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November 19, 2016

Kurzbuch & Lee dominant in Xiamen after 3 rounds

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This weekend sees the top drivers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, along with some select top international racers, including current World Champion Simon Kurzbuch, descend on the ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China for the Guan Kou Sunpadow GP. Greeted by this amazing facility with its 200m long 3 storey driver stand and impressive track, this is the same facility that will host the 2017 IFMAR EP Offroad World Championships next November on its dirt offroad track. This race is for onroad only with 8 heats of 1/8th scale onroad and 7 heats of EP onroad split between modified and stock. This is also a money race with the winner in each class to receive approximately USD 3000.

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November 17, 2016

BRCA GT Circuit Championship Rd2 – Report

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The 2016/17 BRCA GT circuit championship Continued last weekend at another new addition to the calendar, the event was hosted by the Eastbourne club in Robertsbridge. The club laid a great track for the weekends action, based on the track that they used for the LMP national. At first some of the drivers thought it may be too tight and technical for the Saturday classes, however after the drivers had been on track it turned out to be a fun layout to drive and provided some very good racing.

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November 16, 2016

Xray Racing Series Greece Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Batas that walked away with the day’s win from Velaoras in second and Niotis (all Xray) in third.

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November 16, 2016

Gassauer wins 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway

The 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway race was held at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany this past weekend. Limited to a total of 50 entries the race was sold out within a couple of hours after sign-in started and as usual the event was held using HPI Super EP chassis, oldschool brushed motors and LRP NiMH batteries, all sponsored by the hosting MBC Goldstein club. A single three minute practice was followed by ten rounds of head-to-head racing in random 5-car legs. At the end the best five drivers proceeded into the A-main, place six to ten into the B-main and so on. As usual the race attracted a nice mix of internationally experienced drivers and local racers and it was ETS finalist and 3-times winner, Patrick Gassauer, who made a clean sweep in the legs to take the TQ from Daniel Anthes and Daniel Koch. Justin Gefeller and Alexander Beck complete the A-main grid. In the finals Patrick was less dominant but he still took the overall win and with it his fourth Frankfurt Ice Speedway title. Daniel Anthes, who scored a single win, came in second from local hero, Daniel Koch, who also took a win in the finals.

Source: MBC Goldstein

November 16, 2016

Swiss Carpet Race – Report

The Swiss Carpet Race was recently hosted by the Mini Racing Chiasso club, attracting 80 drivers from Swiss and Italy. The race format was free practice on Friday, three rounds of practice on Saturday followed by a reseeding round as well as four qualifiers and triple finals. In the Touring Modified class it was Philipp Huber (Team Durango) that walked away with the win from Yokomo driver Michele Manzo and Serpent pilot Antonio Mangiaracina.

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November 15, 2016

Akiyama win Speed King Tour Rd7

The seventh and final round of the 2016 Speed King Tour took place at Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in Gunma prefecture last weekend. TRF driver Akio Sobue has already crowned 2016 Modified class series champion but he was still in attendance. The typical Modified and Stock touring classes were run alongside two special classes, the first one is Oval class while the other was the ‘Father and Mother’ class. Only parents of race entrant can enter this race and although some fathers were ‘racers’, some parents had no experience of driving RC cars which led to some chaos.

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November 14, 2016

Mario Spiniello joins BMT

Italian company BMT have announced the signing of long time Xray driver Mario Spiniello to their team for the 2017 season as their top driver. The 2016 Italian Champion in the 1/10th scale class as well as runner up at the 2012 European Championships leaves long time sponsor Xray after 6 years of collaboration. Mario had the following to say:

I want to thank Team Xray, Martin Hudy, Fabio Domanin and all the other people of the team for all these years together, but I could not say no to Pasquale Iuliucci (BMT) that gives me the opportunity to race with an Italian team. This is a new challenge for me. It is the first year for the BMT 701 in 1/10 nitro category and I want to give to the team all my experience to obtain great results!

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

November 12, 2016

Sergi Franch wins Spanish ‘RC World’ Cup

Sergi Franch wins Spanish 'RC World' Cup

The annual RC World Cup race, hosted by Johnny Pastor shop (RC World), was held at the Almussafes track in Valencia, Spain. This race is famous for the attendance of the best national drivers, as well as the amount of prizes given away in the draw at the end of the race. After Saturday night rain, the track was very tricky in qualifying, where in 1/10th scale Sergi Franch came out fastest topping 2 of the 3 rounds in front of Victor Pelaez, qualifying both drivers directly into the main final.

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