The 2015 KO Propo Grand Prix was held this past weekend. In the 1/8th Expert class Brando Cho came out successful from runner-up Ralph Burch. DJ Apolaro would round out the podium result. Behind the three Mike Truhe and Paolo Morganti finished in fourth and fifth respectively.
The BIG Return Race was held at the newly built BIG Hamburg track in Hamburg-Stapelfeld this past weekend. The race was highly anticipated as the traditional club was left without a track for several years due to loosing their old location for various reasons. The event was held in 1/8th Nitro and Electric classes and in the Nitro Buggy category it was Kyosho’s Timo Engelstätter (Kyosho/AKA) who came out successful from Lujas Strothmann (Mugen/AKA) and young Burak Kilic (TLR/Beta). Jan Sievert (Mugen/AKA) and Marcel Paul (SOAR/AKA) rounded out the top 5 result.
The final round of the Greek 1/8th Buggy National Championship was held at the Hobbytech track in Serres. Kyosho driver Papanikolaou took the pole position for the main final in front of Tasos Paparegas (Xray) and Makropoulos (Radiosistemi) and in the main final Tasos brought home the win with a 5 lap margin on Makropoulos. Tasos’ brother John (Xray) would round out the top 3 result. With the win Tasos secured himself another Greek National title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class.
The fourth round of the Indonesian EP On-road National Championship took place at Sigma Progresif Circuit in Bandung, West Java with 45 entries for the three classes of Touring Car 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini. The Touring Boosted class was dominated by Bowie Ginting who took the pole position for the A-mains while Arya Seta took the TQ in the FWD class. At the end Bowie came out successful in the finals also as he took the day’s win from Suwardi Suliandy in second and Peter Anthonijsz in third.
The final round of the Czech National 1/8th Off-road Championship was held this past weekend at the Horni Jeleni tack. In the Nitro Buggy class Serpent’s Jiri Mara made a clean sweep by taking the TQ after the qualifiers and winning the 30 minute main final in front of Max Gotzl (Xray) in second and Kaja Novotny (Team Durango) in third. The win also handed Jiri the overall championship title from Kaja on the runner-up spot and Max, who rounded out the podium in third place.
View the podium of the final round here
Fantom Racing have introduced their all-new FR-1 540-size brushless motors. Developed on the USA, the motors feature purpose-designed stators made from premium Japanese Kawasaki steel to cover different wind motors and their intended uses. Despite just varying stack heights, Fantom uses different designs with the Type T being used in the 10.5T spec motor as well as the 2.5T to 9.5T modified variants while the Type R rotor comes into play for the 21.5T and 25.5T motors. The 13.5T and 17.5T variants are available either with the Type T or Type R configurations. All motors are built using premium grade Neodymium magnets and they come engraved with the Fantom logo and specifications.
After Saturday’s thunderstorm and rain scare, the sun was back for Sunday allowing the race to proceed with the final two rounds of mains to decide Asia On-road Championship’s 4th round champions. It was do or die time for Xray’s Alexander Hagberg with Yokomo’s Ronald Volker taking a close win in A1. Much like in A1, Volker pushed hard on the 1st lap to get a comfortable gap between him and his rivals. Trading lap for lap, Volker’s lead remained 0.8 seconds throughout the race. With time running out, Hagberg was pushing maximum and unfortunately caught the curb and rolled his car with a minute left. This would allow Volker to cruise to his 2nd win and take the overall in the Modified Sedan class. Hagberg would finish just 1.7 seconds back from Volker for 2nd followed by Nicholas Lee in 3rd.
The final round of the North German 1/10th 200mm Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MSC Polizei Braunschweig track. The 30 minute final was won by Rico Kröber (Capricorn) in front of Bernd Hasselbring (Shepherd) while pre-event favorite Kristof Sielaff (KM) ran into trouble as he crashed into another car causing severe damage on his car. The repair cost him about five laps but he was able to recover to a fourth place behind Kai Bode (Serpent) which was enough to take the North German regional title from Rico Kröber and Bernd Hasselbring.
View the championship podium here
