March 28, 2019
The fourth round of the Xray Racing Series Greece was held at the Fanatix Racing Track in Athens recently. Cold but sunny weather made for good racing conditions and in the fast Touring Modified class it was Dimitris Ioannidis with the win, however he was hotly contested by Sotiris Diamadis who decided to run only the Modified class in order to fully concentrate on the battle up front. Ultimately he had to settle for 2nd and in front of Chris Kidis in 3rd. Touring Stock 13.5T was the most difficult class of the day with some drivers finishing within a…
March 28, 2019
Xpress have introduced their all-new GripXero D1 RWD drift car kit that combines design elements of their popular Xpresso and Execute series on-road kits. Developed with competition drift car racing in mind, the chassis features several performance oriented design elements such as the new inboard front suspension, a narrow main chassis plate, highly adjustable pivot ball suspension elements, an adjustable centre of gravity ESC and gyro mount as well as a multifunctional rear diff that can also be built as a solid axle. Other features include matte finish high-weave carbon fibre parts, the highly adjustable Xpress On-Power Control rear end,…
March 28, 2019
The sixth and final round of the 2018/2019 BRCA 1/12th nationals took place last weekend in Chesterfield. The Chesterfield club is one of the stalwarts of the BRCA national series and this year treated us to new carpet to race on. The club’s members laid a fast flowing track and went the extra mile marking out the corners with kerbs and coloured run off areas making the track look fantastic. A capacity entry of 80 drivers appreciated the clubs efforts and there was a great atmosphere in the hall. On Saturday racers competed in the 13.5 blinky stock championship with…
March 28, 2019
…on the count back. The 3rd step of the podium would go the Delves, who was able to secure two 3rd place finishes and rounding out the top three for the meeting, giving the top 3 of 1st Kyle Moon, 2nd Ed Kerry, and 3rd Christopher Delves. 4WD overall top 3: 1. Ed Kerry 2. Mark Lewis 3. Luke Mills 2WD overall top 3: 1. Kyle Moon 2. William Venables 3. Ellis Stafford Dates for the 2019/20 series are already being looked at and updates can soon be found on the series’ official website here. Source: Essex Carpet Clash [essexcarpetclash.co.uk]…
March 27, 2019
Last weekend the inaugural JConcepts NCTS kicked off at 702 Raceway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Testing the waters a few years back, JConcepts launched the JConcepts Turf Nationals in Enfield, CT and the growth and interest has been well received as entries now hover around 350. Last year, JC joined up with Northwest Hobbies in Albany, OR and created the NW Carpet Nationals, which also saw a lot of positive feedback. After a few emails and phone calls with a couple of different tracks, the JConcepts NCTS was born and the United States’ first-ever national carpet and turf series was…
March 20, 2019
…similar story in Q2, with Zak again fastest, Darren taking second ahead of James and Marcus Askell (Schumacher), another of the Masters contenders. The third round also went to Zak, securing him the overall pole position, with James taking second this time ahead of Darren and Tony, with Colin Jackson rounding out the top five for ARC. The last round of qualifying saw Zak unable to make it a clean sweep, a few small bobbles pushing him down the order and allowing James to come through to take the round, with Jorg in second, then Tony, Darren and Zak rounding…
March 15, 2019
…will line up second on tomorrow’s grid ahead of Xray team-mate Bayer. Coming into the weekend leading the points standings, Lee Martin will line up 4th with Joona Haatanen completing the Top 5 with a badly needed P4 run in the final qualifier. In a rather diverse A-Main line-up, Adam Izsay will start sixth ahead of young up & coming Polish talent Bartosz Zalewski, Daniel Kobbevik and Bartłomiej Kramża with former champion Jörn Neumann just scraping in ahead of top female racer Jessica Pålsson on the tie break. Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here….
March 14, 2019
ProLevel RC of Chesterfield, Missouri held the 2019 ROAR Electric On-road Carpet Nationals last weekend. In the competitive 1/12th 17.5 class John Wiita took the overall TQ after the qualifiers with Kevin Van Ert in a close 2nd. The opening A-main then saw Kemp Anderson with the win, however coming out on top of the pack in A2 and A3 secured John the overall title as Kevin van Ert came in 2nd with 4-2-2 finished. Jeff Dayger, coming from the 4 spot on the grid, would obtain the final podium spot for an all-CRC top 3. Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]…
