Report by J-P.Huhtala (VRC race reporter)
VRC PRO 2016 SEASON 3 Electric buggy spec, round 2, Naxos
Swedish offroad talent Robert Hillman, has wonned second round of electric buggy spec race.
Race was held at Naxos track. Hillman was fastest at qualifying and also in Final. But he didnt get this easy, as Canadian driver Andrew Bucar was chasing him whole time at final.
Honestly, Bucar was also in fire, he got More info
Report by J-P.Huhtala (VRC race reporter)
2016 SEASON 3 1:10 ISTC ROUND 2, OSAKA 2
Finnish, Awesomatix factory driver Viljami Kutvonen showed magnificent pace during the qualifying. He was consistent and fast, but didnt get this easy. German driver Christoph Kirchhefer was pushing really hard and was really close to beat this Finnish laprobot. At the end, gap between these two were only 0.126 seconds and it was More info
I want to pay tribute to Ron Ton, my partner in Serpent from 1979 till 1993. Ron Ton was a brilliant engineer and craftsman. Ron was key in the early success of Serpent which established Serpent as a r/c racing brand amidst the major brands in those days Associated, Kyosho, SG, PB. You could even say that without that early success VRC would probably never have been created. His true love has always been model airplanes and model airplane engines. R/C has lost one of his great engineers and char More info
We have now started planning the events for 2016 Season 3. The provisional schedule is posted below.
As you can see many of the events will be raced in reversed direction. Our policy is to race all the tracks in both directions as much as possible. When planning the tracks we are looking at the tracks used in the previous seasons (sometimes up until 4 seasons ago) and also which direction was used. In this way we offer you the maximum variety of tracks.
We know that not everyone like to race More info
Early May we ask you to send in design ideas for 3 new carpet indoor on-road tracks. We have received many design ideas and have now nominated 10 designs from which you can pick your favorite one. The top-3 designs will be implemented later this year and will extend our collection of carpet indoor tracks from 7 to 10!
Go to the Carpet track desigh poll to pick your favorite track.
You can vote only once, voting ends June 30!
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PRO klasse
Francis Wathlet (B) was ‘king of the hill’ in deze klasse, met 2 duidelijke overwinningen op zijn Belgische compaan Nicolas Evens (organisator van de Belgium Short Course Cup). Arjan van de Graaf was met 2 tweede plaatsen nog in de race voor de 2de plaats in het eindklassement, maar in Race 3 op de Bash Pit Long Course kwam hij uiteindelijk een half rondje te kort op Nicolas Evens om uiteindelijk als 3de te eindigen.
1. Francis Wathlet BE 160
2. Nicolas Evens BE 158
3. More info
PRO klasse
Deze klasse werd overtuigend gewonnen door Julius Kolff met 3 overwinningen uit 3. Na de eerste wedstrijd met slechts 0.5 sec te hebben gewonnen was Race 2 op Carpet-2 opnieuw een strijd tussen Kolff en Wathlet, die weer in het voordeel van Julius, maar nu met 1 sec. voorsprong werd beslist.
De 3de en laatste wedstrijd van de Cup was op het thuiscircuit van Julius, en hier was de marge opgelopen tot 8 sec. Francis Wathlet legde beslag op de 2de plaats in de Cup, Arjan van de More info
| 28.09.2016 |
2016 SEASON 3 1:8 ELECTRIC BUGGY SPEC ROUND 2 Naxos (Event publications) |
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| 25.09.2016 |
2016 SEASON 3 1:10 ISTC ROUND 2 OSAKA 2 (Event publications) |
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| 14.09.2016 |
FORMER SERPENT PARTNER RON TON DIES AT AGE OF 81 (Site news) |
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| 03.08.2016 |
PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE SEASON 3 (Site news) |
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| 08.06.2016 |
CARPET TRACK DESIGN COMPETITION: VOTE NOW (Site news) |
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| 31.12.2013 |
2013 M-AUTO Benelux Cup Short Course Trucks 13.5T stock (Series publications) |
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| 31.12.2013 |
M-AUTO Benelux Cup 2013 1:10 Toerwagens 13.5T (Series publications) |
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