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February 4, 2020

2020 Urban Touring Series Rd1 – Report

Season 5 of the Urban Touring Series UTS got underway this past weekend with the opening race attracting a record 41 racers. The season opener also saw the expansion of the series to officially include the 45+ Masters TC Class (13.5T Spec Blinky), which saw a strong 16-car grid take to the start. In the premier 17.5T Blinky Touring class, qualifying was a close run affair with three different racers taking TQs in the three qualifying rounds. The TQ tiebreak would go to PY Tang, who edged out Dominic Quek and Esmail Apandi. Making his first A-Main appearance in the class was young 14-years old Ethan Cheng, who joined 13-years old Zaccheus Lam in his 2nd consecutive A-Main.

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February 4, 2020

MRC Longwy Winter Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the popular Longwy Winter Series was held last weekend, attracting a somewhat lower entry of 80 drivers due to other big races being held in the area the same weekend. This didn’t affect the atmosphere though as it made for lots of track time for everyone. Touring Modified saw Lucas Urbain taking the overall TQ only 0.005 seconds in front of Ronald Völker with Antoine Brunet coming in P3. The A-main again saw Lucas in front and walking away with the win as Ronald came in 2nd overall from Antoine in 3rd.

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February 4, 2020

Bartek Zambrzycki doubles at XRS Poland Rd3

Round 3 of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held at the Atlas Arena in Lodz last weekend, attracting more than 230 entries for the multiple electric on-road and off-road classes. The Buggy Modified classes saw an unstoppable Bartek Zambrzycki (Yokomo) who again took the TQ and win in both the 2WD and 4WD categories. The Xray duo of Bartosz Zalewski and Wojciech Rzepecki would complete the top 3 result in 2WD.

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February 3, 2020

Hagberg & Dodge win at 2020 Snowbird Nationals

The 2020 edition of the long-running Snowbird Nationals was held in Kissimmee, Florida this past weekend, drawing over 300 entries. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who was the man to beat, as he lead the way both in qualifying and the single A-main event. After the 5-minute encounter Alex took the win 1.8 seconds in front of Japanese Serpent racer Yugo Nagashima as Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs came in 3rd, already a lap down. Drew Ellis and Keven Hebert completed the top 5 result.

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February 3, 2020

Rockstar Winter Off-road Series champions crowned

The final round of the 11th Annual Rockstar Winter Off-road Series was held at PDX Underground in Portland, Oregon last weekend. When the dust had settled it was Andy DiBrino with the overall win in the premier 2WD Mod Buggy class from Joe Pillars on the runner-up spot. Ryan Reavis would complete the overall top 3 result.

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February 3, 2020

Lukas Hoch wins at Czech Nationals warm-up

The warm-up race to the Czech Electric On-road Nationals was held in Jedovnice this past weekend. The weekend kicked off with a 3-hour practice session on Friday night, allowing the driver to get into the groove on the somewhat low-traction track. Racing-wise and in the Formula class it was Lukas Hoch who would win the opening A-main, coming from the 2 spot on the grid, however he had to settle for 2nd place in A2 following an incident with another driver that tweaked Lukas’ car. In A3 Lukas was hot on the heels of leader Simon Horak as Hoch needed to win in order to secure the overall victory and eventually Lukas found away past Simon and was able to stretch the lead, allowing him to take the win and with the the overall from Simon Horak in 2nd and Svetlin Douhlevski in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

February 3, 2020

Tristram Neal doubles at EOS opener

The opening round of the Euro Offroad Series was held in Daun, Germany last weekend with a record entry, which promised some tough competition, as well as some problems with the time schedule and late night racing. While Michal Orlowski swept the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes it was Schumacher’s Tristram Neal with the win in 2WD Stock Buggy from Xray’s Felix Stahmer in 2nd and Team Associated’s Sven Rudig in 3rd. In 4WD Stock Buggy it was again Tristram Neal with the win as Xray’s Simon Stegmeier came in 2nd overall. Schumacher’s Mick Burbach would complete the top 3 podium result.

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February 3, 2020

Eric Anderson wins Stock TC at Snowbird Nats

The 2020 Snowbird Nationals were held in Kissimmee, Florida over the weekend, attracting 310 entries to compete in the usual U.S. mix of modified and stock 1/10th and 1/12th scale classes. In the Touring Stock Can-Am class it was Awesomatix’s Eric Anderson with the overall TQ and the veteran racer would also bring home the win in the single 5-minute A-main event, leaving behind Dave Johnson in 2nd, some three seconds back, as Brian Card completed an all-Awesomatix top 3, only 0.3 second behind Dave.

Source: ZooRacing [zoo-racing.com]