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2017 Benelux Electric On-road race – Report

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 08:21 AM PDT

The annual Benelux 1/10th scale electric race was held this past weekend at the fast track of Rucphen in the Netherlands. Free practice on Friday took place in ideal weather conditions with track temperatures exceeding 35 degree Celsius. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t so good though and this lead to several last-minute withdrawals. Nevertheless a good amount of drivers turned up to attend in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pro10 10.5T. In Touring Modified, Mitchell Van Es, one of contenders for the overall victory in the modified class, had a glitch on the main straight and crashed his Awesomatix at full speed into the barriers. This meant that the young Dutch driver had to defend his chances with his old Yokomo.

Saturday saw one controlled practice round followed by four qualifiers. The fifth and final qualifier was held on Sunday as were the triple A-mains for every class. In Touring Modified and despite having to run the older chassis, Mitchell claimed TQ by winning three qualifiers. Young Athan De Witte took his VBC to an excellent P2 on the grid and he was followed by the Xray of Belgian driver Thomas Stockman. Sidney Blokker put his Yokomo on P4 whereas Rico Claeys claimed fifth with his Xray. The finals were representative for the changing weather conditions the area as the first final was held on a slightly damp track, the second on a full wet track and the third on a dry track. The winner would truly the a worthy Benelux champion. Ultimately it was Mitchell Van Es who won the triple A-mains in style using his old BD7 2014 car and he claimed the crown in front of the Belgian squad of Athan De Witte (VBC), Rico Claeys (Xray), Thomas Stockman (Xray) and Florian Joos (Tamiya).

In Touring Stock pre-event favourite Florian Joos (Tamiya) claimed the TQ by winning three qualifiers. He decided not to run in the 5th qualifier in order to save the sole allocated set of tyres for the finals. 11-year old local driver and future star Roel Jongenelis put his Serpent on a fine 2nd spot and he was followed by the Infinity drivers Tjitte Miedema and Thomas Buijze. Behind the four local matador and 1/5th scale affecionado Pieter Netten put his VBC on a fine 5th grid position. The first final was held on a damp track. Thomas thought he was leading the race and inadvertently took out Florian who he thought was a backmarker. Thomas and Tjitte decided not to run in the full-wet second final which was masterfully won by Florian in front of the returning Belgian ace Kristof De Witte and Roel Jongenelis. The third final again went to Florian in front of Roel and Tim Jansen (Serpent) giving the overall top 5 result of Florian Joos (Tamiya), Roel Jongenelis (Serpent), Thomas Buijze (Infinity), Kristof De Witte (VBC) and Tim Jansen (Serpent).

The Formula class was highly contested with a total of 18 drivers attending the race. Due to the rain that started during the second group in Q4, one round was dropped and three rounds from four were counted. This didn’t seem to bother Infinity driver Jitse Miedema who won every qualifying heat he attended. Patrick Jongenelis put his Serpent on a fine P2 while Martijn van der Heijden (Fenix) claimed P3 in front of Belgian drivers Steve Deblaere (Serpent) and Bjorn Frederickx (Xray). The podium would be an entirely Dutch affair with Jitse Miedema (Infinity) claiming P1, in front of Patrick Jongenelis (Serpent) and Martijn van der Heijden (Fenix). Belgian drivers Bjorn Frederickx (Xray) and Steve Deblaere (Serpent) claimed P4 and P5.

The fastest class of the event were the Pro10 cars. They were impressive to watch on a dry track. The qualifying was won by Dutch driver Reinder Wilms in front of fellow countryman Mathijs Hermens and Swedish driver Magnus Sköld. John de Kok put his car on P4 in front of the Trinity oldtimer of Ed van Giezen. Reinder Wilms mastered the difficult weather conditions masterfully and claimed triple A-main wins. Mathijs Hermens, Ed van Giezen, Magnus Sköld and Lex Brood completed the top 5.

Thanks to David Joos for the report.

Daniele Conte successful at World Freedom Cup

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 07:35 AM PDT

The World Freedom Cup was held this past weekend at the famous Minicar Fiorano track in Italy. The somewhat special event saw a single 15-minute A-main for the Formula class and it was Daniele Conte with the TQ and win in front of Luca Fantinel and Mirco Bordin in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Hoppe & Tödtmann win Northern German regionals Rd3

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 07:03 AM PDT

Round 3 of the Northern German Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MC Munster track, home of the German 1/10th 200mm Nationals later this year. In 1/8th on-road class 1 it was Timo Schröder (Shepherd) with the overall TQ but the 30-minute main final was narrowly won by Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe who left Serpent’s Merlin Depta behind in 2nd by about 3/10th of a second. Timo Schröder would round out the top 3 result in 3rd.

