After winner three of the four rounds of the recently concluded Cyprus LRCC Championship, held solely in Limassol, Andreas Thrasyvoulou took the overall title. The Agama duo of Andeas Theodotou and Marios Christodoulou came in second and third respectively while Andreas Sykas (Agama) and Simos Tikkis (Mugen) completed the top 5 result.
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The fourth and final round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held at the MRC Longwy club and it again attracted some of the fastest racers of the region. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Olivier Bultnyck who took the day’s win from Lucas Urbain in second and Remi Callens third.
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Round three of the West/Central German division Tonisport Onroad Series was held at the new Arena33 indoor facility. In the Formula class, that attracted a total of 24 entries, Patrick Schäfer took the TQ tie on points with Marcel Ellissen and Michael Schröder with the better tie-breaker handing Patrick the pole position for the A-mains. In the finals the fast local drivers gave Patrick a hard time but he was able to win the decisive A-final by about 0.3s to take the day’s win from Elmar Krause in second and Thilo Tödtmann in third.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
The sixth round of the Lestr Cup was recently held in Prague, Czech Republic. Young Milan Mudra was on fire and able to take the overall TQs in both 2WD and 4WD buggy. Milan would also sweep the A-mains to take the 2WD win from Arnold Lorenz in second and Honza Kapicka in third. In 4WD it was again all about Milan who took another overall victory from Marek Ornst and Frantisek Kalenda in second and third respectively.
Round four of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin. The event was held in several electric on-road and off-road classes and it attracted some of the countries fastest drivers. In the premier class of Touring Modified Martin Hudy was the man to beat and at the end it was only about who would round out the top 3 result. Ultimately Jakub Simurda and Oliver Havranek would join Martin on the podium.
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Round three of the Norwegian Cup was held on a purpose-built track in Trondheim. Andreas Daving (Yokomo) would take the TQ in the Touring Stock class but it was Team Magic’s Martin Sorlie who would come out fastest in A2 and A3, with plenty of luck and some skulls as well, to grab the overall victory from all-round racing hero Ketil Pettersen (Yokomo) and Andreas Daving in third.
The penultimate round of the Schumacher Indoor Masters Series was held at Worksop this past weekend. A huge entry once again of 144 competitors showed just how popular this event has become. As always the qualifying format was round by round, with the best two results to count towards the final and grid position. In 4WD it was Richard Lowe who was the man to beat, taking TQ in all four rounds to line up on pole position, ahead of Craig Collinson and James Helliwell. The finals were then again a Lowe show with James Helliwell climbing up one spot to second overall while Steve Pierce obtained the final podium spot.
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Harrisburg in Pennsylvania played host to last weekend’s 2017 Motorama event. In the three expert classes of 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD Short Course Joe Bornhorst made a near sweep, TQ-ing eight of the nine qualifiers with only in E-Buggy he was having some traffic problems in Q2. The A-mains were held in a double format with motocross-style tiebreaker meaning a better finish in A2 decides the overall but that wasn’t something Joe had to care about as he made clean sweeps in all A-main legs to wrapping up the overall in all three classes he attended. In E-Buggy Spencer Heckert and Anthony Mazzara sidelined Joe on the podium while the remaining top 3 spots in E-Truggy were taken by Austin Woodyard and Spencer Heckert. As for Pro4, Jared Wiggins and Spencer Heckert, who made a triple podium at the Motorama, completed the top 3 result.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
