Red RC » Events

June 28, 2017

Swiss Electric On-road Championship Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the Swiss Electric On-road Championship was held in Geneva in the usual classes of Touring Modified, Touring Pro Stock, Formula and Swiss GT. 45 drivers signed in to battle it out in the most south-west point of the country. In the Touring Modified class Michele Manzo swept qualifying to secure the pole position for the triple A-mains. A1 then also went to plan for Michele but in A2 he struggled with backmarkers and he had some bobbles in A3 but nevertheless he was able to bring home the win in front of teammate Fabian Widmer. Philipp Huber would round out the podium result.

Continue reading the report here

June 27, 2017

Sobue & Lee win at Asia Onroad Championship Rd2

Round 2 of the Asia Onroad Championship was held at the famous TRC circuit in Hong Kong. This time, for the sake of variety and the driver’s opinion, the organisers had decided to use the bigger GP track for the event. This was a much welcomed move, as it was very fun to drive as a result of its bigger size and high grip levels. Unfortunately, the event was struck by heavy rain showers throughout but the organisers were able to be flexible with the schedule, to allow drivers to get most of their runs in. The Touring Modified finals were rather eventful and ultimately it was Infinity’s Akio Sobue who walked away with the win from teammate Naoto Matsukura in 2nd and Xray’s Alexander Hagberg 3rd.

content

June 27, 2017

Abrahámek & Havránek win at Czech IC Track Nats Rd3

Round 3 of the Czech Nitro On-road National Championships was held in Svitavy this past weekend. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class it was Oliver Havránek (Xray) who put his car on pole position for the A-main but the final was ultimately won by Michal Abrahámek (Xray) as Oliver ran out of tyres in the closing stages, but was able to secure the 2nd spot though. Sunday and race two saw Oliver in trouble as first an engine and then also a servo broke but he managed to get the bump-up spot to the A-main to start the race from P11. In the main final Oliver would soon move up the field and despite finding himself in the grass once, he was able to bring home the win from Michael Abrahámek 2nd and Michal Jansa (Serpent) in 3rd overall.

View the final results here

June 27, 2017

Buggyland 4.0 – Announcement

The Buggyland 4.0 1/8th off-road race will be held from the 15th to 17th of September at the CARTT Fuencarral track in Madrid, Spain. The 3-day event, widely known as the country’s season highlight, will see 1/8th Nitro and Electric Buggy racing, attracting Spain’s fastest drivers as well as many entries from abroad. More information can be found here with registration being available here.

June 27, 2017

Roy Gjemble successful at Norwegian Buggy Nats Rd3

This past weekend the third round of the 2017 Norwegian 1/10th Off-Road Buggy Nationals was hosted by the Innherred RC-Bil Klubb at the IHRC Raceway astroturf track in Levanger, Norway. After the initial shake down and instalment free practice Friday evening, Saturday was 2WD race day. Three rounds of qualifying were ran and it was Schumacher driver Roy Gjemble who took his Schumacher KC to the overall TQ position. Øystein Døler (Team Associated) qualified 2nd, Thorbjørn Døler (Team Associated) came in 3rd, and the young and talented 11-years old Alexander Gjemble (Team Associated) claimed 4th on the grid for the A-finals.

Continue reading the report here

June 27, 2017

RC-Lemans Series Rd3 – Report

The Raco 2000 club in Utrecht, The Netherlands played host to round 3 of the RC-Lemans Series this past weekend. The weather forecast was pretty mixed with especially the practice on Saturday was washed away, so only a handful of drivers made use of their rain cars. Sunday started off very damp and with a mixture of rain cars or dry cars with very soft tyres the drivers tried to make maximum use of the opening qualifier. Peter Plümacher made the best out of the conditions as he took the win in the LMP1 opener from Tobias Weist and Reinder Wilms. The track though started to dry up soon and by the second qualifier it was Kai Altmann on top from Tobias and Reinder. Thanks to the points system both Peter and Kai already got their spots in the A-main and with the quickest run in Q3 Tobias would grab the pole position for the triple A-mains as he won the tie-breaker against Kai and Peter. Reinder’s P2 in the final qualifier secured him P4 on the grid followed by reigning LMP1 champ, Tim Altmann who suffered two DNFs while a P3 in the final qualifier won him the 5th overall position.

Continue reading the report here

June 26, 2017

Berton brings home win at Italian Buggy Champs Rd3

Round 3 of the Italian AMSCI 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held this past weekend in Rosignano. Kyosho’s Riccardo Berton made a clean sweep by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and bringing home the win in the 45-minute Expert class A-main final. Some three laps down young Mattia Polito (TLR) came in 2nd while Fabrizio Teghesi (Kyosho) ended the day on the 3 spot. The top 5 result was rounded out by Alex Zanchettin and Alessandro Remia.

Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]

June 26, 2017

Neil Cragg wins BRCA 1/8th Buggy Nationals Rd3

The Herts Nitro Model Club hosted the third round of the BRCA Nitro Buggy Nationals this past weekend. Kyosho’s Elliott Boots took the overall TQ but in the main final it was Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who excelled, taking home the win from Darren Bloomfield (Agama) 2nd and Infinity’s Lee Martin, campaigning a HB Racing buggy, in 3rd, while Elliott was not able to convert his TQ into a podium result.

Image: BRCA [brca.org]