The 2016 British Short Course National Championship was held at various venues throughout the summer. Matt Owen would take the overall title in the 2WD class with three wins and a second place from Richard Miller in second and Darren Boyle in third.
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The final round of the Polish Electric On-road Championship was recently held in Nowy Sącz on a newly built track and organised by the LOK. In the Touring Modified class it was Arkadiusz Smyk who took the overall TQ after winning three of the four qualifiers while teammate Michał Wójcik came in second. In the finals and coming out fastest in A2 and A3 Arkadiusz managed to take the overall win from Lukasz Mach while Michal Wojcik had to settle for third overall.
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The final round of the Electro Challenge Slovenia was held in Benedikt on a purpose-built track and in several electric on-road classes. 13.5T Stock had, by far, the most entries. Jan Popič grasped the TQ position, followed by Jan Pernarčič and Patrik Požgaj. Jan also won the opening two A-finals to take the overall win with one leg to spare. Sitting out A3, Popič made way for Jan Pernarčič and Patrik Požgaj to battle for the overall runner-up spot with Pernarčič taking the win by a narrow 0.6s from Požgaj.
The USVTA Nationals came to “Music City” Nashville, Tennessee to compete in the eighth year of this event. The race started off with open and controlled practice and with the new CRC black carpet and the extremely high traction, getting the vehicles not to traction roll became obligation number one for the drivers. Everything from gluing sidewalls and running new tires came into play and would make or break you for a podium finish. In the Pro Invitational class, run with handout motors and tires to stress drivers and their setup skills even more, Myron Kinnard would bring home the win in the 10-minute encounter after a fast, smooth, and clever drive on the black carpet.
Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]
The 2016 Serpent Asia Cup will be held on the weekend of the 4th of December at the Hong-Kong-based TRC racing track. Running alongside the HK Cobra GT Cup finale the Serpent Asia Cup is held in 1/8th and 1/10th scale nitro categories all of which are Serpent-only classes. The race will see the attendance of Serpent factory drivers with the event being open to drivers from all around the world. More information can be found here.
The world-renown Hudy Racing Arena in Trencin will play host to the Xray Racing Series Slovakia over the Winter season of 2016/17. Starting at the 5th of November the 6-race series will be held in the classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5, 1/10th Pan Car, 1/12th Pan Car, Formula 21.5 as well as off-road 2WD, 4WD and 2WD Truck. All details, dates and more information can be found here.
The 2016 Austrian Electric Off-road National Championship recently concluded with round five held at the WBC Hoheneich club in the north of the country. As one round was cancelled due to rain this was actually the forth round and was local hero, Roland Macho (Xray) who excelled in the 4WD Buggy class by taking the TQ in all qualifying rounds to leave Martin Kreil (TLR) and Hupo Hönigl (Xray) behind in second and third respectively.
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The fourth round of the OMK Fall Classic 2WD Buggy race series was held under floodlight at the OMK astro turf track. The race format was open practice followed by three qualifiers and triple mains. Xray’s Malin Karlsen swept the qualifiers to take a dominant TQ with the only 15-laps run of the evening and she also brought home an easy win in the opening A-main. A2 was a different affair though as her buggy got hit from behind in the first corner and so she dropped down the order but with some swift laps she easily recovered to get back into the lead and to take the win and with it the overall victory at round 4 from Serpent driver Marius Kristensen and Team Associated pilot Morten Bremsrud.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
