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January 20, 2017

Evans & Cavalieri set early pace at Reedy Race

New Team Associated recruit Dustin Evans and team-mate Ryan Cavalieri have set the pace in early practice for the 23rd running of the Reedy Race of Champions at OCRC Raceway. With Associated using the event to debut their long overdue new 4WD, all their drivers in the invite class running the new B64D chassis, Evans got his first appearance with the team off to the best possible start as he topped the times ahead of his young team-mate Joona Haatanen. After the 2 rounds of practice, the first round not more than a track break-in run, it was Cavalieri who set the fastest 3-consecutive laps for 2WD ahead of Ty Tessmann for whom the event marks his debut with Xray. Mr. consistent over both classes was defending champion Dakotah Phend, the TLR driver taking his cars to the 3rd fastest time.

Continue reading this report here or view or complete event coverage here.

January 19, 2017

Modelix Racing sign Jean-Perrick Sartel

Modelix Racing have announced the signing of Jean-Pierrick Sartel to their world racing team. JP is a very promising and talented French driver that will be running and helping on the development of the Procircuit tyres, Ultimate engines and other Ultimate Racing products.

Source: Modelix Racing [modelixracing.com]

January 19, 2017

Drew Butcher wins at Tasmanian State Championships

The recent 2017 Tasmanian State Championships saw Drew Butcher taking the TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. The opening two qualifiers were won by Steven Madziara and Daniel Lokos respectively but Drew found his rhythm for the next four qualifiers in a row, giving him TQ and pole position for the finals. In the first A-main Drew managed a first place with Steven having a little crash on the last corner of the last lap. A2 saw Daniel coming out fastest from Drew so the final main would bring the decision. Drew was lucky enough to get off to a very clean start building a 7 second gap on the first lap, and then just kept it safe for the remainder of the race knowing that everyone else would be pushing that bit harder to try and catch up. Drew managed an overall consistency of 0.53 seconds a lap in that last final, which topped the weekend off just nicely. Behind him, Daniel Lokos and Steven Madziara completed the top 3 podium result.

View the top 5 results here

January 19, 2017

Maclan sign Chui & Lo to their factory team

Maclan Racing have announced the signing of two new factory team drivers in Hong Kong. Keith Chui and Ivan Lo are both front runners in the Hong Kong on-road community. Both drivers participated in a lot of developmental testing of Maclan’s MMax Pro ESC and the two will be running Maclan Racing ESCs and motors in the 2017 season.

View Ivan Lo here

January 18, 2017

Marcel Ellissen wins at Neujahrscup

The recent Neujahrscup was held in Lingen, Germany and it attracted about 40 drivers to compete in the Formula class, run according to ETS rules. The category saw Marcel Ellissen taking a dominant TQ, some two laps in front of Michael Schröder. In the finals things looked a bit different in A1 and A2 when Marcel scored DNFs but for A3 and A4 Marcel was back on track, taking leg wins and with them the overall win from Michael Schröder in second, Rene Fischer in third and Sander Berfhoff fourth.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 18, 2017

Frischkopf & Trottmann win at IBP GP Rd2

The second round of the IBP GP was held at the Indoor Bike Park RC track near Zurich, Switzerland’s only indoor clay track. In 1/8th E-Buggy it was Xray’s Robin Frischkopf who won all qualifiers to and two A-mains to grab the overall win from Tom Sommer, the leg 1 winner. Daniel Caviezel would complete the top 3 result.

Continue reading the report here

January 18, 2017

Mugen Seiki Europe welcomes Marco Natale

Mugen Seiki Europe has announced the signing of Marco Natale to their international racing team. The Italian ace will use the MBX7R Nitro and Eco buggies during his forthcoming campaign that will include appearances at the Italian nationals and at major international events. Marco had the following to say:

I am very happy with this new adventure, thanks to Mugen Seiki Europe giving me this great opportunity. The quality and performance of Mugen Seiki cars made an easy decision for me to join. I am very proud to be part of Team Mugen Seiki.

Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]

January 18, 2017

Team Magic Europe sign Andres Gonzales

Team Magic Europe have announced the signing of former Galician Touring Modified Champion and Spanish Nationals A-finalist, Andres Gonzales to their team. Andres will campaign Team Magic’s electric touring car at local and national races and also at select international events including the ETS.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]