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April 28, 2016

Mustafa Alp doubles at TORC Rd1

Round one of the Turkish TORC series was held in Bumod Bursa in pretty cold weather conditions. About 70 drivers competed in the four classes of 1/8th nitro on-road, 1/10th nitro on-road as well as electric Modified and Stock Touring. In the 1/10th Nitro class it was Mustafa Alp who dominated qualifying by TQing all five qualifiers to grab the overall TQ easily. In the 45-minute main final Mustafa easily pulled away from the field and he was able to cruise to the win with a 5-lap lead on Halit Körpe, who was promoted into the second spot thanks to some last minute carnage caused by a rain shower in the closing stages. As the only top driver who did not change tyres mid-race, Alain Sarafyan was awarded with a third place and the final podium spot.

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April 28, 2016

Keven Hebert doubles at Mile High Indoor Champs

In only a few years, the Mile High Indoor Championships has transformed from a cozy regional event into a full-blown national competition. The best drivers from around the country converged upon the newly carpeted 5280 Raceway for the last major event of the carpet racing season. In the Touring Modified class, Keven Hebert went on to grab the pole position for Sunday’s single A-Main event with Ralph Burch lining up second followed by ROAR Carpet Nats winner Chris Adams in third. In the A-main Keven took the lead over the second- and third-place cars early on in the main event. Adams and Burch later retired after a huge crash, which allowed Keven to claim the win by half a lap over the second-place finisher. In 1/12 Modified qualifying, Keven claimed the pole position by a margin of four seconds over Kory Harbke. In the main event the two battled head to head over the last four minutes, with Keven taking another win to cap off a very successful weekend in the Mile High City.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

April 27, 2016

Adrien Bertin to run Xtreme Aerodynamics bodies

Following the signing of Robert Pietsch and Simon Kurzbuch, Xtreme Aerodynamics now announced the addition of another World Champion, Adrien Bertin to their team. A part of the development team for both the 1/10th and 1/8th bodies since the early stages, Adrien is very happy with the performance and he will continue to run them throughout the season.

Source: Xtreme Aerodynamics [xtremeaerodynamics.com]

April 26, 2016

Rob Jansen successful at Dutch electric on-road opener

Round one of the Dutch Electric On-road National Championship was held at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn. The weather played havoc all weekend, heavily affecting the action on track and in the Touring Car Stock category, the Modified class wasn’t run unfortunately, Rob Jansen (Team Magic) would walk away with the win after coming out successful in the wet A1 and dry A2 to grab the overall win early. Sybrand De Boer (Kyosho) took the runner-up spot from third placed Tim Streefkerk (Xray).

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April 26, 2016

Dan Jacobs wins Dutch 200mm Nationals opener

The season opener of the Dutch 200mm Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Heemstede track over the weekend. With a new spec tyre selected for the season all racers were eager to make maximum use of the practice session on Saturday although all conclusions made were pretty much useless on Sunday when the weather turned to the worst with rain, wet snow, hail, and sunshine showing up in differing combinations. In the end only the wet qualifiers would count as not all drivers had been able to run on a completely dry track. Ultimately it would be Daan Jacobs that claimed the TQ while Julius Kolff almost missed the final in 9th place.

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April 26, 2016

2016 Norwegian Outdoor Cup Rd1 – Report

2016 Norwegian Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Norwegian Outdoor Cup was held at the Stavanger Forum Raceway in the city of Stavanger located on the south-west coast of Norway. The asphalt track is located inside a rubber clad storage warehouse and and it thankfully features a roof as it started to snow during the weekend. The event saw the running of four different classes including Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T blinky, Touring 21.5T blinky and M-Chassis. The Touring Modified qualifiers were dominated by newly crowned Norwegian indoor champion Nikolai who took the TQ with Helge in second and Svein third.

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April 26, 2016

Speed King Tour Rd3 – Report

The third round of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the TM circuit in Wakayama. It was the first time the series visited the outdoor tarmac track in the Kansai area and the event saw the running of Modified and Stock Touring classes. Young Yokomo driver Naoki Akiyama took the TQ in the Modified class while the series’ points leader Akio Sobue (Tamiya) came in second second. Yusuke Goto would line up in third for the single A-main with his ARC.

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April 26, 2016

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of the BRCA Circuit Championship took place at the high speed circuit of Mendip R/C Raceway. Created in 1977 the circuit was made to challenge the 2WD drive cars of the day, and allow corners to by taken at high speed, this means with a modern 4WD chassis it is very much a power circuit, thus a great engine and big brass spheres are required to get around the circuit at full speed as the circuit is lined with concrete barriers, making this a track to be respected. Greeted by cold but dry weather, practice was under way on the Saturday. With Neal King setting the pace and the usual drivers of Tim Wood, Andy Hastings, John Carr and the returning David Spashett all looking fast it was going to be a close qualifying and race come Sunday.

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