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November 10, 2014

Balestri sets early pace in Thailand

Dario Balestri is the early pace setter at the 1:10 200mm World Championships in Thailand, the Capricorn driver setting the fastest lap around the Huge RC Circuit as four days of free practice concluded in Bangkok. With only individual fastest lap times being issued on a track where ‘crazy’ best sums up the traction levels, Balestri ran a 13.986 lap with only Alexander Hagberg joining him on a 13-second pace. Completing the Top 3 with a 14.053 was Capricorn’s Jesse Davies followed by the Serpent of Yuya Sahashi with 2012 World Championship Top Qualifier Teemu Leino next up. Unfortunately the event is without one of its expected key challengers with Balestri’s team-mate & recently newly crowned Euro Nitro Series champion Eric Dankel having suffered a fall down a stairs just before he was due to travel that has left the quick German with a fractured shoulder with his doctor not passing him fit enough to make the long flight.

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November 10, 2014

Currie & Reeves win at HNMC Winter Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the Herts Nitro Model Club’s Winter Series, held this past weekend, started off wet but the weather broke early enough on Saturday night giving the club a chance to dry the track out. 54 starters made the trip and in 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-buggy it was Simon Reeves who took the TQ after the qualifiers. In the Nitro Buggy final Simon then had to retire some 15 minutes in to the race making way for Oliver Currie who fought down Kevin Brundsen for the win. Tony Truman rounded out the podium in 3rd place.

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November 9, 2014

Renaud Savoya TQ’s & wins at Pierrefeu GP

Renaud Savoya TQ's & wins at Pierrefeu GP

This weekend’s Pierrefeu GP saw Renaud Savoya taking his maiden win for new chassis sponsor Hot Bodies. After the mains had to be cancelled due to rainy weather conditions the qualifying results were taken to determine the final results which saw Yannick Aigoin ending the weekend on the runner-up spot driving a Team Associated prototype buggy while UK’s Darren Bloomfield (Agama) rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Source: Automodelisme [automodelisme.com]

November 8, 2014

Hay wins Modified class at Muchmore Voltante Cup

The Muchmore Volante Cup was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong with around 80 drivers in attendance. In the Touring Car Modified class Stick King (Awesomatix) took the TQ but in the A-main it was Hay (Xray) who came out successful in front of Simon Yeung (Schumacher) and Rocky Wong (Yokomo). Stick King fall back to 4th place while Nuno (Xray) rounded out the top 5 result.

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November 7, 2014

Thilo Tödtmann wins at German Open Indoor Masters

The German Open Indoor Masters was held as part of the Faszination Modellbau fair in Friedrichshafen in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro On-road, 1/10th Nitro On-road and Electric On-road Bikes. In the 1/10th 200mm class Melvin Diekmann took the TQ from Tom Krägefski in 2nd and Traugott Schär in 3rd spot. In the final it was Thilo Tödtmann who came out successful from TQ Melvin Diekmann in 2nd and Marco Kaufmann who rounded out the podium in 3rd and who also scored the fastest lap of the racec in his first ever nitro event.

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November 7, 2014

HotRace Cup 2015 – Announcement

After the great success of this year’s pilot race the HotRace Cup will come back even bigger in 2015. Taking place on the weekend of the 26th of July the 2015 race will be hosted by the Riccione Road Race track located only 500 metres away from the famous Riccione seafront, offering many opportunities to have fun, relax and enjoy a weekend in Italy. The event will again be accompanied by a beach party and also see the introduction of the all-new S-Hot Race and a Formula class. More details and a dedicated website will follow soon.

November 7, 2014

Thomas & Bidlake win at NZ South Island Champs

The New Zealand South Island Championship has recently been dominated by Mark Bidlake and Lee Thomas who brought home the wins against the region’s fastest drivers. Lee was really happy to take first place overall and a convincing TQ in 2WD Buggy. He then went on to also TQ and win 4WD Buggy for a double victory. Mark Bidlake then raced to a solid victory in 1/8th E-Buggy, having only raced his buggy only a handful of times before the event.

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November 7, 2014

Drake, Guerrero & Castelan take JBRL Nitro Series titles

The 7th and final round of the Southern California based JBRL Nitro Series was held at Thunder Alley Raceway in Beaumont, California. The season end race also decided on the overall series titles with the 1/8th Expert Nitro Truggy class being won by Adam Drake who left Cody King and Drew Moller behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

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