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April 30, 2018

Jörn Neumann wins at International Warm-Up Race

The 12th annual International Warm-Up Race was held at the Rhein-Main-Circuit in Bischofsheim, Germany this past weekend. The event marks the season opener for the 1/8th Off-road classes in Germany and traditionally attracts many racers from Germany and the surrounding countries. In the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class it was SWorkz’s Jörn Neumann with the win in the rain-delayed 30-minute main final, only about a second in front of Agama’s Burak Kilic. RC gypsy Joseph Quagraine (JQ Racing) would round out the top 3 podium results from SWorkz’s Micha Widmaier 4th and Mugen’s Carsten Keller 5th.

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April 25, 2018

Neil Cragg Alpha-powered for 2018

UK Alpha distributors X-Factory UK have that UK frontrunner, Neil Cragg will be using the Asian engines for the 2018 season. The long-time LRP driver, who only recently announced the end of his collaboration with the German brand, will be using the new Alpha Dragon 4 engine, combined with Alpha 2134 exhaust and P range of glow plugs to power his 1/8th scale nitro rides and he has the following to say:

I would like to let you guys know that I will be using Alpha Engines in my nitro cars for the 2018 season! I would like to thank Jon Dell and the whole team for giving me this opportunity. Having tested the engines I am super pleased with the performance so far. I look forward to racing for Alpha, starting at Westmill for the 1st round of the BRCA Nationals this coming weekend.

Source: X-Factory UK [xfactoryrc.co.uk]

April 23, 2018

Orlowski is double EOS Champion

Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2.

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April 23, 2018

Atsushi Hara wins 2018 FEMCA Buggy Championship

The 2018 FEMCA 1/8th Nitro Buggy Championship was held at the Banana RC Track in Batam Island, Indonesia this past week. A total of 96 drivers from Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, Mongolia, Taiwan, Kuwait and Indonesia attended this event whose schedule saw six rounds of 10-minute qualifying with the best four to count. After 6 qualifying rounds, Kyle Mcbride (Team Associated/Novarossi) took the TQ honours, however he ran into battery problem in the main final, meaning he would only be able to finished in 3rd place overall. Up front it was Mugen racer Atsushi Hara who took his O.S.-powered ride to a popular win, some two laps in front of Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi ) in 2nd position.

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April 22, 2018

Orlowski takes important A1 win

Michal Orlowski has taken an important A1 victory at the EOS finale in Germany, the Schumacher driver going to the front on the opening lap after a mistake by team-mate & Top Qualifier Joern Neumann. Chased by title rival Bruno Coelho, the Pole then got a further break when the defending champion traction rolled allowing Orlowski to take control of the race and even survive a small mid race roll. With Neumann and Coelho’s incidents dropping them down the field it would be 6th place starter Martin Wollanka who would finish second. The Austrian would see off a strong challenge from Neil Cragg who completed the top 3 ahead of AE team-mate Joona Haatanen, Neumann and Martin.

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April 22, 2018

Schumacher 1-2 as Neumann TQs EOS Finale

Schumacher will start 1-2 on the grid for the Euro Offroad Series championship deciding 4WD A-Main, with Joern Neumann continuing his reign at the EOS’ first ever outdoor event at Arena33. Top Qualifier and winner of 2WD, the German claimed the 4WD pole with his second TQ run in the fourth & final qualifier while, having TQ’d Q3, title contender Michal Orlowski will start 2nd. The only other driver with a TQ run but having a fraught Q4, defending champion Bruno Coelho will line his Xray up third ahead of the Associated of Neil Cragg and Yokomo of Lee Martin.

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April 22, 2018

Coelho tops Q2 at EOS Finale

Bruno Coelho has opened the concluding day of the Euro Offroad Series Season Finale with a TQ run. The Xray driver topped the second round of qualifying from Neil Cragg after a late error from Q1 pace setter Joern Neumann dropped him back to 4th. After pulling up in the opening qualifier last night, title challenger Michal Orlowski would complete the Top 3 ahead of his Schumacher team-mate. A close qualifier, with 2nd to 5th all running 5:08 times, Martin Wollanka would take his Sworkz to the 5th fastest time with Joona Haatanen rounding out the Top 6.

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April 21, 2018

Neumann takes opening 4WD qualifier

Joern Neumann has taken the opening round of 4WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Despite twice crashing in the same spot, the Schumacher driver would just hold on to TQ ahead of Lee Martin in a round that saw almost all the drivers make mistakes. Having topped seeding Michal Orlowski made a costly error on his second lap losing 7-seconds and following further errors eventually decided to pull off. Coelho was the early pace setter but he too had mistakes which saw him and Neumann swapping positions until he dropped 2-seconds to the German with a mistake on the penultimate lap. Martin would also run at the top of the timing screens for a time until he had a tumble in front of Neumann all of which played into the hands of 10th seed Neil Cragg who would have a clean run to get a Top 3 finish.

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