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January 11, 2016

Bowie Ginting dominates East Touring Series Rd1

The opening round of the East Touring Series was held at the technical, high-grip East RC Speedway in Indonesia. Qualifying took place in hot and sunny conditions and in the 13.5T non-boost class Bowie Ginting scored a pretty easy TQ from Serpent teammate who put his car on the 2 spot for the finals, a lap behind. Arya Seta in third would round out an all-Serpent top 3. In the triple A-mains Bowie grabbed the overall victory with two leg wins and the fastest lap of the day while both Christian and Arya retained their qualifying positions to complete the podium in second and third respectively.

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January 11, 2016

Philipp Walleser wins at Longwy Winter Series Rd3

Round three of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held in Longwy in the North of France. The 10.5T Stock category was the most popular class of the weekend and it saw round two winner Philipp Walleser taking the day’s win from the pole position. Jan Bickendorf grabbed the runner-up spot from Jeremy Deladondre in third.

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January 11, 2016

Max Mächler wins at Tonisport MCSS Open

The Tonisport MCSS Open was hosted this past weekend by the MCSS Althengstett club in Germany. Held in several on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Sport and Sportscar there was also a Stock Masters class held in a Reedy Race format with some of Germany’s fastest Stock racers in attendance. The format was ten rounds of which the best eight counted towards the overall result. Max Mächler would be the driver to beat as he scored four wins, two second places finishes and a fifth place to grab the overall win from Daniel Wohlgemuth who scored two wins, two second places and two third place finishes. Tobias Vogel would round out the top 3 with four runner-up spots and three third place finishes.

Image: Max Mächler

January 11, 2016

Elliott Boots shines in Italy

The annual Italian Job Race was held at the IBR Padova indoor facility in Italy over the weekend. As usual the race attracted Europe’s best 1/8th off-road drivers to compete in the premier Nitro Buggy and the supporting 1/8th E-buggy classes. The Pro Nitro class qualifying was a tight affair between Marco Baruffolo (TLR/Picco), Elliott Boots (Kyosho/Reds Racing), Alex Zenchettin (TLR/Reds Racing) and Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt). In the end Marco would make a clean sweep though with three round TQs to secure the overall TQ from Elliott, Alex and Darren. The E-Buggy class had Agama’s Darren Bloomfield taking the TQ from fellow countryman Elliott Boots (Kyosho) with both ending tie on points. Marco Baruffolo (TLR) rounded out the top 3 result after the qualifiers.

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January 11, 2016

Arrowmax body post trimmer

New from Arrowmax comes a body post trimmer for 1/10th touring car body posts. The aluminium tool makes use of an optional cutter knife or scalpel blade and it allows to easily and conveniently cut the body posts to size while creating a clean chamfered edge in a second step. The result is a visually pleasing body stay with the chamfered edge also making for easier body installation. The tool is made from anodised aluminium, it comes in grey, black and purple anodising but without the needed blades.

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January 11, 2016

Ryan Cavalieri sweeps CRCRC Midwest Champs

Ryan Cavalieri sweeps CRCRC Midwest Championships

The 29th annual CRCRC Winter Midwest Championships were held at The Ohio R/C Factory in Jeffersonville, Ohio this past weekend. Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Jared Tebo (Kyosho) would battle it out for the overall TQ in the Modified Buggy classes with the better end for Ryan who would grab the pole position for both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes. Ryan would then also snatch the TQ for the 2WD Modified SCT class while Jared came out fastest in Modified Truck to start the finals from the 1 spot.

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January 10, 2016

4WD to be decided in 3rd Main as Neumann wins A2

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Joern Neumann took a surprise win in A2 of 4WD Buggy at the DHI Cup, the 4-time reigning champion benefiting from a number of incidents involving A1 winner Bruno Coelho. Starting from the TQ, World Champion Coelho would get his landing wrong coming out of the back jump section on the first lap allowing Michal Orlowski to go to the front. The Schumacher driver would stay there for two laps but then as Coelho tried a move on the inside the pair made contact dropping both back down the order. This handed David Ronnefalk the lead but it would be brief, the HB driver making a mistake a few corners later at the table top with fourth place starter Neumann finding himself suddenly at the front. The Serpent driver would stay there despite a number of challenges, one of which came from Ronnefalk until a clearly faster Coelho tried a pass. Ronnefalk saying ‘I got taken out. I know I wasn’t fast but you don’t have to take someone out’. In the end it would be Martin Bayer who would come in second with Orlowski getting third ahead of Coelho, meaning A3 will decide the overall winner.

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January 10, 2016

Tone to tone A1 win for Coelho

World Champion Bruno Coelho made light work of the opening 4WD Buggy A-Main at the DHI Cup to take an easy tone to tone win over defending champion Jörn Neumann. His first year to attend the Danish event, the Top Qualifier immediately stamped his authority on the race setting the fastest lap on lap 2 with his rivals best 2/10ths of a second off. Starting from second on the grid, the morning’s 2WD Buggy winner Michal Orlowski would complete the Top 3 after two mistakes, the second letting Neumann get by him. A driver many hoped would take the challenge to Coelho, David Ronnefalk struggled to get by Orlowski retiring just after half way when his HB D413 sheered a drive shaft.

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