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March 2, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins at 2015 TITC

The annual Thailand International Touring Championships was held in hot and humid Bangkok, Thailand over the weekend. For the 2015 edition the event came back to the famous RC Addict circuit. The race is particularly difficult and competitive since many of the world’s top RC drivers call Bangkok their home and this year the event saw more than 300+ competitors from all over Asia attending in five different classes. The super competitive Modified class as usual saw most of the world’s top drivers attending. As usual tyre strategy was key as every driver was allowed a maximum of four sets for the six rounds of qualifying of which three counted towards the qualifying result. In the end Alexander Hagberg managed to take the overall TQ with two 1st place and one 2nd place finishes in front of teammate Bruno Coelho.

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March 2, 2015

Tony Bishop takes BRCA Micro National Series title

This past weekend would see the last round of the 2014-15 BRCA Micro National Series take place at Caldicot. Going into the last round of the series there were four potential series winners, but only one would come out on top. After the qualifiers Tony Bishop grabbed the overall TQ for the finals in front of Phil Sleigh, Craig Harris and Andrew Jones.Going into the A-main it was all to play for as the any of the top 4 could win the series. Ultimately Tony Bishop would take the 2014-15 Series with a dominate display of 3 wins from 3, with team mates Phil Sleigh and Craig Harris tied for second on point with Andy Jones. The Series winners would be Carisma drivers Tony Bishop, Phil Sleigh and Craig Harris taking 1,2 and 3 and making it’s a Carisma podium lockout.

Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]

March 2, 2015

Bruno Coelho signs with Hot Race Tyres

Hot Race has announced the signing of vice World and European as well as multiple Portuguese national champion Bruno Coelho. Bruno will not only attend national and international races using Hot Race tyres but he will also assist with research and development and he has the following to say:

After such a huge success last year with Hot Race tires at the IFMAR ISTC Worlds where I was Vice World Champion I’m very proud to join Hot Race and use their tires which i consider well above the average in quality and performance. I will do my best in my next challenges, as well as help Hot Race to develop their line of high performing tires.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

March 2, 2015

Christoffer Svensson teams up with Yokomo

Yokomo has announced that multi-time European Championships main finalist Christoffer Svensson has joined the company’s electric off-road team. The former Nordic Champ will attend at races around Scandinavia and at the European Championships with Yokomo’s 2WD and 4WD buggies. Christoffer has the following to say:

By joining Team Yokomo I know that I have been given a chance to race the best Electric cars on the market. With a fantastic team of drivers and a great passion for racing, Yokomo has always been for me the leading company in electric cars. I feel proud to be one of the team drivers to promote and do my very best at every race I attend. I would like to thank Team Yokomo for this opportunity.

Source: Yokomo [teamyokomo.com]

February 28, 2015

Mike Truhe renews with Team Novak

Novak welcome World-Class driver and all-around nice guy Mike Truhe for another year on their factory team. Mike will be powering all his Factory Serpent 1/8th and 1/10th scale electric vehicles with Novak power and everyone at Novak is looking forward to another year working with Mike.

Source: Novak [teamnovak.com]

February 27, 2015

Francesco Martini re-signs with Xray

Xray has announced that the multiple Italian Champion Francesco Martini has re-signed with the Slovakian manufacturer for the 2015 season. Francesco is an extremely dedicated touring car racer and an important member of Xray’s R&D team as he was involved in the development of the T4 platform as well of the X1 formula car. Francesco says:

I am very happy and thankful to continue my collaboration with the Hudy family. In the last year I was able to work directly on a new X1 platform development and this has been for me the greatest RC experience. Being direct involved in the entire development process from design stage through very long and exhaustive prototype testing until final production has been a great journey that I have enjoyed and that allowed me to experience how passionate, professional and dedicated everyone at Xray is with Martin in the lead. With my involvement into R&D I am fully motivated to continue our work on the further development and I am very honored to be part of this great team. I am available to anyone with any questions concerning the X1 so do not hesitate to see me.

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February 27, 2015

Jernej Vuga wins 1/12th Open class at WES

The 2014/15 Winter Electric Series was held as a 3-race series with all three rounds counting towards the overall championship. In the 1/12th Open class former 1/8th scale European Champion Jernej Vuga took the title by TQ-ing and winning all three rounds of the series. Denis Fink came in 2nd while Luka Skolaris rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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February 27, 2015

Jeppe Svendsen wins at DRCMU Rd4

The fourth round of the Danish DRCMU series was hosted by the Ti-Mo club in Tinglev with 73 drivers from Denmark and Germany in attendance. The 17.5T blinky class attracted a good turnout of drivers and young Jeppe Svendsen took the TQ after the qualifiers but come the finals he started to become nervous and so the first two mains did not went perfect for the Xray driver. In the final and decisive A-main though he got everything together to take the win and with it the overall victory in front of his team mates Bjarke Nyskov and Jens Otto Frederiksen.

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