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November 26, 2014

Michal Orlowski teams up with Schumacher

Schumacher welcomes young Michal Orlowski to the team. Michal, at only 13 years old, has already made A-mains at the EFRA 1/10th Offroad Euros and the very competitive EOS series. In touring cars Michal is current EFRA junior champion and Euros B finalist. The young gun from Poland will be racing the Schumacher Mi5 Evo, CAT K1 Aero, and Cougar KF, at major international races in Europe, USA, and Asia in 2015. Michal has the following to say:

First of all I would like to say big thanks to Team Durango, for all the support I got from them over last 2 years. Especially to my Team friends Elliott Harper and Jorn Neumann and Gerd Strenge. With Team Durango’s change of direction, my future plans are associated only with big, international races, Euros and especially the 1:10 electric buggy Worlds in Japan in October 2015. Now I start new adventure with Team Schumacher. Great Team, great cars and great people. I’m really excited start racing with the cars, true engineers masterpieces which I could observe at the race tracks and in the pits. Big thanks to Team Schumacher and Robin Schumacher for the offer to support my race career. I could not wait for the first races with new team.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 26, 2014

Loran Whiting joins Hobbywing

Hobbywing have announced the signing of US racer Loran Whiting to their team. Loran is an avid nitro onroad racer with a busy racing schedule that included the European-based ENS series and the recent IFMAR Worlds in Thailand and for the 2015 season she will be increasing her program to include more electric racing following a season of electric touring car and 2WD buggy appearances. Using Hobbywing products Loran will also race in the 4WD buggy class in the coming season. She had the following to say:

I am very excited to join the Hobbywing team and am thankful for the opportunity to help build the Hobbywing brand. I have been racing for 12 years and have recently started to work on stepping up my electric racing. In 2014, I ran more modified electric touring car and 2WD buggy, with an expansion into 4WD buggy and other classes coming in the next year. I can’t wait to expand my knowledge alongside Hobbywing in the US and internationally. I am really looking forward to the 2015 onroad and offroad season.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

November 25, 2014

David Kukla takes 4WD Czech National title

The second and final round of the Czech 1/10th Electric Off-Road National Championship was held in Prague. Following the first round, run during the Summer on a clay outdoor track, the second round took place on a grippy carpet indoor track. After winning the season opener David Kukla was the pre-event favorite for the overall title in the 4WD class and he was able to put his buggy on the 3 spot after qualifying. In the triple A-mains David finally came in 3rd which was enough to hand him the overall title in the all-wheel class. Martin Bayer took the day’s win in front of Kaja Novotny. Marek Schiller and Milan Mudra rounded out the top 5 of the second round. In the overall championship Marcel Dostal grabbed the runner-up spot from Matej Sulc.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 25, 2014

Hungary Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The Hungarian Electric On-road National Championship was held in Budapest last weekend in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, Super Stock, Stock and World GT. The finals of the Modified class had Barnabas Toth taking the win after close racing in all three legs from Viktor Juhasz and Zsolt Kalnay. Balint Rajki and Zsolt Bajusz rounded out the top 5.

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November 25, 2014

Tim Smith wins at Beach R/C Grand Opening Race

Beach R/C in Myrtle Beach, SC recently held their Grand Opening Race after working hard on an indoor track for the Winter. Tim Smith TQ’d Modified Truck, and he took a convincing win in the final in what seems to be a resurgence of the Mod Truck class. In 2WD Buggy, Tim qualified a strong third, proving a competitive pace before the A-main kicked off around midnight. At different stages of the race, Tim, Max Flurer, and Griffin Hanna would all lead at one point, but after the mistakes panned out, it was Tim who brought home the victory.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 25, 2014

Alex Kosciuszek doubles at CISC

Wolcott Hobbies and Airsoft recently hosted the Connecticut Indoor State Championship. The track was fast with a ton of bite and a nice flowing layout and with over 18 heats the days were long, but fun. In the 2WD class, Team Associated/Reedy driver Alex Kosciuszek set the pace and he took the TQ to start the 6-minute main event. From the start of the race, “Alex K” battled with Team Associated privateer, Kyle Rhodes, but a few mistakes from Rhodes saw Kosciuszek extend his lead and take the victory with Rhodes in second. In the 4WD Modified class it wasn’t even close. Kosciuszek dominated the competition by being the only driver to turn 25 laps. In the main, Alex cruised to an easy win, taking his second victory of the event.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 25, 2014

Hayato Ishioka wins 1/12th scale at AOC

The 5th and final round of the Asia On-Road Championship was held over the weekend at the World-famous Yatabe Arena with over 200 participants. In the 1/12th scale class it was Hayato Ishioka who took the TQ with the only 37 laps run in the qualifiers. Ishioka then went on to dominate the A-main also by bringing home the win with his Trinity-powered CRC ride in front of Masatsugo Edo (Yokomo) and Toto Ebukuro (Yokomo).

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November 24, 2014

BRCA 1/12th scale nationals Rd2 – Report

Round 2 of the 2014/15 BRCA 1/12th Scale Nationals took place at Swifts Raceway near Sheffield last weekend. A very challenging track layout greeted the drivers and would prove to be unforgiving even for the top drivers. The weekend is split into two separate race meetings, with classes for 13.5 and 10.5 Stock on Saturday and 10.5 and Open Modified on Sunday. In the 10.5 Stock class, Olly Jefferies was in commanding form driving his Reedy and LRP powered Xray chassis. He won all four rounds of qualifying and was top qualifier ahead of reigning British Champion in this class David Spashett, driving the Zen-Racing car he has designed and developed himself. Chris Kerswell qualified 3rd for Zen-Racing/Hobbywing ahead of the Reedy-powered Yokomo of Mark Stiles.

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