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March 1, 2016

Munn & Hadley win at Cabin Fever Indoor Supercross

The Pacific Northwest 1/8th racing season kicked off this past weekend in Lewiston, Idaho at the annual Cabin Fever race. This year’s event spanned 3 days with Friday being practice, Saturday three rounds of qualifying using your best two rounds in a qual point format and main events on Sunday – 30 minute nitro mains and triple A-Mains in electric. Drivers from Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Canada were all in attendance, itching to get racing after a long and wet winter up there with approximately 240 entries making for a very long but very fun weekend. In the Nitro Truggy class a great battle was on between Jesse Munn and Shane Pruegschat in round one with Shane getting Jesse on the last lap by 0.5 seconds. Jesse then would TQ rounds 2 and 3 to wrap up the overall TQ while Austin Azure would complete the top 3.

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February 29, 2016

F1ItalianSeries GP7 & GP8 – Report

The F1ItalianSeries resumed with round 7 and 8 following some weeks off but unfortunately rainy weather made things unpleasant. The circumstances also lead to a slightly smaller field of drivers but nevertheless 20 racers attended and the qualifying of the GP7 round saw De Caro (Benetton) taking the TQ honours from Giorgio (Hesketh Racing). Championship leader Capuano (Ferrari) only placed in 6th after the qualifiers, showing that numerous drivers seemed to have upped their skills during the Winter. The actual race then had Capuano showing his real pace as he took the win in front of the second Ferrari of Magnocavallo. Cutugno (Red Bull) completed the top 3 result.

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February 29, 2016

Olivier Bultynck wins FBA Formula season opener

The opening round of the Belgian FBA Formula Championship was held this past weekend at the GTM RC Club. Olivier Bultynck (Roche) would grab the pole position for the triple A-mains from Serpent driver Steve Deblaere while young Florian Joos (MD Racing) took the overall third place after the qualifiers. A clean sweep in the finals then secured Olivier the day’s win while Steve Deblaere, with two second place finishes, ended the day on the runner up spot. Two third places and a solid 2nd place had 12-years old Florian Joos completing the podium in third.

Source: MD Racing [mdracingrc.com]

February 29, 2016

Xray Winter Series Slovenia Rd4 – Report

The final round of the Xray Winter Series Slovenia was held at the Medeuzza track in Italy in the three classes of Touring Stock, Formula and 1/12th pan car with drivers from Slovenia, Croatia and Italy in attendance. With round four being the final race of the series the Touring Stock and Formula title were still up for grabs. The qualifiers of the Touring Stock class saw Jan Popic taking the TQ spot from Alojzij Osvald and Rok Rudl while the Formula class was lead by Matevz Homar from Andrej Grebenc and Borut Svoljsak. In the 1/12th pan car class former European Champion Jernej Vuga claimed the pole position for the finals from Nejc Mihelic and Simone Bellin.

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February 29, 2016

Alex Illievski TQs & wins at ACT State Titles

The first AARCMCC title event of the year took place this weekend in Canberra, Australia. The host club ACTMCRC made the choice to use sugar water on the track, making for awesome grip conditions. In the Touring 13.5T class Alex Illievski took the overall TQ by winning four of the six qualifying rounds. Come the finals it was clear how dominant Alex was compared to the field, as he was some 9 seconds ahead of the second place driver. The win was then wrapped up by the 2nd final and overall Alex would be sidelined on the podium by runner up, Dan Maher and third placed Ben Steiner.

Source: R1 Wurks [r1wurks.com.au]

February 29, 2016

Bruno Coelho TQ’s & wins at 2016 TITC

Bruno Coelho TQ's & wins at 2016 TITC

The 2016 edition of the famous Thailand International Touring Car Championship, TITC, was held this past week at the RC Addict track in Bangkok with around 250 drivers attending in various electric on-road classes. Super hot asphalt temperatures of sometimes above 60 degree Celsius combined with a somewhat bumpy track made for challenging conditions for the drivers who had to seek for a setup that allowed for consistent lap times over the five minute runs. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Bruno Coelho made the best out of the conditions and he would grab the overall TQ after the qualifiers by winning three of the six qualifying rounds. The Yokomo duo of Meen Vejrak and Ronald Völker would line up in second and third while Marc Rheinard (Tamiya) and Alexander Hagberg (Xray) would round out the top 5 result.

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February 29, 2016

Jilles Groskamp leaves HPI/HB

The latest driver to announce his departure from the HPI/HB on-road team, Jilles Groskamp has declared the mutual termination of his contract with the Asian company. The news probably ends a series of contract terminations and non-renewals that leaves the company without a factory electric on-road team. Jilles so far remained silent about his racing future and for now he has the following to say:

From today I […] like to announce that I will leave HB/HPI Racing. Both parties have mutual agreed to split after TITC. I would like to thank Tatsuro Watanabe for his support over the last year and I wish him and his company the best for the future. Further thanks goes to all members and old members from HB/HPI Racing. A new opportunaty is waiting for me and soon I will announce my next move in my career.

February 28, 2016

3rd Annual Lonestar Challenge – Announcement

The 3rd Annual Lonestar Challenge will be held from April 22nd to 24th at the Thornhill Racing Circuit. Recent renovations turned the track into was is possibly the largest covered off-road facility in the World. The event will be held in the usual array of 1/8th off-road as well as 4×4 Short Course classes and it acts not only as the ROAR Fuel Offroad Nationals warm-up but it is also a round to the U.S. Pro Cup. More information and sign up can be found here.