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November 12, 2013

Rasmus B. Nielsen takes Danish 200mm title

This year’s Danish National nitro on-road 200mm championship saw five rounds on four different tracks in Naestved, Odense, Greve and Hillerod. Rasmus Brunsborg Nielsen (Xray) and Claus Ryeskov (Xray) soon made their intentions clear as both fought for every point in the championship. Usually Rasmus was faster on a single lap while Claus is known for his consistent lap times and patience when lapping slower cars. Even though Claus, who took the last four titles, had won a couple of meetings in 2013 it was not enough to defeat Rasmus who is only in his second year in the hobby. Rasmus, runner-up at the Junior EC 2013, took the overall title in style leaving Claus in second place. Martin N.O. Hansen, who also had chances to win the championship at some point, ended in third place. He had been very unfortunate in the start of the year but he had the speed and skills to compete with the front runners and to defend himself against Rhys Jenkins who came in fourth.

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November 12, 2013

Evans & Wagner win at Castle Classic race

The second leg of the 14th annual Castle Classic was held at NorCal Raceway in Union City CA. The classes run on day two of the Classic were F1, Mini, Rookie On-road, Touring Car Nitro Expert and Sportsman, Super Ten, and 1/8 Electric Buggy were held. In the F1 class T.O.P. team ace EJ Evans took the win with his Rebel F1 just ahead of top qualifier Cameron Wagner who was also driving a Rebel F1, two laps up on third place finisher Elliot Miyashiro. In the Mini class T.O.P. team member Cameron Wagner had a challenge to get his new car dialled in for the race against some very experienced mini racers. The first qualifiers were a bit rough but in the end he was able to secure the TQ spot. In the race Cameron led from start to finish, one lap ahead of the close race for second by Jaime Manzanilla and Willie Fok.

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November 11, 2013

JJ Wang wins at RCI farewell race

JJ Wang, who was announced as part of the Reedy factory team only days ago, successfully took part in the recent RCI farewell race, the track which hosted round 1 of this year’s AOC moving to a new premises. The HPI/Hot Bodies driver put himself on top of the podium with Jack Iverson and Jimmy Qian taking 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Image: Jonathan Wang

November 11, 2013

Bart Collins wins at The Cow Patty Classic Race

The “The Cow Patty Classic Race” took place at the Nuggets Range Raceway in Arcadia. In the GT8 class Serpent’s Bart Collins took TQ and later went on to win the A-main with his Cobra GT. On the podium he was sidelined by Serpent team mates Harry Barzilay and Hector Montaner.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 11, 2013

Nico Catelani wins F1 class at Trofeo Automodelli

The Trofeo Automodelli was held at RcLandia, Scandino, the venue of the 2014 1/12th EFRA European Championships. Beside a touring car modified and 13.5T class also a 21.5T blinky F1 class on Ride R1 tyres was run. The category saw Fenix driver Matteo Berlincioni setting the pace and claiming the pole position with an impressive 36 laps in 10.10.323, but he was chased by his team mate Nico Catelani who was only 2 seconds behind. Coming in 3rd further 8 seconds down was Luca Torreggiani. After qualifying the A-final had a massive amount of national talents to offer in the form of Luca Torreggiani, Paolo Bottignol, Andrea Aquilino, Davide Carbone, Riccardo Monzani, Andrea Selva, Davide Campanini and Stefano Luppi. During practice and qualifying it became obvious that the long heats were extremely hard for the tyres making the right tyre treatment crucial for everyone with winning ambitions.

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November 6, 2013

Midwest Indoor Championship – Report

For the 3rd consecutive year, the newly constructed Genesis RC Raceway in Marshall, Minnesota hosted the Midwest Indoor Championship. With racers attending from Canada and 7 states through out the upper Midwest, the race fell victim to some of the top drivers in the county in their respected classes. After four rounds of very tight qualifying, the mains were set and first up was the WGT class. The TQ holder Tony Block broke out and was able to hold on for the win with current national champion and CRC teammate Randy Grosse taking 2nd and John Wiita rounding out the podium.

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November 6, 2013

Schwendimann wins at 2013 French TC nationals

Nicolas Schwendimann (Xray) has won the Touring Car stock class in this year’s French Touring Car championships. Consisting of five rounds in total Nicolas was able to TQ four and win three meetings along a second and a third place at the Nanates and Montbrison rounds respectively. Thomas Vigneron and Jérôme Permentier completed the top three overall.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2013

Hayato Ishioka wins at Speed King Tour 2013 Rd4

The final round of the 2013 Speed King Tour championship took place at Crest Speed Way in the Gunma prefecture. Yugo Nagashima already secured the overall Modified TC title as did Tadashi Hattori in the GT500 class, but 3 drivers still had the possibility to grab the Stock TC championship. Therefore the Stock A-final was highly contested and female racer TQ driver Mio Hakamata took lead and never looked back taking the race win. Tomoyuki Ooshima finished second which was enough to secure him the overall championship title. In the GT500 class Tadashi Hattori took the win while Hideharu Seto came in first in the JMRCA Stock class. The main category of this event was the Modified class that was dominated by Hayato Ishioka. He took TQ and never lost his top position during the A-final race. Next year’s Speed King Tour starts at the Rajiten Nagoya indoor tarmac track on February 9th with the race will see the addition of a new Formula 1 class.

Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]