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November 28, 2022

Schumacher Winter Series Rnd 3 – Report

The third round of the Schumacher Indoor Winter Series presented by the Louth Radio Control Car Club took place on Sunday and with 45 entries it was another good turnout. Four rounds of qualifying would pitch a six car field for the finals. After the first two rounds it was Schumacher pilot Alex Brocklebank who looked like he may walk away with it, q2 was close between himself and Xray driver Chris Lovey separated by 8 thousandths of a second. Chris would fight back and take TQ in round 3 and 4 and set the fastest time in the process. Callum Chapman and his Vulcan RC Xray t4 showed consistency and pace only being a few seconds back of the leading pair. Another Schumacher driver of Dan Burks would build during the day improving his round results to take 4th on the grid. Matt Cook and his Mugen would leave it until the finals qualifying rounds to solidify his place in the a final, ahead of the Awesomatix of Dan Leonard. So with the top six drivers sorted it was heads down for the single legged final.

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November 28, 2022

Maifield wins US Open Championships on Tekno debut

Having officially announced his switch to Tekno RC on Friday, Ryan Maifield was straight down to business with his new fleet of cars as he took part in the US Open Championships at Adobe Mountain RC Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona. In qualifying Maifield secured the TQ in nitro buggy, nitro truggy and e-Buggy. With the event attracting 130 entries, the first race up for Maifield was the 45-minute Nitro Truggy Main which he was able to win ahead Camden Lime and Spencer Rivkin. In eBuggy, Rivkin would deny Maifield a clean sweep as he took his Associated to the win in the dying moments of the 10-minute final. Back to Nitro and Maifield was able to cap off his first race weekend in Tekno colours with a convincing win in the 1-hour Buggy Main ahead of Tanner Dennehy and Camden Lime.

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November 27, 2022

Sam Isaacs does double at U.S. Indoor Champs

Sam Isaacs has done the double at the 42nd running of the U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, the Awesomatix driver taking home the win in both Mod Touring Car and Mod 1:12. In Touring Car the title was decided by a single A-Main. Starting second on the grid, Isaacs went to the front on lap 2 as Top Qualifier Keven Hebert plummeted down the order. Behind, Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski followed Isaacs home to claimed second with Kemp Anderson’s Awesomatix close on his bumper completing the podium. Fourth would go to Alexander Hagberg who crossed line in front of his recovering Xray team-mate Hebert in P5. 1:12 would be decided by triple A-Mains. Having secured the TQ, Isaacs took A1 from Donny Lia who came through from 5th on the grid. A2 who see Lia go one better and win from Hagberg as Isaacs finished 4th behind Orlowski. With one final 8-minute encounter to decide things, Isaacs led A3 when it counted most having relinquished the lead to Lia for 3 laps earlier in the race. While Ollie Payne took second in A3, overall it was Lia second, Anderson third and Orlowski 4th.

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November 27, 2022

Volker claims first win of ETS title defence

Reigning champion Ronald Volker has secured the first win of his ETS title defence as he took victory at the opening indoor race of the season in Germany today. Having secured the overall TQ from Marc Rheinard, the Mugen driver would lead home his title rival in the opening A-Main encounter and win again in A2, this time from Lucas Urbain, to become the fifth different winner in as many rounds. With Awesomatix’s Rheinard going on to win A3 to secure second overall, the duo now sit equal at the top of the points standings. Round 4 winner Urbain completed the podium in Munden ahead of Apeldoorn winner Yannick Prumper and Aigen winner Christopher Krapp. Overall it is Yokomo’s Krapp who holds third in the points with one round remaining in Daun in January, where last year Volker took the win and title.

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November 26, 2022

Hebert claims TQ at U.S. Indoor Champs

Keven Hebert is the Mod Touring Car Top Qualifier at the U.S. Indoor Champs in Cleveland, Ohio. The 42nd running of this legendary indoor race, which has attracted over 350 entries, the Xray driver laid down the fastest time of the rocket round qualifying format in the third of the four rounds of qualifying. The Top 3 times would in fact all come from Q3, with Awesomatix’s Sam Isaacs securing second on the grid with a time 6/10th off that of the Canadian. Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski was a further 1/10th of a second off locking the European visitor into 3rd on the grid. With 47 races making up a packed schedule each round, Kemp Anderson would top the final qualifier with his fastest run but he stays P4 on the grid ahead of the Xray of Alexander Hagberg with Chase Lemeiux completing the Top 6. In Mod 1:12, it was Isaacs who took the TQ with the fastest time in Q4 ahead of Anderson. Hagberg will start third followed by Ollie Payne, Donny Lia and Orlowski.

Image: Keven Hebert [Facebook]

November 26, 2022

Volker secures TQ for first ETS Indoor encounter

Fresh from his win ahead of Bruno Coelho and Christopher Krapp at the EWS International in the UK last weekend, Ronald Volker has carried that form on carpet into the first ETS Indoor encounter of the season by securing the overall TQ for Round 5 in Germany today. The Mugen driver secured pole position from longest standing rival Marc Rheinard with both drivers enjoying two TQ runs each from the four qualifiers. With Volker taking the opening round, this would prove to be the fastest round giving him the tie breaker. Behind the two Germans, ETS Luxembourg winner Lucas Urbain will start the finals from 3rd ahead of the factory Yokomo pairing of Yannic Prumper and Krapp.

File Image: Ronald Volker [Facebook]

November 21, 2022

Orlowski overall Champion at Florida Carpet Champs

Michal Orlowski has been crowned the overall Modified Champion at the Florida Carpet Champs. Held at Beachline Raceway of Cocoa over the weekend, the indoor carpet event attracted a star line up of 1:10 Offroad drivers with qualifying seeing TLR’s Dakotah Phend the man to beat as he claimed both the 2WD and 4WD TQ. While 2WD qualifying would see a different driver top each of the three qualifiers, topping Q3 would be enough for Orlowski to secure P2 on the grid with reigning World Champion Spencer Rivkin putting his Associated 3rd having topped Q2. In 4WD, Phend was in dominant form taking all three heats. Behind, Rivkin secured second on the grid from the Schumachers of Broc Champlin and Orlowski. In the 2WD A-Main, the Top 3 would finish as they started with Phend getting the job done in A2 with his second straight win. 4WD however would see things go to A3. While Phend won A1 from Orlowski, it would be Champlin with the A2 win as Orlowski suffered a DNF and Phend finished third behind Norway’s Daniel Kobbevik. All to play for in A3, it was Orlowski who came through for the leg win from Rivkin, Champlin and Phend. Taking the overall 4WD win from team-mate Champlin with Phend completing the podium, combined with his second overall in 2WD it was the European visitor who was crowned the overall Modified Champion of the 2022 Florida Carpet Champs.

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November 20, 2022

Volker wins EWS International with dominant performance

Ronald Volker has taken victory at the first major international indoor race of the Electric Touring Car Winter season with a dominant performance at EWS International in Essex, England. The Mugen driver was in flying form throughout the weekend topping all four qualifiers to secure the TQ ahead of newly crowned back to back World Champion Bruno Coelho and World Championship Runner-Up Christopher Krapp. In the finals, the former World Champion was again untouchable winning all three A-Mains from Coelho’s Xray with Krapp’s Yokomo completing the podium. Making it four different manufacturers in the Top 4, Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain finished fourth. In Pro-Stock Xray’s Alexandre Duchet took the win while in Front Wheel Drive it was also an Xray victory thanks to Germany’s Stefan Schulz.

Image: Bruno Coelho [Facebook]