1:10 nitro Round 1: Fort Myers
Round 2: Collegno
Round 3: Luxembourg
Round 4: Bamberg
Round 5: Pegaso Toluca
Round 6: Boss Speed Tokyo
Round 7: Sydney
Enjoy season 2!
TONY DUGAN TAKES 2018 WORLDS TITLE RALLY-X SPEC
Tony Dugan from the US has claimed victory at the 2018 VRC Worlds for 1:8 electric Rally-X Spec class at the new VRC Dirt 2 track. This must have been one of the closest contested finals event in VRC history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omXTJueAQ9s
It was Ely Rojas who led most of the 10 minute final but he was challenged by Dugan, Yeung and Berman who were always within striking distance, most of the final within a second. Rojas took very tight lines in the switch back hairpins using the dirt edge, and got away 34 of his 35 laps, but in lap 29 he took the hairpin too tight and rolled the car. That gave the other 3 a break of 2 seconds and despite some very fast laps he was not able to close the gap anymore with the 3 front runners. The race was now between Dugan, Yeung and Berman. Dugan increased the pace and was able to cross the finish line first to earn a well deserved VRC Worlds title.
2018 VRC WORLDS SCHEDULE
This is the schedule for the 2018 VRC Worlds Season starting end of November:
* new class
The tracks are the same the the VRC Worlds events held in 2018 Season 1.
Each 2018 VRC Worlds event will be 3 rounds, 5 days of qualifying, 4 days semi final and 4 days main finals.
Historic race
Just in case you missed it...
In Round 2 of the 2018 Season 2 series for nitro buggies at Psycho Nitro Blast 2012 we saw the closest 3-way finish ever recorded in VRC history, with Team Associated team driver Tom Rinderknecht (US) coming out on top just 0.031 seconds ahead of Marshal Kirkholm (US), and 0.071 seconds ahead of Robert Hillman from Sweden. Hillman led most of the race but was passed in the final stretch from the Works wall to the finish line.
This historic race deserves a great video. As always, the commentary of LiveRC announcer Mike Garrison adds another level of excitement to this race.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IySoIHVZdzQ
GT3 C7 body added to the GT3 pack
The new GT3 C7 body has been added to the popular GT3 Nitro on-road pack, so 2 differtent bodies are now available for this class, the Model 11 GT3 and the C7 GT3 of which 6 different bodies with 8 8 paint and color schemes have been added to this pack
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2018 VRC Worlds
The 2018 VRC WORDS are integrated in the Season 1 Series events. These events are awarded with extra points for the Series, Spec Worlds will get Level 3 points, and Modified class Worlds are Level 5 events! So besides the World Chamionship titles there are a lot of extra points to be earned for the Season 1 Series.
This new format for the VRC Worlds will be evaluated after Season 1. The plan is to focus the VRC Worlds events for Season 2 in the last 6 weeks of the year like we have done in the past.
Already 2 VRC Worlds have been held this year, the 2018 VRC Worlds Rally-X Modified class won by multiple VRC champion Martin Wollanka from Austria, and 1:10 Nitro Sedans Spec class, won by another VRC champ Joshua Berman from the USA. Currently we are running 1:10 electric Touringscars Modified class at Kissimmee Short in Florida.
The other 2018 VRC Worlds events this season are:
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:8 NITRO BUGGIES (RND 5) at Psycho Nitro Blast 13, starting April 7th
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:8 NITRO GT3 (RND 6) at Bamberg Germany, starting April 21st
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:8 NITRO SPORTSCARS (RND 6) at Messina Italy, starting April 28th
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:10 SC TRUCKS 13.5T (RND 7) at RC Excitement 12 USA, starting May 12th
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:12 SPORTSCARS 10.5T (RND 8) at Bangkok 1:10, Thailand, starting June 9th
2018 VRC WORLDS 1:8 EL. BUGGIES SPEC (RND 8) at IBR Padova, Italy, starting June 16th
The 2018 Season 2 racing calender including the second part of the VRC Worlds events will be published early July.
Don't miss out on these 2018 VRC Worlds events and pick up extra points for the Series titles!
2017 VRC Worlds in full swing
The first 2 weeks of the 2017 VRC Worlds are already behind us, and we've seen some very exciting racing going on.