In 1/10th 200mm Shepherd’s Thilo Tödtmann would take overall TQ in the rocket round and he would also come out on top after the 30-minute main final despite running the German Nationals hand-out tyres and thus being forced to do an additional tyre stop while all others ran on harder or larger rubber. Melvin Diekmann (Shepherd) came in 2nd while Rico Kröber (Capricorn) completed the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

Capricorn ONE .21 nitro on-road engine

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 06:25 AM PDT

Coming from Capricorn’s ONE brand is a new .21 nitro on-road engine. Completing their on-road range, the power plant utilises a hand-tuned crankcase, crankshaft and cylinder with the modifications improving the internal mixture flow. Other features include selected, ONE-branded bearings, with a standard ball race for the front and a ceramic bearing being used as main ball race. Optionally available are also full steel or full ceramic bearings. The engine package is rounded out by an anodised 2-tone cooling head in a black and golden finish and the ONE option conrod that was introduced last week.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

David Ronnefalk successful at Bubo Race

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 02:47 AM PDT

The Bubo Race was held at the ARCF 42 track in Boisset Saint Priest, France, over the weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by taking all five qualifying rounds to grab the overall TQ. In the 45-minute long A-main final David was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win some two laps in front of HB Racing’s Adrien Bertin while Celian Rousset rounded out the podium result in 3rd, only five seconds short of Adrien and making it a HB Racing/Team Orion 1-2-3 finish.

Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]

Akio Sobue takes JMRCA Super Expert Touring title

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 02:23 AM PDT

This past weekend the Japanese JMRCA All Japan Touring Outdoor Championship was held at Keitune Racing Speedway. In the Super Expert class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ from Infinity teammate Akio Sobue in 2nd. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker, who made an appearance at the race as did fellow Yokomo driver and countryman, Christopher Krapp, came in 3rd after the qualifiers. After the exciting triple A-mains, that saw Naoto taking the win in A1 and Akio coming out fastest in A2, it was Akio with the championship title from Naoto 2nd and Ronald 3rd.

Image: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

Yeah Racing Sprint 2 2.0mm carbon fibre upper deck

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 02:09 AM PDT

Following a 2.5mm carbon fibre main chassis for the HPI Racing Sprint 2, Yeah Racing have also released a matching 2.0mm upper deck. Machined from high-quality material the top deck will greatly increase the overall chassis stiffness for optimised car performance and improved looks. The chassis is a direct fit and it can also be used with the standard plastic chassis to achieve the desired overall chassis stiffness.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

ROAR 1/8th Electric & 4WD SCT Nationals – Report

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:27 AM PDT

The 2017 ROAR 1/8th Off-road and 4WD SCT Nationals were held at Silver Dollar RC Raceway this past weekend. The event drew near 110 entries for the 1/8th E-Buggy, 1/8th E-Truggy and 1/10th 4WD SCT classes and in E-Buggy it was Mugen’s Ryan Maifield who swept the event by TQing all four rounds of qualifying and bringing home the wins in the opening two A-mains to wrap up his third consecutive ROAR 1/8th Electric Buggy National Championship. Xray’s Ty Tessmann would come 2nd place from Team Associated’s Dreighton Stoub in 3rd.

In 1/8th E-Truggy it was Xray’s Ty Tessmann with the TQ and two straight wins in the opening two mains for the overall championship. Ryan Maifield (Mugen) came in 2nd with 2-2-14 finishes while Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri had to settle for 3rd after the tie-breaker with RM. Finally in the 4WD SCT category it was top qualifier Dakotah Phend (TLR) with the win and championship title from Tanner Denney (TLR) in 2nd. Mugen/Yokomo’s Ryan Maifield would complete the podium result in 3rd.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

Xray Racing Series Austria – Report

Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:02 AM PDT

The MRC Wr. Neustadt club played host to the Xray Racing Series Austria this past weekend. The event started off windy and in changing weather conditions on Saturday but this did not keep the 30 drivers from enjoying a full day of practice that was highlighted by racing under floodlights on Saturday evening. Sunday started off wet but after prepping the track everyone was good to go for the first round of qualifiers and in the Touring Modified class it was Patrick Gollner who swept the qualifiers with three round TQs. In the A-main it was Dominik Vogl who held the upper hand on newer tyres with Patrick Gollner coming in 2nd and Sascha Klug rounding out the podium result in 3rd.

The Touring Stock A-main was a quite dramatic affair with Slovenian driver Osvald Alojzj and Croatian guest Patrik Pozgaj fighting for the win. In the end it was Osvald with the win from Jürgen Linsberger while Patrik Pozgaj had to settle for 3rd overall.

Last but not least it was Thomas Dvorszki with the win in the Formula class from Andreas Stiebler 2nd and Andreas Teubl 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]