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September 25, 2015

2015/16 Mibosport Cup Winter Series – Announcement

The 2015/16 season of the popular Mibosport Cup Winter Series will kick off on the weekend of the 31st of October in Hrotovice, host of the opening round of the 2015/16 ETS. Attracting 400 drivers in total including the likes of Ronald Völker, Marc Rheinard, Tom Cockerill, Yannic Prümper, Michal Orlowski, Martin Bayer and Hupo Hönigl last year’s series was great success. This year the series is run in the six classes of Touring Car Modified, Stock LRP, Formula, 1/12th scale as well as 2WD and 4WD Buggy and the rules will see some modifications as the Modified Touring class will now use mandatory Volante tyres while the off-road drivers have to use Schumacher tyres. Also new for the season is the carpet, with the on-road races will be run on black ETS carpet while the off-road track is laid out with the same carpet as used at the opening round of the 2015/16 EOS. More information can be found here.

September 24, 2015

Serpent Spyder SRX4 2.5mm aluminium chassis

Serpent have introduced a 2.5mm aluminium chassis for the SRX4 4WD buggy. Made to replace the standard carbon fibre part the alloy chassis will improve rigidity and stability as it is less flexible compared to the carbon chassis. Excessive machining of the 7075-T6 part reduces the weight to 120g while the hard-coated surfaces reduces wear even on abrasive surfaces. With the chassis being stiffer it is best used on high-traction surfaces such as carpet and astro turf.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 24, 2015

Asian On-Road Championship Rd4 – Track Focus

The Asian On-Road Championship Series, presented by Scotty Ernst, has landed in Hong Kong for its 4th round at Tom Racing Circuit. Located five minutes from the old facility, the newly relocated TRC tracks has been in for a year and is home to three tracks in one massive facility. This weekend the AOC will be ran on a fresh layout on the EP track. With its massive 52m x 30m dimensions, it will provide generous space for 1/10th scale battles throughout the weekend. The surface is very smooth and the asphalt is very fine that should provide grip and long lasting tire wear. Club races on the EP track are only held every two months which makes club racing feel like a bigger race.

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September 24, 2015

Italian LRP Challenge Grand Final – Report

Italian LRP Challenge Grand Final - Report

The Grand Final of the Italian LRP Challenge was held in Rome with some of Italy’s fastest driver competing against guests from abroad. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified Alessio Menicucci (Xray) grabbed the pole position for the finals with a very swift TQ time in front of Jan Ratheisky (Xray) and Ronald Völker (Yokomo). In the finals things changes a bit though and so Ronald took the win from Alessio and Jan. Simone D’Ottavio came in fourth, Federico Milanese rounded out the top 3 result.

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September 24, 2015

Gary Baird takes 2015 Irish 1/8th Off-road Champs

The final round of the Irish 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held on the astro turf track in Navan. The usual weather playing games had the drivers need sun cream for the Saturday and a wet suit for the Sunday. Qualifying was mixed for a lot of drivers. The new astro they laid in Navan had plenty of gaps in it that randomly spun your car, but also rubber balls instead of sand, so it smelt delightfully of melting rubber. The man on a mission Alan Scroggie took TQ with pretty impressive runs. Andrew McClean would line up 2nd looking very controlled and starting to give the older drivers a lot to think about while Gary Baird would line up 4th and Barkley 6th. Three of these drivers were separated only by 2 points in the overall championship.

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September 24, 2015

Jarred King takes NSW 4WD Buggy State Title

The 2015 NSW Electric Off-road State Championships were held in the usually hot and sunny Maitland although the weather was very different this time around. Saturday started off with a dry and slippery track but overnight downpour mixed things up for Sunday’s race day. Racing didn’t got underway till lunchtime but then another healthy downpour stopped racing until around 2 pm. The organisers decided to reduce qualifying to three rounds and the finals to two legs meaning the fastest time would win the title. Q1 of the 1/10th 4WD class saw Mitchell Steer coming out fastest from Jarred King, and also Q2 would see Mitchell coming out fastest meaning an early overall TQ for him. Behind Steer, the race was on for the 2 spot on the grid between Jarred King and multi-national champion Josh Pain. At the end Josh grabbed the round TQ in Q3 to take the runner-up spot after the qualifiers from Jarred.

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September 24, 2015

Nikolas Bowie joins Serpent Asia

Serpent have announced the signing of Nikolas Bowie to their Asian team. Bowie is specialised in on-road racing, both EP and GP, with 1/10th electric touring car as his premier class. Bowie will run most races in Indonesia with some international races in his area being on the agenda too.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 24, 2015

Salvatore Giliberto wins at Torero Trophy

The recent Torero Trophy saw Salvatore Giliberto walking away with the 1/10th 200mm class win in front of Salvo Scalia on the runner-up spot. Umberto Gentile would round out the podium in third.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]