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November 7, 2016

Maker, De Nardis & Rabot win Australian titles

The 2016 AARCMCC Australian National Titles were held at Templestowe Flat Track Racers this past weekend. The event attracted the country’s fastest on-road drivers and it also saw the attendance of current IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker. At the end of the day and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Ryan Maker who took the TQ and win from Ronald in second. Super Stock 13.5T was TQ’d and won by Tom De Nardis with Tony William McMahon in second. Finally in Stock 21.5T it was Wayne Rabot who made a clean sweep by TQ-ing and winning the class from Glenn Wilson on the runner-up spot.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

November 7, 2016

Hillcoat & Schutte take SARDA Touring Car titles

With the recent fifth round of the SARDA Electric On-road Nationals, held at the TRAP RC venue in Pretoria, the championship concluded and it was Jason Hilcoat that walked away with the overall title in the Touring Modified class from Xray team mate Shaun Schutte and Antonio Caroli.

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November 7, 2016

Cavalieri dominates Team Associated Off-road Champs

The 2016 Team Associated Off-road Championships were held this past weekend at Trackside R/C in Brookfield, Wisconsin. After qualifying was complete, Ryan Cavalieri would got onto TQ 2WD Modified Buggy, Modified Truck, and 2WD Modified Short Course. He would also tie for the overall TQ in 4WD Modified Buggy, but was just edged out by his teammate Spencer Rivkin. Cavaleri would then win A-Main one and two of 2WD Modified Buggy to take home his first championship of the weekend. Cav then would also win A-mains two and three of 4WD Modified Buggy to take home his second championship and to round out a perfect weekend he would also come out fastest in the single A-mains in Modified Truck and 2WD Modified Short Course to complete the sweep for the weekend.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com] | Image: Ryan Cavalieri

November 7, 2016

Roberto Castañón Palomo wins Asturian TC finale

The sixth and final round of the Asturian Regional 1/10th Electric Touring Championship was held at the Automodelismo Gijon club. In the Touring Stock class the pole position went to Aitor Fernández and the finals proved to be a very close affair between the pole position holder and young Roberto Castañón Palomo, who is in his first year of racing and ultimately won the finals by four tenth of a second to take the overall win from Aitor while Álvaro Díaz Nieto rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 7, 2016

Ribeiro & Ramos win at Portuguese Cup

The 1/10th Electric Off-road Portuguese Cup was held at the Indoor RC Oeste track in Torres Vedras near Lisbon. With a refurbished track and a good turnout of drivers in both the 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes, the race was full of intense battles. In 2WD it was Nuno Casal Ribeiro (Team Associated) that took the TQ and overall win but not without being heavily chased by the youngest pilot, 10-years old Pedro Gomes (Team Durango), with the victory being decided on the last lap of the second final. The final step on the podium went third to Marco Timóteo (Xray).

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November 6, 2016

Marc Valero takes Spanish Pro10 Championship

The final round of the Spanish Pro10 Championship was held at the Rubi track in Barcelona. Pre-event favourite Marc Valero grabbed the TQ from Sergio Lacuesta in second and Jaime Lacuesta in third. The finals then saw Marc continue to dominate, as he took the day’s win and with it the overall championship title. Sergio ended the day on the runner-up spot from Raul Carmona while Jaime made a mistake, taking him out of the decision for the podium spots. Overall in the Championship it was Jaime Lacuesta who obtained the vice championship title from Sergio Lacuesta in third.

Source: Coches RC [cochesrc.com]

November 4, 2016

7th Annual Northwest Invitational – Announcement

The 7th Annual Northwest Invitational will be held November 19th to 20th at Cottage Grove R/C Raceway in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Over the past six years, The Northwest Invitational has brought in some of the best factory drivers in the World including 4-time IFMAR World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, 2-time World Champion Jared Tebo, and ROAR National Champion Dustin Evans. The event will see triple bump-up A-mains and it is held in an Invitational 2WD Mod Buggy class as well as 2WD Mod Buggy Open, 4WD Mod Buggy, Super Stock 13.5T Truck, Stock 17.5T Buggy, and also 2WD Mod SCT. More information can be found here and you can also email the organiser Joe Pillars at joepillars@hotmail.com.

November 4, 2016

Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship finale – Report

The final round of the Jakarta Regional Buggy Championship was held at the Graha Raya track in Serpong, West Java. A total of 38 drivers attended the event that saw three rounds of 10-minutes qualifying with the two best rounds to count. The finals were then run with five drivers bumping up into the 45-minute main final. John Agus (Kyosho/O.S.) grabbed the TQ but in the final, that was run in wet and muddy conditions, it would be Indra Liono (Xray/SPower) to take the win from Adrian Wicaksono (Mugen/Reds Racing) second and John Agus in third.

View the final results here