The second round of the Danish DASU Nationals was held at the Brondby Racing Club near Copenhagen last weekend. The race saw the running of two Touring as well as a Formula and a 1/12th GT class and while Frederik Brolos brought home the win in the Touring Super Stock class it was Martin Vandborg with the win in the Touring Stock category from Dennis Hassing in 2nd and Rasmus Andersen in 3rd.
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Fastlane Raceway of Blue Springs, Missouri played host to the 2020 Tekno RC Off-Road Jam last weekend, attracting nearly 240 entries. In 4WD Modified Buggy it was Team Associated driver Nick Gibson with the overall TQ and win from Braxten Culley (Tekno RC) on the runner-up spot. Team Associated’s David Alberico came in 3rd to round out the top 3 result. Over in the 4WD Truggy class it was Braxten Culley with the overall TQ and also the win in the single 6-minute A-main event, leaving behind David Wiechens in 2nd and Shane McCall in 3rd.
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The Master of Europe is a new 1/8th off-road championship for 2020, uniting some the of the largest events on European soil. Races such as next week’s Montpellier GP, the DXR Dirt Kings, Euro Contest, Buggyland and IBR Winter Cup all count towards the overall standings, with no drop-outs, keeping the excitement up until the very last race. Full details can be found on the championship’s official website here and on social media here and here.
Round 4 of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia last weekend, attracting both local talent and also guests from abroad, such as IFMAR World Champion, Bruno Coelho from Portugal. In the premier on-road class of Touring Modified it was Martin Hudy with the win on home soil as Oliver Havranek and Michal Wojcik came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The 2020 Charity Race was held at the RCLandia track last weekend, attracting more than 120 drivers to race in several electric on-road classes with 13.5T EFRA Stock being the most popular. The high-grip track made for some challenging racing conditions with Xray’s Luca Romagnoli making the best out of it, leading from free practice and also taking the overall win from Xray teammate, Andrea Valerio in 2nd and Yokomo’s Luca Giovannoni in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The city of Cincy, Ohio played host to the ROAR Region 5 Carpet Championship recently. The race was held in several electric on-road classes and after Friday’s practice, Saturday morning brought on the three rounds of qualifying that would result in Myron “Battman” Kinnard (Team Associated) holding two of the three classes’ TQ at the end of the day. As Sunday rolled around the drivers were given a last-chance qualifier before the mains. Battman held on to his TQ in VTA from Mike Collins (Team Associated) 2nd and Jeff Mobley (Awesomatix) in 3rd. For the single 8-minute A-main, the grid was set and the tone was rung, and racers were laying down their fastest laps of the weekend. By the time the tone rang, Myron took 1st place in front of Mike 2nd, a lap down, and Jeff 3rd, another lap down.
Source: Team Associated [associatedelectrics.com]
Round 4 of the Russian Palace Cup was hosted by the RC-Vladimir club last weekend, attracting some of the country’s fastest electric on-road racers. In Touring Modified it was Maxim Laverychev with a near clean sweep in the qualifiers, leaving behind Denis Laverychev in 2nd, the latter scoring at least a single round TQ. The finals saw a clean sweep of Maxim who took the overall from Denis in 2nd while Mihail Bykov rounded out an all-Awesomatix top 3.
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The 2020 XRS Australia kicked off with a bang and 40 degree temperatures for the day in western Sydney, but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Just on 50 entries is a great start to the XRS, considering the Whalan Club has minimal members, it was great to see the local clubs supporting the event. In Modified, Xray’s Ari Bakla took the win ahead Yokomo’s John Puse and ARC’s Lionel Saunders.
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