The International Indoor Championships announce that the official spec tire for the 10th Anniversary of the IIC will be the Gravity RC Type C. The tire comes pre-mounted on the marked Gravity RC rim, made from a blend of plastic and polycarbonate, and known to be durable and true. The part number for the tires are GRC130 G-Spec Type C and they are available from your local hobby shop or directly from the Gravity RC website.
After a damp start to Day 1 of the 34th running of the 1:8 Offroad European Championships, the inclement weather would affect the days final round of practice arriving just as some of the title favourites took to the track for last and extended practice round at the German event. With Darren Bloomfield having just posted the fastest time for the 9-minute run in Group 8 of 15, as group 9 headed by defending champion David Ronnefalk took to the track the rain which had been dodged all day arrived leaving the Kyosho driver to pull up after just one full lap. With the track wet no one from Group 10, which included Mugen team-mates Robert Batlle and Lee Martin, would take to the track. Also setting the fastest lap of the round albeit 2/10ths slower than his fastest lap of P3, the closest on pace to Bloomfield’s Agama was Xray’s Martin Bayer who was only 13/1000ths off.
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The 4th round of the Belgian 1/8th brushless buggy nationals was held in Enghien during the Week-end Du Modelisme show. The race was run on a purpose-built grass track and the changeable weather conditions made tyre choice critical. Some guest drivers such as Frenchman Thomas Musso (HongNor) or Belgian 1/10th champion Nicolas Risser (Team C) joined the race and after the qualifying it was Thomas Musso who made a perfect sweep for TQ by winning all 3 qualifying rounds. French ace Sebastian Wartelle (Kyosho) took the runner-up spot after the qualifiers. In the final Thomas again excelled and three wins got him the overall victory from Nicolas Risser and Sebastian Wartelle who suffered from bad tyre choices in the finals.
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Hupo Honigl topped the third round of practice at the 1:8 Offroad European Championships in Germany to set a new fastest time over 5-minutes at the Sand am Main track. The Team C driver was just shy of completing a 10-lap run with a very similarly paced Yannic Aigoin posting the second fastest time with his prototype Team Associated buggy. In terms of outright pace former Champion Darren Bloomfield set a new fastest lap taking his Bullitt powered Agama around the track in a time of 28.365 seconds.
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Elliott Boots has set the early pace on the opening day of the 1:8 Offroad European Championships at Sand am Main in Germany. The Kyosho driver set the fastest time both in terms of overall time and single fastest lap in the second of two opening 5-minute practice runs. Behind the British driver it was 2013 podium finisher Martin Bayer who was second fastest around the unique hill side track, the Xray driver only 1 second off on the completion of 9-laps.
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Leading in to the Melbourne round of this year’s AOC event, everyone’s pick was former World Champion Andy Moore, who made the trip from the UK to battle it out with Australia’s best. Practice on the Thursday left everyone speechless when Australia’s newest edition to Xray, Jesse Davis was 0.4s a lap faster than the World Champ Andy Moore. Come Friday, the competition got tougher, and VBC Star Ryan Maker was in full contention to take on the WC, and let Jesse Davis know this is his track and he is here to stamp his authority. Qualifying commenced on the Friday night and Ryan Maker was to TQ the first round.
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This past weekend the 4th round of the Danish nitro on-road nationals was held in Odense with Summer-like temperatures but with the weather forecast promising rain on Sunday. In qualifying Martin Lissau was flying and he ultimately took the TQ spot from Rasmus B. Nielsen and Martin N.O. Hansen. On Sunday, just one hour before the main final would be started, a massive thunderstorm came down but this did not kept the drivers from running. The main saw a nice battle between a hard charging Peter Sörensen (Xray) and Claus Ryeskov (Xray), who tried to take it easy. At the end Claus’ strategy paid off as he won the final in front of Peter who went off the track after trying to pull some faster laps. Rasmus B. Nielsen (Shepherd) and Tom Limkilde (Xray) completed the top 4 result.
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Xray’s Hartmut Rose has taken this year’s Central German 200mm nitro on-road championship title, as part of the qualification for the German nationals. By winning four out of the six rounds Hartmut has also taken his 4th title in a row. Xray teammate David Ranft came in 3rd place.
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