Check out the videos of the featured A-Main finals:
Make sure to Like and Share the videos if you like them!
MELZO OVAL NOW AVAILABLE
We have released a new on-road oval track: Melzo Oval
This 186m long track is super high speed, turn 1 is quite tight but turn 2 is wide open!
The 2017 VRC Oval Worlds for 1:10 electric NASCAR trucks start Saturday Dec. 16 and the 1:8 nitro Nascar trucks a week later.
Enjoy the 2017 Worlds!
2017 VRC WORLDS 1:8 RALLY-X SPEC
ANGER WINS RALLYX SPEC WORLDS, ROJAS LOOSES IT...
In an eventful 10 minute final, French Geatan Anger has won the 2017 title RallyX Spec in Pro class after a fierce battle with hot favorite and TQ Ely Rojas. Rojas took an early lead closely followed by Anger and Hillman until he smacked the car into a pylon in the second chicane in lap 9. Rojas charged hard to get back to the front. He took back the lead in lap 18 and looked poised to take the title but 2 laps before the end he misjudged the big jump on the backstraight, tumbled over several times, spun out again and had to let Anger and also Hillman by who were waiting for that one mistake.
Check out the final here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9fZT4RWDF4
PRO Class:
1 Gaetan ANGER FR 24 10:06.517
2 Robert Hillman SE 24 10:07.528
3 Ely Rojas US 24 10:09.106
4 Daan Haling BE 24 10:09.800
5 Hijrah Saputra ID 24 10:14.897
6 Carson Yeung HK 24 10:18.106
7 Gary Crowell US 24 10:18.368
8 Izidor Tratnik SI 24 10:18.600
9 Balint Rezes HU 24 10:24.397
10 Marshall Kirkholm US 23 10:05.754
SPORTS Class:
[I] Lourenco takes title, Portugal dominates [/I]
In Sports class Nuno Lourenco from Portugal took top honors, a lap clear from Valery Kornilov from Russia and Nuno Correia from Portugal. Lourenco took the lead in lap 4 and never looked back, despite a big error in lap 16, but he had enough of a lead to cruise home victorious.
1 Nuno Lourenco PT 24 10:22.883
2 Valeriy Kornilov RU 23 10:01.431
3 Nuno Correia PT 23 10:05.734
4 Thomas Priemer DE 23 10:05.928
5 Fred Fouilland FR 23 10:09.428
6 michael Zappa GB 23 10:19.065
7 Curtis Damm US 23 10:29.683
8 Anssi Hartikainen FI 22 10:05.248
9 isla pesca JP 21 10:07.914
10 Darren Pryor AU DNF
CLUB Class:
[I] Lavrentyev wins Club in dominating style [/I]
Russian Denis Lavrentyev dominated the Club A-Main, took the lead in lap 1 and nver looked back. His result would have placed him at the top of Sport class and 5th in Pro! Brandon Scobee (US) and Thomas Fischer (A) completed the podium but with over a lap down couldn't really threaten Denis.
1 Denis Lavrentyev RU 24 10:11.868
2 Brandon Scobee US 23 10:12.472
3 Thomas Fischer AT 23 10:19.952
4 Josef Angleitner AT 23 10:20.886
5 Paul Fendt GB 22 10:19.143
6 Jeremy Burkett US 21 10:02.660
7 Ben Laval FR 21 10:09.443
8 James Calhoun US DNF
9 Romain Subrero CA DNS
10 Pavel Magda CZ DNS
Buggyland Fuencarral and GT3 nitro onroad released
The new off-road track Buggyland Fuencarral, Spain has been released for the 2017 VRC Worlds and is now available as dlc on Steam.
Buggyland will host the 2017 VRC Worlds events for 1:8 nitro and electric buggies and for the popular 1:10 electric short course trucks.
Also the highly anticipated 1:8 nitro on-road GT3 class is now available on Steam. This new class will make its debut on December 3rd with the VRC Worlds event at Cincinnati, USA.
Both products are available as DLC's, for Lifetime All-Inclusive members the new content will become availble to them automatically (to be sure, do a 'Full check' when the Updater has started).
Enjoy the new GT3 class and Buggyland, and the 2017 VRC Worlds.
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