Hitec have announced the signing of Germany’s Thilo Tödtmann to their team. The 1/10th nitro on-road ace will use Hitec’s Lynx 4S radio system from now on and he has the following to say:
I tried the Lynx 4S at the ENS event in Ettlingen where I decided that this will be my new radio. The transmitter has very good ergonomics and it is super fast with its 12 bit transmission.
Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]
Riccardo Berton’s 2015 season goes on in the best possible of ways, with the young Kyosho driver winning the third round of the Italian Nationals and with it the overall Championship following his victory at the EFRA European Championships B earlier this Summer. The main final would see 14 drivers at the start after the unanimous decision to skip the semifinals, due to only having 14 entries in the Expert class. Top Qualifier Alex Zanchettin led the race for the opening five minutes, but before the first fuel pit stops a flame out would drop him mid-pack. The Worlds finalist and Euros podium finisher’s race ended some minutes later with a broken steering servo. With Alex out of the mix, the lead was taken by Baruffolo and Ongaro, who would fight for the lead for about 30 minutes. With 10 minutes to go all of Baruffolo’s tyres would come unglued and with this leading to a broken body shell that forced the TLR driver to a long pit stop to replace it. This opened the way for Ongaro, who could now benefit from the lead over Berton. Riccardo had been playing the patience game for the whole length of the final, but his car seemed to be easier to drive than Ongaro’s and he was able to put pressure on Davide. The strategy paid off with Berton managing to force Ongaro into a couple of mistakes to take the race and with it the championship.
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The 1/8th and 1/10th Nordic Championships were held at the Swedish Lidköpings R/C Klubb in the three classes of 1/8th and 1/10th Nitro On-road as well as 1/10th Electric Touring Car and in challenging weather conditions. The 1/8th Nitro On-road class saw Sweden’s Mikael Fransson walking away with the win in the wet 30-minute final. Fellow countrymen Marcus Lindner and Hans Lyxell came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Having had a recent and unexpectedly dry round at the Halifax track in Yorkshire recently, drivers made their way to the excellent Cotswolds model car club facility at the Kemble air field track in Cirencester last weekend for round 6 of the BRCA 1/10th IC championship. Numbers were slightly down, due to this fixture clashing with other series nationals elsewhere somewhat. However racers of the 200mm touring and 220mm GT class, made progress in setting their cars up on the Saturday for an expected wet race day. Sunday made qualification a difficult procedure and as predicted became a wet affair later on. Most drivers switched from car set up to attempting to solve water ingress issues to their electronics, chassis and engine intakes in the hope to be able to run a challenging 30 minute final. One particular driver, Mark Owen showed once again his good understanding of how to do this and how to drive in these conditions.
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The 2015 EFRA Large Scale Touring Car European Championship was held in Sollenau, Austria. Markus Feldmann (Mecatech) took the TQ after the qualifiers from Bernard Alain Arnaldi (Genius) and Ales Bayer (RS5), who set a new track record in qualifying. The 30 minute main final then saw a close fight for the win with Ales coming out successful less than 3 seconds in front of Bernard. Dario Veseli (Genius) rounded out the podium another 2.3 seconds down.
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This past weekend the Moscow RCRacer track hosted the Russian 1/8th Off-road National Championship. More than 80 racers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland took part and in the Nitro Buggy class it was Maxim Laverichev who took the win from Dmitry Gribov in 2nd and Denis Zujkov in 3rd. Igor Valtsifer and David Ishhanan rounded out the top 5 result.
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O.S. have announced Joe Bornhorst as their latest addition to their team. Joe first started racing RC vehicles in 2011 and within two years, he was entering – and winning – major national 1/8th scale off-road races. Before becoming R/C’s fastest-rising star, Joe was an aspiring young racer on the motocross circuit. Now, he’s putting his years of experience racing full-size dirt bikes to use on the nation’s toughest R/C tracks. This is what Joe has to say about the deal:
Growing up racing dirt bikes, I always wanted to be a professional and get to travel every weekend to the races. I am doing everything in my power to make that dream happen with R/C cars.
Source: O.S. Engines [osengines.com]
The Mugen Days Eisenach 2015 were held at the RC Racing Club Eisenach track in central Germany over the weekend. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class Daniel Reckward took the win in the 30 minute final from Sebastian Winterstein in 2nd. Nicolai Oswald in 3rd rounded out the podium.
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