Round 4 of the RCManicas Championship was held recently at the Argos track in Greece. Pre-event favorite Kiriazis (Xray) took a convincing win in the Touring Modified class from Xray teammate Nikolakopoulos in 2nd. Tamiya racer Vasilopoulos came in 3rd in front of the two local heros Diamadis and Kidis (both Xray). In the Formula class Kidis lead an all-Xray top 4 with Diamadis, Maricholas and Tsiosis in tow.
The 2017 FEMCA 1/8th Off-road Championships took place at the MORBC track in Perth, Australia, host of the 2018 Worlds. More than 100 drivers attended the event and it was Australia’s Kyle McBride (Team Associated/Novarossi) who took the overall TQ courtesy of winning three of the six qualifiers. In the 60-minute Kyle was able to preserve his qualifying performance to take the title in front of Shane Kelly (TLR/Reds Racing) in 2nd place and Shin Adachi (Serpent/O.S.) in 3rd.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The final round of the 2017 BL-Cup was held at the Mach-One track in Helmond, The Netherlands. Overnight rain had soaked the track already and a one hour rain shower during Sunday morning’s controlled practice made things even worse, which caused smaller or bigger problems for pretty much every driver. The qualifiers were run on a very wet circuit, in some spots the astroturf was even floated with water, but Wesley Wiertz managed to keep his car on the track to the qualifiers from Dick Doorn and Oscar Koot.
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The final round of the Huge Challenge and the 2017 BIRC were held at Huge RC Circuit in Bangkok, Thailand this past weekend. Classes run included several electric and nitro on-road classes that were run on the extremely high-bite asphalt track. In the Touring Modified class, Jilles Groskamp took the TQ in front of Naoto Matsukura and Charlee Phutiyothin. Jilles would then take the win in the first two finals to claim the victory from team mates Andy Moore and Naoto Matsukura. Chavit Sirigupta and Purisek J. completed the top 5 results.
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The opening round of the Czech Rebels Race series was held in Prague-Třebešín with over 65 drivers attending in six on-road categories that included Touring Open, Touring Stock and 1/12th scale 6.5T zero boost classes. Attracting the most drivers was the Touring Open class with 30 sign-ups. The race for the win was on between TQ Petr Grof (Yokomo), Michal Blahovský (Xray) and Matěj Šulc (Xray). Ultimately it was Petr with the win in all three A-mains from Matěj, who scored 2-2-2 finishes. Michal would round out the podium result in 3rd.
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The sixth and final round of the 2017 RC-Lemans Series was held recently at the Dutch Velp track. The race for the overall championship titles in the LMP1 Modified and LMP2 Stock classes was still wide open and it was the first time in the 12-years long history of the series that three drivers would battle for the title at the final round. In LMP1 reigning champion, Tim Altmann set the pace in Q1 while Kai Altmann came out fastest in Q2. Timo Schad secured himself the final qualifier with the fastest time in front of Tobias Weist meaning that all title favourites would make it into the top 3 after the qualifiers.
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The Czech National 200mm Championship recently concluded with the fifth and final round and it was Michal Abrahamek who took the overall title. Ending three rounds of the championship on top of the podium earned Michal the title as Michael Jansa and Pavel Jansa snatched the final podium spots.
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The HKRCSA race was held at the Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong recently. Xray’s Gary Huang, who entered the race to prepare for the forthcoming Xiamen Grand Prix, took the overall 1/8th nitro class TQ after the rain-shortened qualifiers. In the main final Gary would lead from tone to tone to bring home the win from Capricorn driver Luk Chi Hung and Mugen’s Lai Hay.
