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February 17, 2014

Wernimont & Due victorious at Motorama

Wernimont & Due succeed at Motorama

This weekend was the 36th annual Motorama show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event hosts what is possibly the largest RC race around, over 700 entries across two tracks, along with a host of other motor sport events, thousands of visitors pass through the doors and are exposed to RC as a hobby and sporting event. The weekend started with travel problems for most, with the East coast being battered by a storm. This meant that a few drivers had to alter their plans and didn’t receive luggage until half way through the practice day. Despite the problems everyone made the show and were all sorted by the end of practice day. With practice untimed it was difficult to gauge pace, but with the teams cars all feeling good they were ready for racing. Qualifying was to be decided with 2 counting rounds from 3, with bump up finals throughout. This meant consistency would be critical for a good qualifying position, but if all goes wrong it was still possible to bump up.

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February 17, 2014

Mobers & Hilbert take German 1/12th national titles

The 2014 German 1/12th nationals took place at the MAC Burgdorf club in Northern Germany this past weekend. Nearly 40 drivers attended in the Modified “EA” and Stock “EB” class. In Modified it was multi-time national champion Markus Mobers who not only took the TQ but also secured himself another national title by winning the first and second A-final in front of Daniel Sieber. The latter than took the vice-championship title while Tim Altmann came in third to complete the podium. In the Standard class Moritz Hilbert made a clean sweep by winning all three A-finals after dominating the qualifiers to take the TQ spot. The runner-up spot and vice-championship went to Sven Stoffels who left Jens Ginnuttis in third position.

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February 17, 2014

Jörn Neumann wins 4WD at 2014 Offroad Wars

Team Durango’s Jörn Neumann went away with the TQ and win in the 4WD class at the 2014 Offroad Wars held at Maritime Raceway this past weekend. In the finals he battled it out with former TD teammate Ellis Stafford (TLR) who ended in second place. After very mixed finals Richard Lowe finally grapped the last remaining podium spot after coming in 2nd in the third A main and after only scoring a 4th and 6th place in leg 1 and 2. Danny McGee and Craig Collinson completed the top 5 result. In the 2WD class Ellis Stafford made a clean sweep by taking the TQ and an early win by taking A main 1 and 2. Richard Lowe had to settle for second while Jörn Neumann ended in third after scoring a DNF in the third leg.

Source: Maritime Raceway [maritimeracing.info]

February 17, 2014

David Crompton wins at SWorkz Winter Series Rd5

Radiosistemi RR8 driver David Crompton walked away with the win at the 5th round of the SWorkz Winter Series. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) came in second while Colin Brennan (Xray) completed the podium. Graeme Miller (TLR) and Gavin Uttely (SWorkz) rounded out the top five.

Source: Radiosistemi [radiosistemi.it]

February 17, 2014

Balestri & Apolaro win at Florida Winternats

The 38th annual Florida Winternats were run last weekend in Fort Myers, Florida. The race again attracted a huge number of drivers including some international starts alongside the fastest nitro on-road racers from the U.S.. In 1/8th Open Capricorn driver Dario Balestri, running for his new engine sponsor XRD, took the win some six laps ahead of top qualifier Mike Swauger (Xray/Picco) with Flavio Elias (Mugen/Novarossi) coming in third another three laps down.

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February 17, 2014

Robert Batlle wins Grand Prix de Montpellier

Mugen’s Robert Batlle has won the annual Grand Prix de Montpellier in a thrilling final against Agama’s Darren Bloomfield who took TQ for the hour long final. First Robert was challenged by Darren Bloomfield and Elliot Boots (Kyosho) and also Xray’s Renaud Savoya was in the mix but once Elliot broke his car and Renaud suffered a short engine hick-up Robert could open a gap to the field. Towards the end Darren then shifted into second gear, charging Battle hard and eventually overtaking him only minutes from the one hour mark but an empty fuel tank prevented Darren from taking the win for Agama. Robert would take the win for Mugen while Darren managed to take the runner-up spot. Reno Savoya came in third, only one lap down.

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February 16, 2014

Korgae Scales wins WGT at WCICS Rd6

Round 6 of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held on the wide open prairies of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Regina Club FASTRAXX hosted a great event, with 7 classes and championship points all on the line. In the World GT class it was the 2013 WCICS WGT champion, CRC sponsored Korgae Scales with his GenX-10SE that took TQ and win over Team Associated’s Peter Tozser and his RC10R5.1. WCICS President Josh Carter drove his Xray X10 to the final spot on the podium. Next up is round 7 in British Columbia hosted by Thompson Valley RC in Kamloops on March 7-9th.

Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]

February 14, 2014

DRCMU race Rd5 – Report

The Tinglev Modelbilklub recently run round 5 of the DRCMU series for 1/10th electric on-road classes. It was the fifth race of seven this winter. Tinglev Modelbilklub is a little Danish RC club located in Tinglev in the South of Jutland not far away from the German border. Although a little club, Ti-Mo always manage to get a good number of racers to come to their race in the Tinglevhallen. This weekend made no exception as it brought 90 entries in total, and with 74 touring car racers on Sunday it was the biggest one day 1:10 RC race in Denmark. The 30×16 meters track was equipped with a brand new carpet and a new layout.

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