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January 22, 2023

Coelho wins GP3F

Bruno Coelho has won the GP3F leading home an Xray 1-2 at the French classic. The 18th running of the race, Coelho would snatch the overall TQ from team-mate Alexander Hagberg. The Swede held the overnight TQ in Longwy but Sunday morning’s fourth & final qualifier saw Coelho put in the fastest run to take the TQ honours on the tie-breaker with his team-mate. Behind, Mugen’s Ronald Volker lined up third with defending Champion Marc Rheinard’s Awesomatix carrying the no.4. In the triple A-mains, Coelho took the the first encounter from a very fast Hagberg, the former 1:12 World Champion laying down the fastest lap of the race as he tried to get to the front. In A2, World Champion Coelho again took the win from Hagberg to go one better than 2022 and secure the overall victory. Hagberg got his win in A3 with a 1-second winning margin over Volker, the German completing the overall podium. In Pro Stock, Alexandre Duchet made it also an win for Xray, taking opening two A-mains from P2 on the grid. Top Qualified Tim Benson would win A3 to secure second with Adam Izsay making up the Top 3. In Front Wheel Drive it was Luxembourg’s Jacques Libar took the win.

Image: MRC Longwy [Facebook]

January 21, 2023

Hagberg holds overnight TQ at GP3F

Alexander Hagberg is the overnight TQ holder at the annual GP3F in France. The first major international touring car race of the new season, the Swede heads the qualification ranking having TQ’d 2 of the 3 rounds on the opening day’s schedule in Longwy. Xray team-mate Bruno Coelho set the early pace taking the first of the four rounds of qualifying from Awesomatix’s Marc Rheinard. In Q2, Hagberg found his form topping the times ahead of Mugen’s Ronald Volker who was top seed having set the fastest 3-consecutive laps in practice. Round 3 was a repeat performance with Hagberg posting the fastest time of the day from Volker while Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski posted a Top 3 run. With the overall Modified TQ still to be decided in the fourth & final qualifier Sunday morning, in Pro Stock its already confirmed that Tim Benson will start from pole position, the German having completed a clean sweep of all three qualifiers topping each round ahead of Adam Izsay.

Image: Xray [Facebook]

January 20, 2023

Mugen’s Volker confirmed for MIBO International

Factory Mugen Seiki touring car ace Ronald Volker will contest the inaugural MIBO International Race. The former World Champion will represent the Japanese manufacturer at the Czech Republic event on March 3-5 marking a return to the venue where the German has enjoyed much previous success. The multiple ETS Champion has clocked up numerous championship race wins at the Sport V Hotel including kicking of his long run of title defences with victory in Hrotovice. The MIBO International Race will see separate onroad and offroad tracks provide two stages for a full weekend of racing action and with drivers like Volker and Yokomo’s Christopher Krapp already confirmed, it is sure to witness some of the great touring car battles of the past relived in this exciting new chapter in Hrotovice’s racing history.

Source: MIBO [mibosport.com]

January 19, 2023

’23 IFMAR 1:10 Off-Road World C/ships Stage 1 Report

Hobby Action has issued the Stage 1 Report for its hosting of the 2023 IFMAR 1:10 Offroad World Championships. The best drivers in the World will descend on the indoor track in Arizona from September 9-16th to battle it out for both the 2WD and 4WD title honours of what will be the 19th running of the World Championships. A 20,000 square feet facility and track that already has its own established major annual event in the Desert Classic (March 1-5), the Stage 1 Report confirms the traditional Worlds Warm-up Race will take place on May 27/28th.

View Stage Report pages here

January 18, 2023

Hobbywing Stock Spec Nationals – Announcement

PDX RC Underground has announced it will be hosting the inaugural Hobbywing Stock Spec Nationals. The unique event will see all classes use handout Hobbywing Justock fixed timing motors. The brainchild of this event, and the owner of PDX Underground Kevin Focht explains, “We started running 17.5 spec at the track, and I was thinking that there has never been a national event where everyone was running a handout motor. The thought of having everyone going the same speed intrigued me, and I thought it would be a true racers event. I immediately hit up Hobbywing, and they were excitedly on board!” There will only be 4 classes for the event – 17.5 Buggy, 13.5 4wd Buggy, 13.5 Stadium Truck and 13.5 Short Course Truck. All will be using handout Hobbywing Justock motors. Esc’s will be blinky and all other ROAR rules apply. Entries will be limited due to the hand out motors. PDX RC Underground are excited to announce that 4 time World Champion Ryan Cavalieri will be attending and racing the event.

Source: PDX Underground [pdxrcunderground.com]

January 17, 2023

Yokomo confirm Krapp for inaugural MIBO International

Team Yokomo will be officially represented at the inaugural MIBO International Race in the Czech Republic with the news that their star touring car driver Christopher Krapp is to contest the exciting new international event on March 3-5th. The 2022 ISTC World Championship runner-up, is no stranger to Hrotovice having travelled to the town to contested both Mibosport Cup and ETS races previously held at the popular Sport V Hotel venue. Organised by former international Team Yokomo driver Michal Bok, there has already been a hugely positive reaction to the first MIBO International Race with over 100 entries received within the first 24 hours of registration opening. With the demise of many of the ‘classic’ annual indoor Winter races that were once a staple of the annual racing calendar, Bok hopes the MIBO International Race can recreate that atmosphere & significance of these one off international events. Like its predecessor, the Mibosport Cup, which was a series of races, the one off MIBO International Race weekend will feature two separate tracks to cater for both Onroad and Offroad racing action.

Source: MIBO [mibosport.com]

January 17, 2023

Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) returns in ’23

Sunpadow has announced that the SIGP International RC Car Grand Prix will be resumed in 2023. The Sunpadow International Grand Prix (SIGP) event had established itself as one of the leading annual international RC event and attracted many of the sports top drivers. World Champion Bruno Coelho was the winner of the onroad edition in 2019 while in 2018 Ryan Lutz won the Offroad edition and a year earlier Joern Nuemann took the win from Atsushi Hara. While actual race dates are still to be finalised Offroad is expected to be held in August, along with on-road in In October or November. Taking place at the 2017 Electric Offroad Championship venue in Xiamen, the SIGP will continue to offer one of the biggest prize as before with the total bonus for the two series as high as $ 70,000. We will bring you further announcements of the 2023 SIGP in the coming weeks.

Source: Sunpadow [sunpadow.com]

January 16, 2023

EssexCarpetClash Round 3 – Report

Round 4 of the EssexCarpetClash was the first round of the series to run in 2023 with racers eager to get back on the track. Racers were greeted to another fun layout, this time a little more technical, with a jump section catching a few people out. After one round of practice drivers faced into 4 rounds of qualifying, with their best 2 to count. Ed Kerry, managed to secure the TQ for the 2WD A-Main having topped the sheets for 3 rounds with his Serpent. Kyle Moon was able to secure 2nd on the grip with his Willspeed machine after having PT troubles in the 1st round. Christopher Delves driving his TLR managed to have a better count back score and line-up ahead Willspeed driver Demetri Panayides. After 3 legs of finals Kerry managed to convert his pole in to the over all win, winning both the 1st and 3rd leg. He didn’t make it easy for himself after making an error in leg 2 meaning it was all to play for in the 3rd, after Moon managed to also have a win in the 2nd leg. Moon would take 2nd overall, using his win as the better counting score ahead of a fast Matthew Peters who were joint on points.

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