Round 3 of the Northern German Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MC Munster track, home of the German 1/10th 200mm Nationals later this year. In 1/8th on-road class 1 it was Timo Schröder (Shepherd) with the overall TQ but the 30-minute main final was narrowly won by Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe who left Serpent’s Merlin Depta behind in 2nd by about 3/10th of a second. Timo Schröder would round out the top 3 result in 3rd.
The Bubo Race was held at the ARCF 42 track in Boisset Saint Priest, France, over the weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by taking all five qualifying rounds to grab the overall TQ. In the 45-minute long A-main final David was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win some two laps in front of HB Racing’s Adrien Bertin while Celian Rousset rounded out the podium result in 3rd, only five seconds short of Adrien and making it a HB Racing/Team Orion 1-2-3 finish.
Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]
This past weekend the Japanese JMRCA All Japan Touring Outdoor Championship was held at Keitune Racing Speedway. In the Super Expert class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ from Infinity teammate Akio Sobue in 2nd. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker, who made an appearance at the race as did fellow Yokomo driver and countryman, Christopher Krapp, came in 3rd after the qualifiers. After the exciting triple A-mains, that saw Naoto taking the win in A1 and Akio coming out fastest in A2, it was Akio with the championship title from Naoto 2nd and Ronald 3rd.
Image: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
The 2017 ROAR 1/8th Off-road and 4WD SCT Nationals were held at Silver Dollar RC Raceway this past weekend. The event drew near 110 entries for the 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD SCT classes and in E-Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield who swept the event by TQing all four rounds of qualifying and bringing home the wins in the opening two A-mains to wrap up his third consecutive ROAR 1/8th Electric Buggy National Championship. Xray’s Ty Tessmann would come 2nd place from Team Associated’s Dreighton Stoub in 3rd.
The MRC Wr. Neustadt club played host to the Xray Racing Series Austria this past weekend. The event started off windy and in changing weather conditions on Saturday but this did not keep the 30 drivers from enjoying a full day of practice that was highlighted by racing under floodlights on Saturday evening. Sunday started off wet but after prepping the track everyone was good to go for the first round of qualifiers and in the Touring Modified class it was Patrick Gollner who swept the qualifiers with three round TQs. In the A-main it was Dominik Vogl who held the upper hand on newer tyres with Patrick Gollner coming in 2nd and Sascha Klug rounding out the podium result in 3rd.
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The second round of the Muchmore Touring Series MTS was recently held in Shanghai and it was Xray driver Zhang Wai Hong with the win in the hotly contested Formula class. Luk Yi Heng (Yokomo) would end the day on the runner-up spot from fellow Yokomo driver Cheng Feng Chau in 3rd.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Round 5 of the CTS2 was held in Ripon, California this past weekend. As the season is getting closer to the final round, this weekend’s TQ and winner for Modified Touring is Team Associated veteran driver Rick Hohwart as he secures top honors followed by Awesomatix’ latest addition to the team, Brandon Clements and David Jun (Team Associated), a blast from the past, in 3rd. Since coming back to the sport, David Jun qualified mid pack and shows his classic pro driving skills working his way through the competition to podium. This round looks promising for the points chase Hohwart has locked up. The finals will be held August 12th to 13th at Speedworld Raceway in Roseville, California.
Source: CTS [facebook.com]
With round 5 of the 2017 Jokerteam GT12 Championship, initially scheduled for July 2nd, postponed to September 24th, round 6 kicked off regularly in sunny and hot conditions. As the qualification rounds got under way, it was a very close race between the top 2 across qualifying with both Mattia Dall’Oca and Ivan Milesi being the only drivers to score 27 lap runs. With the track conditions getting hotter, drivers found it hard to find the best set-up as well as tyre compound. Dall’Oca continued his good form from previous rounds of the Championship, taking pole position from Ivan Milesi and Alessandro Rampini. It was then a fierce battle among the top three qualifiers in the A-mains. In A1 Mattia Dall’Oca hit troubles allowing both Ivan Milesi and Alessandro Rampini to take 1st and 2nd with solid runs. In A2 Mattia delivered a faultless drive closely followed by Ivan and Alessandro Rampini. Finally, in the deciding A3, it was Ivan Milesi who held it down and took the win using his experience and talent. Ivan would capitalise on Mattia’s early mistake and never looked back, while Alessandro Rampini finished strong and wrapped up 3rd. A change in the Championship’s calendar will now see round 7 (initially scheduled for August 27th) postponed to October 8th in order to avoid conflict with the recently announced 2017 Italian UISP Championship which, for the first time in Italy, will include the GT12 class.
Source: Jokerteam [jokerteam.it]
