The Italian SRC Trophy was held at the Montegiorgio track in several 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes and with a total of 63 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th category Sandro Sammarini would take the TQ and he also went on to win the A-main event from runner-up Stefano De Rossi and Attilio D’Angelo who would round out the top 3 result.
Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]
The International Open Polish Indoor Championships were held in Poznan last weekend. Marek Kusiakiewicz (Xray) dominated the qualifying by winning four of the six rounds in the Formula class to take the pole position for the triple A-finals. In the opening A-main Marek had to defend himself against the hard chasing Tomasz Szymanski (Xray) and Daniel Slomski (Xray), but Marek was able to take the win. In the opening stages of A2 Marek made some mistakes, allowing Tom and Daniel by. Marek then had to up his pace to catch up with the front runners but with flawless driving he would take the win and with it the overall title. A3 then saw Marek taking an easy win while Daniel and Tom battled for the runner-up spot with the better end for Daniel.
APPA Raceway in San Paolo, Brazil held the Campeonato Paulista EP 2015 last weekend. In the 1/10th Formula class Paulo Roberto Martins (Fenix) took the win from Lissandro Hossoda (Xray) on the runner-up spot. Luis Castori (TOP) would round out the top 3 result.
Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]
The opening round of the 2015/16 Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Arena in Trencin. The race was held in several electric on-road and off-road classes and in Touring Modified it was pre-event favourite Martin Hudy who took the pole position on his home track. The fight for the 2 spot was on between David Nemcek and Zdenko Kunak with the better end for Zdenko while David placed his car on the third spot for the finals. As expected the A-mains then saw a clean sweep from Martin but behind him the race was on for the runner-up spot and this time David kept his cool while Zdenko ran into trouble. At the end David would grab the runner-up spot behind Martin, with Juraj Hudy rounding out the top 3 result. Oliver Havranek and Zdenko Kunak completed the top 5 result.
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The SRC Trophy was held in Montegiorgio, Italy over the weekend in the three classes of Electric Touring Modified, 1/8th Nitro and 1/10th 200mm Nitro. In the Electric Touring Car class Alessio Menicucci was the man to beat and he took quite an easy TQ from his teammates Mattia Collina and Alessio Mancini. In the A-mains it was again Alession Menicucci who came out fastest as he was able to secure the day’s win early while Mancini and Collina battled for the runner-up spot. At the end Alessio Mancini was able to leave Mattia behind with the three making a podium lock-out for Xray.
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Xray have released more dates and venues for their Xray Winter Series. The Czech XWS will be held at seven dates between November and April at the sports hall in Kolin, Czech Republic in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Limited, Formula, Buggy and Short Course. All dates and more details (in Czech language) are available here.
Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong played host to the Team C Open. Up and coming Lai Chan Hay (Mugen) took the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro class in what was his first ever race in this class and Lai would also set a new lap record with 13.9 seconds. In the 45 minute main final the TQ holder would ran into unexpected issues promoting Luk Chi Hung (HB) into the lead which he would maintain until the end to take the win some eight laps in front of Ng Chui Man (HB) who was in an exciting fight with Simon Tung (HB) in the closing stages. Ultimately both were only separated by one second.
Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]
The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series 2015/2016 season recently opened with a bang in the flatlands of Saskatoon, SK. This year the guys at SARCAR took it to the next level by arranging for a professional camera crew to document the weekend and boy did it turn out great. The coverage can be found on WCICS’ website here. As usual the first race of the season brought out everyone’s excitement to get back on the carpet and the racing was proof. Modified Touring Car really is the pinnacle of RC and the WCICS series has some seriously good drivers in this class and the Saskatoon race was no exception. As usual Wayne Mah and Danny Buck were doing their dance, but this time Blake Bell, Matt Wilfort and Josh Carter all joined to make things a bit more interesting.
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