ARC have announced the signing of top Italian racer Andrea Pirani to their team. The former long time WRC driver and ENS font runner will race the Taiwanese company’s R8.0 and joins a team that includes European Championship runner up Toni Gruber, Lars Hoppe, John Ermen and Cristiano Sartor. Expect to see the quick Italian during the entire ENS & Italian National series as well as next year’s World Championships in France.
Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]
Following yesterday’s announcement regarding Lee Martin leaving Mugen, Team Infinity have today confirmed that the British driver will be joining their International team. A World class off road driver, a former multiple European champion and multi time Worlds finalist who has been competing at the highest level for many years, he joins the Infinity team, which up until this point has focused on onroad, to help work on the company’s upcoming 1/8th offroad project. Lee had the following to say about the deal:
It’s a pleasure to be joining the Creation Model / Infinity team. The team infrastructure and their desire to succeed at the highest possible standard not only excites me but inspires me. Assisting in the development stage of the new 1/8th off road range is an opportunity that I could not miss, having the chance to work with Miura San to produce the most competitive vehicles we can with no compromises. Thank you to Kenji San for the chance to be apart of something special. Work starts now!
Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]
Dialed In Raceway was the host for round 3 of the Top Notch Tour this past weekend with the event attracting around 100 entries. Mugen team driver Adam Drake topped both rounds of qualifying for both nitro buggy and nitro truck and so would start first in both A-mains. In the nitro buggy final, Drake would take the win followed by Tyler Brown and Ronda Drake.
Source: Mugen [mugenracing.com]
Spanish frontrunners, Oscar and Bryan Baldo have announced the departure from long-term sponsors Mugen and Modelix Racing. The two leave behind a fruitful campaign and despite national level wins both were never able to grab the title from 11-times national champion and Mugen/Modelix teammate, Robert Batlle. Oscar and Bryan have the following to say:
We would like to inform you those after great moments in Modelix, We Will separate our ways next year. We would also like to thank Marc, Christian and Roger, for all the assistance provide to us during 8 years, thank you for the good moments and amazing years. We wish to Modelix all the Best in the future. And of course, see you soon in the track.
The 2016 U.S. Open Fuel Championships were held this past weekend at Fear Farm Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. TLR’s Tanner Denney would take the combined Grand Championship after ending the mains day sitting in third overall in the E-Buggy class and coming in second in Nitro Truggy. In Pro Buggy with the rain coming down hard during both semis, Tanner ended up starting TQ by just 1 second and with the mains being called he got the overall win in Buggy and with it the Grand Championship in front of Tekno’s Joe Bornhorst.
Source: U.S. Open Fuel Championships [facebook.com]
The 2016 Guan Kou Sunpadow GP in Xiamen, China is in the books and with Nicholas Lee dominating the Modified Touring class and wrapping up the title on Saturday it was up to the 1/8th scale class to provide some excitement for the spectators on Sunday and it didn’t disappoint. With light rain overnight and a sprinkling or two during the day it was enough to cause some issues but this all added to the excitement.
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Saturday at the Guan Kou Sunpadow Grand Prix in Xiamen, China and the remaining two rounds of qualifying for all classes was reduced to just one with the weather forecast predicting rain. This decision made in the morning confirmed the top qualifying spot for both Simon Kurzbuch and Nicholas Lee in the 1/8th and Modified touring classes having both took all 3 rounds on Friday. It was also decided to run two of the 3 touring car A-mains on Saturday, but in the end the forecast was, as it most of the time is, wrong and it turned out to be a warm sunny day.
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This weekend sees the top drivers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, along with some select top international racers, including current World Champion Simon Kurzbuch, descend on the ARC International Raceway in Xiamen, China for the Guan Kou Sunpadow GP. Greeted by this amazing facility with its 200m long 3 storey driver stand and impressive track, this is the same facility that will host the 2017 IFMAR EP Offroad World Championships next November on its dirt offroad track. This race is for onroad only with 8 heats of 1/8th scale onroad and 7 heats of EP onroad split between modified and stock. This is also a money race with the winner in each class to receive approximately USD 3000.
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