The Pribeta club in Slovakia recently held their club race and it was Stefan Lutka who took a double win in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes. In 2WD, where Stefan started from P2 on the grid, he took the win following some hard fights against 2nd placed Aron Karika as Varga Karoly completed the top 3 results. Over in 4WD Buggy the podium would be completed by Josef Petrik in 2nd and Varga Karoly in 3rd.
The Drumstick race was held at the RC Clubhouse track in Warren, Michigan last weekend. The race saw around 130 entries which is a pretty standard for this race every year. In the 4WD Buggy A-main 2nd place qualifier, Xray’s Mark Sousa made a pass for the lead on lap one but then got together with the 2nd place driver and Mark went back to last on the first lap. However he was able to come through the pack all the way up to 1st and then slowly extended his lead from there to take the win from HB Racing’s Mike Valentine Jr. in 2nd and TLR’s Seth Rippee in 3rd. In the 2WD main it was Charlie Maiorana with the win from Russ Bryant on the runner-up spot. Mark Sousa struggled with a last minute setup change and ultimately had to settle for 3rd overall.
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The second round of the Winter Race Morava was held last weekend with more than 90 entries for the classes of Hobby, Formula, Touring Stock, Touring Modified, 1/12th Modified and 1/10 GT Pancar. In Touring Stock, Radko Cernohous took the overall TQ, but Simon Horak managed to get past him in the finals for the overall from Radko Cernohous in 2nd and Karel Kratochvil in 3rd, making it an all-Xray top 3.
The Ohio RC Factory of Jeffersonville, Ohio held their 1/8 Turkey Race last Saturday, attracting over 60 entires. In 1/8th Pro Nitro Buggy it was Xray’s Paul Ciccarello with the overall TQ, however it was 3rd place qualifier, Serpent’s Adam Johnson with the win in the 20-minute A-main event, leaving behind Paul in 2nd some 6.8 seconds back. 4th place qualifier, HB Racing’s Scott Kuchler came in 3rd, a lap behind Paul and Adam.
Round 2 of the NWN Winter Series was held at the North West Nitro club in Blackpool, United Kingdom over the weekend. HB Racing’s Graham Alsop took a popular win in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class, leaving behind HB Racing’s Nick Cox in 2nd, some two laps down. Tekno RC’s Mitchell Booth came in 3rd some nine seconds behind Nick while Chris Sharpe-Simkiss completed the 27-laps club some 13 seconds behind Mitchell.
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Urban RC of Singapore held their Zombie Christmas Fun Race last weekend in several electric on-road classes including Touring, FWD, M-chassis, Truck and Formula. In Touring 17.5T, that attracted nearly 30 drivers alone, it was Yokomo’s Nicholas Lee with the overall TQ from Xray’s Dominic Quek on the runner-up spot. Nicholas went on to dominate the A-mains also and with wins in A1 and A2 we secured himself the overall victory with one leg to spare as Dominic cemented his overall runner-up spot with a win in A3. Xpress’ Esmail Apandi would round out the overall top 3 results.
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The first round of the BRCA Scottish GT regionals took place last weekend at Dundee and Angus Radio Control Car Club. This popular series is now in its seventh year of running. The regional series is typically run on smaller club tracks so heats and finals are run with six cars to give the best racing possible. The Dundee club laid a fast and flowing track and with four rounds of qualifying and three finals for all, drivers had plenty of time to show what their cars could do. Qualifying saw a two way battle for pole position between last year’s series winner John Simpson and Kenneth Rogers with these two drivers the only two to reach a 35 lap time. John would line up first ahead of Kenneth. Colin Leslie would line up 3rd ahead of David McLean, David Bruce and Fraser Leslie.
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The opening round of this season’s Winter Jumps series was held at the popular Fullspeed RC indoor track in Vantaa, Finland with over 90 entries and some world class level of racing. The weekend kicked off with open practice on Friday allowing plenty of time to learn the new layout. Saturday then is for the 2WD class and Sunday the 4WD racing is the order. The race was announced by Karri Salmela with great passion and vast knowledge about drivers and their cars. As for the action on the track, Joona Haatanen was able to TQ both 2WD and 4WD, but it was Pekko Iivonen who managed to take the 2WD victory over Joona while the latter took the win after a really intense fight until the final A3 in 4WD.
