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March 6, 2017

Winterstein rolling on Pro-Line rubber for 2017

Hoeco have announced the signing of young and talented Sebastian Winterstein to the Pro-Line Germany team for 2017. The Mugen driver will use Pro-Line tyres in his campaign that will include the national 1/8th buggy championships, international friendship races, the European Championships and select other events. Sebastian says:

I’m very happy to get the possibility to race for Pro-Line in 2017! It’s a pleasure for me to get a part of the team. In 2017 we start at German national race’s, International Friendship race’s, European Championship A&B and several other race’s! A big thank goes to Michael Selner and Hupo Hönigl from Hoeco and to Pro-Line Racing for the support! Cheers to a successful and interesting year with Proline Racing!

Source: Hoeco [hoeco.at]

March 6, 2017

Steenmans & Patel win at SA National Champs opener

The opening round of the South African National Championship was held at the Avion Raceway track in Johannesburg this past weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class Dean Steenmans took the TQ and he also brought home a popular win some five laps ahead of the second place finisher while in E-Buggy Akshay Patel would take the winning honours.

View the E-Buggy podium here

March 6, 2017

Minicar Fiorano Trophy – Report

The Minicar Trophy was held yesterday at the beautiful Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter track in Fiorano, Italy. The race featured both national and international top driver entries, and is widely seen as the opening race of the outdoor season in mid-northern Italy. In the highly competitive 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Massari to take the TQ honour, followed by Solaroli and Mazzeo. The final would see a completely different story though, with Mattia Collavo outclassing the whole field also thanks to his risky tyre strategy that paid dividends towards the end of the race. Changing tyres mid-race, this allowed him to have a much faster pace in the closing minutes, and to recover from a costly fuel strategy to edge Luca Conte and take a convincing victory on his debut with the new ARC R8.1. Luca Conte closed in second with his Shepherd while the podium was completed by the Xray of Alessio Mazzeo.

Continue reading the report here

March 6, 2017

David Ronnefalk wins Thunder Alley club race

Thunder Alley Raceway of Beaumont, California held an open and pretty high class club race this past weekend. In the 20 minute A-main 1/8th Nitro Buggy A-main HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would come out on top despite a first lap mess and an additional pit stop with Mugen’s Adam Drake ending the day on the 2 spot from JQRacing’s Joseph Quagraine in third.

Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]

March 6, 2017

Regalado & Apolaro win at Forgass State Series

The Forgass State Series was hosted by Full Throttle Raceway this past weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro Open class it was top qualifier, Roniel Regaldo who walked away with the win in the 30-minute main final from Joe Sumansky in second and Chuck Moon third. 1/10th 200mm Touring had DJ Apolaro taking the TQ and win with Chay Blount coming in second, some three laps down. Another three laps short of Chay, Frank Vega would round out the top 3 result.

View the 200mm podium here

March 4, 2017

Neumann recovers to dominate Qualifying Day 1 in China

The opening day of qualifying got underway at ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China for the 2017 Guan Kou Sunpadow Offroad GP with 3 rounds for Nitro Buggy followed by 2 rounds for EP Buggy. Round 1 in Nitro Buggy saw first blood go to Atsushi Hara, a number of errors by Serpent driver Joern Neumann, including a costly error on the main straight that lost him 10 seconds, allowing his team mate Shin Adachi to take 2nd spot for the round with Joern having to settle for 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

March 3, 2017

Collari caps off Infinity test with tough Singapore win

Lamberto Collari capped off a successful pre-season Infinity team test with a tough victory at the opening round of the Singapore GP Onroad National Series. Travelling to the Marine Paradise Radio Control Modellers Club track to capitalise on the Singapore hot weather, Collari and the rest of the Infinity team’s participation made for the Singapore event’s most high profile entry to-date. In the 45-minute final, the Italian, who qualified 7th, enjoyed a great battle with team-mate Takaaki Shimo. At the end of 152 laps, the two stalwarts of 1:8 battling hard for the duration of the race, just 0.179 separated them. Completing the podium, Jilles Groskamp would finish 3rd a lap down on the lead battle. Making his Infinity race debut, Dario Balestri was Top Qualifier ahead of Groskamp but the race would go less well and he would finish 6th. Surprising Naoto Matsukura showed good nitro skills qualifying fourth and also set the fastest lap of the final but he had to retire with 7 minutes remaining.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

March 3, 2017

Matrix welcomes Thilo Tödtmann

Matrix Racing Tires have announced the signing of 1/10th 200mm class specialist, Thilo Tödtmann to their World Factory racing team. ENS podium finisher and multiple main finalist, the German frontrunner, who recently also signed with Shepherd, will use Matrix tires in all open tire races while also helping with product development.

Source: Matrix [matrixtires.it]