The Ledbury Model Car Club held round 5 of their Winter Series last weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Chris Lovell (HB Racing) with the overall TQ after the qualifiers, however in the 15-minute A-main event it was Team Associated’s Jon Howells with the win some 22 seconds in front of Chris Lovell. Lloyd Pitt (Team Associated) would round out the top 3 podium result less than a second behind runner-up Chris.
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The Agde track in the south of France held the Agathoise Race this past weekend. More than 100 drivers signed in to compete at the event that was held in perfect conditions and on an amazing track. In the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Yannick Aigoin, who only attended the electric class due to having no mechanic, who took the win from Ludovic Loupias in 2nd and up and coming Remy Bermudez in 3rd.
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Round 4 of the Erzgebirgs Cup was held in Gelenau, Germany this past weekend. The event is held in several electric on-road classes and in Touring Stock it was VBC Racing driver Lucas Fischer with the win from Xray’s Stefan Schulz on the 2 spot, who also set a new lap record. ARC’s Martin Henschel would round out the top 3 podium result.
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History went down this past weekend at TQ RC Racing Hobbies in Chino, California as a young rising star at 10 years old and a recently sponsored team Xray driver named Jacob Cruz showed a dominating performance by being the first ever Triple Crown Winner to compete in CTS. The youngster won concourse, TQ honors and overall triple main capturing the first two mains while sitting out the third. In the Touring Modified division, Brandon Clements, factory team Xray driver, showed he had the car to beat turning the fastest lap times in practice. Factory team Yokomo driver Randy Caster and Xray driver Jacob Cruz also showed fast lap times but Clements would hold hot lap. In Saturday’s qualifying, Randy secured the top spot for Q1 and Q2 leaving the opportunity open for more improvement as the traction came up. In Q3 the pace was faster than TQ as three racers threatened to beat the time. Early in the run Caster’s BD9 came out leading the qualifier. A minute into it Eric Albano took the lead producing the fastest lap during the run with his Awesomatix mid motor car. But as the race went on Jacob Cruz would then takes his T4’19 to the lead completing a perfect run to secure TQ honors.
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Round 5 of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held in Tinglev this past weekend. In the Formula class, that suffered from a somewhat low turnout, it was Jesper Rasmussen with a clean sweep, taking the wins in all qualifiers and the triple A-mains to grab the victory from David Hansen in 2nd and Lasse Moller Horup in 3rd.
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Round 3 and 4 of the Finnish 12Track Tour were held this past weekend. During Sunday’s round 4 Vesa Yli and Panu Vehniäinen would battle it out in the 1/12th Modified class with the better end for Vesa after the qualifiers as he managed to separate himself from Panu by a couple of seconds. The triple A-mains again were a super close affair with the two being separated by only tenths of a second in each leg. Ultimately it was Vesa with the win from Panu, which handed Yli the overall championship title – his third in a row. Panu would end the championship on the runner-up spot while Petri Ström and Ari-Pekka Kyykkä completed the overall top 4. Over in the GT-12 class it was Jaakko Huhmarsalo with the overall title from Juha-Matti Heikkala and Janne Valtanen in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The annual Florida Winternats were held in Fort Myers, Florida this past weekend. The event attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road drivers as well as guests from abroad and in the premier 1/8 Open class is was a battle in qualifying with Paolo Morganti and DJ Apolaro. Turning similar lap times all weekend it was Paolo that got the TQ, as he made better drives with less mistakes. In the final however it was DJ Apolaro with less mistakes over the 45 minute main event. DJ Apolaro (Capricorn) would come out on top 11 seconds in front of Paolo Morganti (Capricorn) in 2nd and Lon Burling (Serpent) in 3rd some nine laps back.
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The B.I.R. 6.0 race was recently held in Ferrol, Spain, attracting local racers and guests from abroad. In the 1/10th 4WD Buggy class it was Portugal’s Pedro Gomes (Xray) who would take the overall TQ after winning four of the five qualifiers. In the A-mains Pedro would again hold the upper hand, taking the overall from the Serpent duo of Carlos Duares in 2nd and Hugo Miguel in 3rd.
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