HotRace Cup 2015 – Announcement

After the great success of this year’s pilot race the HotRace Cup will come back even bigger in 2015. Taking place on the weekend of the 26th of July the 2015 race will be hosted by the Riccione Road Race track located only 500 metres away from the famous Riccione seafront, offering many opportunities to have fun, relax and enjoy a weekend in Italy. The event will again be accompanied by a beach party and also see the introduction of the all-new S-Hot Race and a Formula class. More details and a dedicated website will follow soon.

Akio Sobue wins at Speed King Tour Rd6

The final round of 2014 Speed King Tour was held at the Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in the Gunma prefecture. In the Touring Car Modified class, TRF young gun Akio Sobue lead the championship going into the final round from last year’s Speed King Yugo Nagashima. After three rounds of qualifying Akio took the overall TQ from VBC driver Yugo who scored a round TQ but missed the pole position.

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Wagner wins at central German LRP-HPI-Challenge

The 4th round of the central German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held in Hütschenhausen, Germany. The race attracted 54 drivers to race in the four classes of Rookie, Classic, Stock 17.5T and Stock 10.5T. The actual race started on Sunday morning and in 10.5T Stock it was Manuel Wagner who easily TQ ‘d the fastest of the stock classes. Second on the grid was last year’s LRP TCM Stock 17.5T winner, Daniel Anthes while Alex Kunkler took the 3rd spot. In the final Manual secured himself the overall win early by winning the first to A-mains. Thanks to a win in the final leg Alex Kunkler grabbed the runner-up spot from Daniel Anthes, who rounded out the podium in 3rd. Thorsten Zorn and Boris Herzog completed the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

Christer Andersson wins LTCC 2014

The annual LTCC electric on-road race was held this past weekend in Finland. The invitational class is run in a Reedy format with the country’s best 32 drivers being invited. As for the rules the race sees the use of 10.5T motors and blinky speedos for close racing with plenty of fun for the spectators of the nearby hobby fair. Like last year former factory driver Christer Andersson attended the race and he was looking for redemption after scoring a 2nd place in 2013 with zero practice before the event. This year he had only one thing in mind and that was to grab the number 1 spot.

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BRCA 1/12th nationals Rd1 – Report

Round 1 of the 2014/15 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals took place at Tonbridge in West Kent last weekend. A large and highly technical track layout greeted the drivers and for the brits who attended last month’s IFMAR World Championships in Florida the sight of a technical layout and good grip levels was very welcome. The weekend is split into two separate race meetings, with classes for 13.5 and 10.5 stock on Saturday and 10.5 and Open Modified on Sunday. In the 10.5 Stock class, Olly Jefferies was in commanding form driving his Reedy and LRP-powered Xray chassis. He won all four rounds of qualifying and was top qualifier ahead of reigning British Champion in this class David Spashett, driving the Zen-Racing car he has designed and developed himself. Mark Stiles was 3rd for Yokomo/Reedy.

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Markus Hellquist wins at SSIC Rd1

The first round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup for electric touring cars was was held in Vaxjo on a small to medium sized track with quite an open layout and good traction. In the practice rounds Markus Hellquist set a first benchmark by pulling the fastest times in front of Daniel Carlsson and Jonas Andersson. After 3 rounds of qualifying with the best round to count the order kept the same, with Hellquist being 7 seconds ahead of Daniel Carlsson, and 10 seconds ahead of Jonas Andersson.

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