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January 4, 2016

Jonathan Yeung sweeps Laliwarehouse GP series

The fourth and final round of the Laliwarehouse GP 2015 was held this past weekend in Hong Kong. Jonathan Yeung would TQ both the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes and while bringing home the win in Buggy in front of father Carson, the young man was stopped from taking the win in Truggy category by a mechanical issue while leading the race in the closing stages. Instead Carson Yeung would take the win for the Yeung family. Overall Jonathan would take the title in the Nitro Buggy class and despite not making the podium he would also grab the 2015 title in the Nitro Truggy class after already securing the 1/8th E-Buggy and 1/10th 4WD Buggy titles as well as the 1/8th Tekno Cup. Runner-up in both Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy went to Carson Yeung.

View the Truggy podium here

January 2, 2016

Loran Whiting joins Ielasi Tuned

Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of US female racer Loran Whiting to their team. Loran will use the Novarossi-based Ielasi Tuned engines in her 2016 campaign that will include all major nitro on-road classes including 1/8th, 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th GT. Her first official outing with the new engines will be the 1/8th GT World Grand Prix Race in a couple of weeks time.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

December 31, 2015

Yaniv Sivan wins at Israeli League Rd5

The recent fifth round of the Israeli League was held at the technical, high traction Tavor Motors raceway near Ashkelon city. Yaniv Sivan would take the TQ from Tal Siles and Dan Price and right from the start of the 40 minute final Yaniv was able to open a gap on the field with Omer Assayag and Tal Siles hot on his heels. Some 12 minutes into the race Tal, running in third place at that time, ran into technical issues, leaving Or Balulu, Ofir Avitan and Dan Price to fight for the third spot. Ultimately Yaniv Sivan (Kyosho/Reds/Pro-Line) would take the win from Omer Assayag (Agama/Alpha/Pro-Line) while Or Balulu (Agama/Bullett/Pro-Line) rounded out the podium result in third place.

Thanks to Yaniv Sivan for the report.

December 30, 2015

Rick Vrielijnck joins F.T. Line

Rick Vrielijnck joins XRD

F.T. Line have announced the signing of Dutch racer Rick Vrielijnck for the 2016 season. Finalist at the 2009 World Championship in Lostallo, Switzerland, Rick came back to racing in 2014 after quite a long hiatus and proved strong in his 2014 and 2015 ENS outing. In 2016 Rick will use the “F.T. Line” version of the XRD engines to power his Shepherd Velox V8 throughout the racing season.

Source: XRD [facebook.com]

December 28, 2015

Shin Adachi joins Serpent 1/8th offroad team

Serpent have announced the signing of Japanese frontrunner Shin Adachi to their 1/8th nitro offroad team. Shin, who is under contract with Yokomo for the 1/10th scale classes, will join Serpent as a driver, campaigning the company’s forthcoming brand-new nitro buggy, but he will also work closely with Serpent’s offroad designer Billy Easton on future 1/8th offroad projects. Shin has the following to say:

I’m very excited join Serpent 1/8 buggy team. I’m confident and cannot wait to 2016 season. I would like to provide everything that I have learned and experienced from my long R/C racing experience to the team. Thanks to Serpent team to allow me this chance.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 28, 2015

Dimitriou wins Speed Hunters Rd1

The opening round of the Speed Hunters race was held at the Zorri RC track in Athens. The race format was a little bit different for the nitro class with two 20 minute qualifiers of which the best three consecutive laps counted toward the overall standings. The finals were then run in an electric format of triple 15 minute mains of which the best two counted. Xray driver Dimitris Dimitriou would set the early pace in the 200mm Nitro class and he took the overall TQ in front of Mugen racer Zacharopoulos and fellow Xray driver Papachristos. Dimitriou then would managed to take three easy tone-to-tone wins in the A-mains to grab the overall victory from Likaris (Xray) and Sogias (Serpent).

View the final result here

December 23, 2015

Julatiwong & Klinfung win Huge RC Club Series

The final round of the 2015 Huge RC Club Series has held this past week Sunday at the Huge RC indoor circuit in Bangkok, Thailand. The 1/8th nitro on-road class had Wittaya taking a maiden win in the main final but the overall championship title went to Serpent teammate Pornpol Julatiwong. Elsewhere in the 1/10th 200mm class Pichakorn Klinfung (Serpent) would take the TQ and win and with it the overall title for 2015.

View the 200mm podium here

December 22, 2015

Lemes wins Metropolitan Tournament Argentino

The final round of the Metropolitan Tournament Argentino was held this past weekend. Pre-event favourite Lucas Lemes only managed to grab third place in the 1/10th 200mm class A-main behind winner Sebastian Recio and runner-up Enzo Branciforte but the final podium spot was enough to win Lucas the overall title.

View the podium of the final round here