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February 12, 2018

Ben Sterling sweeps Victorian Drivers Series Rd1

The opening round of the 1/8th off-road Victorian Drivers Series was held at the BADrc track in Bendigo, Australia. Ben Sterling would sweep both the Pro Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy classes by TQing the qualification rounds and then winning the A-main finals. On the nitro podium Ben was accompanied by Matt Griffin in 2nd and Max Ricca in 3rd while in E-Buggy Ashley Peeler and Liam Jones rounded out the podium results.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

February 12, 2018

Winter Jumps Series Rd4 – Report

The fourth round of the 6-race Winter Jumps Series was held in Äänekoski, Finland this past weekend. This round marked the end of the slippery polished floor tracks for this season as round 5 and 6 will be held on carpet tracks in Joensuu and Helsinki respectively. In the 2WD Buggy qualifying it was Joona Haatanen who TQ’d after struggling in rounds 1 and 2. In round 1 Lauri Ruotsalainen was the fastest driver while round 2 went to Karri Salmela. In the finals Joona continued to excel as he won all three finals pretty easily while also scoring the fastest lap. Lauri Ruotsalainen would come in 2nd overall from Karri Salmela 3rd.

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February 12, 2018

Silverstone Winter Series Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Silverstone Winter Series was held with a competitive field of 90 drivers attending. In the 2WD Buggy class and starting from 3rd on the grid Danny McGee (Schumacher) passed Tom Yardy early on and then put pole man Lee Martin (Yokomo) under pressure. Finally a rare error from Lee allowed Danny through to take a well deserved win from Lee 2nd and Lloyd Storey (Schumacher) 3rd. In 4WD Schumacher’s Greg Williams made a great start from 3rd on the grid and led to the finish. Pole man Ian Mellish chased hard and made it an exciting race before his car stopped with a mechanical problem near the end, allowing Tommy Hall (PR Racing) and Dan Austin (Tekno) to take 2nd and 3rd on the podium. Finally in the Short Course Truck class it was Richard Miller with the win from Russel Lee and Alan Day.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

February 12, 2018

TQ & win for Patrick Hofer at Swiss Off-road Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Swiss 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held at the RC Poly-Fix Arena in Freienbach this past weekend. In the 2WD Modified Buggy class, that attracted 46 entries, it was Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer with the TQ after the qualifiers from Nico Schmid (Xray) on the runner-up spot. After the triple A-mains it was again Patrick with the top spot as he came out fastest in A1 and A2 to take the day’s win from Nico Schmid 2nd and Fabian Luca Widmer (Yokomo) in 3rd. A3 winner, Florian Schmid would come in 4th from Philipp Huber 5th.

Image: Patrick Hofer

February 12, 2018

Ki Heung Kim wins at 2018 SRCC race

The 2018 SRCC race was held at the GRC track in South Korea this past weekend. In the Formula class Ki Heung Kim (Shepherd) took the win with Shepherd teammates Giu Jin Lee and Jae Kuk Yoo completing the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

February 12, 2018

BRCA GT12 South East regional series – Report

The BRCA GT12 South East regional series started back in November and it visited some of the best clubs in the UK’s South East region and attracted drivers of all abilities. The final and deciding round was held last Sunday at the excellent West Kent Club. GT12 being the main class and with great attendance across the events and clubs and offering support classes of 12th scale LMP, Touring Cars and Tamiya Mini the meetings were full and had an excellent atmosphere. In GT12 not only was the A-final hotly contended but all finals were very close with great racing. After 4 events Niall Cochran would take the Championship with a perfect 300 score, 2nd was Steven Moore and 3rd was Gavin Clinch. It was great to have juniors in the mix also the top 3 being Harriet Cracker 1st (12th), Joe Moore 2nd (16th) and Joe Barry 3rd (22nd) (overall championship position). The full championship results can be found here.

View the Juniors top 3 podium here

February 12, 2018

Joe Pillars wins at PDX Underground Ketchup Series Rd3

Round 3 of the PDX Underground Ketchup Series was held this past weekend and in the 2WD Modified Buggy class it was Yokomo’s Joe Pillars with the TQ and win in the 2WD Modified Buggy class. TLR driver, Jeremy Howard came in 2nd, some 16 seconds down while Shannon Houfek (Xray) rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

February 12, 2018

Nicholas Lee wins Race the Roof Friday

The Race the Roof Friday 2WD Buggy Bash race was held last Friday at the Urban PlaySpace rooftop outdoor track high above the city of Singapore and it was late entry, Nicholas Lee, who took the win. Running the rocket round qualifying format, Esmail Apandi secured the TQ by some two seconds over Nicholas Lee. Jody Long qualified 3rd, while Dominic Quek took the last direct A-main spot in 4th. In the finals, Fazly Ibrahim and Andrew Tow bumped-up from the B-Main to make the 6-car A-main. In A1, Jody Long came through from P3 to take the win ahead of Nicholas and Esmail. In A2, Esmail secured a convincing win ahead of Nicholas, with Jody in 3rd. This set the stage for an exciting A3. Pole-sitter Esmail had to fend of hard-charging Dominic for the lead in the early part of the race, with Nicholas close behind in 3rd. In a well executed pass, Dominic took over the lead from Esmail who then lost 2nd to Nicholas with a mistake later on. Just when it looked like there would be a 3rd different winner in the A-main, an unfortunately marshalling incident saw a flipped car placed in the path of leader, Dominic. This allowed Nicholas to go through and eventually seal the win. Esmail finished in 2nd while Jody came through for 3rd. Dominic Quek, Fazly Ibrahim and Andrew Tow completed the A-main results.

Source: Urban PlaySpace [facebook.com]