Last weekend the Kirchberg track in Austria played host to the Warm-up race for the European 1/8th scale B championships. Serpent driver Daniel Tomaschko took the pole position ahead of Marco Muller with Patrick Wendy lining up in 3rd. The race saw Tomaschko take the win, while setting a new lap record, with Christian Wimberger finishing 2nd and Nejc Mihelic taking the final step of the podium in 3rd.
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The opening round of the Russian electric off road Cup was run recently at the MRCmodels carpet track in Moscow. The first outdoor buggy event of the year, the race took place under good conditions and in the 2wd buggy class it was Dmitry Malyshko that look the win from his TQ, driving an AE RC10B4. Volkov Konstantin starting the final from 5th position and ended the race as runner up, while Plahotnik Ilya was 3rd. In the 4wd buggy it was again Malyshko Dmitry heading home a JConcepts 1-2-3 with Spiridonov Victor in 2nd and Larkin Roman, who was TQ, in 3rd. In the Stadium Truck, Golushko Alex took the win from TQ with Shpilev Lev in 2nd and Miheev Anton in 3rd. This years off road Cup will visit three different tracks, MRCmodels in Moscow, RC2 in Moscow and V2 Off-road in Chulkovo with the next round taking place on June 1st.
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We received a brief race report from the opening of the newly resurfaced Barceloneta RC Speedway that now features a new larger layout. Kyosho team driver Geovannie Gonzalez took the TQ spot by 7 seconds, but unfortunately the rain came down before the finals and the race was cancelled, so the results were taken from qualifying giving Gonzalez the win ahead of Team Magic racer Miguel Daumont in 2nd place, while 3rd place went to Xray driver Fernando Mendez.
Barceloneta RC Speedway in Puerto Rico will host the CopaLatina race on July 18th, 19th & 20th, go here for more information.
Round 2 of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Championship 1/8 circuit took place at “Hernan Matticoli track” last weekend, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This new track, which was built two months ago, is considered to be one of the best tracks in South America. Sebastián Recio, the Argentine Sirio and Kyosho pilot, took the pole position followed by team mate Juan Pablo Glovic in 2nd place. The race followed the same pattern as qualifying and in the end the win went to Recio, while Glovic took 2nd with 3rd place going to Adrián Frigerio.
The first round of the Austrian Electric Touring car Nationals were held recently at the RMC track in Vienna. Practice took place on Friday and Saturday under dry conditions and this allowed the drivers present plenty of time to perfect their setups for qualifying. In the qualifying it was local Xray driver Mario Sowka that claimed the pole position for the 3 leg A-main, in front of European buggy Champion Hupo Honigl driving a Tamiya while HB racer Thomas Pumpler took 3rd. In the final it was Pumpler that took the first leg, after Sowka made a mistake and dropped to 5th, but recovered to 2nd by the finish. In the 2nd leg it was Hupo that was leading early on but a small mistake and Mario was through to the lead and despite some more pressure, including a collision, the Xray driver could take the win. The final leg saw a collision early on between Mario and Hupo and this dropped both out of contention and allowed Pumpler into the lead, but he was followed closely by Patrick Gollner who could take the lead and leg win after a small mistake by Thomas and this result gifted the win the Mario Sowka, with Thomas Pumpler claiming 2nd and Hupo gaining the final podium spot.
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The opening round of the Italian 1/8th scale buggy Nationals took place last weekend at the Valley Sporting Club track in Alberobello and after the semi finals it was Losi driver Riccardo Rabitti that lined up on the pole position ahead of Crono team driver Davide Tortorici. In the final however, despite setting the fastest lap times, Rabitti could only manage 3rd position, only 1 second behind runner up Fabio Boero racing a Mugen, while the race win went to Tortorici, who managed to bring his Crono RS7 home over a lap in front.
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The R.A.M.S. club of Northern California, located in Santa Clara just south of San Francisco, had a race to celebrate the clubs 40th year of continuous running. For this race they had a full turnout of 130 entrants for both sedan 10th scale and 8th scale which included some old members who were invited out to the race and as a result many past members showed up and brought out their old cars and radio gear. The racing saw the 1/8th scale TQ go to Mugen team driver Mike Swauger, while in Sedan it was Jeffery Lin from OFNA that took top honours. With each class getting a 45 minute A-main, held in perfect California sunshine, it was Mike Swauger that won in 8th scale followed by Kyosho racer Jim Adkins and Ron Collangi, also a Mugen driver, in 3rd spot. In the sedan class it was Ralph Burch that took the win with his Xray followed by Jeffery Lin for OFNA, and young Kyosho driver Michael Palazzola in 3rd.
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Held last weekend at the Gubbio track in Italy, was the first Italian Open Champion Race for 1/10th 200mm touring cars. Featuring a number of big name racers, including Top US racer Chris Tosolini, qualifying saw current European Champion Dario Balestri take the pole position for the main final ahead of Francesco Tironi in 2nd and Sirio team mate Tosolini lining up 3rd. The start of the final saw Balestri jump into the lead where he stayed until 5 minutes when he ran out of fuel, leaving D’Angelo to pick up the lead, but he too had problems and Tosolini could pick up the lead, from where he controlled the rest of the race to take the chequered flag 3 laps in front of Tironi in 2nd, with the final podium spot going to Davide Gallesi, giving Sirio and Kyosho a complete lock out of the top 3. The race was also part of the Italian Championship Expert Class and being the first Italian home, Francesco Tironi picked up the title.
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