The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.
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This past weekend the Team C GT 5 hours endurance race was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong. A total of 14 teams battled for the victory with each team consisting of four members. The rules were pretty open with free chassis and body choice but SP control tyres had to be used. The race started at 11 a.m. on Sunday and after 300 intense minutes it was Team 46 (Serpent) that walked away with the win from Team C (Team C) with Team HEC (Mugen) rounding out the podium result.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
The Grand Prix of Marseille was held this past weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took the TQ from Adrien Bertin (HB Racing) and Christophe Louis in second and third respectively. At the end of the 30-minute main final Anthony retained his position with Adrien ending the race some three seconds down. Two laps behind Mathias Kalaris (Capricorn) completed the podium result in third.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the Belgium Modelifun Championship was held in Meux, Belgium. The Touring Car class was won by Jerome Defrenne from Michel Smets in second and Pascal Delferiere in third. Cedric Colen and Cornard Olivier completed the top 5 result in fourth and fifth respectively.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
This past weekend the Rumble in the Asphalt Jungle race was held in Austin, Texas at the newest permanent on-road track in the United States, called N-Control RC Racing Circuit. This was the track’s first big race and in the 1/10th Nitro Sedan class it was Loran Whiting who was able to take the TQ and she would also lead the 20-minute A-main from start to finish to take the day’s win.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice, Czech Republic and it saw a total of 233 entries for the four on-road and two off-road classes. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by reigning IFMAR Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker (Yokomo) who won the qualifying and took the overall TQ without any problems. Behind him Viktor Wilck (Serpent) and Tobias Seidl (Schumacher) made up the top 3 while, after some very strong runs in the qualifiers, Czech driver Radek Flek came in fourth.
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The recent 2016 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals were held at the Homestead RC Raceway in Florida. The 1/8th Masters class was TQ’d and won by Joaquin Desoto Sr. with a 1-lap margin on Dana Smeltzer while Greg Esser ended the race another three laps down. In 1/8th GT ROAR Spec Joaquin Desoto Jr. brought home the win from TQ holder Scotty Gray by a narrow 7 seconds after the 45-minute finale. Robbie Cerrato completed the top 3 result.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The sixth and final round of the Malaysia National Championships was recently held with about 80 drivers attending in the Touring Modified, Super Stock and Stock classes. In Touring Modified TQ holder Adik Haikal (Xray) would bring home the day’s win from Norazam (Xray) and Michael Lim (Xray). Shahrin (Yokomo) and Wong Kok Wai (Awesomatix) would round out the top 5 result.
