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December 4, 2017

Völker & Mächler win at 2017 Charity Race 2.0

The 2017 Charity Race 2.0 was organised by Team La Gang and hosted by the RCLandia track in Scandiano, Italy this past weekend. The annual race was held in Touring Modified, 13.5T Stock, Formula, 1/12th and GT12 classes and again attracted some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against international guests. In the Touring Modified class it was Yokomo’s Ronald Völker who took three of the four qualifying rounds for the overall TQ from Xray’s Marco Kaufmann and Infinity’s Marc Rheinard. After the triple A-mains it was again Ronald on top courtesy of wins in all three A-mains as Marco Kaufmann and Marc Rheinard made up the podium result in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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December 4, 2017

Jesse Davis TQs & wins at US World Nitro Cup

Last weekend’s 2017 US World Nitro Cup saw Infinity’s Jesse Davis walking away with the TQ and win in the 1/8th Open class. Jesse took the TQ from Infinity teammate, Naoto Matsukura and he also scored a commanding win in the 45-minutes A-main, wrapping up the title with a 6-laps lead from Lamberto Collari, making it an Infinity 1-2. Serpent’s Joaquin De Soto came in 3rd, another two laps down.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net] | Image: Joaquin De Soto

December 4, 2017

Thilo Tödtmann takes US World Nitro Cup title

The 2017 US World Nitro Cup was held at Full Throttle Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida this past weekend. As usual the event attracted both national racers as well as guests from abroad with this year’s event again attracting a strong field of European drivers. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Sedan class the top 3 after the qualifiers was an all-Infinity affair with Jilles Groskamp on top followed by Andy Moore and Teemu Leino. DJ Apolaro and Thilo Tödtmann would round out the top 5 results.

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November 29, 2017

Pan Car Masters 2018 – Announcement

The MRTM track in Lostallo, Switzerland will play host to the 2018 Pan Car Masters & 1/8th Electric Track GP on the weekend of the 20th of May. Dubbed the unofficial Pro10 World Championship, the event will be held in several 1/10th 235mm Pan Car classes including Modified, 10.5T Stock and 13.5T Classic while also offering Swiss GT 13.5T and Formula 21.5T categories. In addition 1/8th E-Onroad Modified 4S/6S and 1/8th E-Onroad Stock 4S “Buri” classes will be run. The event will be organised by DownforceRC and VIP Performance and more information can be found here.

November 26, 2017

2017 Asia Onroad Championship finale – Report

The 2017 AOC series has come to an end at Japan’s iconic Yatabe Arena this weekend after a great series that spanned five events over the 2017 season. Befitting an awesome finale, the drivers enjoyed high-grip carpet racing with a very deep and competitive field with many coming from all corners of the planet. This event used a double A-main format with the best result between the two mains counted toward an overall winner. Ties were broken by overall laps and best time.

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November 23, 2017

Andrea Pirani rolling on Hot Race rubber for 2018

Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Italy’s Andrea Pirani to their team. The multiple national Champion and European podium finisher will use the company’s tyres at open races world-wide while also helping with product development.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

November 20, 2017

Maifield comes to China empty handed but leaves as double World Champion

Ryan Maifield came to the 1:10 Offroad World Championships in Xiamen, China, empty handed in terms of the sport’s biggest prize. Declaring early on he was not a fan of the track, 7 days on the Yokomo driver leaves as a double World Champion becoming only the fourth driver in the 17 runnings of the championship to do so. Having claimed his first ever World title when he wrapped up the 2WD title in A2, the deciding of the 4WD title would go down to the wire with A3 throwing up one of the craziest World finals ever with Maifield himself admitting he didn’t really remember what happened. In the end, it was hard to follow the chaos of which car was flying off where, it was his protege Spencer Rivkin who would win the decider from 5th on the grid as Maifield got by Tessmann on the final lap. The third of the title contenders going into A3, David Ronnefalk would lead from after the first lap, staying there for 2-laps until a mistake. With further mistakes ending his chances of a first EP World title, he opted to pull up for the final two laps and watch the thrilling finish, his win in A2 & 3rd in the opener enough to secure second overall. With his surprise A3 win, Rikvin snatched the final step of the podium on tie break leaving Top Qualifier Tessmann with fourth, with Xray team-mate & outgoing champion Bruno Coelho ending up 9th despite lining up 3rd for his title defence.

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November 18, 2017

Ronnefalk takes A2

David Ronnefalk has taken a tricky A2 win at the 1:10 Offroad Worlds in Xiamen, the wind continued to pick up and making for difficult racing conditions. Having missed out on the TQ on a tie break with Ty Tessmann, Ronnefalk would capitalise on his former team-mate jumping wide out of the double section on the first lap, getting down the inside of the Canadian to take a lead he wouldn’t give up despite parking his HB Racing buggy in the piping in the chicane. With racers battling the wind rather than one another, Maifield would finish second after getting by Tessmann as the wind again put his Xray off target although the pairing would make a head to head dash to the line on the final lap with Maifield just hanging on by 0.058.

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