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May 7, 2018

Orlowski & Savoya win at EFRA 1/10 Buggy warm-up

The Reims Enduro Model Car club in France hosted the EFRA 1/10 Buggy Euros warm-up race this past weekend at their indoor dirt track facility. The event was well attended, attracting many of Europe’s fast electric off-road drivers. The 2WD Modified Buggy class saw Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski sweeping the qualifiers to take the TQ from TLR’s Renaud Savoya 2nd and Yokomo’s Lee Martin 3rd. In the 4WD Mod Buggy class it was Renaud who excelled, TQing five of the six rounds gave him the pole for the A-mains from Michal Orlowski 2nd and Lee Martin 3rd.

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May 4, 2018

Greiner Top Seed for Dutch ENS

Dominic Greiner is the top seed at season opening round of the Infinity Euro Nitro Series in the Netherlands. The Serpent driver left his mark on Friday’s track action by topping free practice and then both of the timed practices, the second of which would be 3/10ths quicker than the first. Behind the winner of last season’s finale, Jilles Groskamp would improve to the second fastest time with Infinity’s new car while Xray’s Alessio Mazzeo turned around a difficult day to finish up 3rd quickest. Making it four different cars at the top of the times, new WRC recruit Melvin Diekmann would post the 4th fastest 3-consecutive laps ahead of Teemu Leino and 1:10 rookie Lamberto Collari.

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May 4, 2018

Pedro Gomes doubles at Spring Masters

The Indoor Spring Masters were held at the Indoor RC Oeste in Portugal recently with the facility offering a new track layout for the event. In 4WD Buggy it was Xray’s Pedro Gomes who took the TQ by winning all four qualifiers and in the finals it was again Pedro who came out on top. The remaining podium positions were hard fought for until the end as the final A-main would determine the top 2 and top 3 spots. In the end it was André Guerreiro (Team Associated) with the overall runner-up spot from Diogo Filipe (Xray) 3rd.

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May 3, 2018

Daniel Grobe wins at Thornhill Championship Series Rd4

Round 4 of the Thornhill Championship Series was held recently at the Thornhill Racing Circuit in Hutto, Texas. After having some issues in round one and two of E-Truggy qualifying it was Daniel Grobe who got together a brilliant drive in Q3 to secure the overall TQ with the only 9-lap run of the class. For the double A-mains, Daniel would get a clean start in A1, but an early mistake dropped him to 2nd as in turn Jason Hill made a mistake and Daniel got by, where he would control the pace, not push the truck to much, and would take the win. In A2, Daniel got off to a clean start again with no mistakes and he didn’t want to throw away a win, or crash hard, as Jason again made a mistake and he would over drive to chase Daniel down. Up front Daniel took another win for the overall as Jason Hill came in 2nd and Isaac Price ended the day in 3rd.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

May 3, 2018

Czech 1/8th Off-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The first round of Czech 1/8 Off-road Nationals was held at the popular Kolin track in perfect weather conditions. In the Nitro Buggy class the battle for the overall TQ was on between Martin Bayer and Jiri Mara. In the end Martin eventually took the overall TQ with Jiri in 2nd and Kaja Novotny in 3rd. After the semifinals it was still Martin on top with Kaja lining up 2nd and Max Gotzl taking 3rd. Right from the tone the top 4 quickly got away but split into two duos at about the 10-minute mark. Up front Martin and Kaja fought for the win while Max and Jiri battled it out for the final podium spot. Ultimately to was Martin with the win from Kaja 2nd and Jiri beat Max for 3rd.

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May 3, 2018

Ivanov doubles at ARCMBG Steldi Air Champs Rd1

The opening round of the ARCMBG Steldi Air Off-road Championship was held last weekend. Teodor Ivanov came out on top in 1/8th E-Truggy in front of Stanimir Stanev in 2nd and Julian Tolev in 3rd and Teodor Ivanov would also take the win in 1/8th E-Buggy in front of Zdravko Yanakiev.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

May 2, 2018

2018 Tiroler Electric On-road Champs – Announcement

The 2018 edition of the Tiroler Electric On-road Championships will kick off on the weekend of the 6th of May at the AMC Tirol track in Kematen, Austria. The 4-race series is run in a total of four electric classes including Touring Modified and Touring Stock as well as Formula and the Histocup. The Touring Modified and Stock classes are run according to current ETS rules while the Formula category also allows to use the older speedo, motor and tyres, however mixing of the parts is not allowed. The Histocup also uses ETS rules but the gear ratio is restricted to 7.0 and youngtimer body shells like Ford Capri, BMW 2002 etc. have to be used. All dates and more information can be found on social media here.

May 2, 2018

Coelho & Hagberg successful at IFMAR Worlds warm-up

The Welkom RC Arena in Welkom, South Africa hosted their IFMAR World Championship warm-up race last weekend, attracting local drivers and many guests from abroad. This event coincided with the IFMAR 2018 Worlds Warm-up event on the brand new indoor asphalt facility purposely build for the 2018 IFMAR ISTC and 1/12 world championship. Some of the top drivers in the world made their way to South Africa with more than 15 world championships between them to get to know the track characteristics. The green track started with challenging traction but the traction increased as the weekend progressed and the drivers could commit with faster pace during the qualifying rounds as well as the main races.

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