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October 26, 2015

Aaron Stringer wraps up QLD Inter Club Series

The SE QLD Inter Club Series concluded with the sixth and final round held at Meakin Park in Brisbane. In total over 300 drivers attended the series that was held over a six month period, visiting three clubs twice each over the event. Aaron Stringer was leading the series and he only needed to make the A-Main and finish in the top 5 to wrap up the title. Qualifying for the pre-event favourite did not go to plan at all and saw him finish in 30th place. Starting 9th in the C-final Aaron would move his way up through the lower finals and ultimately ended on the 11 spot for the A-final in which he had a blinder of a start and was up to around 6th place after lap 1. The job got much tougher after that and took another 10 minutes or so to round up the next five places. After that it was a battle between Aaron and Darren Perry. Aaron managed to reduce the lead down to under two seconds with about two minutes to go, but it wasn’t to be and Darren took the win with Aaron in second. The runner-up spot was then enough for Aaron to grab the overall title from Darren Perry in second and Sam Perry in third.

Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]

October 26, 2015

Yuki Model Amass T-type connectors

Yuki Model have introduced the Amass T-type connectors. Compatible with the iconic Deans plugs the connectors are of a new design with a rear cap that does away with the need to shrink-wrap the wires and solder posts, resulting in a cleaner looking and easier to handle connector. The cap features an inner partition wall that separates both poles so they will not short cut and the metal connector plates sport a high-quality gold-plating for reduced resistance and minimised burn-off for best possible durability.

Source: Yuki Model [yuki-model.de]

October 26, 2015

Kurzbuch wins but Balestri claims ENS title

Simon Kurzbuch won the fourth & final round of the Euro Nitro Series, but second behind the Shepherd driver in Italy was enough for Capricorn’s Dario Balestri to deny the season’s only double winner from retaining the title he won last year at the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter track. Starting second behind Top Qualifier Balestri, Kurzbuch would drive the ‘near perfect race’ coming out on top of a thrilling mid race battle between the two world class 1:8 drivers. Knowing even if Kurzbuch took the win Balestri would see out the 45-minute final in a controlled fashion finishing 5-seconds behind his Main title rival while the other title contender Robert Pietsch finished a distant 5th after an early incident with last year’s race winner Lamberto Collari. Starting from 12th on the grid having bumped up from the B-Main Alberto Picco would completed the race podium in Fiorano.

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October 26, 2015

Groskamp & HB claim ENS title

Jilles Groskamp and HB are the new Euro Nitro Series Champions after a thrilling final at the concluding round in Fiorano, Italy. With four drivers in contention for the title, Groskamp starting behind his rivals after a tough qualifying, the Dutch racer drove a near perfect strategy only being denied his first win of the season on the penultimate lap by Alessio Mazzeo. Still with his rivals having issues, the fourth 2nd place finish of the four round ENS gave him the title with team-mate Teemu Leino making it a championship 1-2 for HB. The title marks the first major success for the Japanese company’s R10. Having been the dominant force in qualifying unfortunately for Serpent’s Dominic Greiner the chance to complete the perfect weekend would be taken out of his control, a conrod failure while leading the Main & on target for the title ending his race.

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October 26, 2015

Tessmann & Cavalieri win at 1st annual SikCross

The first annual SikCross was held this past weekend at Pro-line’s test facility in Banning, California. Levi Jackson was promising to bring supercross to RC with a brand new event, totally different than any other format in RC. Practice, seeding, qualifying was supercross style with side by side, heads up racing and at the end it was HB’s Ty Tessmann who would come out successful in the 1/8th Pro Buggy class from Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri and Kyosho’s Cody King.

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October 26, 2015

Steve Deblaere wins at Lovan RC Challenge Rd1

The opening round of the Belgium Lovan RC Challenge was held this past weekend in Kortemark. In the Formula class Steven Deblaere and Nicolas Delise battled for the pole position with the better end for Steve whose TQ time was only 0.18 seconds faster than Nicolas’. Dimitri de Baeker lined up in third for the finals. In the triple A-mains Steve would make a clean sweep to take the day’s win from Nicolas Delise who came in second but not without having another close fight with Steve in A1 when the two separated less than three tenth of a second. With two third place finishes Dimitri de Baeker would end the day on the third spot.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 26, 2015

MIP TLR 22T 2.0 17.5T Pucks drive system

MIP have introduced the 17.5T Pucks drive system for the TLR 22T 2.0 race truck. The aluminium based drivetrain system which aluminium diff outdrives, aluminium C-CVD bones, and replaceable plastic orange wear pucks that take the place of inferior steel pins. This combination greatly increases the longevity of the drivetrain and most importantly decreases the drivetrain’s overall rotating mass by around 50 percent The decrease in weight directly results in quicker acceleration, deceleration, and lower motor temps especially in stock racing classes.

Source: MIP [miponline.com]

October 24, 2015

Greiner secures dominant overall TQ at ENS Italy

Dominic Greiner secured an early overall TQ for tomorrow’s Euro Nitro Series title deciding final in Italy, a third TQ run by the Serpent driver in the third of the four qualifiers putting pole position beyond the reach of his rivals. With four drivers in contention to become the new 1:10 Champion, the grid will see the drivers line up in reverse as to how they came into the weekend in the standings. Third in the standings ahead of Greiner, it is Bruno Coelho who will start 2nd after the Xray driver denied Serpent a 1-2 by taking the final qualifier ahead of Alessio Mazzeo. Second in the standings behind his HB team-mate Jilles Groskamp, Aigen winner Teemu Leino will line-up 4th for the start of the 45-minute Main with marked improvements from Groskamp over the final two qualifiers securing him 7th.

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