and last year’s ROC Champion of Champions), Felipe Massa, David Coulthard, Kyle Busch, Travis Pastrana – and the list goes on. This year’s event also featured a brand new figure-of-eight track that challenged drivers even more. The best-of-three Grand Final boiled down to a battle between Montoya and Kristensen in which Montoya took two straight heats to become the undisputed Champion of Champions.

Source: Horizon Hobby [horizonhobby.com]

January 23, 2017

Essex Winter Series Rd4 – Report

The penultimate round of the Essex Winter Series championship took place this weekend at the popular venue in South-East England. Despite the freezing temperatures outside, the fully heated hall and pits saw most racers resorting to t-shirts and the track groove up quickly. With Championship leader, and winner of all three events so far, Elliott Harper on international duty for Schumacher, others would be hoping to take advantage and a useful points haul from the day. Olly Jefferies would be the one to make the most of that – despite tough competition, the Xray driver went on to top all four of the qualifying rounds. However, behind Olly, tight battles for the remaining A-final places raged throughout each run. Infinity’s Andy Moore, running the Infinity prototype touring car for the first time in the UK, was Olly’s closest challenger in the opening qualifier, ahead of Olly’s Xray team mate Alexander Hagberg, the Team Associated cars of Chris Grainger and Alan Bickerstaff, and Kyle Branson, also running the new Infinity car.

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January 23, 2017

Protoform WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Protoform Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series round 4 landed in the capital city of Edmonton, Alberta. Hosted by NASCAR, it was a very cold Winter weekend, perfect for indoor racing. Running on new black carpet, NASCAR took their track design to a completely different level, with a beautiful layout complete with green felt inserts. In the Touring Modified class top Western Canadian racer, Awesomatix’s Wayne Mah was in top form at his home club, and dominated the first two A-mains. Xray teammates Blake Bell and Danny Buck would each take a 2nd, and fellow Xray driver Luke Pittman would take 3rd both opening rounds. With Wayne’s place secured, and sitting out A3, Blake Bell would lock up 2nd overall, and Luke would take 2nd over top privateer Josh Carter to take the final podium spot. Danny Buck shown in podium picture but points were later corrected to Luke.

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January 23, 2017

XRD sign Mattia Collavo

XRD have announced the signing of Italian frontrunner Mattia Collavo. The ENS A-main finalist and 2015 Italian national champion will power his ARC R8.0 and BMT 701 cars with the high-end F.T. Line version of the Italian engines throughout his 2017 campaign that will hold races such as the Italian Nationals, select ENS events and the Italian Manufacturer’s championship as well as other major national and international level meetings.

Source: F.T. Line [ftlineteam.com]

January 23, 2017

Völker & Asendorf dominate 2017 GP3F

The 2017 edition of the Grand Prix des 3 Frontieres was hosted by the MRC Longwy club over the weekend. The event usually attracts some of the fastest european drivers and this year’s edition did again not disappoint. In the premier Touring Modified category it was the Yokomo duo of Ronald Völker and Christopher Krapp that set the pace with Ronald making a clean sweep to take the TQ from Christopher while Marc Rheinard came in third in front of Yannic Prümper (VBC) and Marco Kaufmann (Xray).

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January 23, 2017

2017 Pan Car Masters – Announcement

The 2017 Pan Car Masters and 1/8th Electric Track GP will be held from the 2nd to 4th of June at the world-famous Lostallo track in Switzerland. Classes run are 235mm Pro10 Modified, 235mm Pro10 Stock, Swiss GT 200mm, Formula 21.5 as well as 1/8th Electric On-road Modified and Stock. Sign-up for the event is available here and more information about the event, rules and a hotel list are available here.

January 23, 2017

Ginting & Seta successful at Indonesian On-road opener

The opening round of the Indonesian Nitro Onroad National Championships was held at the SIS track in Jakarta. The weather was hot and sunny, making for good racing conditions for the 44 drivers that attended in the 1/10th GP, 1/10th GP Sportsman and 1/8th GT classes. The organisers had opted to suger-prep the track, making for massive traction for all classes. In 1/10th GP it was Bowie Ginting who took a convincing TQ after the qualifiers, some five seconds clear of team mate Arya Seta.

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January 23, 2017

Osvald & Popic win at Steier Cup Rd3

The third round of the Steier Cup was recently held in Maribor, Slovenia. In the Touring Car class it was Alojzij Osvald who took a convincing TQ in front of Patrik Požgaj and Jan Pernarčič. In the finals Alojzij took wins in all legs to grab the overall win from Patrik Požgaj and Viktor Bolšec.

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