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July 27, 2016

Neil Cragg takes European 2WD Electric Off-road title

This week’s 2016 EFRA European Electric Off-road Championships are held in Valladolid, Spain. First up was the 2WD event that saw the battle between UK’s Neil Cragg, campaigning Team Associated’s new B6D buggy and Germany’s Jörn Neumann, running a prototype of the forthcoming Serpent SRX2 Mid Hybrid low-medium traction buggy. Jörn would TQ three of the five qualifying rounds but the better tie-breaker time handed Neil the overall TQ. Behind the two Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski would line up third on the grid. In the opening A-main, Jörn would follow Neil in his slipstream but never found a way past and so the top 3 would end the leg as they started. A2 then had Jörn taking the win ahead of Michal while Neil had to settle for fifth due to massive traction rolling problems. In the third and decisive A-main, Neil brought home a very narrow win, only some two tenth of a second ahead of Michal while Jörn came in fourth. Ultimately and with two wins, Neil Cragg would take the 2016 2WD title from Jörn while young Michal rounded out the podium in third.

View the final results here

July 26, 2016

Marc Fischer teams up with Trion

Trion have announced the addition of Germany’s Marc Fischer to their factory team. The newly signed Capricorn pilot will be using Trion’s range of brushless motors and speed controllers alongside Muchmore LiPo batteries, chargers and tyre heaters. Marc has the following to say about the deal:

I would like to take the opportunity and thank Trion and Mr. Kobayashi as well as Muchmore and Mr. Jang for the support and the trust in me. This is a real dream coming true and I am looking forward to a fruitful cooperation for the remainder of this season and beyond.

Source: Trion [team-trion.jp]

July 26, 2016

Shin Adachi confirmed for Dragon Stone Champs

Adding to the growing talent pool of the 2016 Dragon Stone Asian Buggy Championships, the event’s organisers have announced the confirmation of one of the industry’s most notable and experienced racers, Team Serpent’s Shin Adachi. With Shin’s massive experience in 1/10th scale electric vehicles as multiple time Japanese National champion, Shin is also lead designer and team manager of Team Yokomo’s offroad division. In addition, Shin also plays a crucial part in Team Serpent’s 1/8th nitro development program. On top of his 1/10th scale accomplishments, Shin has made numerous appearances in Japan’s Nationals finals, a NeoBuggy finalist, and current 2016 FEMCA Vice Champion in 1/8th scale. Having Shin on hand will be great addition as he will be able to apply his experience and expertise to help all Team Serpent customers as well as demonstrating his 1/8th nitro prowess on track.

July 26, 2016

Giovanni Verbrugghe crowned 1/5 Touring Euro Champ

Giovanni Verbrugghe crowned 1/5th Touring Euro Champ

The 2016 EFRA 1/5th scale European Championships were held in Bologna, Italy last week and in the 30-minute main final it was Belgium’s Giovanni Verbrugghe who walked away with the win. Verbrugghe snatched the runner-up spot from Ales Bayer, who suffered from changing weather conditions, while Italy’s Lamberto Collari controlled the pace on the front end of the pack. Pole position holder Patrick Folman was out of the title race following several off-track experiences and another prominent victim of unplanned off-road excursions was leader Lamberto who spun out in the closing stages of the final, promoting Giovanni Verbrugghe into the lead that he would hold onto until the checkered flag to take the 2016 European Championship title from Lamberto Collari while Patrick Folman was able to recover to third overall.

Thanks to Giovanni Verbrugghe for the report.

July 26, 2016

Prague hosts Inaugural Junior World Championships

The city of Prague in the Czech Republic will host the inaugural Junior World Championships from the 3rd to 7th of August. Organised by the newly founded International Youth RC Models Association IYRCA in cooperation with the Pan European Society for Culture, Education and Scientific & Technical Cooperation, the Car Modeling Association of China, the RC Car Club Czech Republic as well as the International Federation of Model Auto Racing IFMAR, the event is especially aimed at young RC car drivers. The race will be held under the patronage of IFMAR’s Dallas Mathiesen, who will be present throughout the week, and it will see the running of four different classes including Touring Stock, Touring Modified, Formula Modified 17.5T/21.5T and 1/14th scale Touring Stock. 1/10th Touring Stock will be the premier category with the class seeing the use of hand-out kits and electronics that can be purchased and kept for a symbolic entry fee of 20 Euro including a set of GQ28R tyres. 1/14th scale is again a hand-out class while Touring Modified and Formula Modified, the latter run with open rubber tyres, 17.5T to 21.5T motors and blinky ESCs, will require the drivers to bring their own equipment. The Stock classes are run solely as Under 13 and Under 19 categories while in the Modified classes additionally see open age categories if required. Full event information as well as sign-up are available on the IYRCA website here.

July 26, 2016

Ronald Völker teams up with Mibosport

Mibosport have announced the signing of Yokomo’s Ronald Völker. A good friend of Mibosport’s Michal Bok the German frontrunner will help with both development and testing of new products, bringing in a vast amount of experience. Ronald has the following to say about the deal:

I am happy to announce that I will be joining the Mibosport Team as they show a great passion for RC by offering awesome products and running a very popular and successful Mibosport series throughout the winter season.

Source: Mibosport [mibosport.com]

July 25, 2016

Hagberg & Viljami end season with 2nd podium

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With new champion Bruno Coelho already wrapping up the win in A2, the final A-Main encounter of the 2015/16 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Season at the Hudy Arena would see Alexander Hagberg and Viljami Kutvonen cap of their seasons with a second podium finish. Leading away the field in A3, former race winner Hagberg would take a straight forward win to secure his first asphalt podium finish having last finished on the podium indoors at Round 2 in Germany. Having only secured his first ETS podium finish at Round 4 in Italy, Viljami was made to work a little harder for 3rd overall in Slovakia with Ronald Volker shadowing his every move before an attempted pass by Luxembourg race winner Jilles Groskamp tapped both drivers into a spin. This left Viljami to take an easy second with Yannic Prümper completing the Top 3 – a position that was to secure the VBC Racing driver 4th overall, his best result of the season. An intense battle for 4th in the leg would see Marc Rheinard punt Volker into the grass coming out of the second last corner. Crossing the line-up fourth as Volker’s Yokomo sat on the grass, the Taimya driver was later given a time penalty to put him behind Volker who was classified 8th.

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

July 25, 2016

Coelho caps off ETS title victory with 3rd win

Having clinched the Yokomo Euro Touring Series title yesterday when he claimed his third TQ of the season, Bruno Coelho today capped off his title winning campaign with a third win. Winning one of the most static A-Mains in the ETS’ 51 race history yesterday, not one position change taking place over the 5-minutes, Coelho again headed an Xray 1-2 to wrap up an early win at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. While up front the race was a repeat of A1, after initially looking like another 10 car procession the race came to life as Ronald Volker tagged Viljami Kutvonen as the pack backed up behind the Awesomatix driver. Surviving the tag to maintain third the Finn would later spin out at the end of the straight, him reporting afterwards he felt he got a bad set of tyres highlighting his 7th place starting team-mate Freddy Sudhoff being 4/10th a lap faster than him. While Volker, who said his car was ‘amazing’ would recover two of the positions lost after his contact with Viljami, an attempt to pass to Marc Rheinard for third ‘didn’t work out’ dropping the outgoing champion to P6. A much improved Rheinard would hold on to third followed by Yannic Prumper and the Serpent of 9th place starter Viktor Wilck.

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