The 2019 edition of the Muchmore Race Italy will be held on the 30th of June at the Pianbosco track. The race will see the running of the four electric on-road classes of Touring Modified, EFRA Stock, Formula and LM Series and it will attract many of the country’s swift electric on-road drivers. In the past the event has seen the attendance of drivers of the likes of Marc Rheinard and Yannic Prümper and more details can soon be found here.
Sunny California didn’t live up to its billing today with practice for the 22nd running of the Touring Car Reedy Race of Champions being rained off. With this year’s event the beginning of a new era for the legendary race as it moves from the famous Tamiya RC Raceway, which is no more, to Steel City RC Speedway, invite drivers got just one run in less than ideal conditions, before shortly after lunch the rains returned and the decision was made to call an end to official proceedings. With cars struggling for traction, reigning 7-time RROC Champion Marc Rheinard joked from the drivers stand it felt like playing Super Mario and running over banana skins. With weather for both Friday and Saturday set to deliver the shorts & t-shirts weather associated with California, Race Director Scotty Ernst issued a new schedule which will see the invitational drivers get two practice runs in the morning before getting down to the real business of 5 rounds of the events unique heads up racing. A further 5 rounds are planning for Saturday but with rain forecast to arrive again on Sunday afternoon, a call to run the final two rounds of racing on Sunday morning will be made based on the the latest forecast given on Saturday.
Round 1 of the Polish Puchar RC Sport Piaseczno RCSP Cup was held recently with Bartosz Zalewski sweeping the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy classes. On Saturday the weather was on the rainy side, however this changed for Sunday when the sun came out, making for good racing conditions. Bartosz would be accompanied by Donat Bula and Marek Cisek on the Nitro podium while Lukasz Polak and Jan Zalewski rounded out the E-Buggy top 3.
Thornhill RC Raceway in Hutto, Texas played host to the Lonestar Challenge last weekend. The event also doubled as the nationals warmup and the event, organised by The Dirt, attracted most of the country’s fast 1/8th off-road racers. Friday was practice day on a wet track, it was watered a couple of times throughout the day which gave good grip. The track started to get smooth and polished up by Friday night and in the first round of electric buggy Xray’s Ty Tessmann qualified 3rd which he backed up by two TQs which would give him the overall TQ. Sunday was mains day, and drivers were still trying to get grip on the polished surface. The organisers did double A-mains for E-Buggy with both mains counting to determine the overall winner. A1 was up first, Tessmann had a mistake fairly early on that he needed to be marshalled for which dropped him quite a ways back to 4th. Ty got back in the groove and was able to make his way by 3rd and 2nd place and then had a good battle with Agama’s Ryan Lutz before making a pass back to the lead which is where he would finish the race. A2 was smoother, Ty was able to just put in clean laps and lead tone to tone, which would give him the overall win in from Ryan Lutz 2nd and Serpent’s Brandon Rose 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The sixth and final round of the Florida Nitro Series was held at Homestead RC Raceway last weekend. In the 1/8th Open class Joaquin Desoto Jr. would take the TQ after the qualifiers, however in the 30-minute A-main it was Paolo Morganti who would excel, taking the win some five laps in front of Joaquin. 5th place qualifier, George Martinez came in 3rd to round out the podium.
The CACH club hosted the Chilean On-road Nationals last weekend and in the 1/8th IC Track class it was Alvaro Jara with the TQ and win. Alvaro would take the TQ with 1-lap margin and he would sweep the 30-minute A-main event, taking the win six laps in front of Cristobal Ugarte while Joaquin Silva completed the top 3 another five laps down.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
The Mac-Saar Niederwürzbach club in Germany held a round to the Pro Stock Series this past weekend. The weather was a bit on the changeable site, however the race would be held as planned with only some minor rain delays. In the IC Track class it was Oliver Theobald (Shepherd) with the win from David Kröger (Shepherd) and Matthias Günther (Shepherd). Over in the 1/8th Electric class it was Benny Endres with the win from Rene Franzl Simon and Frank Ramsperger.
Last weekend the opening round of the Austrian 1/8th IC championship took place at the SFMAV Nussdorfring club. Xray’s Nejc Mihelic set the pace in practice, however after four rounds of qualifying it was ARC’s Herfried Pucher who took the TQ as his main contender Nejc was unable to set a clean run. The start of the A-main was very turbulent and it was Nejc who took the lead in the first corner and stayed there until the end of the 45-minute long final, followed by Shepherd’s Ljubischa Paunovic in 2nd and Herfried in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
