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June 11, 2019

Björn Christiansen wins Club Racing Series Rd5

Round 5 of the Northern Germany based Club Racing Series was hosted by the MACH track in Hamburg last weekend. Held as part of the MACH’s open club series the CRS saw the running of the sole Plastic Cars class, a category targeting “tub” chassis touring cars such as the Yokomo SD Sports, the Team Associated TC4 Club Racer or Tamiya tub chassis cars. Hand-out ETS Muchmore motors, a mandatory 1:6.5 gearing and a single set of Volante 28R Hybrid tyres make for a level playing field that was lead by Yokomo’s Björn Christiansen. The avid stock racer dominated both the 8-minute qualifiers and triple 10-minute A-main finals at will, leaving behind veteran racer Sebastian Sürstedt whose 20-years old Team Associated TC3 Factory Team once again came out of retirement for an undefeated 2nd overall position. Modified specialist, MACH’s Christian Stolze (Yokomo) had to cope with the somewhat low speeds of the Plastic Cars in general and of his rental Yokomo SD Sports in particular but he ultimately snatched the final podium spot from MACH’s, Zeljko Garai (Yokomo) in 4th.

Image: MCV Dänischer Wohld [mcv-daenischer-wohld.de]

June 11, 2019

Davide Ongaro dominates RCGP Series Rd3 & Rd4

Rounds 3 and 4 of the newly-founded RCGP Series were held in Fehring, Austria over the weekend. Saturday’s round 3 saw Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro taking the overall TQ and he would also cruise to the win in the opening of the two A-main finals to make a first step towards taking the overall win. A last lap tangle secured Infinity’s Kyle McBride the runner-up spot from Infinity teammate, Lee Martin while the SWorkz trio of Jörn Neumann, Elliott Boots and Juan Carlos Canas came in 4th to 6th place.

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June 11, 2019

LRP Offroad Challenge Poland Rd1 – Report

The inaugural LRP Offroad Challenge Poland was held at the famous Polish RC Track close to Warsaw last weekend. Known for probably the longest wall ride section in Europe, the track also offered somehow low traction that weekend, making it even more of a challenge for the racers. The 2WD qualifiers saw Bartek Kramza and Sebastian Migal fight for the overall TQ with Bartek ultimately holding the upper hand. Also the finals were dominated by the young driver with Sebastian Migal and Wojtek Rzepecki coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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June 10, 2019

Absima Summer Championship Rd3 – Report

The Absima Summer Championship returned to the slopes of Coastal Model Car Racing Club in Ipswich, along with the sunshine which bathed the tracks and gave them awesome grip. It was 4WD up first in qualifying and it was Stuart Collard who headed up the field from HB Racing team mate Chris Pennington and the third HB of Graham Kisby dominating qualifying, from Jason Burroughs with his Schumacher in 4. In 2WD it was again Stuart Collard who would take the pole this time with his Team Associated car, from the Yokomo of George Fairweather and the Schumacher of Kristian Gibbs. In the Tamiyas it was Steven Vanhisbergh who had a clear grid ahead of him from a hard charging Matthew Gant and the M05 of Les woods in 3rd. A bumper grid of Touring Cars saw the return of winter champion Byron Russell line up on the pole, from another returnee Simon Lovett, and current championship leader Jason Scott.

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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]