September 24, 2015

2015/16 WCICS Anniversary season – Announcement

2015/16 WCICS Anniversary season – Announcement

This season the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series WCICS celebrates its 25th year as one of the World’s largest RC series, and the organisers have announced that Protoform has joined the series as title sponsor. WCICS President Josh Carter said “Protoform is originally a Canadian company, with their design studio still located in the Great White North. They are a fantastic organization, a natural fit, and a wonderful partner for WCICS. Huge thanks to Eric and Dale and the entire team at PF, we look forward to many successful years together.” This season sees some changes, as the Touring classes will be using slightly softer Sweep 28 tires while the 1/12th stock class will move to WGT stripe-style spec tyres to make for even closer racing. The opening round will be held on the 25th of September in Saskatoon, SK. More details can be found on the series’ website here.

September 23, 2015

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Greece

Alexander Hagberg doubles at Xray Challenge Greece

The second running of the Xray Challenge Greece was again held at the Fanatix Race Track just outside of Athens with some 50 entries for the electric and nitro classes. Held over a single day the fun and entertaining event would see the attendance of Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who competed in the electric and nitro classes. In the nitro class, Alexander managed to take the TQ position after a fast and clean run, some 8 seconds in front of Greek driver John Sotiropoulos, and the Xray pairing of Nikiforos and Dimitrios.

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September 23, 2015

Traugott Schär takes European 200mm 40+ title

Traugott Schär takes European 200mm 40+ title

The Nitro On-road 40+ EFRA European Championships were held in Lostallo, Switzerland in mixed weather conditions. The five qualifying rounds were run in both dry and wet conditions and at the end Traugott Schär grabbed the TQ in the 200mm class. From the Super Pole Bernd Hasselbring bumped up into the main final as did Hartmut Rose and Andreas Husman who won their respective semifinals. Thankfully the main could be run in dry condition and it was again Traugott Schär (Xray) who came out fastest after some nice fights with Andreas Husman (Mugen). Hartmut Rose (Xray) completed the podium result in third place.

View the final result here

September 22, 2015

Sebastian Recio wins Argentine 1/8th On-road Champs

Sebastian Recio wins Argentine 1/8th On-road Champs

The Argentine 1/8th On-road Championship was recently held in Cordoba in several classes. In the 1/8th “Free” category Sebastian Recio came out successful from second placed Juan Pablo Golobic. Natalio Maringolo in third would round out the podium. In the “3 Transfer” category it was again Sebastian who ended on top of the class while Agustin Cutini and Emilio Lanzilota came in second and third respectively.

View the other podium here

September 22, 2015

Mickael Brandt wins at Swedish On-road Cup

Mickael Brandt wins at Swedish On-road Cup

The final round of the Swedish On-road Cup was recently held at the MK Eskils track, host of next year’s EFRA 1/8th On-road Euros. The qualifying of the 1/10th 200mm class had Mickael Brandt coming out fastest from second placed Nicolai Hvid and third placed Jose Castro. Before the start the TQ holder ran into trouble due to a dying transmitter battery but a quickly borrowed pack got him on track in time. The start then went ok for Mickael but his nerves got the better of him and he almost got caught by the field. Mickael managed to cool down and he began to pull away quickly and some 25 minutes into the race he had managed to open a gap of several laps to the second place driver. A quick pit stop for tyres didn’t change much and while conserving the lead Mickael lost focus a bit and clipped a curb which cost him the 1st gear on his car. During the repair his pit crew forgot to refuel and so he soon after flamed out but he still had a 3-lap lead only to clip another curb which send his car on the roof. The following flameout cost Brandt the lead that was promoted to a happy Jose. While chasing the leader Mickael scored the fastest lap of the race with a 30.7 and after the final pitstop both were racing tail to bumper. With a pass on the straight Mickael regained the lead that he was able to conserve it until the end to take the win from Jose Castro and Hans Elmerfors. Rune Stokka and Ake Törnros rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

September 21, 2015

Nacho Lopez takes Spanish 200mm title

Nacho Lopez takes Spanish 200mm title

The fourth and final round of the Spanish 1/10th 200mm Nationals was held at the tight and technical Carsol track in Elche. Going into the final round four drivers, Nacho Lopez, Victor Pelaez, Jonnhy Pastor, and Carlos Ferrando had the chance to grab the overall championship title. The weekend started out with free practice on Friday on a very slippery track due to heavy rain the week before the race. From the start of the controlled practice on it became clear that the fight for the TQ would be between Nacho Lopez and Sergi Franch. After the qualifiers Sergi and Nacho were tie on points but with the better end for Sergi in the tie-breaker. Also directly qualified for the final were Carlos Ferrando and Jonnhy Pastor in third and fourth respectively. Victor Pelaez had a tough qualifying and ended in 6th place so far so he had to go through the semifinals to maintain his chance to grab the title.

Continue reading the report here

September 21, 2015

Jack Holger Sørensen wins at Danish On-road Champs

Jack Holger Sørensen wins at Danish On-road Champs

A round of the Danish On-road Nationals was recently held at the Hillerod RC Racing club. In the 200mm Nitro class Rasmus B. Nielsen showed some good speed during Saturday’s dry practice. Sunday started out wet but this did not kept the driver from fighting for valuable points in the championship. Rasmus already had a 9 point lead over runner-up Claus Ryeskov in the championship and there was no reason for him to start but other drivers wanted to tackle the wet track to keep their positions in the championship so at the end the drivers decided to do one qualifier followed by the finals.

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September 21, 2015

Slovakia Cup 2014/15 Rd8 – Announcement

Slovakia Cup 2014/15 Rd8 – Announcement

The Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia will be host for the 8th and final round of the Slovakia Cup this coming Saturday. The event will be held in several electric on-road and off-road classes on the Arena’s indoor tracks and more information can be found here.

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