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October 27, 2015

Ari Heinonen wins at Winter Jumps Series Rd1

Helsinki’s PKSRCA club recently hosted round one of the Finnish Winter Jumps Series. With a record 100+ entries field the series started into the new season and in Sunday’s 4WD race it was newly signed Xray driver Joel Valander who took the pole position for the A-mains with the only 20 lap runs in the qualifiers. The first two A-mains then were very hard for the pole sitter as front tyre problems meant he could not hold Ari Heinonen (Team Durango) behind. With wins in A1 and A2 Ari thus secured the overall win while Joel would take the final A-main to secure the runner-up spot from Markku Honkanen (Team Durango).

View the top 10 result here

October 27, 2015

Donny Lia TQs & wins at Stock Wars 2015

Middle River Hobbies in Maryland played host to the Stock Wars 2015 race this past weekend. In the 1/12th scale Pro class Donny Lia took the TQ with the only 62 lap run and the following A-main would be very close as it saw the top 3 finish only four seconds apart. Donny Lia (TOP/Trinity) would take the win from Johnny Wiita (CRC/Phantom) and Mike Herald Jr. (TOP/Trinity) in second and third respectively.

Source: TOP Racing [top-racing.jp]

October 27, 2015

Nejc Mihelic wins Austrian National Championship

Last weekend’s Austrian Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the Salzburg track. The weekend started off dry, cold and partially cloudy and the decision was made to run two qualifying rounds on Saturday as the weather forecast for Sunday wasn’t promising. Unfortunately the remaining rounds on Sunday morning would be held on a wet track and it was Nejc Mihelic (ARC) who made the best out of the conditions as the took the TQ from Herfried Pucher (ARC) in second and Alan Levy (Serpent) in third. The wet final then saw a great fight between the two ARC drivers with both having minor problems but it was Nejc who held the upper hand as he was able to grab the win from Herfried while Alain rounded out the podium in third.

Source: Mihelic Racing Team

October 27, 2015

F1ItalianSeries GP3 & 4 – Report

The third and fourth round of the F1ItalianSeries again attracted 33 drivers to compete in the GP3 and GP4. The two Ferrari of Magnocavallo and Capuano were the fastest right from the start and they would dominate from Q1 to the end of the GP3 called third round. The only driver able to come close was Manciocchi with his Hesketh design car.

Continue reading the report here

October 27, 2015

Viljami Kutvonen takes Nordic Championship

The recent Nordic Electric On-road Championships saw Viljami Kutvonen taking the TQ in the Touring Modified class from Adrian Berntsen and Magnus Vässmar. Before the opening A-main disaster stroke for the TQ holder as self-inflicted electronic problems denied Viljami to start. Adrian made maximum use of the situation and brought home the win in front of Magnus. A2 then saw a clean start from Viljami and he was able to open a gap on the field. Later in the race Adrian made a mistake that allowed Viljami to cruise to the win. The third and decisive A-main was pretty much the same affair. Kutvonen had a clean start and was able to pull away while Berntsen’s mistake came a bit earlier this time. Viljami slowed down a bit to take things easy but Adrian was able to recover and suddenly was right behind the leader, but Viljami again was able to pull away and to take the win and with it a maiden Nordic Championship title.

Image: Viljami Kutvonen

October 27, 2015

Xray X1 2016 formula car kit – Coming soon

Xray have released a first teaser for their forthcoming X1 2016 formula car kit. No details are available yet but expect photos, information and the kit itself to surface shortly.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 27, 2015

Xray Winter Series Morava Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Xray Winter Series Morava was held at the Jedovnice sports hall in the Czech Republic this past weekend with local drivers and guests from abroad in attendance. The event was held in the five classes of Open, Stock 17.5T, Hobby, Formula and GT. In the Touring Open class Oliver Havranek was the man to beat as he won all qualifiers in front of Michal Vitamvas. The opening A-main went to Oliver but an improving Michal stroke back in A2 so the third and final main would decide over the day’s win. With Oliver laying down a flawless run he would take the win in a heartbeat final and with a margin of only 0.5 seconds on Michal so Oliver would take the overall victory from runner-up Michal. Miroslava Jurenka rounded out the podium result.

Continue reading the report here

October 26, 2015

KS Huang wins at China On-road nationals

This past weekend the China On-road Nationals were held in Fentai, Beijing, host of next year’s Electric World Championships. The event saw drivers from all over China participating in the China national team selection race. In the 190mm Sedan class it was HB team driver Huang Kui Sheng who took the overall win from runner-up Felix Law (MTS) while TOP Racing’s Zhu Xiao Feng finished third. Because Felix being a US citizen, the organisers promoted Feng to joint-second, allowing 11 years old Xray driver Lao Ming Hao to grab the final podium spot. In the 1/12th scale class, Jimmy Qian from Shanghai took the National title.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.net.cn]