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May 5, 2019

Davide Ongaro sweeps RCGP opener

The opening round of the newly-founded RCGP series was held in Manila, Philippines this past weekend. The event is held in the RCGP Pro and RC2 Open classes with the latter being open to non-sponsored drivers while the RCGP category is intended for Pro teams of one to two drivers. The RCGP class is also separated into two races per weekend with race 1 being swept by Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro who took the TQ and overall win from the HB Racing duo of David Ronnefalk and Cole Ogden. Mugen’s Robert Batlle came in 4th from Infinity’s Kyle McBride in 5th. JQ Racing’s Max Mort, SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas and Infinity’s Lee Martin completed the top 8 results.

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May 2, 2019

2019 RC-Lemans Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2019 RC-Lemans Series was held as a joint event together with the first International Foam Race IFR at the MAC de Baanbrekers club in Rucphen, The Netherlands. The weather forecast saw wet and windy conditions, however the weekend kicked off with dry weather on Friday and parts of Saturday. The opening qualifier for the 1/8th Electric Stock and Pro10 Modified, Stock and Super Stock classes was also held in dry conditions, however things went down from there. The 1/8th Stock class saw Adrien Viallet taking the opening qualifier from the Smits brothers, Martijn and Jeroen. Jeroen in turn would take the second qualifier in front of Martijn while Jeroen Smits came in 3rd. During Sunday’s wet qualifiers the drivers opened to not start meaning Martin would take the pole position for the finals. Martin would then take the opening A-main with quite a margin, however Adrien came out on top in the wet A2 and A3 for the overall. Martin and Jeroen would complete the top 3 podium.

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May 1, 2019

Performa Racing sign Ryan Maifield

Performa Racing has announced that multiple time World Champion racer Ryan Maifield has signed to campaign their new line of RC products. The Mugen factory driver will use Performa Racing’s line of competition 1/8th scale electronics and he has the following to say about the deal:

I’m extremely impressed with the Performa line of products, the 1/8th electric speed control, motors and batteries are a game changer and have been a huge step forward for my race program, I’m excited to see what comes next from Performa. I will use everything at the Silver State for the first time.

Source: Performa Racing [performaracing.com]

April 29, 2019

Greiner takes exciting maiden 1/8th victory

Dominic Greiner has taken a hard fought win in the opening round of the ENS this afternoon in Italy. Better known for his 1/10th exploits, the Serpent driver pulled off a major upset, utilising a well executed tire and fuel strategy to get the better of multiple ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch. A late flameout by Dario Balestri took the Infinity driver out of contention while mixing it at the front, ending up in 5th, allowing veteran racer Alberto Picco to pick up the pieces and claim 3rd. Coming home 4th, Lamberto Collari looked set early on to throw a curveball to his competitors by going 5 minutes between fuel stops, only to come short on the in lap of his 2nd stop. Having been stuck behind Carmine Raiola early in the 30 minute main, once passed Greiner had to set about catching the leading pair of Kurzbuch and Balestri, and was helped by doing 4 minutes between stops, his OS engine not as thirsty as the Novarossi based power units of those ahead. With all those up front on the same basic tire strategy, changing just the outside tires first and then all four, by the end of the race Greiner’s tires were done and with Kurzbuch catching him fast he said ‘I had to remain calm as I knew I had only one minute to go’. His first podium in the 1/8th class at ENS, the German praised the improvements made to his Serpent 988 over the winter and is looking forward to a competitive season.

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April 29, 2019

Teemu Leino wins ENS season opener in Italy

Teemu Leino has taken the win today in the 1/10th scale class at the opening round of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna after rain caused a long delay in the day’s proceedings. The Finn took the victory from a hard charging Alessio Mazzeo, with pole man Leo Arnold having to settle for the final podium spot in 3rd after the he ran out of tires at the very end of the race. Thilo Todtmann would take 4th for Shepherd with Jilles Groskamp finishing up in 5th. Asked about his race win the Infinity driver simply said ‘the race was good’, noting that they changed their planned tire strategy during the race, going from an outside only tire stop to a full tire stop, after he felt that the track was more abrasive following the morning rain. Very pleased with the performance of his IF15, Leino was also quick to credit the very fast fuel and tire stops by his pitman Felix for him being able to take the lead in the 30 minute final. Running in 3rd for a very long time, his tire strategy played out in the final 5 minutes as he was able to pass both Mazzeo and Arnold within 1 lap of each other and go onto win the race even though he too began to run out of tires at the very end.

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April 29, 2019

Jörn Neumann sweeps International Warm-up Race

The popular Rhein–Main-Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany held the annual International Warm-up Race this past weekend. The event started off wet but in the end things would turn out nicely. As usual the race attracted some of Europe’s fastest 1/8th off-road racers and it was SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann who would make the sweep to win both the Nitro and Electric classes from the TQ spot. In Nitro it was Mugen’s Carsten Keller on the runner-up spot while SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier completed the top 3 podium result. Over in the E-Buggy class and behind winner Neumann, it was Micha Widmaier on the runner-up spot as Carsten Keller came in 3rd overall.

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April 29, 2019

Asian Nitro Championship Rd2 – Report

The second round of the 2019 Asian Nitro Championship was held at England Park Raceway in the Brisbane suburb town of Brendale, Australia this past weekend. With a rich 20-year history of hosting World Championships, Nationals and of course local club racing, EPR is truly a world-class facility that offers a 90×40 metre layout, a sunken pitstop area and floodlights for night-time racing. The 1/8th Open final saw an amazing start for the last main of the day. Along with perfect weather, a perfect textbook start would begin this race. Looking down the leaderboard with three minutes down, absolutely no positions had exchanged with everyone remaining in the same position they started. Jeff Hamon lead the group and would actually pit the very next minute and would execute a perfect stop. After some pit stops midway though the race, things would shuffle Jesse Davis into the lead. Fate would have many things in store for a lot of the racers still on the track.

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April 27, 2019

Leo Arnold claims his first ENS pole position

Taking his 3rd TQ run in Q4 of 1/10th qualifying, Leo Arnold put the pole position starting spot out of the reach of his rivals, the Xray driver dominant this weekend so far save for his Q2 collision with a slowing Teemu Leino. Jilles Groskamp will start directly behind the French man tomorrow with Alessio Mazzeo, Eduardo Escandon and Teemu Leino completing the top half of the grid. ‘My first TQ, I am very happy, the hard work pays off’ was how Leo described his qualifying, continuing ‘my car is easy for the final, if I want to push I can push’. With his father checking over the tires from qualifying, they will make a final decision on tire strategy once they have all the data, no changes to his NT1 planned.

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