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June 1, 2015

Maifield & Phend win Pro classes at AMS 6.0

The AMS 6.0 was held in Alabama this past weekend with the usual breed of Pro drivers in attendance. TLR’s Dakotah Phend dominated the Pro class qualifying by taking the TQ in Pro Nitro Buggy, Pro Nitro Truggy and Pro E-Buggy. In the Nitro Buggy final it then was Ryan Maifield who came out successful by taking benefit of an early mistake by his team mate. Dakotah finished on the runner-up spot while Cole Ogden completed the TLR podium lockout in 3rd.

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June 1, 2015

1/8th On-road European Championship B – Report

This past weekend the 1/8th Nitro On-road European Championships B were held at the RME Lamberto Collari track in Cassino, Italy which is known for its somewhat old school layout and famous for its hospitality and restaurant. On this track also live steaming was first introduced to RC some years ago by a gentleman called Gianluca Decina and long before EFRA started their own service. Working in ICT and very handy with video Gianluca was the first to offer streaming around the year 2006 to 2008 during one of the EFRA events. Unfortunately this year’s event did not attract a lot of entries. It seems that drivers are making choices nowadays and in this case the majority made the choice to visit the EC-A later in the year instead of the B championship.

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May 30, 2015

Collari tests new Infinity

Nine time 1:8 Onroad World Champion Lamberto Collari has been spotted in Japan driving for new market entrant Infinity. The legendary Italian is in attendance at the Japanese Nationals which is taking place at Kei Tune Raceway, the host track of the 2013 1:8 Onroad World Championship. With Japan’s National Championships open to foreign drivers, we understand the Euro Nitro Series championship leader will race the car in the event leading to rumours that Collari is set to become involved in developing the car. The new company, which has been set-up by Indonesian racer Kenji Taira, already has fellow Italian racer Carmine Raiola involved with the fifth place finisher at the last Worlds having done a lot of the early development work on the project alongside Japanese racer Masao Tanaka.

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May 29, 2015

Nitro-West-Masters Rd1 – Report

A record of 71 entries had been received for the season opener of the 2015 Nitro-West-Masters (NWM). The seventh season of this growing championship for 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road cars in Western Germany and the Netherlands kicked-off at the legendary 234-meter track in downtown Oberhausen. Following an intensive practice on Saturday and exciting racing on a sunny Sunday, finally Christian Wurst in the 1/8th Open class, René Puepke in 1/10th Open, Christian Roenicke in the 1/8th Stock class and Florian Trapp in 1/10th Stock were awarded as the first winners of the 2015 season with Capricorn taking away three of four victories with Shepherd grabbing the last one.

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May 29, 2015

2016 Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

TheDirt Racing have announced the official dates for the 2016 DNC to be February 17th to 21st. The 17th annual event will be held once again at Fear Farm in Phoenix, AZ with the organisers are planning early for the 2016 event and there will also be an entries cap for the first time ever the the 17 year history of the race. After the huge influx of last minute entries last year the organisers decided it was time to make sure they have a manageable number of entries to make sure the event can be run within reasonable time scales. The official flier and entry form will be posted after the Summer with the entry limit as well as the opening sign up dates to ensure everyone has a fair chance to get signed up. To kick off the Summer TheDirt Racing are offering an “Early Entry Summer Discount”. It is officially open now and will end on Tuesday the 2nd of June. The cost is $60 per entry. You can take advantage of this Summer sale by using PayPal and sending your entry to thedirtracing@aol.com or email Joey Christensen at thedirtracing@aol.com.

May 29, 2015

Daniele Ielasi leaves BMT for WRC

Former IFMAR World Champion and Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi has announced his departure from former car sponsors BMT to make a move to WRC Racing. He addresses that the move was mainly done for business reasons rather than being technically related. This is what Daniele has to say about the 2-year deal:

First of all I want thank Pasquale (BMT) for the support in the last year, and is important for me all the people must know the reason of my changing was not technical, but just for business, because in my position today is not important just make the “driver” and sometime in this world of RC the changing are unexpected and instant. So, now I’m really really excited to join in the team WRC and I hope to have good result this season and also the next!

May 28, 2015

Jones wins at JConcepts Spring 1:8 Indoor Nationals

The 6th Annual JConcepts Spring 1:8 Indoor Nationals was hosted by Hobbyplex in Omaha, NE with the event attracting racers from all over the country. In the 1/8th Pro Nitro Buggy qualifying Tyler Jones would show the fast way around the track by TQ-ing the class. In the main Tyler would start from his TQ position but would soon fall back to 2nd place after getting caught up in a wreck but he soon caught the 2nd place driver, passed him, and was gone after that to ultimately put two laps on the field on his way to a 1st place finish.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 28, 2015

Marcus Lindner takes Swedish National Series Rd2

The second round of the Swedish National Series took place at the high speed track in Örebro. After 4 rounds of qualifying Mikael Fransson took the pole-position from Christofer Hedlund and Marcus Lindner. The 45 minute main final saw a clean start with Marcus keeping his 3rd position. Clocking some good laptimes he managed to take over the lead around the 5 minute mark and step by step he increased the gap over the rest of the field and from that moment on he never looked back. After 45 minutes Marcus crossed the finish line with a massive gap of 6 laps in front of Christofer Hedlund in 2nd and Roland Ström who completed the podium another 11 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]