Last weekend the R/C Racers of Edmonton hosted the Oil City Dash. The event had a full day of practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday, and main events on Sunday. Mugen’s Adam Drake was the top qualifier in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and he went on to win the 45-minute final followed by Cory Drachenberg (Mugen) and Pete Tozzer (Team Associated).
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The Adur Model Car Club on the south-coast of England again hosted the popular Essex Winter Series organising team this weekend, as they put on their Summer Edition race. The weather was kind throughout the whole weekend, with just a few spots of rain during the early practice rounds but not even enough to slow the lap times down. This was also the first major race event in the UK at which the well-known ETS Volante tyre and Tonisport/MR33 hand-out additive was used, so the organisers arranged the format to give everyone plenty of track time to get used to the new rubber. It didn’t take people long, with track-record pace being up for grabs on not only new, but also used tyres as well, taking most of the tyre strategy out of play.
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The fourth and final round of the Western German Nitro On-road Championship was held in Velp in the Netherlands. Nearly fifty racers made their entry for the event on the flowing and challenging 260-meter track. On Saturday, everybody was on fire using every single minute for intense practice and preparations. Just when the drivers briefing was held on Sunday morning, it started to drizzle which effected the early rounds of qualifying heats. Most of the drivers opted to do some laps on the slippery track in order to get into the ranking lists but racing at full throttle was on again during round three of the heats.
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Round 3 of Turkish TORC Nationals was held at the Efmod track recently in hot and windy weather conditions. Xray’s Mustafa Alp made clean sweeps in the Nitro Touring and Electric Prostock classes to secure the pole positions for the main finals. In the opening two electric A-mains Mustafa never looked back to take dominant win while the battle for the runner-up spot was between young Ahmet and Poyraz. In A1 and A2 Poyraz held the upper hand thanks to fresher tyres but in A3, that Mustafa sat out, Ahmet took the win which equalled the overall 2nd place for him while Poyraz had to settle for 3rd.
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The Swedish On-road National Championship was recently held at the Örebro track in 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring and 1/10th Electric Touring categories. In the 200mm class main final Mickael Brandt would immediately open a gap on the field right from the start despite a hard-charging Per-Ola Hard that in turn was chased by Anders Mikkelsen and Petter Solvberg. Shortly before his 4:30 pitstop Mickael’s car ran out of fuel and it looked like everything was lost for Mickael but Per-Ola’s car also stopped while leaving the pits and so Brandt was back in the game. While trying to recover, Mickael made a mistake while passing a car on the main straight which send him further down the field. While making his way up the field again Mickael lost more time due to a flame out but pulling the fastest laps allowed him to gain a lot of places and right before his planned tyre change at half-time he was back in the lead again. Drivers on different tyre strategies mixed things up in the second half of the race but ultimately Mickael was able to bring home the win some two laps in front of Per-Ola Hard while Erika Hellquist rounded out the podium result a couple of laps down.
Round 4 of this year’s RC LeMans Series was held this past weekend at the Model Race Genk Club in Belgium. Known for its low traction the track still presented itself in good condition thanks to the outstanding work of the club members, a lot of cleaning and even sugar prepping. In the fast LMP1 class Tobias Weist, Tim Altmann and Reinder Wilms traded the top spots and ultimately it was Tim who took the TQ from Reinder and Tobias. Kai Altmann came in 4th, Patrick Vannieuenhuysen completed the top 5 result.
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The 1/10th Buggy Israeli League was held recently and it was Guy Rinkevich who took wins in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. Yosi Abel obtained the runner-up spot in both categories while Tom Mushkatel rounded out the podium in 2WD and Avi Yadgar completed the podium result in the 4WD class.
Gubbio in Italy played host to the 2017 Hot Race Summer Cup this past weekend. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest electric on-road drivers and also guests from abroad with the 2017 edition drawing close to 100 entries for the four different on-road categories. While the racing action on the track was intense there was also a lot to do off the track with the organisers made sure everyone had a great time with loads of drinks, music and the famous Saturday evening party. Racing wise and in the Invitational Modified class it was Alessio Menicucci who took the TQ and win from Alessio Mancini and former 200mm World Champion, Alexander Hagberg in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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