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August 22, 2016

Norwegian Nitro Touring Championship – Report

The Norwegian Nitro Touring Championship was held this past weekend at the Lorenskog Modellbilklubb in Norway. With several pre-event favourites this year’s championship was considered to be one of the most exciting in years and it was local driver Trygve Bull Freng who took the TQ and the pole position for the A-main final, followed by André Roine, Jonas Ramsrud, Espen Myhre and Anders Mikkelsen who made up the top 5 on the starting grid. The reigning champion, Trygve Bull Freng has already shown his go-fast ability, but the other drivers has also had a very high pace meaning they would be a real threat for Trygve’s title ambitions.

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August 21, 2016

Come Drive With Us – The Texas ROAR Nats

With the 2016 IFMAR Worlds coming back to the USA for the first time since 2008, professional R/C Racers are trying to win as many events as they possibly can to send a message to the competition. Ty Tessmann, looking to repeat as IFMAR world champion, is again having a less than stellar season leading up to the ROAR Nationals. Last year, he dominated this event, and with him winning the ROAR Warm-up will he walk away from this race with a win? The impressive, covered, Thornhill Racing Circuit once again hosts the ROAR Nationals. Would we see another thrilling finish as we did in 2014 or would it once more be nothing more than a race for 2nd?

August 18, 2016

2016 Midwest Series Rd4 – Report

With the threat of 100 percent chance of rain all weekend, the Tri State Radio Controlled Auto Racers hosted the fourth race of the 2016 Midwest Series at their track in Cincinnati, Ohio. In spite of the weather, the TSRCAR crew had the track prepped and ready for action. This six race series was established back in 1970 and is the longest running series in the United States. It features both 1/10 Sedan and 1/8 Open 4WD classes as well as Masters classes for both scales. The cars are run together by scale but scored separately by class.

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August 17, 2016

Nejc Mihelic takes Slovenian 1/8th On-road title

The Slovenian 1/8th Nitro On-road Championship was held at the Tolmin track last weekend. Perfect weather conditions made for some nice days of racing with the action having started already on Friday. The qualifiers were won by ARC’s Nejc Mihelic who had his ARC team mates Valentin Mis and Simon Stelcl in tow in second and third respectively. A huge amount of tyre wear and a power and fuel-hungry track made for many different pit strategies. Up front Nejc checked out early to take the win and the championship title but behind him the race was on for the runner-up spot between Valentin and Simon. Both opted not to change tyres and only an engine flame out of Valentin brought the decision between the two with Simon taking the second place and the vice championship while Valentin had to settle for third.

Thanks to Nejc Mihelic for the report.

August 17, 2016

Ralph Burch departs Xray

2010 IFMAR 200mm Sedan World Champion, Ralph Burch has announced his departure from long-term sponsor Xray. The veteran on-road racer gave Xray a maiden World Championship title along with many national victories. Leaving Xray and US distributor RC America behind, Ralph will now focus on new challenges and opportunities.

I would like to thank RCAmerica and Xray for the last 15 years. Together we celebrated our first world title and many national titles. I would like to also thank the team drivers and retailers for there support over these years. With that being said, I have decided to take on a new challenge and explore other opportunities.

US Xray distributor RC Amerika has this to add:

RC America would like to thank Ralph Burch for his tremendous contributions over the last 13 years. We feel privileged to have celebrated so many great and special moments with Ralph and all of his successes both on and off the race track. We wish “WG” all the best.

August 16, 2016

8th Annual RRR Summer Challenge – Report

The 8th Annual Ready to Run Raceway Summer Challenge Trophy Race and Enduro was hosted by the Ready to Run Raceway club in scenic Vancouver, Canada. The track was just five minutes away from the Vancouver International Airport making it very accessible out of town participants looking for fun, close and exciting racing. As pre-entries came in, the Summer Challenge was shaping up to be the largest outdoor on-road event in Canada of 2016, and those entries did not disappoint as RRR set a new high in 2016. A special element to this event is the amount of track time for all racers. Saturday was open practice for Electric and Nitro followed by three rounds of qualifying, additional practice and single mains for all Electric and Nitro classes with just one bump spot per main.

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August 16, 2016

Martin Bayer successful at Czech Open Rd7

The seventh round of the Czech Open series was held on the technical Kolin track. The weekend started off with free practice on Friday followed by the qualifiers on Saturday and with overnight rain making the track more grippy it was clear that the opening qualifier would be decisive. The overall TQ then went to Xray’s Martin Bayer who posted the fastest times in all rounds from Jiri Mara (Serpent) in second and Kaja Novotny in third. Xray young guns Milan Mudra and Max Gotzl came in fourth and fifth.

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August 16, 2016

Patrick Hofer wins at Swiss Nitro Buggy Nats Rd6

Round six of the Swiss Nitro Buggy Nationals was held in Courgenay over the weekend. Team Associated’s Patrick Hofer would take the TQ after the qualifiers but team mate Ronny Lüber secured himself the pole position for the A-main event after a very quick run in the semifinals. With an 8th place in his semi, after a longer-than-planned pitstop, Patrick grabbed a very lucky 10th place on the grid. At the start of the 45-minute main, Ronny soon got under pressure of a swift Jeremy Pittet (HB Racing). After the first rounds of pit stops Ronny was still in the lead, although hardly chased by Jeremy. Once the traffic and the bumpy track kicked on, both started to make mistakes and this promoted third placed Patrick Hofer into the lead that he would hold onto until the checkered flag. Behind him the race for the runner-up spot was on between Lüber and Pittet and it was simply decided by the amount of mistakes of both with Pittet ultimately holding the upper hand over Lüber. Elswhere in the Amateur class it was Daniel Föllmi to take the win from Sebastien Cuanoud in second and Stefan Wüthrich in third.

Source: Team Associated Swiss [facebook.com]