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.
Round four of the Greek Off-road National Championship was held at the Hobbytech track. Tasos Paparegas was the man to beat as he won all qualifiers to take the top qualifier position. In the main final he would smash the competition by taking home the win some two laps in front of runner-up, Makropoulos while also setting a new track record. Papanikolaou would round out the top 3 podium result.
Ulti Tires have announced the addition of U.S. on-road expert, Mike Swauger to their team. The former World and multiple ROAR National Champion brings years of knowledge and experience. Ulti Tires and Mike have already started testing new products at this past weekend’s KO Grand Prix where he made the debut for his new sponsor.
Source: Ulti Tires [ultitires.com]
Round six of the Jimmy Babcock Racing League was held at Channel Islands R/C in Santa Barbara, California. The forthcoming IFMAR Worlds made for an illustrious entry field with drivers trying to put finishing touches on their worlds packages. In the Expert Buggy class Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri took the win from AE teammate, Spencer Rivkin while Japan’s Atsushi Hara (Kyosho) completed the podium result in third.
Source: AKA [raceaka.com]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia played host to round five of the Malaysia National League. Saturday was qualifying day, with five 10-minute long races on the schedule, drivers had to deal with a very dusty track under incredibly hot and humid weather conditions. In the Pro Buggy class Danny K would TQ three of the five rounds to take the overall TQ but it was 6-times national champion, David Lim who would start into the A-main from the pole position followed by Boy Witsarut and Danny K. In the 60-minute long Pro A-main, Boy then managed to lap the entire field on the 20-minute mark, finishing up three laps ahead of the second-place driver, Kenny Chin. Didier Perin would obtain the final podium spot with TQ, Danny K had to settle for a sixth place overall after an incident with a marshal that stopped his engine.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
Xray have announced the Xray Racing Series Greece for the Winter season of 2016/17. Held at the Athens-based Fanatix Racing Track the 9-race series will kick off on the 2nd of October with the final round taking place on the 19th of February. Categories run will be Touring Modified, Touring Stock 17.5T, Formula, 1/12th pan car and also 1/10th 200mm Nitro. More information and all dates can be found here and here.
This past weekend saw the NDOR Notts and Derby Off Road revive a classic race platform, the endurance race NDORance Masters 2016 in support of the Heart Link Children’s Charity. The race took place on the club’s varied and challenging astro track. Saturday had the teams home in their setup and all generally have a good time. Sunday saw the race itself and TLR UK’s three teams set to battle it out, with a number of others including two teams from RC PitBox. Two stick teams from TLR and one steering wheel team were raring to go Sunday morning. After an eventful sprint down the straight to collect engine and pipes, it was straight into the race with engine fitting and running-in part of the race itself. The 6 hours 45 minutes of racing saw all three top TLR cars complete over 500 laps each and reach the end of the race taking home all three steps of the podium with team TLR Horizon 1 taking the win from TLR Horizon 2 and TLR Horizon 3.
The fifth round of RC-Hobby Racing Cup was held in Skripov, Czech Republic. In the premier 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was Xray’s Ales Bidovsky who took the win from Xray teammates Ondrej Kulhanek and Jakub Mader in second and third respectively. Krystof Prasil (Mugen) and Jaroslav Valder (Xray) completed the top 5 result. Elsewhere in 1/8th E-buggy, it was again Ales Bidovsky (Xray) who came out on top after the final. Roman Pudich (Xray) in second and Jaroslav Valder (Xray) in third completed the podium result while Radim Siska (Xray) and Tony Hybler (Serpent) had to settle for fourth and fifth respectively.
