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July 29, 2019

Andrew Knapp doubles at Illinois Indoor State Champs

The Illinois Indoor State Championship was held at Impact RC Raceway in Morris, Illinois this past weekend. The event was run on indoor clay and attracted over 100 entries that spread over several 1/10th off-road classes classes. In 13.5T 4WD Buggy it was Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and he also brought home a pretty dominant win in the single 7-minute A-main event, leaving behind Brad Prenger in 2nd and Adam Rayls in 3rd. Over in the 17.5T 2WD Buggy class it was again Andrew Knapp with the overall TQ and win as Brad Prenger scored another runner-up spot. Codi Lundberg would round out the top 3 podium result.

View the 2WD 17.5T Buggy podium here

July 29, 2019

Volker & Hagberg complete podium at ETS Season Finale

Ronald Volker and Alexander Hagberg have completed the podium at the Season Finale of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Slovakia. With newly crowned Champion Bruno Coelho securing his fourth win from the six races in A2, the final race of the 12th season of the ETS was to decide who joined the Xray driver on the podium at the Hudy Arena. Effectively starting on pole as Top Qualifier Coelho sat out A3, Hagberg led away the field from Ronald Volker, the latter having finish the opening two encounters in P2. On the first run down the main straight Volker would pull off a spectacular high speed pass on Hagberg and once in front the Yokomo driver never looked threatened for the win. At the end the German would finish 1.5-seconds clear of Hagberg who in turn was over 2-seconds ahead of Christopher Krapp. Winner of the Season opener, the result secured Volker his third P2 race result with Hagberg third and Krapp fourth.

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July 29, 2019

OneTen Series back for Season #2

Red RC are very pleased to announce that the second season of the OneTen series presented by Infinity will kick off on the weekend of the 19th to 20th of October with Rd1 & 2 in Shanghai. Following a solid first season the 2019/20 season will retain the same double header format we introduced in our first season but with some minor tweaks to be announced later. New for this season is the introduction of a non championship support class at select rounds, with the FWD class to be run at rounds 3 & 4 and 7 & 8 in Hong Kong and the InHobby i21 class at rounds 5 & 6 in Guangzhou. In all classes, drivers will once again run handout tires from Sweep Racing while in Stock and FWD all drivers will run the identical Scorpion 13.5T handout power units.

For more details and our complete race calendar visit the official OneTen series site here.

July 29, 2019

Lamberto Collari sweeps Italian ACI Sport Champs Rd3

The third round of the Italian ACI Sport IC Track Championships was held in Bologna this past weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track Expert class it was Infinity’s Lamberto Collari with the overall TQ and the multi-time World Champion would also come out on top after the 30-minute main final, leaving behind his Infinity teammates, Alberto Picco and Francesco Tironi in 2nd and 3rd respectively with all three finishing on the same lap.

Image: Lamberto Collari

July 29, 2019

Steven Cuypers wins German IC Track regional

The MC Ettlingen club in the South-West part of Germany held a qualifying round to the German IC Track Nationals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Mugen driver Steven Cuypers with the overall TQ and also a pretty dominating win in the 30-minute A-main final. Five laps behind it was Serpent’s Jörg Wäldle on the runner-up spot as Infinity’s Oliver Mack, who had gearbox issues, came in 3rd, another two laps behind.

Image: Steven Cuypers

July 29, 2019

Meen Vejrak TQs & wins at East Summer Race

East RC of Jakarta, Indonesia held their 2019 East Summer Race this past weekend. With a fresh asphalt which resulted almost 1.5 seconds improvement of laptime, it was Meen Vejrak took the TQ spot in the Modified class, followed by Nicholas Lee and Bowie Ginting in 2nd and 3rd, while Charlee Phutiyotin rounded up the 4th and Muhammad Izzah secured 5th on the grid. The main final delivered some of interesting races as Meen took an easy win in A1 in front of Nicholas and Christian. Meen was pushed to retired in A2, allowing Nicholas to take the win in front of Bowie and Izzah. The deciding A3 went to Meen with a comfortable gap ahead of Nicholas. With this result Meen took the overall win followed by Nicholas and Bowie.

View the final results here

July 29, 2019

Jonathan Skidmore wins at Slough Summer Series Rd4

Last weekend’s round 4 of the Slough Summer Series was also the unofficial warm-up to the BRCA Rallycross Nationals that will be held later this year. The Nitro Buggy class saw a healthy 77 drivers entry and in the end it was Agama’s Joni Skidmore with the overall TQ and also the win in the 20-minute A-main event, leaving behind HB Racing’s Graham Alsop in 2nd. William Skidmore came in 3rd to round out the podium. Michael Lewis (Team Associated) in 4th and Kevin Brunsden (SWorkz) in 5th completed the top 5 results.

Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]

July 28, 2019

David Ronnefalk takes EFRA 4WD Buggy title

The 2019 EFRA 1/10th Electric Off-road European Championship was held at the Pinerolo track in Italy this past week. The 2WD portion of the event went in Davide Ongaro’s favor, who took the win from Michal Orlowski and Martin Bayer in 2nd and 3rd respectively. The 4WD part was then lead by Xray’s Daniel Kobbevik, who took the overall TQ from HB Racing’s Daniel Ronnefalk and Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann. In the opening A-main David Ronnefalk set sails to defend his 2018 European Championship title and in the end things would materialise as he took the title from Daniel Kobbevik in 2nd and Schumacher’s Michael Orlowski in 3rd. Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro came in 4th from AE teammate, Joona Haatanen. Xray’s Marco Baruffolo would end the event sitting in 6th, Jörn Neumann came in 7th, SWorkz’s Elliott Boots in 8th, Xray’s Martin Bayer in 9th and Jean Pierrick Sartel in 10th.

Source: EFRA [efra.ws]