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October 22, 2015

Neil Pestka wins at 2015 Fall Brawl

The 2015 Fall Brawl would be the last race of the season in the Midwest for 1/5th scale racing. The weather was calling for cool days and cold nights dipping into the high 20’s but this didn’t stop the racers for coming out for the closing race of the season. Friday would be practice all day followed by Saturdays qualifying and the mains on Sunday. Neil Pestka would win the Buggy A-main after having a disrupted practice and qualifying day due to work commitments. Neil would start 12th in the buggy A-main and he would slowly move up in position and before he knew it he would take the lead about 6 minutes into the race and he would hold the position for the remainder of the race to take home the win.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

October 22, 2015

Sandro Sammarini wins at SRC Trophy

The Italian SRC Trophy was held at the Montegiorgio track in several 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road classes and with a total of 63 drivers in attendance. In the 1/8th category Sandro Sammarini would take the TQ and he also went on to win the A-main event from runner-up Stefano De Rossi and Attilio D’Angelo who would round out the top 3 result.

Source: BMT [bmt-team.com]

October 21, 2015

Menicucci & Spiniello win at SRC Trophy

The SRC Trophy was held in Montegiorgio, Italy over the weekend in the three classes of Electric Touring Modified, 1/8th Nitro and 1/10th 200mm Nitro. In the Electric Touring Car class Alessio Menicucci was the man to beat and he took quite an easy TQ from his teammates Mattia Collina and Alessio Mancini. In the A-mains it was again Alession Menicucci who came out fastest as he was able to secure the day’s win early while Mancini and Collina battled for the runner-up spot. At the end Alessio Mancini was able to leave Mattia behind with the three making a podium lock-out for Xray.

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October 21, 2015

Jack Embling joins Kyosho international team

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of UK’s Jack Embling to the international team. Jack will be using the Inferno MP9 TKI3 chassis with Reds Racing engines and AKA tyres. The young man has improved each year of his career and is now ready to go that extra step and follow his new team mate Elliott Boots to success in 2016. Jack had the following to say:

I am incredibly excited to be joining Kyosho factory team for 2016. It’s always been my ambition to drive for Kyosho and I see this as a great opportunity to take my racing to the next level. I would like to thank Mike, Christophe, Kenji and Mitsuo for making this happen. So 2015-2016 is going to be a busy year, starting with the upcoming race at Padova in November, then on to Montpellier, Neo, Euros, UK Nationals, and the Worlds in Vegas, its going to be a fantastic year. I am feeling super confident running one of the best packages around with my proven Reds engines and AKA tyres.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

October 21, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at MNRC Series finals

Last weekend the MNRC Series finals headed to the Motodome race facility in Browerville, Minnesota. The event had some 160 entries and in the Nitro Buggy class, Adam Drake took the TQ honors and he would also win the 30 minute main final. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truck final Adam again controlled the race and to take the day’s win.

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October 20, 2015

Luk Chi Hung wins at Team C Open

Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong played host to the Team C Open. Up and coming Lai Chan Hay (Mugen) took the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro class in what was his first ever race in this class and Lai would also set a new lap record with 13.9 seconds. In the 45 minute main final the TQ holder would ran into unexpected issues promoting Luk Chi Hung (HB) into the lead which he would maintain until the end to take the win some eight laps in front of Ng Chui Man (HB) who was in an exciting fight with Simon Tung (HB) in the closing stages. Ultimately both were only separated by one second.

Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]

October 20, 2015

Semi Pro class win for Deslina at Mugen Cup

Last weekend’s Mugen Cup at the MRCC Track in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia not only saw Jason Nugroho taking the win in the Pro Buggy class but also Deslina (Kyosho) coming out successful in the Semi Pro category. Jhonny placed his Xray buggy on the TQ in the class but he got into traffic in the 45 minute main final and only finished in 4th place. Up front Awi (Xray) would end the race on the runner-up spot while Bun Bun (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result.

View the final result here

October 20, 2015

2015 Turkish On-road Championship – Report

The Turkish On-road Championship recently concluded with the fourth and final round held at the Bumod track. A total of 105 racers attended the series that hosts the four classes of Touring Modified and Touring Stock as well as 1/10th and 1/8th Nitro with the final round also offering a supporting 1/10th Formula class. After the four races, held both at the Izmir Efmod and Bumod tracks, the Touring Modified category had Kayhan Ketenci (Xray) taking the title, but he was tie on points with Xray team mate Fatih Kaya who had to settle for second. Erol Uçar (Xray) rounded out the podium two points short with a total of 604 points.

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