The final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was hosted by the Hässleholms MK club on a tight and pretty grippy track. In the Modified Touring class Markus Hellquist would take the overall TQ in front of local driver Daniel Carlsson with Fabian Vernersson rounding off the top 3. After the finals the top 3 positions would remain the same as Markus took two wins for the overall with Daniel and Fabian coming in second and third respectively.
The opening round of the French Buggy regionals was held at the Noeux Les Mines track over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Jean Pierrick Sartel (Xray) took the TQ after the three rounds of qualifying and he would also take the win in the main from tone to tone in front of TLR driver Theo Lemaire and Kyosho’s Cedric Nickell.
The Serpent Challenge was held at The Track in Gaitherburg, Maryland, home of the 2017 ROAR 1/10th Electric Off-Road Nationals. Griffin Hanna would take the TQ in both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes and he would also bring home the win in 2WD while suffering several issues with backmarkers in 4WD, eventually finishing in 3rd place behind the winner, Enzo Albertoni and runner-up, Jay Drakeford.
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Bruno Coelho has successfully defended his Euro Offroad Series title with a masterful 4WD win this evening at the penultimate round of the championship in Germany. Starting the weekend by claiming his first ever 2WD win of the EOS, when the action switched over to 4WD at Arena33, the reigning champion was in a league of his own. Top Qualifier, taking all four rounds of qualifying, the Xray driver would cruise to a completely unchallenged A1 win. The second encounter would see the World Champion kept on his toes by Yokomo’s Lee Martin getting to within a second of the leader but with three laps to go a mistake from the former champion left Coelho to cruise to the win to notch up his third victory of the season and lock down the Season #6 title. With Coelho able to pack is bags early, his absence from the A3 grid would allow Martin to take the win to finish second overall with the podium being completed by star of the weekend Joona Haatanen.
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The French Indoor National Championship recently concluded and it was Jeremy Limoges who walked away with the title in the Formula and Touring Modified classes. Jean-Michel Varinard would take the vice championship in the Formula class from Willy Voisangrin in third while Alexandre Laurent and Eric Loge would complete the Touring Modified podium.
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The 2017 Silver State race was held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, home of last year’s IFMAR 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Championship. As usual the event attracted most of the country’s top drivers and also guest from abroad. In the premier Pro Nitro Buggy class the race for the overall TQ was on between Dakotah Phend (TLR) , Ty Tessmann (Xray) and Ryan Maifield (Mugen) with all three scoring round TQs. Ultimately Dakotah would prevail, taking the TQ from Ty and Ryan. After an eventful 45-minute main, that saw Phend out in the lead in the opening stages but mistakes throughout the field would mix things up, Maifield would bring home the win by one lap from Ty Tessmann and two laps in front of HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk while pole sitter Phend suffered from parts failure in the closing stages.
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The 2017 Association of Australian Radio Controlled Model Car Clubs State Titles for Victoria was held by the South Eastern Radio Controlled Car Club SERCCC at its new facility located on the Mornington Peninsula of Victoria, Australia, this past weekend. The event attracted racers from all over Australia to compete in eight different classes. With over 120 entries the racing for the top positions looked like it would be well contested and the racing that resulted proved this was the case. The premier class for the event was the Modified Open Class. With multiple Australian National title holders and State title holders in attendance the drive for TQ and the top spots was well contested. After five rounds of qualifying it would be Ryan Maker (Awesomatix) who would take the TQ position.
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Bruno Coelho eased his way to a completely dominant win in the opening 4WD A-Main at Round 4 of the Euro Offroad Series in Germany. Having pulled off a clean sweep of the four qualifiers to claim his third TQ of the season, the Xray driver made light work of the opposition to win by 10-seconds even after sitting behind traffic for the final few laps of the race. Martin Wollanka would make it an Xray 1-2, getting by 2nd place starter Lee Martin after the Yokomo driver made a mistake on the opening lap. Despite a 3-second crash, which dropped him to 6th, Joona Haatanen would work his way back up the order to complete the Top 3. Running behind battling Xray team-mates Martin Bayer and Hupo Honigl this would eventually play into the hands of both Haatanen and Lee Martin, who would salvage fourth after his earlier mistake, as the pair got together on the penultimate lap. Bayer & Honigl would go at it again on the final lap clashing somewhat spectacularly on the final dash down the main straight with Bayer somehow getting 5th.
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