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November 19, 2013

Mustafa Alp wins at Legend4Ever race

The annual Legend4Ever race was held at the Team NCRC Arena in memory of Zeka Özteknik, a former Go Kart World Champion from Cyprus who also used to race RC cars. Nearly 50 drivers attended in the touring car modified and stock classes. Serpent driver Mustafa Alp soon became one of the favourites for the win in the modified class as he easily put himself on top of the time sheets in the controlled practice sessions and he also TQ’s every of the four qualifying rounds. The finals again saw Mustafa pulling away from the field easily but after winning the first A-main he scored a DNF in A2 due to an unforced driving error. In A3 the young man stayed calm again and easily won the final handing him the overall win in the modified class ahead of Halit Körpe and Erol Ucar.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 19, 2013

RaceWorks Hobbies on-road endurance race – Report

RaceWorks Hobbies in Singapore recently held its first on-road endurance race. A total of 9 teams took part in the event that was run over 4 hours with the drivers rotating every 40 minutes. Each team, consisting of three to four drivers, ran the Spec-R S1 Sports Edition car powered by 17.5T motors with blinky mode ESCs. A thunderstorm brought things to a halt beforehand but after a 15 minute delay the race started and soon after Team Quantum took over the lead with fast and consistent laps. The team stayed on top for around 2 hours until mechanical problems resulted in several unplanned pit stops allowing Team Trident to close the gap and eventually taking the lead in the 3rd hour.

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November 19, 2013

Fischer & Maquel win at MRC Winter Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the MRC Winter Series took place in Longwy, France, host of next month’s GP3F. Some 90 drivers attended including Factory Serpent driver Marc Fischer, French ace Loic Jasmin and 2011 1/5th scale World Champion Guillaume Solon. In Touring Car Modified, Marc Fischer put down an impressive performance by winning all three A-finals. French National champion Loic Jasmin took second place ahead of Cyril N’Diaye. 2013 French stock champion Nico Schwendimann did great job by taking 4th place ahead of ETS A-main finalist Julian Borowski.

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November 19, 2013

F1RCGP Hong Kong final 2013 – Announcement

This year’s F1RCGP Hong King Final will take place at the ACO racing track in Fanling, Hong Kong on the weekend of the 1st of December. The final of the race series, founded by Hideo Kitazawa, will be run in cooperation with Waigo Hobby and it sees the running of an F1 and F1 GP, F1 Asia and F1 Scale class with drivers from Hong Kong and Japan along some international drivers being awaited. More information can be found here and here.

November 19, 2013

2013 Spektrum Challenge – Report

The 2013 Spektrum Challenge was held this past weekend at Trackside Hobbies & Raceway in Milwaukee, WI, the home track to World Famous race announcer Scotty Ernst. The race attracted a lot of local talent to mix up with World-class drivers such as Ryan Cavalieri, Dustin Evans or Dakotah Phend making for an amazing 361 entries race. The race started on Wednesday with open practice, Friday and Saturday had two rounds of qualifying with Sunday being the final’s day. In 2WD Modified Buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri went onto take the overall TQ for this class. Cavalieri then went on to win A-mains 1 and 2 to take home his first Championship of the weekend. TLR’s Dustin Evans started 2nd on the grid for the main events. Evans would finish 2nd overall by recording a 3rd place finish in A-main 2 and taking the win in A-main 3. Dustin’s TLR team mate Dakotah Phend started 3rd on the grid and would round out the podium in 3rd place overall by finishing 2nd in A-Main 1 and 2.

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November 18, 2013

Xray Challenge Moravia & Slovakia Cup Rd 2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Xray Challenge Moravia and Slovakia Cup was held in the Hudy Racing Arena last weekend. The race attracted more than 110 drivers in the various on-road and off-road categories. The off-road classes were divided into 2WD and 4WD categories while on-road saw touring car modified, 17.5 stock, 21.5 stock, WGT, and formula classes. The race started on Friday afternoon with free practice which continued until midnight. On Saturday 3 qualifying rounds and 3 finals for all drivers were run. 2WD buggy had Martin Bayer taking the win in front of Juraj Hudy and Dusan Bayer making it a 1-2-3 for the recently released XB4 2WD buggy.

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November 18, 2013

Olly Jefferies wins at BRCA 1/12 series

The second round of the BRCA 1/12 national series took place at Stocksbridge. The Modified class was run on Sunday and Team Associated’s Olly Jeffries was seeking for reparation after a only coming in 5th in Saturday’s 10.5T Stock race after taking TQ in the class. In Modified Olly set a blistering pace which the others struggled to match, David Spashett came close to toppling Olly off the top of the time sheets but by the end of qualifying Jefferies headed the field. In the final Olly put the disappointment of the previous day behind him and led from start to finish to take round two of the BRCA 1/12 modified class, the Stocksbridge track was a very challenging layout and this time is was Olly’s pursuers that made errors as he cruised to what looked like a very comfortable win ahead of the Reedy powered Yokomo of Mark Stiles, David Spashett completed the podium in third.

Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]

November 18, 2013

2013 Nordic Championships – Report

The Nordic Championships for 1/12 Modified and 1/10 Touring Car classes were held at the permanent indoor track of Swedish Xray distributors Minicars, in Enköping, Sweden. The track was rebuild for the weekend with a fast and fluent layout. Practice for the 50 drivers from four countries started on Friday. Qualifying saw Xray’s Alexander Hagberg taking all rounds in both the 1/12th and touring car class but he was hardly pressured by Viljami Kutvonen from Finland with Niklas Johansson sitting in 3rd place in the TC class, also matching Viljami’s pace.

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