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June 20, 2016

2016 Nordic Championships – Report

The Pitkämäki RC-Circuit in Vaasa, Finland played host to the 2016 Buggy Nordic Championships and the combined second round of the Finnish nationals. Considered to be the sunniest city of Finland, things were a bit different this weekend as rain postponed the start of the controlled practice and qualifiers on Saturday. At the end only the opening qualifier for both the 2WD and 4WD classes could be held. Sunday started off with more drizzle and moist weather. A muddy second round of qualifiers was interrupted by light rain and after another delay, round three started in dry weather conditions. The TQ in the 2WD class went to Team Associated’s Joona Haatanen who won two of the three qualifiers with a clear margin on his competitors. Joel Valander would come in second while Karri Salmela rounded out the top 3 result.

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June 20, 2016

David Ronnefalk TQs & wins Swedish Cup Rd2

The second round of the Swedish 1/8th Off-road Cup was held this past weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk would take the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and he would continue to dominate in the 45-minute main final by bringing home the win almost two laps in front of Markus Sandberg (Mugen). Kyosho’s Jessica Palsson would complete the podium result in third, another lap down.

Image: David Ronnefalk

June 20, 2016

2 out 2 as Kurzbuch dominates ENS Germany

Simon Kurzbuch made it two out of two in this season’s Euro Nitro Series with a dominant drive at Round 2 in Germany. Top Qualifier at Minidrom Ettlingen, topping both rounds of qualifying that could be completed in-between the rain on Saturday, the Shepherd driver put in a text book performance in the 45-minute main to win by over a lap. With last year’s winner Dario Balestri, who qualified 2nd expected to at least make the World Champion work for the win, that challenge lasted only 2-minutes as the Capricorn driver shed a front wheel. This left Bruno Coelho to provide chase but the Xray driver would make a mistake leaving Kurzbuch to cruise home for an extensive lead in the championship standing. One-lap down, a great drive from Toni Gruber would see the ARC driver finish second to claim his first ever ENS podium having seen off the challenge of Alberto Picco. Crossing the line 3rd, Picco’s Mugen would fail post race scrutiny, the tank deemed to big, which promoted Capricorn’s Robin D’hondt up a spot to compete the podium.

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June 20, 2016

Leino wins exciting German ENS encounter

Teemu Leino took victory in an exciting 1:10 A-Main at Round 2 of the Euro Nitro Series in Germany, the Infinity driver winning by 1-second from Dominic Greiner in a battle that would see the podium all finish on the same lap after 45-minutes of racing. Starting second on the grid, the Finn would take the initial lead after 3-laps but chased by Greiner would end up on the grass when the Serpent driver ran into the back of his Capricorn. With Greiner waiting for Leino to rejoin the track, the pair would drop down the order handing Top Qualifier Erik Dankel back the lead before being passed by Bruno Coelho. Unfortunately for former champion Dankel a flame out would scupper his chances of a podium result at his home track. Holding his lead for 45-laps, Coelho would lose the lead when he made a stop for tyres but his race hopes would later fade when he suffered a flame out on his in lap with 2-laps lost getting it fired back up. All the time Leino and Greiner were working their way back to the front but ultimately able to stretch his fuel a few seconds more between stops to save one trip to the pits it was Leino who would come out on top with an impressive drive by Patrick Nahr seeing him join them on the podium. For last year’s race winner and winner of this season’s opening race Dirk Wischnewski today’s race would net a fourth from ninth on the grid.

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June 20, 2016

Tamiya TG10-Mk.2 FN 1/10th 4WD nitro chassis kit

Coming soon from Tamiya is the TG10-Mk.2 FN 190mm 1/10th 4WD nitro chassis kit. The car builds on a 3mm aluminium chassis with composite upper deck and it was designed to utilise standard 190mm touring car bodyshells thanks to more narrow suspension components compared to the standard TG10. The car’s shaft-driven drivetrain is equipped with front and gear gear differentials and the kit makes use of front and rear CVA shock absorbers as well as a front double wishbone suspension. Included is also the 2.1cc FS-12FN glow engine with tapered sliding carburettor, die-cast cooling head and TM-4 exhaust.

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June 20, 2016

2016 Nor-Cal Championships – Report

This past weekend Nor-Cal Hobbies was over run with contestants coming from all across California battling for a chance to win a coveted boxing belt at the 8th running of the Northern California Off-Road Championships – The Nor-Cal Champs. The course was a challenge for both Spec and modified class drivers. The Spec drivers had to deal with a challenging right side drop down, with back section that only Modified drivers could only triple. After two days of qualifying and a fierce triple A main format, Mason Eppley from Tekno set the track record of 13.9. Derek Stepanson (TLR) won 2WD Modified and 2WD Short Course. Matt Olson (MIP) also took home two belts from the 4×4 Short Course Classes and 1/8th E-Buggy. Rudy Rico (Team Associated) took the 2WD 17.5 Expert Buggy while Rob Russel (Team Powers) took a belt in 40+ 17.5 Buggy and got a 2nd in Expert. Finally Newcomer Julian Jimenez took the 13.5 Stadium Truck belt.

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June 19, 2016

Bowie Ginting wins at Xcampus Challenge Rd2

The second round of the Xcampus Challenge was held at the East RC Speedway in Jakarta in the three classes of Open Brushless, 13.5T non-boost and FWD. The track layout was pretty technical with lap times of around 12 seconds for the Open class. Bowie Ginting would TQ the Open class with Arya Seta some 11 seconds back in second. Teddy Syach came in third, a lap short of the top 2. In 13.5T Agustinus Sanjaya took the TQ while Arya Seta came out fastest in the FWD class. The finals then saw Bowie taking commanding wins in the Open Brushless class from Arya Seta while Iwan Tirtha completed the top 3 result. 13.5T non-boost had Ronald Kasengkang grabbing the day’s win from Handoko Wijaksono while TQ holder Agustinus Sanjaya had to settle for third overall. Finally in FWD, Arya Seta brought home the win from Reynaldi Kriswanto and Riyan Permana in second and third respectively.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 19, 2016

Dutch EC10 Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the Dutch EC10 nationals was held at the small and very popular RC Hotwheels track in Deventer. The Heilige Koe Cup race, the unofficial warm-up, was held two weeks before the nationals with the Touring Stock class being won by Rob Janssen (Team Magic) from Richard Arts (Team Magic) and Tim Streefkerk (Gizmo). In the Formula class was it Jitse Miedema (Xray) who would take the win in front of runner-up, Martijn van der Heijden (Xray) and Michael Lepelaar (Tamiya). The nationals then stared on Saturday as usual and dry and nice weather made for perfect track conditions. Unfortunately in the afternoon the sky turned almost black and heavy rain poured down. A handful of brave drivers tried to continue but with the weather forecast for Sunday looking much better, most drivers sat out the afternoon practice.

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