RC Club on track for Nationals

The Standerton RC Club members gathered to compete in round five of the points competition on 17 May.

The annual competition is run over 13 rounds of which each driver’s top 10 scores will be calculated at the end of the year to determine the eventual class winners.

After some minor technical issues with the timing system, qualifying got underway and judging by the lap times set, it is evident that there has been a huge improvement among the local drivers.

With 14 entries, the 2wd Short Course Truck class has definitely become the most popular and competitive class.

The top three drivers per class were:

2wd Short Course Truck – A Mains

First – Luanco Eksteen

Second – Pieter Janse van Vuuren

Third – Pieter Louw

2wd Short Course Truck – B Mains

First – Claudio de Melo

Second – Bertus Meintjes

Third – Wiehan van der Merwe

4wd Short Course Truck – A Mains

First – Pieter Janse van Vuuren

Second – Paul Els

Third – Nick Iacovou

Buggies 1/8 – A Mains

First – Luanco Eksteen

Second – Pieter Janse van Vuuren

Third – Conrad Cloete

Round six is scheduled for 14 June and then all attention will be focused on the weekend of 19 to 21 June, when the club will be hosting the Nationals.

At this early stage, the club is well on schedule to receiving well over 80 entries for the Nationals with 40 entries already registered on the South African Radio Drivers Association’s website.

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