The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup saw new Zen Racing driver Ronald Ström taking the 1/12th scale win. Having only received the conversion kit the Friday before the race Ronald still managed to leave Mickael Brandt and Magnus Hedlung behind.
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The last round of the South African National Off Road Championship took place at the Avion Raceway near Johannesburg. Drivers from all over the country attended the event with over 50 entries in the buggy and truggy class. In the buggy class, Justin van Biljoen (Mugen) from Pretoria was Top Qualifier and went on to win the 1 hour final in front of Christoff Meyer (Team Associated) and Tiaan Oelofse (Mugen). In the overall championship the buggy class win went to Miguel Haasbroek (Mugen). In the truggy class, Cape Town driver Arno Geldenhuys (Mugen) won the final closely followed by local driver Chris vd Westhuizen (Team C) and 3rd was up and coming young driver Tyler Burger (MUgen) from East London.
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The first out of three Winter Indoor Race meetings was held at IBR Padova last weekend. The race saw a good amount of international drivers attending such as Kyosho’s Cody King and Elliott Boots, Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann or Mugen’s Robert Battle to name just a few. At the end of the hour long F1 final TLR’s Alex Zanchettin took the win one lap ahead of TLR team mate Alessandro Stocco. Cody King finished five seconds down in third position. Martin Wollanka (Xray) and Jerome Sartel (Agama) came in fourth and fifth respectively.
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At last weekend’s ModelBerghem race Fenix Racing driver Bryan Ferrara took the win in the Formula 1 class with the new Su-zuka conversion kit. Coming in second was Flavio Paladin (Tamiya) with Domenico Drago completing the top 3.
Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]
The first round of the Swedish VBC Cup took place at the Borås track. Oskar Levin took TQ in the 2WD class and later went on to win in front of Niclas Månsson and Otto Ausfelt. In 4WD, despite starting from 3rd on the grid, Oskar again went home with the winning honours, this time in front of Marcus Lind and Felix Sandberg. In the 1/10th ST class Marcus Sandberg brought home the win with Jesper Uvehall and Niclas Månsson in tow.
Source: rchobbysydracing.se [rchobbysydracing.se] | Images: Oskar Levin
After yesterday’s running of the 2WD classes at the 2013 Asia Offroad Championships today the 4WD classes were run. The race schedule saw four rounds of qualifying followed by triple A-mains with the lower finals being run twice. The Modified class had Kohta Akimoto taking TQ three seconds in front of Masatsugu Ido and Kai Kikuchi, who was another second down on his fastest run. Shin Adachi came in fourth, Daisuke Sakamoto ended the qualifying in fifth position. The 13.5T Stock class had Daisuke Katou taking the TQ honours closely followed by Masahiro Outsuka and Masaru Takeda. Hiroki Katou was the last driver to score 15 laps, fifth placed Mami Hoshino lead the 14 laps club.
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Serpent driver Jan Asmer became the first double category race winner today when he took the overall win in both the Xray Pro Stock and Formula classes at the season opener of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic. Having already made ETS history yesterday when he TQ’d both classes, the final day of the Hrotovice event did not get off to a good start for the German but in the final round of A-Main he turned things around to win both of his A3 encounters to secure the top step on the podium. A great start to the defense of his Formula title, the win in Pro Stock’s marks his first touring car win with him describing that race as the hardest 5-minutes he has experienced in racing.
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Defending Yokomo Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker pulled off the best start possible to Season #7, the Yokomo driver taking the overall win with another faultless win in Leg 2 of the A-Main in the Czech Republic. Chasing a fourth consecutive title in the World famous championship this season, the win is the German’s ninth ETS career win and the fourth year that he has won the season opener. Having won Leg 1 from Marc Rheinard, he again headed home the Tamiya driver in Leg 2 with Yannic Prumper completing the Top 3.
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