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October 7, 2017

Arrowmax Asia Race Cup Malaysia Rd2 – Report

After the success of the opening round of the Arrowmax Asia Race Cup in Malaysia, round 2 would be even better. With 8 heats in total, the race was threatened by rain all day long, however the schedule was followed to a tee as the organisers wanted to finish as much racing as possible just in case the heavens did open up. After four rounds of qualifying it was Azri Amri who secured the TQ position in the Boosted 13.5T class, while in the Dash Pro-Stock Class it was round 1 TQ and winner Dino Sidhu who again grabbed the TQ honor. In the Dash 21.5T Formula Class, it was Eric Ang who would prevail and go on and start the final in pole position.

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October 5, 2017

2017 EWS International – Announcement

The Essex Winter Series team have announced the fifth edition of the EWS International event, which will take place at their well-known indoor venue in the South-East of the UK over the weekend of 8-10 December. The event will take place on an ETS type carpet track covering 35×24 metres, with the popular ETS-spec Volante tyres being used for the three classes of Modified Touring, Super Stock (13.5 Blinky) Touring, and Formula. With last year’s event featuring a battle between World Champion Ronald Volker, team mate Chrissi Krapp and the best UK drivers, we’ve already had confirmation that the Yokomo and Awesomatix teams will again return. Entries are now open and expected to fill very quickly. Full information, including details on hotels, travel and the race rules, can be found on the EWS website, where entries can also be made. For any other questions, please email Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).

October 5, 2017

Toto Ebukuro dominates JMRCA 1/12th Nationals

The Japanese 1/12th scale National championship was held at the Yatabe Arena recently. In qualifying it was Team Yokomo Factory driver Toto Ebukuro who took a perfect score, topping all 5 rounds to take the top spot ahead of Hayato Ishoika in 2nd, with the Yanagizawa brothers in 3rd and 4th. Using the newly announced YRX-12 chassis and the newly developed CRT LX rubber rear tire, Ebukuro dominated the finals to complete the perfect event with the Yanagisawa brothers taking 2nd and 3rd position for a complete Yokomo podium. In the 21.5T stock category, called the Sport Class by the JMRCA, another Yokomo driver Eiji Seto took his first Japanese title also using the new YRX-12.

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October 4, 2017

Orlowski double at Worksop Series Rd1

The first round of the Worksop Series took place this past weekend, there was a huge entry of 151 drivers across the 3 classes, 2wd, 4wd and a vintage buggy class. Round by round qualifying was the racing format, with the best 2 results from 4 rounds of qualifying counting towards the final position. For this event Michal Orlowski was in attendance for Schumacher and was on superb form with his Cougar KC and CAT K2, he managed to TQ both 2wd and 4wd classes.

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October 4, 2017

Czech national series Rd5 & Rd6 – Report

The final two rounds of Czech national series took place last weekend. Two races in two days on one track was a real challenge for both drivers and their cars. For Round 5 of the series, 1/8E buggy qualifications was quite a close affair between Martin Bayer, Max Gotzl and Kaja Novotny with each driver taking a TQ run each, with Martin eventually taking the overall TQ. In 1/8IC, Martin TQed round 1, but then Kaja managed to take round 2 and 3 for the overall TQ.

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October 3, 2017

Ryan Cavalieri wins Australian Team Associated Champs

Ryan Cavalieri has taken out both the 2wd and 4wd open classes at the inaugural Team Associated championships in Glen Innes against a host of Australia’s top races. The 4 time world champion headlined a 95 strong entry list who travelled to the event situated in regional NSW Australia. Where the club had prepared a fast and challenging layout for their first major event.

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October 1, 2017

Kurzbuch retains title with Fiorano win

Simon Kurzbuch has retained his Euro Nitro Series title, the Shepherd driver becoming champion for a third time with his third win at the World famous Fiorano track in Italy. Coming into the final round of the season going up against Bruno Coelho for the title, the Swiss ace drew the first strike when he claimed the overall TQ moving him a step closer to the top prize. In the final despite a sterling effort from Coelho, who kept him honest throughout the 45-minutes decider, Kurzbuch continued his form claiming win number three of the season by half a lap to take the 2017 title. A surprise challenger to Kurzbuch, winning the season opener having not been a 1:8 contender previously, Coelho would have to settle for second in the standings on this occasion but finishing all four race in no lower than second place the Portuguese driver has already set out his stall for next season’s ENS. Making his first A-Main of the season, Jesse Davis would complete the podium at Round 4 with a hugely popular third place, which where it not for a crash with Lamberto Collari while closing down Kurzbuch, could have seen the Aussie end the season on an even higher note. One can only expect Davis will be another driver taking the challenge to Kurzbuch in Season #5 of the ENS. Unfortunately for newly crowned World Champion Dario Balestri his chances of a good result ended at the first corner after the start. With second place qualifier Andrea Pirani making a very slow start Balestri would run into the back of him, the impact lifting the body off his car and it needing to be returned by marshal to the pits for repairs. Rejoining the race to finish 10th of the 12 starters, Balestri joked afterwards, ‘your luck can change completely in a week’.

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October 1, 2017

Greiner takes dominant Italian win, Coelho crowned Champion

Dominic Greiner has taken a dominant 1:10 win at the season finale of the Euro Nitro Series, the Serpent driver completing the perfect return to the class in Italy showing just why he is the reigning World Champion. Having secured the TQ for the 45-minute final, the German drove a near perfect race with his rivals lacking the pace to mount any kind of serious challenge. While Finals day in Fiorano would start out damp, organisers would delay the start of the A-Mains by an hour so drivers could battle it out for the final major nitro race of the season in dry conditions. While Geiner quickly established control of the race, behind him the battle for second was between Xray’s champion elect Bruno Coelho and Alessio Mazzeo. With that battle really hotting up over the final minutes of the race, it was Mazzeo who would take second with Coelho just 3/10ths behind. Finishing 2nd or 3rd mattered little to Coelho because either way he had secured his first ENS title a feat that would see the great all round driver do the triple crown – the Portuguese driver having already been crowned ETS and EOS champion earlier in the year.Off the podium David Loppini would finish 4th after a good battle with Jakub Rozycki while Thilo Tödtmann completed the Top 6 to finish the championship 3rd overall behind Coelho and Mazzeo.

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