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December 29, 2015

Xray Winter Series Morava Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Xray Winter Series Morava was held just before Christmas and it attracted a total of 105 entries in the five classes of Touring Open, Touring Stock 17.5T, Formula, GT and Hobby. In the Open class Kuba Simurda lead the proceedings right from the start but he was closely followed by young and talented Oliver Havranek who did his best to stay in touch with Kuba. Although he tried very hard, bad luck for Oliver meant he had to settle for third overall in the finals with Michal Vitamvas grabbing the runner-up spot.

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December 28, 2015

Dimitriou wins Speed Hunters Rd1

The opening round of the Speed Hunters race was held at the Zorri RC track in Athens. The race format was a little bit different for the nitro class with two 20 minute qualifiers of which the best three consecutive laps counted toward the overall standings. The finals were then run in an electric format of triple 15 minute mains of which the best two counted. Xray driver Dimitris Dimitriou would set the early pace in the 200mm Nitro class and he took the overall TQ in front of Mugen racer Zacharopoulos and fellow Xray driver Papachristos. Dimitriou then would managed to take three easy tone-to-tone wins in the A-mains to grab the overall victory from Likaris (Xray) and Sogias (Serpent).

View the final result here

December 23, 2015

Julatiwong & Klinfung win Huge RC Club Series

The final round of the 2015 Huge RC Club Series has held this past week Sunday at the Huge RC indoor circuit in Bangkok, Thailand. The 1/8th nitro on-road class had Wittaya taking a maiden win in the main final but the overall championship title went to Serpent teammate Pornpol Julatiwong. Elsewhere in the 1/10th 200mm class Pichakorn Klinfung (Serpent) would take the TQ and win and with it the overall title for 2015.

View the 200mm podium here

December 22, 2015

Wood & Schraders win at Masters of Foam race

The 2015 Masters of Foam race was held this past weekend at the RC Arena Limburg in Belgium. The event attracted both internationally experienced top drivers as well as local talent to race in the three classes of 1/12th Modified, 10.5 Stock and 17.5 Stock. The 10.5T class had UK’s Tim Wood coming out fastest after the qualifiers with Steven Koiter and Ollie Payne in tow. The finals then proved to be a very entertaining affair with Tim winning the opening leg from Joey Sorber while in A2 Steven Koiter came out successful from Rico Claeys. Pole-sitter Tim Wood only ended the race on the fourth place behind Ollie Payne. The third and final A-main then had Rico Claeys coming out fastest from Tim Wood meaning both would end tie on points, but the better tie-breaker handed Tim the win from Rico with Steven rounding out the top 3 result.

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December 22, 2015

Lemes wins Metropolitan Tournament Argentino

The final round of the Metropolitan Tournament Argentino was held this past weekend. Pre-event favourite Lucas Lemes only managed to grab third place in the 1/10th 200mm class A-main behind winner Sebastian Recio and runner-up Enzo Branciforte but the final podium spot was enough to win Lucas the overall title.

View the podium of the final round here

December 21, 2015

Olivier Bultynck joins Awesomatix

Russian company Awesomatix have announced the signing of six-time Belgium Champion Olivier Bultynck to their team. Olivier will use Awesomatix’ all-new A800 touring car during his 2016 campaign that will include attendances at national and international events such as the ETS, the Euros in Slovakia, as well as selected other races such as the GP3F and the Hot Race Cup. Olivier had the following to say:

I’m really excited to join Awesomatix team and thankful for the opportunity from Oleg and Max. Looking forward to work with the team and get some good results for together. I also want to thanks VBC for their support for the last couple of years! I wish them all the best of luck.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

December 21, 2015

Essex Winter Series Rd3 – Report

The third round of the 2015/16 Essex Winter Series had the honour of being the last major event of 2015. The capacity entry again featured stars from all parts of the UK and even further afield, including no less than three A-Finalists form last weekend’s ETS event. The Modified class saw EWS round 1 winner Olly Jefferies set the early pace with his Xray, narrowly pipping HB’s Andy Moore and EWS round 2 winner Elliott Harper’s Schumacher in the opening qualifier. Andy proved that his below-expectation result at the ETS was a one-off, topping the times in the second qualifying round, in front of the Xray duo of Olly and Alexander Hagberg. The third round saw Alexander setting the fastest time ahead of Kyle Branson, Olly and Elliott. That left pole position, along with the entire A-Final grid to be set in the final round. After five intense minutes, Olly secured pole position by setting the quickest time in front of Kyle and Andy. Once the rest of the points were added up, Andy would line up second on the grid in front of Alexander, Kyle and Elliott. A special mention has to go to Harley Eldridge who secured a pair of sixth places to line her Yokomo up seventh on the grid, just behind multi-time BRCA champion Chris Grainger.

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December 18, 2015

2016 WRC Contest– Announcement

2016 WRC Contest – Announcement

Mikimodel Distribution have announced that the annual WRC Contest will be held at the RC Landia track in Scandiano, Italy on the 17th of January. The event will see the attendance of several special guests such as Daniele Ielasi and Andrea Pirani and also the maiden outing of the new Prototype F1 class, a category invented by Mikimodel and run with 190mm Formula cars with “Prototype” bodyshells. For more information about the event, feel free to contact the organiser.