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November 17, 2016

Orlowski aims for home win at ‘Warsaw Moto Show’ as EOS returns to Poland

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After a successful season opener at the Nurburgring in Germany in September, this weekend (18-20 Nov) Euro Offroad Series competitors will again race in high octane surroundings as Round 2 takes place as part of Warsaw Moto Show in the Polish capital city. A country that hosted the championship opener for three seasons in the city of Poznan as part of a Hobby & Gaming Show, there is much excitement about returning to Poland after a year off the EOS calendar in particular for title contender Michal Orlowski for whom the city of Warsaw is home. Opening Season #6 with a double podium finish, the Schumacher driver will be striving to better that this weekend with victory in particular in 2WD as he looks to clinch the title, having been the runner-up on his last two attempts.

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November 17, 2016

BRCA GT Circuit Championship Rd2 – Report

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The 2016/17 BRCA GT circuit championship Continued last weekend at another new addition to the calendar, the event was hosted by the Eastbourne club in Robertsbridge. The club laid a great track for the weekends action, based on the track that they used for the LMP national. At first some of the drivers thought it may be too tight and technical for the Saturday classes, however after the drivers had been on track it turned out to be a fun layout to drive and provided some very good racing.

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November 16, 2016

Xray Racing Series Greece Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Batas that walked away with the day’s win from Velaoras in second and Niotis (all Xray) in third.

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November 16, 2016

Gassauer wins 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway

The 12th Annual Frankfurt Ice Speedway race was held at the Eissporthalle in Frankfurt, Germany this past weekend. Limited to a total of 50 entries the race was sold out within a couple of hours after sign-in started and as usual the event was held using HPI Super EP chassis, oldschool brushed motors and LRP NiMH batteries, all sponsored by the hosting MBC Goldstein club. A single three minute practice was followed by ten rounds of head-to-head racing in random 5-car legs. At the end the best five drivers proceeded into the A-main, place six to ten into the B-main and so on. As usual the race attracted a nice mix of internationally experienced drivers and local racers and it was ETS finalist and 3-times winner, Patrick Gassauer, who made a clean sweep in the legs to take the TQ from Daniel Anthes and Daniel Koch. Justin Gefeller and Alexander Beck complete the A-main grid. In the finals Patrick was less dominant but he still took the overall win and with it his fourth Frankfurt Ice Speedway title. Daniel Anthes, who scored a single win, came in second from local hero, Daniel Koch, who also took a win in the finals.

Source: MBC Goldstein

November 16, 2016

Swiss Carpet Race – Report

The Swiss Carpet Race was recently hosted by the Mini Racing Chiasso club, attracting 80 drivers from Swiss and Italy. The race format was free practice on Friday, three rounds of practice on Saturday followed by a reseeding round as well as four qualifiers and triple finals. In the Touring Modified class it was Philipp Huber (Team Durango) that walked away with the win from Yokomo driver Michele Manzo and Serpent pilot Antonio Mangiaracina.

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November 16, 2016

Alexander Landen wins at WBC Cup opener

The opening round of the WBC Cup was held at the HB/Orion Raceway in Kallinge, Sweden hosted by the Karlskrona MRK club. In the 4WD buggy class the battle for the TQ was on between Xray teammates Alexander Landen and Malin Karlsen. Malin took the opening qualifier as Alexander had a couple of moments, eventually finishing second. In round two it was Alexander’s turn while Malin came in second with the latter striking back in R3. It was now all coming down to the final qualifier and unfortunately for Alexander he lost a front wheel of his buggy, handing Malin the final qualifier and with it the overall TQ.

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November 16, 2016

Edward Sio wins Philippine Nitro Truggy Nationals

The 2016 Philippine Nitro Truggy Nationals were held at the Circulo Verde Track in Quezon City, Philippines. Hot and sunny weather made for a nice day of racing and right from the opening qualifier the race for the overall TQ was on between Edward Sio and Jordan Go. Edward took the opening round but Jordan came out fastest in the following qualifiers, handing him the overall TQ with a time of 7 minutes and 5 seconds. In the A-main, Jordan started from the pole position followed by Edward and Clemen Pancho. During the opening 25 minutes Jordan kept the lead with Edward on the 2 spot, about 20 seconds behind. Nani Tagle was hot on the heels of Edward and both would eventually swap positions at the pit stops until Nani had to retire after a bad landing of his truck. This promoted Clemen into third and up front and with about ten minutes to go, Jordan’s lead slowly decreased from 20 down to three seconds. About four minutes from the end, Edward was chasing Jordan hard and when the latter came in for a final splash and dash, he suffered a flame out but despite a quick restart, Edward Sio (Mugen/Novarossi/AKA) was able to take the lead and with it the win and overall title from Jordan Go (Mugen/Novarossi/AKA) in second and Clemen Pancho (Mugen/Novarossi/AKA) third.

Thanks to Edward Sio for the report.

November 15, 2016

Akiyama win Speed King Tour Rd7

The seventh and final round of the 2016 Speed King Tour took place at Crest Speedway indoor carpet track in Gunma prefecture last weekend. TRF driver Akio Sobue has already crowned 2016 Modified class series champion but he was still in attendance. The typical Modified and Stock touring classes were run alongside two special classes, the first one is Oval class while the other was the ‘Father and Mother’ class. Only parents of race entrant can enter this race and although some fathers were ‘racers’, some parents had no experience of driving RC cars which led to some chaos.

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