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April 7, 2014

Cody King wins Nitro Truggy at JBRL Rd1

The opening round of the 2014 JBRL Nitro Series got underway at the Thunder Alley RC Raceway last weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class TLR’s Adam Drake and Kyosho’s Kyle McBride and Cody King all looked fast in qualifying and this would also proof in the 15 minute main where Adam and Cody battled the entire final. With about 4 minutes left Cody made the final pass to take the lead and with a gap of about a second he was able to beat Adam Drake who had to settle for 2nd place. Kyosho’s Kyle McBride, who is preparing for the Silver State race, completed the podium in 3rd.

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April 7, 2014

Oleg Lastochkin wins Russian Pro Stock 10.5T title

The Russian Electric on-road nationals where held at the Agalatovo RC Carpet Raceway near St. Petersburg. In the 10.5T Pro Stock class Oleg Lastochkin, who qualified 4th, was able to take advantage of mistakes made by the leading drivers in order to take the win the 1st and 3rd A-final, handing him the overall win and the national title. Alexander Naumov came in 2nd while Andrey Kokarev completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 7, 2014

Fantom Racing Pro Racing 6000mAh 80C LiPo battery

Fantom Racing now have their latest 6000mAh 80C LiPo battery pack available. The ROAR-legal Pro Racing series pack is built using the latest 80C cells and comes in a protective hardcase and with 4mm connection tubes. Beside the “bullet-type” variant Fantom also offers two pre-wired packs with Deans and Traxxas style plugs.

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April 7, 2014

Speedzone 6000mAh square LiPo battery pack

Speedzone have a new Peerless Series LiPo battery pack available in the form of a 6000mAh 80C 2S square pack. The battery measures 93×68.5×25.1mm and is a substitute option to saddle packs as it sports the same dimensions as a side-by-side 2S saddle pack but does away with the fiddly jumper wire. The battery comes with 4mm connections and shrink-wrapped for added protection.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

April 7, 2014

Janos Birinyi wins 13.5T at East Hungarian Champs Rd7

The 7th round of the East Hungarian championship was held at Ozd last weekend. in 13.5T Stock Xray driver Janos Birinyi made maximum use of his track knowledge as the race was organised by his home club and therefore he was able to take TQ with quite a margin. In the finals he was able to take the overall victory with smooth and consistent driving. His Xray teammates Tamas Pongho and Viktor Kiss completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

April 7, 2014

Ronald Völker wins Touring Car Worlds warm-up

This weekend the IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Championship warm-up took place at the Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida. Despite being held on U.S. soil the race was dominated by European and Asian drivers with Ronald Volker (Yokomo) taking the win in the triple A-mains from his Yokomo teammate Naoto Matsukura and Meen Vejrak (Yokomo). The Tamiya duo of 3-times World Champion Mark Rheinard and current title holder Jilles Groskamp completed the top 5. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg finished 6th overall, Yokomo’s Hayato Matsuzaki came in 7th while Elliott Harper was able to place one of the new Team Durango’s DETC410 in the A-main in 8th place. Viktor Wilck (Tamiya) and Andy Moore (Hot Bodies) rounded out the top 10 result.

Image: Yokomo

April 6, 2014

Collari wins intense opening ENS encounter

Lamberto Collari has won the opening round of the all new Euro Nitro Series. The Italian legend won from fellow former World Champion Robert Pietsch by just 1.5 seconds after 45-minutes of super close racing, a late and hard pass by the 9-time World Champion on the Top Qualifier deciding the intense race. The podium for the Italian event, held at the spectacular Melzo track, was completed by two time World Championship finalist Simon Kurzbuch, it being a good event for Swiss drivers with another Worlds finalist Silvio Hachler finishing fourth having started 10th on the world class grid.

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April 6, 2014

Dankel takes Euro Nitro Series win in Melzo

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Eric Dankel has won the opening round of the all new Euro Nitro Series which kicked off at Melzo in Italy at the weekend, the Capricorn coming out top of the ultra competitive field to win which saw the Top 4 all finishing on the same lap at the end of the 45-minute encounter. An emotional win for Dankel, starting from 4th on the grid the German 200mm ace would recover from a bad start to win from local hero Francesco Tironi by 12-seconds with Dirk Wischnewski just holding off Top Qualifier Teemu Leino to complete the podium at the Mini Racing Ayrton Senna track.

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