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June 6, 2019

Speed King Tour Rd3 – Report

The third round of the 2019 Speed King Tour was held at the TM circuit in Wakayama, Japan last weekend . The event saw the running of the Touring Modified and Stock classes with the Oval category not being held this time. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Speed King Tour returnee, local top driver Takara Sano who took the TQ in round 1. Takara would match his result in round 2, however it started to rain after Q2 so the finals had to be cancelled and the qualifying results were taken to determine the overall results. Takara Sano was declared the Modified class winner as track owner Kazushige Tomita took 2nd overall. Jin Sawada came in 3rd, tie on points with Tomita.

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June 6, 2019

EWS Abroad 2019 – Announcement

Oli Meggitt and the EWS Team will again be holding their EWS Abroad event this summer. Taking their style of races into Europe, the race will again be held at the beautiful MAV Aigen Schlägl circuit in northern Austria on the weekend of 13-14 July. The race will be for all drivers, from hobby drivers who want a fun weekend racing, to professionals who want high level competition on a perfectly prepared track. There will be classes for all on-road electric categories, including Touring Car Modified, Super Stock 13.5 and Fun 17.5, Fronti, Formula, 1:8 Electric, and 1:5 electric Super and Stock Bike. All the information, including details on hotels and rules, can be found here and entries are open now here. For more details, please contact the EWS team at ewsevents@mail.com.

June 5, 2019

Estonian 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd2 – Report

The second round of the Estonian 1/8th Off-road Nationals was held on the natural grass track of Vaike-Maarja. Featuring the infamous jump into the fire pit, the spectators knew there were going to be long flights with crazy overtakes about to happen. At the end of the five qualification rounds, Rainer Ressar would take the TQ in Nitro and Risto Haug in E-Buggy. In Nitro, Rainer would hold on to the lead from start to finish in the 30-minute final, followed by Arco Aria and Janek Pahn.

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June 5, 2019

Ronald Völker wins at Central Division TOS

A round of the Central Division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the MBSC Wächtersbach club last weekend, attracting some very high class entries. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker with a clean sweep in the qualifiers which secured him the pole position for the triple A-mains events from 2nd placed Lucas Urbain (Awesomatix). Ronald was able to conserve his qualifying performance in the finals and with wins in all three A-main legs he secured the overall victory as Lucas followed on the runner-up spot with three 2nd place finishes. Tamiya driver Dai Sakaguchi came in 3rd to round out the podium.

Image: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

June 5, 2019

Arredondo & Butterfield double at JBRL EP Series Rd3

Control Chaos Raceway of Palmdale, California hosted round 3 of the JBRL Electric Off-road Series last weekend. Tekno RC’s Carlos Arredondo took the overall TQ in 2WD Open Buggy and he also came out on top after the single 6-minute A-main event, taking the win a lap in front of the TLR duo of Sammy Moran and Brendon Larrowe.

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June 5, 2019

2019 Manufacturers Cup – Report

The 2019 Manufacturers Cup was held at Amain’s California-based Silver Dollar R/C Raceway last weekend, attracting most of the country’s swift off-road racers. Overall entries were over 200 and people were genuinely excited to run their cars on the killer track at Silver Dollar R/C Raceway. What a race it was in the Pro Nitro Buggy class as the two Arizona’s best went head to head. Mugen’s Ryan Maifield was dominant on day 1, but Team Associated’s Spencer Rivkin up’d his game on Sunday and was able to beat out Maifield on the tie-breaker when it came down to best score. Since both drivers had identical results of two wins and one 2nd place finish, the tie-breaker came down to single fastest run with Spencer taking the win. Mugen’s Adam Drake came in 3rd with a total of 9 points.

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June 4, 2019

Mini RallyX Nordic Cup – Report

With full scale rally cars and cross karts as backdrop, Black Track RC held their first Mini RallyX Nordic Cup this past weekend at Motorsport Nordjylland, Denmark. Featuring the Traxxas Ford Fiesta ST Rally cars straight from the box, the cup is both affordable and challenging for drivers of any skill level as the class is locked to stock electronics including the transmitter. Erik Pedersen took a hard-fought TQ over Per Eriksen in the qualifying rounds and Dennis Falk taking a solid 3rd. It was a really close race in the first main but small mistakes from Pedersen gave Eriksen the win. In leg 2, Pedersen lost his rhythm letting Eriksen sail to the lead, which he held all the way to the checkered flag giving him the overall #1 spot and Pedersen 2nd. Dennis Falk kept his 3rd through out the mains leaving rookie drivers Søren Pedersen and young William Vinther battling for 4th and 5th. Between heats spectators got a chance at racing with the Traxxas cars as the club has seven kits they rent out at events to help promote the sport. At the end of the day the drives from both full scale and RC were celebrated at the podium. The club will be hosting the final round of the Danish nationals for 10th scale electric 2WD, 4WD and Stadium Truck in August.

Thanks to Kristian Lauridsen for the report.

June 4, 2019

Vogl & Riedmann win at Austrian EP On-road Nats Rd2

The second round of the Austrian Electric On-road Nationals was held at the MACG Steiermark club last weekend. The weather made for some challenging racing conditions and in the end it was Dominic Vogl with the TQ and win in the Touring Modified class. Sascha Klug came in 2nd from Patrick Gollner on the 3 spot. In the Touring Stock class it was Philipp Stadler with the overall TQ, however after the triple A-mains it was Robin Riedmann with the overall win from Arno Webernig in 2nd and top qualifier Philipp in 3rd.

View the Touring Stock podium here