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September 5, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the MRCZ club in Zwevegem this past weekend. The race was held on a purpose built track laid out in a local parking lot. Two weeks before the Belgian nats, the club hosted a club race and an open practice during which it turned out that the grip levels were quite low, and this resulted in a lower turnout for this championship decider. In the three main classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula the race for the overall title was still open.

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September 4, 2017

International German Pro10 Championship – Report

The 28th Annual International German Pro10 Championship was held at the AMC Hildesheim track this past weekend. The open championship saw entries from The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Belgium and Germany with the race being held in Pro10 Modified and Stock classes as well as an 1/8th Electric support class. The event started off wet but Friday’s and Saturday’s practice sessions here held on a dry track until the heaven opened again on Saturday evening – in time for the opening two qualifiers. In the Modified class 2014 champion, Tobias Weist won Q1 some eight tenth of a second in front of 2016 vice-champion, Timo Schad who in turn won Q2 on his home track from reining German champion, Tim Altmann and Roman Krejci from the Czech Republic.

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September 4, 2017

Norwegian 1/10th Buggy Nationals finale – Report

The final round of the Norwegian 1/10th Electric Buggy National Championship was held in Oslo. In the 2WD class it was Team Associated’s Joakim Nicolaisen with the TQ after the qualifiers with Serpent’s Marius Kristensen and Andreas Sandgrind in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the opening A-main both Joakim and Marius had a clean start and they swiftly moved away from the field until Joakim made a small mistake that allowed Marius to take over the lead for a couple of laps until he made a mistake on the straight that promoted Joakim back into P1. From there Nicolaisen would be in control to bring home the win in A1.

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September 4, 2017

Jesper Rasmussen takes double Danish Buggy title

The final round of the Danish 1/10th Electric Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend at the Odense RC Minirace track. Jesper Rasmussen was in total control of things in both the 2WD Modified and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and with TQs and wins in both categories he would take the double Danish title to round out a perfect season. The 2WD Mod and 4WD Mod top 3 at round 7 were completed by Jonas Kaerup and Frederik Hovgaard in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Image: Jesper Rasmussen

September 4, 2017

Bowie Ginting wins Jakarta On-road regionals Rd3

The third round of the Jakarta 1/10 Electric On-road regional championship was held at East RC Speedway in East Jakarta. The race was held in very sunny weather with Touring 13.5 Boosted as the only class. It was Bowie Ginting who scored the overall TQ by securing the first two rounds of qualifying followed by Teddy Syach and Muhammad Izzah. Bowie then would able to converted his pole into a win in the main final followed by Izzah and Teddy who swapped their starting positions into 2nd and 3rd place finishes respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 4, 2017

David Ronnefalk sweeps 2017 EFRA 1/8th E-Buggy Euros

The 2017 EFRA 1/8th Electric Buggy European Championship was held this past weekend in Velika Gorcia, Croatia. Unseasonal heavy rain had put the final Open Championship of the EFRA season in considerable doubt, as Saturday’s running had seen just one round of qualification run before the heavens opened, dropping biblical amounts of rain onto an already drenched surface in Velika Gorica. Luckily the rain stopped during the night and after some intensive track prep and several bags of sawdust the event was ready to go with a packed program of two qualifiers and then 3-legged finals for all.

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September 4, 2017

Urban Touring Series Rd9 – Report

The penultimate round of Singapore’s Urban Touring Series was held this past weekend at Singapore’s Urban Onroad Raceway. The event saw the return of Daryl Thong (Xray), a past TITC A-main podium finisher, who had been missing from racing action for some time due to his on-going National Service commitments. Daryl missed the early action and could only complete one of the four rounds of qualifying, meaning he would start last in the finals. Hasron Robana (Xray) topped the first three rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ honours for the day. 13-year old Sean Lee (Tamiya) gave everyone notice when he pushed Hasron hard in Q1 and Q2, and was in fact on pace for TQ in both rounds when he encountered unfortunate back-marker incidents. With Hasron sitting out Q4, Sean gained some comfort with a TQ run in the round to qualify overall 2nd. Qualifying 3rd was Chee Lip Keong (Yokomo).

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September 4, 2017

BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship Rd7 – Report

Round 7 of the BRCA 1/8th Circuit Championship headed south only a short distance from the channel tunnel crossing to France to the revitalised Brookland Circuit in Kent. The circuit having undergone upgrades to the surface and facilities with more changes planned for the future. The circuit being more ideal size for 1/8th cars and allowing them to be pushed to the max on the main sweeper and straight. The Nitro class was going to be another close encounter with a few big names away, Tim Wood took pole position narrowly from Neal King and David Spashett. Andy Mollett showed all his practice had paid off achieving 10th overall to qualify with his Mugen for his first A-final of the year. Chris Simons also made it in and Jack Garrett-Lines qualified an impressive 6th place.

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