The final round of the Hungarian 1/8th E-Buggy National Championship was recently held in Apaj. Pre-event favorite and reigning champion, Laszlo Kiss-Orban already had a massive 20 points lead over his closest competitor before the event but this did not stop him from taking another round win to wrap up the 2016 title and with it his second title in a row.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Austrian Nosram distributors MW RC-Cars have announced that German frontrunner Micha Widmaier will use Nosram electronic products from now on. A long-time CS Electronics supporter, Micha will campaign Nosram products such as brushless motors, speed controllers and also chargers with immediate effect and he has the following to say about the deal:
I am very happy with the products from Nosram. They have very good performance and work perfectly together with my SWorkz cars. With MW RC Cars as Nosram distributor I have a perfect support. I also want to thank CS-Electronic for the last years.
Source: MW RC-Cars [mwrccars.at]
Round seven of this year’s JBRL Nitro Series was held this past weekend at Fear Farm R/C Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. Usually situated in Southern California the 2016 series also makes two guest appearances abroad with round five being held at R/C Tracks of Las Vegas back in August and the recent penultimate round taking place in Arizona. As usual the race attracted both local talent and internationally experienced racers and so the Expert Buggy class was filled with some big guns. Ultimately it was TLR’s Tanner Denney who walked away with the day’s win from Billy Fischer (Tekno RC) and Mugen’s Mike Truhe in third.
The Leonberg Indoor Race was held this past weekend and in the competitive 1/10th 4WD buggy class it was Micha Widmaier who took the day’s win from Max Hesse in second. Veteran racer, Marcus Lübke would round out the podium result in third.
Source: SWorkz [sworkz.com]
The final round of the Brazilian Nitro On-road Championships was held at the Zeca Elias track. In the 1/8th Pro category Capricorn’s Flavio Elias came out on top from Cesar Salvadori (ARC) and Fabricio Zamperelli (ARC) in second and third respectively. Samuel Prato (Capricorn) and Kazu (Mugen) rounded out the top 5 result.
The opening round of the Luxembourg Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the RCCM club and held at the Turelbach Center in Mertzig. The track was tight and technical with the grip kicking in at a high level once a couple of practice heads had be run. After the triple qualifiers on Sunday Jacques Libar came out on top to take the overall TQ and the pole position for the triple A-mains. The opening A-main then also went to Jaques after five flawless minutes but A2 was a different affair as an error in the opening stages cost him dearly. He made up for it in the third and decisive main though as he again came out on top to take the overall win with Gilles Choque in second and Dirk Rischard third.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
The last round of the Irish Nationals took place the past weekend but wet weather spoiled the fun. A number of rounds have been run in the year but Monaghan has been subject to unfortunate weather conditions consistently. The second round there was rained off mid way and unfortunately the rerun was also. Most of the guys where sad as the track team had made the place more comfortable and consistent, the track would have made for a great race final. So the championship fall back to 2/3 scoring rounds and as ever was tight at the top. Ultimately Alan Scoggie took the title of Irish national champion from Gary Baird on the second place and young Andrew McClean (all Agama/Bullitt) third. In Electric Buggy Gary Baird (Agama) took the title with Barkley (Agama) second.
Source: Nemo Racing [nemoracing.com]
T-Works have expanded their range of optional aluminium and titanium parts by several sets for VBC Racing’s new Wildfire D09 touring car kit. Available soon are a hybrid titanium and aluminium turnbuckle set, an all-titanium turnbuckle set, a 64-grade ball end kit, 64-grade UFO and standard head screw kits, black or red anodised 7075-T6 aluminium screw kits, mixed titanium and aluminium screw sets with black or red alloy fasteners as well as a set of gold-plated steel screws. As usual the titanium and aluminium parts offer a lighter weight and improved looks over the standard steel parts while the golden screws are for looks in the first place.
