French front runner and national 1/8th scale champion, Jerome Aigoin will use Team Orion electric components in his E-Buggy 2015 campaign, the Swiss company announce. Jerome will be using the company’s 1/8th scale speed controllers, brushless motors, LiPo battery packs and chargers to power his cars in the coming season.
Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]
The 2014 AARCMCC WA EP10 Off-Road State Titles were held at West Coast Model RC in Bayswater, Western Australia. With a few interstate drivers travelling to the event including one international entrant, the stages were set for an exciting weekend after 2 days of practice. Saturday was set for the 2WD classes, qualifying was run over 4 rounds in the morning, with finals to be run in the afternoon. In 2WD Modified it was Josh Pain who took TQ honours over Craig Laughton and Darren Johnston. 2WD Stock saw Gabriel Mikhail take TQ over Kerren Nottle and Jarrod Smith.
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The 4th and final round of the Czech 1/8th off-road national championships was held last weekend at the RC Club Radotin track in Prague. Considered to be the country’s best off-road track the club did an amazing job preparing the track and the surrounding facilities. Martin Bayer took the TQ in both the 1/8th Nitro and E-Buggy class and he went on to win both categories and also the national titles despite missing one round due to the German nationals.
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Brondby Racing Club near Copenhagen recently held the 1st round of the PileCup in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, Super Stock, LeMans and Formula 1. The most exciting class was the Touring Car Super Stock category with Patrick Danielsen and Jack Holger Sorensen fighting for the win. After both scored a leg win in the opening A-mains the third and last final would be the decisive one and at the end it was Patrick who held everything together to take the win from Jack Holger Sorensen and Caspar Morgen.
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Round 6 of the JBRL Nitro Series was held at Revelation Raceway in Ontario, CA. Once again the series attracted a good amount of local talent and internationally experienced factory drivers. The event saw TLR’s Adam Drake walking away with the win in the 1/8th Expert Buggy class while Cody King (Kyosho) and Cody Smith (TLR) came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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Round 4 of the Kenji Cup was held at the Royal Camp Pondok Indah track in Indonesia with most drivers competing in the Touring Car 13.5T boosted class. Xray’s Bowie Ginting took the TQ honours in the penultimate qualifying round, followed closely by Muhammad Izzah who was only 1.6s behind. Danny Iswahyudi started from 3rd into the finals, 6.5 seconds behind the TQ holder with Suwardi Suliandy rounding out the top 4. The A-main saw Bowie securing the overall win early by coming out successful in leg 1 and leg 2. Izzah combined his double 2nd place finishes to grab the runner-up spot while Ronny completed the podium for an Xray 1-2-3.
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The 7th and final round of the RC Lemans took place at the prestigious MRC Oberhausen track. With the championship still open the race would decide about the overall title between last year’s German Pro10 champion and RC Lemans winner, Tim Altmann and this year’s German Pro10 champion, Tobias Weist. Before the event Tobias was leading the ranking by 2 points meaning the pressure was on Tim to defend his RC Lemans title after already loosing the German national title to Tobias.
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Naoto Matsukura is the new Electric Touring Car World Champion. Just days after relinquishing the 1:12 World title he held for six years, the Japanese driver becomes the sixth winner of the sport’s biggest accolade achieving something that eluded his mentor & RC legend Masami Hirosaka. The 8th running of the championships, four drivers went into the third A-Main at the Kissimmee track in contention for the title. Despite an intense challenge from pre-event favourite Ronald Volker, Matsukura took the A3 win and with it his fourth IFMAR World title. Finishing the leg third behind the Yokomo team-mates, Xray’s A1 winner and star of the Florida event Bruno Coelho would finish second overall leaving a disappointed Volker to complete the podium.
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