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June 1, 2016

Serpent part ways with Marc Fischer

Serpent have announced the contract termination with German frontrunner, Marc Fischer. The cooperation lasted for about four years with Marc delivering solid national and international results, including a double win at the prestigious Snowbird race. So far the reasons behind the termination remain unclear but this is what Serpent has to say about the move:

The cooperation started about 4 years ago for electric onroad and at times brought good results. We like to thank Marc for his efforts in the past years and wish him well. [As for the] Future Serpent will be expanding its team efforts in electric onroad, as we are about to release the brandnew Project 4-X touringcar and have more plans in the pipeline based on David Ehrbars development work in electric onroad. Some contacts with new team-drivers are in the process already, but interested drivers can drop us an email and we will reply to them in due course.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 1, 2016

Schumacher BTCC Rd2 – Report

The Schumacher BTCC round 2 visited the Adur track on the south coast this last weekend. Practice on Saturday saw the drivers getting their cars tuned in to the unique coastal circuit, a little disruption from the weather but by the end of the day most were getting up to speed. Sunday dawned bright but extremely windy which caused quite a lot of problems, luckily the weather from Saturday stayed away and the track was dry all day. In the premier Modified class Elliott Harper (Schumacher) was on top form all day. Elliott was edging out his usual rivals Olly Jefferies (Xray) and Chris Grainger (Team Associated), taking four out of the five qualifying rounds. Elliott took a flag to flag victory in the final in the tricky windy conditions.

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June 1, 2016

Cody Turner & Jake Mayo win at JBRL Electric Series Rd3

Round three of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Electric Series was held at Controlled Chaos Raceway in Palmdale, California. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers and in 2WD Open Buggy it was Cody Turner who brought home the win from Jake Mayo in second and Steven Hartson in third, making it an all Team Associated podium.

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June 1, 2016

RC Mafia Offroad Series Rd2 – Report

The second round of the RC Mafia Offroad Series took place in Nowa Gadka, Poland. The event saw both 1/8th and 1/10th off-road racing and in the premier class of 1/8th Nitro Buggy it was Kaja Novotny who took the TQ and the young man would also come out fastest after the qualifiers in E-Buggy as well as 1/10th 2WD, the latter following some nice battles with young and talented Jakub Luczak. Tomasz Gadnicki snatched the pole position for 1/10th 4WD A-mains while Marek Cisek took the TQ in 1/8th E-Truggy. Finally in 1/8 Nitro Truggy Tomasz Gadnicky grabbed his second TQ of the day.

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June 1, 2016

Tyler Jones wins E-Buggy class at JC Spring Nationals

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The HobbyPlex in Omaha, Nebraska held the 7th annual JConcepts 1:8 Spring Nationals over Memorial Day weekend. As the Plex has changed adding a building over the race track five years ago, the event has been a popular stop for the area Nitro racers to get their first taste of the season for a larger event. The usual suspects of the regional fast guys showed up on Friday to get some laps on the fresh layout built by Alex Sturgeon and crew. Saturday would show three rounds of qualifying using best two out of three to seed you into Sunday’s main events with bump ups from the lower mains. With all of the rounds completed Minnesota’s Seth VanDalen (Tekno) would come out fastest in Expert E-Buggy. The A-mains would be a triple affair with VanDalen taking round 1. Indiana’s Tyler Jones would get comfortable at the front with his Team Associated buggy and take the wins in A2 and A3 to get the overall followed by VanDalen and the bump up king of the weekend Hunter Holmberg and his TLR.

Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]

May 31, 2016

Martin Bayer doubles at Intertrack Off-road Challenge

This past weekend the Intertrack Off-road Challenge was held in Zidlochovice, Czech Republic. The 1-day fun event was run without practice on Saturday, making for equal conditions for everyone. Xray’s Martin Bayer set easy TQ runs in both 1/8th Nitro Buggy and E-Buggy and he went on to come out successful in the A-mains of both classes with Xray team mate Max Götzl taking the runner-up spot in the nitro class and Mark Zilinsky (TLR) rounding out the podium. In E-Buggy Martin was sidelined by Roman Pudich and Martin Rytíř in second and third respectively.

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May 31, 2016

Scott Furtado sweeps Turf Meltdown Trophy Race

The 2016 Turf Meltdown Trophy Race was held at RC Madness in Enfield, Connecticut with a total of 75 race entries. The largest classes would be 2WD Modified Buggy and 4WD Modified Buggy and both saw Kyosho America’s Scott Furtado taking TQs and wins with Anthony Jesmond (Schumacher)
and Ed Gaunt (TLR) coming in second and third respectively in the 2WD class. 4WD Modified Buggy had the Xray duo of Matt Noto and Chris Marcy completing the top 3 result.

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May 31, 2016

Delorme & Voisangrin win at French On-road Nats Rd3

The recent third round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Ampuis track with 77 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T, Touring 13.5T and Formula 21.5T. Saturday started out with hot and dry weather and in Touring 10.5T is was Pierre Delorme who set the pace with Alexandre Duchet hot on his heels. As predicted the weather turned to the worst on Sunday and so the remaining qualifiers were held in wet conditions. The opening two A-mains of the 10.5T class then saw Pierre taking pretty easy wins in front of brother Jean, who started from the 7 spot and had pretty good runs. In the final A-main, on a drying track, things became complicated in terms of tyre choice with Jean making the right decision to run Volante tyres and he was able to bring home the win with a tight gap on Alexandre. Overall Pierre came out successful in the main from Jean and Alexandre in second and third respectively.

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