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October 14, 2019

Kyle Colbert wins at CenCal Challenge Rd4

The 4th round of the CenCal Challenge was held in Fresno, California this past weekend, attracting nearly 90 entries for the 1/10th electric on-road classes. In Touring Modified it was Aaron Lewis with the overall TQ, however it was Kyle Colbert with the overall win following some entertaining A-mains that saw Kyle finish 1-10-2 while Aaron would come in 3-2-1. After the tie-breaker Kyle would hold the upper hand, leaving behind Aaron in 2nd. Young Jacob Cruz would round out the top 3 podium result.

Source: PowerHD [chd.hk]

October 14, 2019

EC Kim wins Touring Modified class at 2019 GIRC

The 2019 GRC International RC Car Championship GIRC was held at the GRC Raceway in Gimpo, South Korea over the weekend. The event attracted over 100 entires including guests from abroad such as Germany’s Marc Rheinard and Singapore’s Dominic Quek. In the Touring Modified class it was Zero Tribe’s EC Kim with the overall TQ from Infinity’s Marc Rheinard on the 2 spot after the qualifiers. A1 and A2 then saw pretty dominant wins of EC for the early overall victory while the remaining podium spots were hard fought for. Ultimately it was Xray’s Dominic Quek with the runner-up spots following 2-3-1 results in the finals as Yokomo’s Dong Uk Jang came in 3rd with 3-4-2 finishes. Marc Rheinard suffered of some problems in the A-mains and had to settle for 4th overall with 4-2-8 results.

Image: Dominic Quek

October 14, 2019

Ronald Völker TQs & wins at Mon-Tech NYGP

360v2 RC of New Rochelle, New York played host to the 2019 Mon-Tech NYGP this past weekend. The event attracted nearly 200 entries not only from the U.S. but also from Europe, making for some very competitive racing in the several 1/10th and 1/12th scale classes. In Touring Modified it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker from Germany with the overall TQ thanks to winning three of the four qualifiers. Xray’s top Swede, Alexander Hagberg came in 2nd with a single round TQ from U.S. boy Sam Isaacs (Awesomatix) in 3rd. The A-mains then saw Ronald making a clean sweep in A1 and A2 for the early overall win from A3 winner, Sam Isaacs in 2nd. Alexander Hagberg scored 2nd place finished in A1 and A3 but suffered a DNF in A2 meaning he had to settle for 3rd overall after the tie-breaker.

View the final results here

October 14, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd6 – Report

The 6th and final round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held in Velp, The Netherlands. With Timo and Rainer Schad having already secured the overall titles in the LMP1 and LMP2 classes, the race was all about the final podium spots. Practice on Saturday would be held in nice Fall weather with sun and mild temperatures making for good racing conditions. The weather for Sunday however looked less promising with showers coming during the qualifiers and the remainder of the day being run under heavy rain. The LMP1 class was held in full wet conditions and it were Andreas Dick, Reinder Wilms and Tobias Weist who would score round TQs. Ultimately it was Andy with the fastest time to take the pole position from Tobias and Reinder. Timo Schad and Peter Plümacher completed the top 5, also in the tie-breaker.

Continue reading the report here

October 11, 2019

Tomas Liptak wins at Austrian IC Track Nats Rd4

Round 4 of the Austrian IC Track Nationals was held at the MORAC track in Graz recently. In the 1/8th IC Track class it was Branislav Panak with the overall TQ, from Tamas Sagi 2nd and Bjan Miklozic in 3rd position. Tomas Liptak would round out the top 4 after the qualifiers. Later Branislav had to take a ten minutes timeout because of some problems with his car so he started from the back of the grid in the opening 20-minute A-main event. The win would went to Tomas after a clean run with Tamas Sagi 2nd and Branislav Panak 3rd. The second of the dual A-mains saw Tomas taking the lead some three laps onto the race and from there he never looked back to take the win with Branislav in 2nd and Tamas in 3rd place. Overall it was Tomas with the win from Tamas 2nd and Branislav in 3rd place.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 11, 2019

KARS On-Road Championship – Report

The KARS On-Road Championship was recently held at the Icheon track in Korea with about 50 drivers in attendance. The 1/8th nitro main final was a close affair between Germany’s Andreas Giesa, 3-times Korean champion Kiyong Hong and Jaekook Yoo with the top 3 finishing within one lap. After 40 minutes Andreas saw the checkered in first position about five seconds in front of Kiyong. Jaekook completed the podium another two seconds down.

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October 10, 2019

2019/20 XRS PLMS Poland – Announcement

Xray have announced the XRS PLMS Poland series for the 2019/20 indoor season. Kicking off on the 12th of October and having their final round on the 21rd of March, the series will be held in Touring Modified, Touring 13.5T Stock as well as Formula 21.5T classes using Hudy tyres, additives and also XRS motors for the Stock classes. Full details and registration can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 10, 2019

2019 BRCA GT12 Nationals Rd1 & Rd2 – Report

The opening round of the 2019/20 BRCA GT12 national championship was held in the south of England where the ever fantastic Eastbourne club played host to the great start of the new series. Round 1 would be held on Saturday and it was Schumacher’s Andy Murray with the overall TQ from his teammates Mark Jewitt and Nathanael Goodban, all running the new Schumacher Atom 2 car.

Continue reading the report here