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August 23, 2023

BRCA 4WD Onroad Nationals R4 Cotswold – Report

For the fourth round of the BRCA 4WD Onroad National Championship it was down to the Cotswold track at Kemble Airfield. Weather forecast was looking okay for the weekend, however practice on Saturday was hit by some unexpected rain and the same happened again on Sunday. The first round saw newly crowned Modified Champion, Kyle Branson with his Xray X-4 set the pace with a quick 19-lapper, from team-mate Harley Eldridge, with Andy Murray’s Schumacher Mi8 in third. Q2 saw Kyle again fastest from Chris Grainger’s Schumacher Mi8 and Alex Thurston’s Yokomo BD-12 was third. The third round saw Alex take the fastest time with a 20 lapper from Kyle, Xray’s Peter Eagles and Grainger in fourth but overall it was Kyle who was the Top Qualifier from Alex, Chris and Harley. In the finals, the first leg was a bit wet but that didn’t stop Kyle taking the win with 15 laps from Chris and Andy. A2 was nice & dry and it was again Kyle taking the win this time with 20 laps from Peter, Alex and Chris. For the third leg, the rain had properly come down and continued through the final with the cars throwing up plumes of spray. But this wasn’t going to deter Kyle, who made in a hat-trick of wins from Chris in second and young Daniel Robins in third. So it was Kyle who took the overall win, making it four out of four in the championship, with Chris in the runner-up spot with Peter taking with the final podium spot.

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August 22, 2023

1985 handmade Hudy Special 4WD 1:8 Onroad chassis

With IFMAR’s original & longest running World Championship taking place later this year in Japan, photos shared by Juraj Hudy of one of his early 1:8 Onroad creations grabbed our attention. Being raced at the recent veteran’s race at the Czech Nationals, the handmade Hudy Special 4WD car is from 1985, the year Rody Roem was crowned World Champion in Japan. With our own introduction to RC racing being through the category in the late 80s, it is interesting to see how chassis design has evolved over the last four decades when compared to the latest cars. Having had the pleasure of getting into an in-depth conversation with Juraj about all things engineering and what goes into the production of a chassis kit while waiting in airport lounge in Buenos Aires for our return flight from covering the 2012 1:8 Offroad World Championships, one year later we got to visit the lock up that was Juraj’s very first workshop. There he shared his story of the journey to the impressive high tech factory of Hudy & Xray and Hudy Racing Arena that is now just a few hundred metres away. Red RC will be travelling to Infinity International RC Speedway in Japan at the end of October as part of our 2023 Worlds coverage to tell the story of how the 23rd 1:8 Onroad World Championships unfolds.

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August 22, 2023

12th Scale International Grand Prix – Announcement

ACI Sport, the Italian motorsport and R/C Car Racing Federation, in cooperation with RC Landia, the indoor track located in Scandiano Italy, is pleased to announce the ’12th scale International Grand Prix’ which is scheduled to take place on 3-5 November 2023. The race will cater three classes: 1:12 Open, 1:12 Spec and GT12 (traditional BRCA rules) and will be run on new CRC carpet delivered to the track for the upcoming indoor season. The Grand Prix will be hosted over 3-days with drivers getting ample track time over a schedule that will consist of 4 rounds of Free Practice, 1 Round of Seeding Practice, 6 rounds of Qualifying and 3 Finals. The race is limited to 80 places on a first come, first served basis with the full race information pack available here.

Source: ACI Sport [acisport.it]

August 22, 2023

Losam wins Hong Kong GP Onroad Championship

Serpent driver Lo Losam took the 1:8 win at the Hong Kong GP Onroad Championship which took place at the country’s well known Tom Racing Circuit. Hosted by the Hong Kong Model Car Association, the event would be effected by rain on the Saturday with the original schedule of 5 rounds of qualifying reduced to 3 with two to count. Losam’s first race with the Serpent 990, with factory driver Jeff Hamon providing him with set-up advice over the phone, the 20-year-old would go fastest in the first two rounds to lock in the overall TQ while the Mugen of Chu Williams would take the Super Pole shoot out to secure P2 on the grid. With the race attracting an entry from none other than legendary race announcer & recent 1:8 Onroad racing convert Scotty Ernst, in the 1-hour Main final Losam would have some issues at the start leaving him in P7. Within 3-minutes however he was back in the front where he would stay until the end winning by 4-laps from Williams with the Capricorn of 亞森 completing the podium.

