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September 30, 2015

Rug Racers Reloaded – Report

This past weekend the famous Rug Racers race returned to Wodson Park, although for those familiar with the series it looked somewhat different. This was a one off event called Rug Racers Reloaded, which the organisers felt needed to be dedicated to Martin Laxton for his vivacious love for HRCC and Rug Racers and the sport. Martin loved to help bring youngsters into RC racing, which was his forté, and those youngsters are still at HRCC to this day, be it a few years older. “The Martin Laxton Memorial Cup” was a one off Trophy, which was presented to Martin’s son Stuart by his Mum Vicky, to look after, like his Dad looked after HRCC and Rug Racers.

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September 29, 2015

Cyril N’Diaye joins Team Magic/HRC

Cyril N'Diaye joins Team Magic/HRC

European Team Magic distributors HRC Distribution have announced the signing of 3-times French Champion and multiple French Vice-Champion Cyril N’Diaye to their team. The former Yokomo driver will receive full factory support to run Team Magic’s E4RS III touring car and he has the following to say about the deal:

I had the opportunity to test the car of Léo Arnold during French Nationals at Tours in June, and I was very impressed by his corner speed and overall handling. After the French Cup in September, Lionel Troyon gave me a E4RS III kit to make some tests at my local track. I like the feeling I have with that car, and his overall handling and great precision. I also like the way the team works, very close to TM factory. So I decided to joins the team. I thank Team Magic and HRC team for this great opportunity. I also would like to deeply thank Yokomo Team for the 5 last years with them. I wish them all the best, especially to Ronald and Umino for the next worlds in Beijing.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

September 29, 2015

F1ItalianSeries 2015/16 season opener – Report

The opening round of the F1ItalianSeries was held at the MiniAutodromo T5 in Rome. The race also marked the 100th anniversary GP of the series with 30 drivers signing in for the season opener. As a special gift every driver received a helmet painted by A-Paint. For the 2015/16 season former F1ItalianSeries driver Alessandro Tittozzi joined the organising team to support the tech inspection. The race format this time saw the seven fastest drivers to qualify directly for the main GP while the remaining 23 battled for the eight remaining spots in two different mini grand prix. With the qualifying positions also scoring points for the overall championship things got a bit more interesting.

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September 29, 2015

Carles Echarri wins Spanish 1/8th EP On-road Cup

The first ever Spanish 1/8th Electric On-road Cup was held at the Almussafes in Valencia this past weekend. Nine drivers signed in for the class that was run alongside the National Nitro Championship. After five rounds of qualifying Carles Echarri took the TQ, closely followed by Marc Moix, Ramón Guasch, Miguel Puchal and Carlos Gimenez. As the drivers used different battery and motor configurations with some running on 6S while others opted to use 4S LiPo batteries the drivers decided to go for four minute finals but four instead of only three, after it became clear that some drivers struggled to complete a five minute run in qualifying. During Sunday’s finals Carles Echarri took wins in all four legs to grab the overall victory from Marc Moix and Ramon Guasch. Performance-wise the electric and nitro powered cars were only separated by 0.1s in the fastest laps with the cars being capable of speeds of up to 107km/h on the long Almussafes straight.

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September 29, 2015

2014/15 Formula Champion Jan Ratheisky Interview

The 2nd part of Xray’s interview series with 2014/15 ETS series winners Marek Cerny and Jan Rathiesky is now online. Having already heard from Marek Cerny, this time it is the turn of back to back to back Formula Champion and Pro Stock championship contender Jan Rathiesky from Germany.

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September 29, 2015

Autumn Shoot Out Rd1 – Report

Sunday saw the start of the UK based Autumn Shoot Out series. Run by the successful clubs C.A.R.S and Swifts Raceway, the series would cater for the GT class cars and run over four meetings with C.A.R.S hosted the opening round that fielded a competitive collection of racers. In GT12 it was Rory Hobkirk who was the man to beat in qualifying. He was being closely followed by Sion Wedley and Summer Shoot Out winner Gavin Stephenson. Stephen Lander was also in the chase with the new Mardave Assassin, the car could not take TQ on its debut but it did record the fastest lap. The final was a great battle between Hobkirk, Wedley and Stephenson. With Hobkirk and Wedley having problems with back markers it was left for Stephenson to show why he is a Shoot Out champ.

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September 29, 2015

Dutch Electric On-road Nationals Rd6 – Report

The final round of the Dutch Electric On-road Nationals was held at the fast and flowing track of the MAC De Baanbrekers in Rucphen this past weekend. The nice weather made for perfect racing conditions and the event started out with free practice on Saturday with the usual classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula would be accompanied by the 10.5T Pro10 class who made a guest appearance. In the Modified class Mitchell van Es (Yokomo) was the man to beat all weekend. After the three qualifiers he took the TQ followed by Govert Verbeke (Xray) and Rob Jansen (Team Magic). In the finals Mitchell would again show his skills as he made a clean sweep to take the win from Rob Jansen and Athan de Witte (VBC).

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September 28, 2015

Ginting & Seta win at Indonesian EP On-road Nats Rd4

The fourth round of the Indonesian EP On-road National Championship took place at Sigma Progresif Circuit in Bandung, West Java with 45 entries for the three classes of Touring Car 13.5T Boosted, FWD and Mini. The Touring Boosted class was dominated by Bowie Ginting who took the pole position for the A-mains while Arya Seta took the TQ in the FWD class. At the end Bowie came out successful in the finals also as he took the day’s win from Suwardi Suliandy in second and Peter Anthonijsz in third.

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