March 14, 2019
…flag to flag finish for Kerry securing the meeting and championship win. Jackson had a decent run and finished a comfortable 2nd in this leg, where it was a race to the line for 3rd between Mills, Shedd – moving up from 10th on the grip – and Lewis. The final top 3 order would be Kerry from Howson and Lewis. Round 5 and series final is in two weeks time on the 24th of March, to round off what has been a great opening start for this new club in the south of England. Source: Essex Carpet Clash [essexcarpetclash.co.uk]…
March 12, 2019
The JConcepts Super Cup Series headed to the west coast of Florida for race 3, Dean’s Discount Hobbies and Raceway would host and it was the series first time at Dean’s track in New Port Richey. With 105 entries, the organizers started on time and kept the normal, fast paced race program, completing the day just after 4pm which made it nice for those with a long drive home. Racing-wise and in the 2WD Mod Buggy class Daimon Borkowicz would qualify on top but would end up finishing 9th. Lee Setser would take over the top spot and never look…
March 11, 2019
…from Graeme and Colin. Leg three was a very close run race with James finding pace and pushing John all the way to the line. Colin again finished third but he needed second to make the podium overall meaning that Graeme would claim second and James third. Final results: 1. John Simpson – Schumacher/Surpass/Hobbywing 2. Graeme Dick – Schumacher/Surpass/Hobbywing 3. James Eaves – Schumacher/Trinity/Hobbywing 4. Colin Leslie – Schumacher/Trinity/SkyRC 5. Arthur McGinnis – Schumacher/Surpass/Hobbywing 6. Kenneth Rogers – Schumacher/Surpass/Hobbywing The final round of the series is to be held in April at Lothian Radio Control Car Club. Source: BRCA [brca.org]…
March 7, 2019
The inaugural Xray Racing Series Finland was held at the Fullspeed RC track in Vantaa recently. The race was held on the same track layout as the national a couple of weeks ago which ensured good grip right from the start. The finals would be held in a slightly different format with the finishing order of A1 would mark the starting grid for A2 and so on. In the end it was Team Associated’s Karri Salmela with the overall win in the Touring Modified class from Xray’s Joel Valander in 2nd. Schumacher’s Pekko Iivonen came in 3rd. Over in the…
March 5, 2019
The opening round of the 2019 1/10th Off-road Czech National series was held last weekend at a purpose-built track in Bohumín. Max Götzl would take the round 1 TQs in 2WD Buggy, 4WD Buggy and Truck and he would also lock the overall TQs in 4WD and Truck after Q2 but he suffered from some mistakes in Q2 of 2WD. Max went for the 2WD TQ in Q3, however a transponder issue meant he lost a lap and had to settle for 2nd on the grid behind Marek Schiller and in front of Pavel Dostál. In 4WD it was Ales…
March 4, 2019
The third and penultimate round of the 2018/19 Lovan Winter Series was held this past weekend. The organisers yet again created a fast but challenging track on the huge 40x30m track surface. As always, the very liberal rules regarding tyres, motors and additive meant the competitors had to be well prepared in order to fight for the available podium spots. Entries were a bit less this time, but the field was more than competitive to provide exciting races in the five available classes of 1/12 GT and LMP, Formula and Touring Stock and Modified. The latter only saw seven entries,…
March 4, 2019
…the overall win after coming out on top in A1 and A2, securing himself the overall title from A3 winner, Kriengsak S. in 2nd. Dominic, with 2-3-2 finishes had to settle for 3rd overall to round out the podium. Touring Open Brushless 13.5T final results: 1. Max Mächler – Awesomatix 2. Kriengsak S. – Xray 3. Dominic Quek – Xray 4. Tom Kraegefski – Xray 5. Takayuki Kono – Tamiya 6. Dominic Vogl – Infinity 7. John Lu – Xray 8. Martin Hofer – Yokomo 9. Stick King – Serpent 10.Purisek J. – Xray Images: Akio Sobue & Leung Sutthiprawat…
March 3, 2019
…of Andrew with Stuart Cartwright in third. Some highly competitive racing would see Andrew take the win with Stephane coming home second and Adrian Thorpe taking third place from 5th on the grid. Mark Payne also drove a great race taking his car from 9th on the grid to finish in 4th place. F2 Stock result: 1. Andrew Smith – CRC 2. Stephane Fiorini – Roche 3. Adrian Thorpe – Xray 4. Mark Payne – Team Associated 5. Stuart Cartwright – Xray 6. Simon Harris – Xray 7. Jonathan Simblet – Roche 8. James Inight – Xray 9. Rob Jackson…
