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January 14, 2015

WCICS Rd4 – Report

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series visited the unseasonably warm city of Airdrie, Alberta, for their normally appropriately named Annual Snowpocalypse, round 4 of the WCICS series. Airdrie hosted a great event, with the highlight of the weekend, and a particular strength of the Karz club, the kids only Mini class. Seven other WCICS classes were hotly contested, and as the midway point before the Christmas break, the season class championships are revealing some strong favourites. In the Touring Car Modified class Team Associated’s Peter Tozser came from 4th on the grid to top of the podium, Serpent’s Steve Soon cleanly drove to 2nd, and dominant TQ and fast lap holder Wayne Mah unfortunately ended up 3rd after his Awesomatix took some contact.

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January 13, 2015

Patrick Hofer takes 4wd buggy at Winterchamps

With 150 entries in four classes, the Winterchamps turned out to be one of Europe’s biggest electric offroad races. The large indoor track offered many technical sessions and different jumps. Qualifying took place on Saturday and the first heats began the same day and continued throughout Sunday. On Saturday, Team Associated/Reedy driver Patrick Höfer entered the finals qualifying second place in 4wd Buggy and 2wd Buggy Modified classes. On Sunday, Patrick strove to win both classes. In 4wd Modified, the two greatest contenders, Oliver Scholz and Patrick Höfer, gave the spectators a great fight, but Patrick won the race, taking the overall win. In 2wd Modified, Oliver Scholz won the race, followed by Patrick in second.

Source: Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 13, 2015

Carson Wernimont makes the switch to Pro-Line

Pro-Line have made the announcement that they have signed Carson Wernimont to their factory team. Having finished on the podium at the 1/8th Worlds in Sicily last year and having subsequently changed car sponsor to Team Associated, it looks like 2015 will be a fresh start for the young American, having raced for AKA in previous years. Carson had the following to say about the deal:

I’m super excited to be joining Pro-Line Racing! They’ve proven that they have a great race program and are committed to developing all the right tires, bodies, and accessories for the different racers on all different levels. I’m excited to join PL to further develop the line of bodies that I have already been working on. Looking forward to working with them in 2015 and beyond.

Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]

January 12, 2015

Capricorn sign Thilo Tödtmann

German driver Thilo Tödtmann has joined the Capricorn factory team to run the Italian company’s full line of 1/10th cars, fuel and tyres for the 2015 season. The EFRA EC-B winner, EC-A finalist and regular ENS A-Main participant was already using the Lab C03 and Lab TE02 car since last year with good results. Thilo will attend all major 1/10th nitro races and he has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very excited to be joining Capricorn. I’m looking forward being part of the team and working with them throughout the next races. I’d like to thank Patrizio Rossi at Capricorn who is granting me that opportunity which I take grateful.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

January 12, 2015

Robin Kaiser wins at Austrian 1/12th Stock Nationals

The Austrian 1/12th scale Stock Nationals were held on the permanent indoor racetrack of the MAC Traiskirchen, just outside of Vienna. The event attracted a good turnout of drivers thanks to the 10.5T motor limit in combination with “blinky” speed controllers. Robin Kaiser took the TQ and win with his CRC Xti in front of his teammate Dominic Vogl and Rene Dockter also using a CRC Xti WC car. Beside the main 1/12th class the race also saw the running of a Formula category, won by Herbert Weber (CRC), and a World GT class that was taken by Christoph Holter (CRC).

Source: Blackart [blackart-racing.eu]

January 12, 2015

Peter Pinisch teams up with Schumacher

Schumacher have announced that top Austrian racer Peter Pinisch will be racing the company’s 1/10th line of off-road buggies in 2015 and 2016. Peter is a former EFRA 4WD European Champion, and 3-time IFMAR Worlds A-finalist. He is also a regular EOS A-finalist and has achieved an amazing 20 EFRA Euros A-finals. He is a very fast and experienced racer and will be a big asset to Schumacher’s growing European off road team. Peter had this to say:

First of all I would like to thank all Team Associated especially Brent Thielke and Craig Drescher for their help and support the last 12 years. After some many years of racing it is time for a change and I`m really happy to announce that Team Schumacher give me the opportunity to run their products for the next years. I am really excited to race with the new cars at major international races EOS, Euros and Worlds.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

January 12, 2015

Fourth DHI Cup win for Neumann

Joern Neumann remains the unbeaten DHI Cup Champion in 4WD Buggy when for the second year running, the German again saw off the challenge of Martin Bayer in the third A-Main. With a win a piece, Bayer winning A1, the pair went into A3 exactly as they did 12-months ago with a winner takes all situation. Starting from the TQ position Neumann would only briefly relinquish the lead when Bayer attempted a move on lap 3 and had to wait on Neumann to retake position as David Ronnefalk drove past the recovering Durango to take a short lived lead. While Bayer had the pace to challenge his carpet track nemesis a series of mistakes from the Czech driver would drop him to fourth leaving him to again finish second overall. Finishing A3 in second position Ronnefalk would complete the podium in Denmark on his HB debut.

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January 12, 2015

Volker takes DHI Cup tally to six

Ronald Volker has brought his tally of DHI Cup titles to six after another easy win in A2 secured him overall victory at the 15th running of the famous Danish event. The Yokomo driver was joined on the podium in Odense by Xray’s Alexander Hagberg, winner of a controversial A3, with Freddy Sudhoff getting his debut for HB off to an encouraging start with third overall. Having been the only serious contender to the reign of Volker over the weekend Yannic Prumper would miss the podium finishing fourth after a coming together with Hagberg as they battled for the lead in the closing race.

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