The final round of the Greek Electric Touring Car nationals was held at the Zorri track in Athens. Going into the final round three drivers were tie on points and able to take the overall championship. Right from the start of the qualification Georgiades made his intentions clear as he won two out of the five qualifiers and nobody else came close to the times he set.
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The second round of the Silverstone Winter Series attracted a full entry in the main 2WD buggy class, on a high grip indoor astroturf track. Nathan Waters drove superbly to take the TQ and a convincing win with his Schumacher Cougar. Team mate Simon Moss set the fastest single laps by far but a couple of errors left him with too much ground to make up and he had to settle for 2nd. Associated driver Greg Williams completed the podium. The smaller 4WD class was won by new Schumacher driver Dave Burton.
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A round of the East German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held at full time carpet indoor track in Leipzig in five different classes including the fastest Stock class of 10.5T Blinky. This class saw many fast guys attending such as Fabian Ehrhardt, Tony Streit and 1/8th scale drivers Michael Kammer and Merlin Depta. Fabian Ehrhardt took the TQ honours after the qualifiers from former ETS Stock class winner Tony Streit and Karsten Hartinger with all three being separated only by a few tenth of a second.
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Dominic Greiner has TQ’d the penultimate qualifier at the 200mm World Championships in Thailand. The result puts the Serpent driver in contention to become the overall Top Qualifier with him set to go up against Alexander Hagberg in the final round, the Xray driver ending the fifth round second fastest. With Mugen’s Takehiro Terauchi completing the Top 3, the top heat provided plenty of late drama. On a TQ round, Q3 & 4 pace setter Teemu Leino ran out of fuel with 45-seconds still to run. With Dario Balestri taking over at the top of the timing screen he too would once again have run time issues, his Caparicorn coming to a stop on the final lap. This left Mark Green on target to top the round but he would crash out saying afterwards the last lap off was simply down to ‘an old man driving like shit’.
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The annual Halloween Classic was held at The Gate and in the largest class, 17.5 Touring Car, Kyle Klingforth TQ’d and lead into the A-main. During the main, Kyle Klingforth and Mike Hanulec broke out into the lead while the pack behind was lead by Manny Flores in 3rd. Kyle lead until lap 26 when he closed on the trailing pack and attempted to put racers a lap down. He was taken out by the “failnado” happening at the back of the pack. Hanulec was promoted into the lead and he drove the heads up race, avoid the “failnado” while managing the gap back to second. At the end Hanulec came in 1st fooled by Brain Winn and Ronal Goetter.
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Available now from Avid is the hard-anodised aluminium chassis set for the HB D413. Born from a winning pedigree, Avid’s IFMAR World Champion winning B44.2 aluminium chassis, the HB part is further refined by lowering the ballast weight even more into the chassis, oversized chamfers on the bottom corners for increased stability during those inevitable chassis dragging moments, and an optional floating servo mount allows the chassis to twist equally left to right. Included with the set comes the 7075-T6 chassis, one delrin and one aluminium ballast weight, a carbon fibre battery stop, an Upgrade RC chassis protector, and an Avid decal. Additional 3g delrin, 7g aluminium, or 21g brass inserts are sold separately for more tuning options.
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In its 5th year, the Spektrum Off-Road Championships hosted by Trackside Hobbies & Raceway has become one of the “must attend” events of the Fall. Located just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trackside has recently changed ownership and is striving to become one of the most complete facilities in the nation. In the 12 rounds of qualifying among his three classes of 2WD Mod, 4WD Mod and 2WD Short Course, Ryan Cavalieri set the fastest time in 10 of them to take the Top Qualifying position in all three classes. Also taking TQs were Cole Tollard in 2WD Modified Truck, Nick Achterkirch in 2WD Stock Buggy, Sarahann Ernst in 4WD 13.5 Buggy, Scotty Ernst in 2WD Stock Short Course, and Larry Wright in Novice.
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Italian Xray factory team driver Francesco Martini, Alessio Menicucci and Mattia Collina will hold the Xray Work.Shop Italy at the RCLandia track in Scandino. The event takes place on the 15th on November and cover in-depth technical and setup support for all Xray T4’15 drivers. The free workshop starts at 10 a.m. and all you have to do to participate is to e-mail Francesco Martini with your interest to take part at f.martini@mac.com.
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