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November 17, 2016

Orlowski aims for home win at ‘Warsaw Moto Show’ as EOS returns to Poland

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After a successful season opener at the Nurburgring in Germany in September, this weekend (18-20 Nov) Euro Offroad Series competitors will again race in high octane surroundings as Round 2 takes place as part of Warsaw Moto Show in the Polish capital city. A country that hosted the championship opener for three seasons in the city of Poznan as part of a Hobby & Gaming Show, there is much excitement about returning to Poland after a year off the EOS calendar in particular for title contender Michal Orlowski for whom the city of Warsaw is home. Opening Season #6 with a double podium finish, the Schumacher driver will be striving to better that this weekend with victory in particular in 2WD as he looks to clinch the title, having been the runner-up on his last two attempts.

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November 9, 2016

Arrowmax sign World Champion David Ronnefalk

Arrowmax have announced the signing of Sweden’s David Ronnefalk to their team. The 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion will be using the company’s range of tools and accessories and he joins an already high-class team of drivers such as Ronald Völker, Shin Adachi or Jörn Neumann. The HB Racing factory driver has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to say that I will from now on be using tools and other accessories that Arrowmax has to offer. Well known for the unique design and good quality the tools are also very light which is good for travelling. As I have been using them since one week, I can tell you that they are awesome! I want to thank Arrowmax for the opportunity and I’m sure that we both will benefit from our partnership.

Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]

November 1, 2016

MRC Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.

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November 1, 2016

Alessio Menicucci teams up with Mon-Tech Racing

Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has announced the signing of Alessio Menicucci to their team. The multiple Italian national champion and ETS finalist will deck out his Xray rides with Mon-Tech bodyshells from now on, joining swift team mates such as Portugal’s Bruno Coelho.

Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]

October 31, 2016

2016/17 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the 2016/17 Mibosport Cup was held this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice, Czech Republic and it saw a total of 233 entries for the four on-road and two off-road classes. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by reigning IFMAR Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker (Yokomo) who won the qualifying and took the overall TQ without any problems. Behind him Viktor Wilck (Serpent) and Tobias Seidl (Schumacher) made up the top 3 while, after some very strong runs in the qualifiers, Czech driver Radek Flek came in fourth.

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October 27, 2016

Asian Onroad Championships Rd4 – Report

Round four of the 2016 Asian Onroad Championships was held at PYC Raceway in Hong Kong. This unique, historical event was unluckily forecasted to coincide with a level 8 typhoon that would shut down most of the Hong Kong’s working force due to high wind, rain, and flooding advisory. However, miraculously enough the racing Gods would shine upon the AOC and slid the typhoon quickly across the dense city without any major harm or damage. Racing resumed on Saturday and the thrill of the AOC was back in action. One of the biggest standout feature about PYC Raceway is the smoothness of the surface. The silky asphalt top mimicked the pleasure of driving on carpet balanced with perfect curbs that allow every driver to press hard and use the curbing without too much penalty. The layout had great flow mixed with high and medium speed corners that required a certain amount of stability to carry maximum corner speed. Although the layout was not extremely tricky, it was nice not having “luck” features or sections that would eliminate drivers from having close battles. The times were close.

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October 24, 2016

4 out of 4, Kurzbuch completes perfect ENS campaign

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Simon Kurzbuch completed the perfect championship campaign as he made it four wins from the four races that make up the Euro Nitro Series. Having already sewn up the title at Round 3 in Austria, the World Champion capped off his 2nd ENS title with a fourth win at 2016 season finale at the Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter track in Fiorano, Italy. Starting what would be reduced to a 30-minute final due to rain from fourth on the grid the Team Shepherd driver would go to the front just before the half way mark to go on and take victory ahead of Top Qualifier Dario Balestri, front tyre management hampering last year’s Champion’s quest for the win. Behind the two title protagonists, emerging star of the 2016 championship Toni Gruber would cap off a great campaign by claiming a second podium finish of the season.

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October 24, 2016

Greiner wins ENS finale, Leino is Champion

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Dominic Greiner has won the season finale of the Euro Nitro Series but it is Teemu Leino who claimed the biggest prize with 6th in a rain shortened A-Main in Fiorano enough to crown him the 2016 1:10 Champion. Top Qualifier for the race, a heavy crash with Marc Rheinard would leave Greiner with a difficult car for the final but strategy and quick work by his pit crew would allow the Serpent driver to take his first win of the season. With the race going 40 of the scheduled 45-minutes, the World Champion’s second ENS win would come ahead of title contender Eric Dankel, the fast closing Mugen driver finishing 4-second off when the race was stopped. Having led for a time in first half of the race, last year’s race winner Alessio Mazzeo was to complete the podium at Mini Autodromo Jody Scheckter. Starting second on the grid, while Leino never needed to win the race to secure the title he didn’t make things easy for himself with an early off that resulting in a flameout and the loss of 2-laps raising the heart rates of his Team Infinity crew. Keeping his composure and a close eye on the progress of points leader coming into the weekend Dirk Wischnewski, the Finn would recover from 11th with the fastest lap of the race to finish 6th. With Wischnewski finishing 4th, this was enough for Leino to take the title by 3-points from the German with Dankel’s second giving him 3rd a further 1-point back.

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