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January 21, 2019

Prümper & Mächler successful at 2019 GP3F

The French MRC Longwy club hosted their annual Grand Prix des 3 Frontières this past weekend. Run in Touring Modified and Stock classes the event attracted many of Europe’s fastest electric on-road drivers with Infinity’s Marc Rheinard leading the way in TC Mod after the qualifiers from Infinity teammate, Yannic Prümper in 2nd. Awesomatix’s Lucas Urbain and Freddy Südhoff came in 3rd and 4th respectively. The finals then saw Yannic coming out on top in A1 and A3 while Marc went on to win A2, cementing his overall runner-up position following nice battles with his teammate. Xray’s Bruno Coelho came in 3rd in the opening A-main, however Lucas Urbain would grab the 3 spot overall after the triple A-mains.

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January 18, 2019

2019 RC Lemans Series – Announcement

The popular Pro10 RC Lemans Series, held in Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, is going into its 14th season this year with the championship kicking off on the weekend of the 28th of April in Rucphen, The Netherlands. The series is held in Pro10 Modified and 10.5T Zero Boost Stock classes and as 2-day events with free practice on Saturday and qualifiers and finals on Sunday. Full information (in German language) as well as all dates and venues can be found on the official website here.

January 18, 2019

Team Associated sign Alex Duchet

Team Associated have announced that top French and Euro Touring Series driver Alex Duchet has joined the 29-time IFMAR World Champion team. In conjunction with Ruddog Distribution GmbH and CML Distribution, Alex will be racing his Reedy-powered TC7.2 around Europe and in the ultra-competitive ETS series. Alex’s multi-year commitment will allow him to work closely with members of the staff to evolve the touring car platform and continue to deliver a quality product to our customers and racers. Ruddog Team Manager Andreas Myrberg had this to say about Alex joining the team, “To merely say I am excited about Alex joining Team Associated would be an understatement. Alex will be the perfect asset to both showing the performance of our car as well as helping to develop it further. His raw speed and dedicated approach will benefit us hugely. I am very much looking forward to working closely with him. Let’s go racing!

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

January 17, 2019

Keven Hebert joins Team Xpert

Team Xpert have announced the signing of top on-road racer, Keven Hebert to their team for 2019. Keven will equip his new Xray rides using Xpert’s range of high-performance competition servos and he had the following to say about the deal:

I am happy to join Xpert for 2019. I had the chance to test the servos in both my touring car and 1/12 in the last few weeks and I am very impressed with the quality of the products. I want to thank Danny at Apex RC and Willie for getting me on board.

Source: Hobby Authority [hobbyauthority-dist.com]

January 17, 2019

Xray sign Keven Hebert

Xray and RC America have announced the signing of Keven Hebert to their team. The former long-time Team Associated factory driver left AE at the end of last year and has now found a new home at Xray where the former multi-time Snowbird, IICC and ROAR US National Champion will campaign the company’s T4 touring and X12 pan car platforms. Keven says:

I am very excited to start the 2019 season with Xray/RC America. I want to thank them for this opportunity to be part of a very strong team. The quality of the products and team speaks for itself and I am really looking forward to a great year of racing! See you all very soon at the race track.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 14, 2019

British Off-Road Grand Prix 2019 – Report

The British Off-Road Grand Prix 2019 also known as the MK GP was held in Milton Keynes this past weekend. The race is held in the super-sized MK shopping centre, a superb location with approx. 100,000 visitors per day, and organised by the capable Silverstone RCMCC. With 180 plus entries and several of Europe’s very best professional RC racers in attendance the MK GP was always going to be the ‘must-attend’ event for the major manufacturers for the main 1/10th off-road 2WD and 4WD Buggy classes, making it possibly the biggest off-road event taking place in the UK this year. The track looked relatively simple from the side-lines, but clearly as each heat of drivers took to the track the difficulties became clear – getting a smooth, trouble free 5x minute qualifier would be hard to achieve.

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January 14, 2019

Sobue & Ratheisky extend OneTen winning streaks

Akio Sobue has maintained his perfect record at the 2018/19 OneTen Series presented by Infinity having taken the win in the 8-minute A-main here in Guangzhou. Having already wrapped up the title with the win in round 5 yesterday, the Japanese driver led a mostly processional race as racers drove with battery conservation in mind. In the end, the top 4 finished in the positions they started with Sawada crossing the line in 2nd, while Nicholas Lee and Jan Ratheisky, who had a good battle early on, completed the top 4 with Haoran Ma in 5th. The talk before the race was trying to finish the 8 minutes on this high speed track and Sobue said he drove the race very smoothly, having pushed hard in the first few laps to build a gap. He was able to maintain his lead and in the end had a lot of power left in his 6300mAh cells. Despite having taken the title, the Infinity driver said he will for sure be in Hong Kong for the final two rounds saying he is aiming for a perfect score in the series.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

January 14, 2019

Jörn Neumann doubles at DHI Cup

The annual DHI Cup was held in Odense, Denmark this past weekend. As usual the race was held simultaneously on an off-road and an on-road track with the tracks sharing the drivers’ stand. In the 1/10th Buggy categories it was Schumacher’s Jörn Neumann with the clean sweep, taking the win in both 2WD and 4WD as HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk and Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen came in 2nd and 3rd respectively in 2WD Buggy. Over in 4WD Buggy it was David Ronnefalk with the runner-up spot from HB Racing teammate, Hampus Berg in 3rd.

View the 4WD podium here