Titchfield Off Road Club Hants held their 2018 Festive Fun Meeting this past weekend. Yokomo’s Lee Martin would top qualify the 2WD Buggy class as Yokomo driver Jon Hazlewood wrapped up the 4WD Buggy qualifying. With a clean sweep in all three A-mains Lee then also took the day’s overall win in 2WD from Stephen Brown (Schumacher) in 2nd and Yokomo driver Yasir Mughal in 3rd.
The Newbury Club recently held round two of the Xray Racing Series UK with a solid entry for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Touring Stock 17.5T and 1/12th scale. In Modified it was again Elliott Harpet taking the win ahead of Damian Giddings and Jamie Hickin.
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The second round of the Lovan Winter Series was held over the weekend just before Christmas. The club did the utmost to make a flowing but technical track on the 35x18m surface they had available. The race attracted a massive 104 entries and had the honour of being the biggest electric RC car race of 2018 in Belgium. The quality of the field was also quite high, with no less than seven national champions, four multiple national champions, three ETS/EOS A-main finalists and three European champions. Five classes were run, separated between Formula, 1/12 GT and LMP, and touring Stock and Modified. Touring Stock was the biggest class with 58 drivers, probably thanks to the liberal rules, which allowed every 13.5 motor, blinky speed controller and rubber tyres with a hardness of at least 26 shore. The race format was the same as for round 1, three free practice rounds without reseeding, four qualifiers of which the fastest one would count to determine the grid and triple finals for everyone.
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Multi-times IFMAR 1/10th Off-road World Champion, Ryan Cavalieri has announced his departure from long-time sponsor Team Associated. Having joined their factory team back in 2005, Ryan and AE can look back on a very fruitful campaign with Ryan adding three IFMAR Worlds and 28 ROAR national titles to his belt. Ryan has yet to announce his new team, as do high-level drivers such as Jared Tebo and Ryan Lutz, adding some spice to an otherwise pretty silent silly season. In the meantime, this is what Cav has to say about his departure.
With the year almost coming to an end I would like to announce that I will no longer be with Team Associated. Our first contract started 13 years ago when my dad and I were brought into a meeting with Brent Theilke and Cliff Lett to discuss my racing future and that’s where it all began. April 1st, 2005 I joined the ae team and a lot of people thought it was an April fools joke. This turned into something much bigger than that. I would go on to win my second World championship in August 2005 in Italy with a Jconcepts/ ae 4wd. I also top qualified my first 2wd World Championships that same year and would place runner up to Neil Cragg. Six years later in Vassa Finland, I would get my biggest accomplishment by winning 2wd and 4wd World Championship titles. My first Roar National title came in 2006 and I would go on to win a total of 28 National Championships with Team Associated. I would like to thank Brent Theilke, Cliff Lett, Richard Saxton, Kody Numandal and Sean Cochran, these guys all contributed to my racing program with many wins and podiums throughout my 13 year long career with Team Associated. With the new year approaching a new chapter is about to start. Stay tuned to hear what’s next.
Last Sunday saw round 1 of the new Off Road Winter Series take place in, Hornchurch, Essex, UK. 80 racers arrived at 8am to be greeted by a track laid on new grey EOS carpet. The jumps were highlighted, being red carpet covered and were strategically placed around the track with the biggest nearest the rostrum. Other smaller jumps also proved popular, with two very technical ones in the middle section, which had to be taken with caution but, had the same skill set required for everyone to negotiate them. In attendance were many of the UK’s Off Road National Series drivers. But the day was dominated by Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski.
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The recent Chinese National Cup was held at the Amazing Indoor Arena in Guangzhou, China and a joint race with the 2018 Arrowmax Cup finals. In the Chinese National Cup it was Gary Huang with the win in the Touring Car class from Kenrick Fong 2nd and Vincent Tse 3rd.
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The third round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin, Slovakia. In the off-road classes it was Xray’s Martin Bayer who was on top all weekend, taking the TQ spots in both 2WD and 4WD Buggy. Max Götzl took two 2WD qualifiers, however Martin beat him in the final round for the overall TQ. With straight wins in A1 and A2 Martin secured an early overall victory as Adam Izsay scored a win in A3 for the overall runner-up spot. The 3rd place went to Max Götzl for an all-Xray podium.
The second round of the Xray Racing Series Poland was held at the Zatoka Sportu venue, part of the Lodz University of Technology. The race attracted 150 entries, making it a pretty busy weekend for the organisers. 4WD Modified Buggy saw Bartosz Zalewski taking the overall TQ after winning Q1 and Q3. After the final it was still Bartosz on top with Bartek Kramża, Sebastian Migal and Jakub Łuczak following behind.
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