Image: Kenny Ng [Facebook]

August 21, 2023

Greiner defends German National title

Capricorn’s Dominic Greiner successfully defended his 1:8 Onroad German National title over the weekend taking victory over Lars Hoppe and Merlin Depta. Hosted at the track of MSC Kichlain in the centre of the country and with more than 50 drivers in attendance, it would be the Shepherd of Hoppe who would take the overall TQ from Greiner and the Capricorn of recent European Championship Top Qualifier Toni Gruber. The 45-minute final would see multiple European Champion Greiner take the win by one lap from Hoppe with Depta, winner of the Semi A Final, taking his Capricorn from P5 on the grid to 3rd after Gruber hit problems during the race.

Image: Lars Hoppe [facebook]

August 16, 2023

Fangzhou “Rocket” Zhang wins China Nationals

Fangzhou Zhang, better known as Rocket Zhang, is the new 1:10 Electric Touring Car Chinese National Champion. After a 3-year absence, the CMAC was finally able to host the China Nationals once again with the FSR International Race Track the location where both the 5 onroad and 5 offroad titles on offer would decided making for a busy 4 day race schedule. Driving his Awesomatix, Rocket would secure the title ahead of the Xray pairing of Ma Hao Ran and Dai Shu Xia. In 1:10 Formula it was another of China’s international racers Stick King who took the title with the Serpent driver taking the victory over Zou Shi Jie and Zhang Yun Kai while in 1:12 Xray’s Dai Shu Xia took top prize. In the nitro onroad classes Alfred Lao won the 1:10 title with Xray’s Ma Hao Ran crowned the 1:8 GT National Champion.

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August 15, 2023

Quek wins HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia

Xray/Hobbywing team driver Dominic Quek enjoyed victory at the HobbyWing Challenge Malaysia at SACC RC Park – the roof top track situated in Shah Alam city in the state capital of Selangor. Attracting over 100 entries from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Philippines, with no Mod Touring Car class the Singapore driver would contest FWD and secure the TQ with the fastest time from the three rounds of qualifying. Behind Malaysian driver’s Shukri would secure P2 with Esmail Apandi from Singapore third. In the double leg A-Main, Quek would lead from start to finish from the 3 Racing of Shukri with Shaikh Mohd Shahrin coming through from 7th on the grid to complete the podium on a tie-breaker with Apandi. In Pro Stock, the biggest class of the event with 38 entries, Adik Haikal took the win for 3 Racing. 13.5 Stock was won by the Yokomo of Top Qualifier Azhari Azhar while the 17.5 GT victory also went to the Top Qualifier Hafiz Shahrin.

Image: RC Planet [rcplanet.com.my]

August 14, 2023

Nicholson defends QLD State Title

Team Yokomo’s Simon Nicholson successfully defended his 1:10 Touring Car Queensland State title over the weekend which was hosted by the Bundaberg Onroad RC Club. Winning the title in Brisbane last year ahead of Antoni Caretti, Nicholson got his 2023 RCRA SpeedyRC EP Onroad QLD State Championship off the the best possible start as he took a clean sweep of the four qualifying rounds to secure the overall TQ. Starting ahead of fellow Yokomo driver Steven Cornell with Jason Dorn lining up P3, Nicholson would continue to dominate with triple wins in the final to secure the title with Cornell and Dorn maintaining their starting positions to joining him on the Bundaberg podium. In 13.5 Stock, Lachlan Pearson took his Team Destiny chassis to the title having also started from the TQ.

Image: Team Yokomo [Facebook]