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December 9, 2015

Ronald Völker wins at Charity Race 2015

Last weekend’s annual Charity Race, organised by the Team La Gang and hosted by the RC Landia facility in Scandiano, Italy, not only saw the running of a competitive Touring Stock class but the race also attracted some of Europe’s fastest Touring Car Modified racers. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker and Tamiya’s Marc Rheinard would battle for the TQ and while Marc took round TQs in Q1 and Q2, Ronald stroke back in Q3 and Q4 with the two ending tie on points but the better tie-breaker, Ronald only finished in 3rd in Q2, handed Marc the pole position for the triple A-mains. In the opening main Ronald came out fastest one lap ahead of Yannic Prümper (Yokomo) while Marc ended the race in third only 1.2 tenth of a second shy of Yannic. A2 had the top 3 drivers upping their game as Marc, Ronald and Yannic ended the race within 7 tenth of a second. The third and decisive A-main again ended super close with Ronald and Marc separating only 0.6 seconds on the finish line, meaning Ronald would take the overall win from Marc and Yannic. Victor Wilck and Marcel Geiger completed the top 5 result.

Image: RC Landia [facebook.com]

December 9, 2015

Apolaro & Toedtmann win at US Nitro World Cup

The annual US Nitro World Cup was held in Kissimmee, Florida with some of the nation’s fastest racers as well as guests from abroad in attendance. In the premier 1/8th on-road class DJ Apolaro and Italy’s Daniele Ielasi battled for the TQ with the better end for DJ who would grab the overall TQ by 3 seconds. In the 1/10th Sedan class the race for the TQ would be between Thilo Toedtmann, Scotty Gray and DJ Apolaro and ultimately it would be Thilo who would grab the overall TQ.

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December 7, 2015

Ryan Lutz doubles at U.A.E. National Day Event

The Binona RC track in Al Ain, UAE held its first international race event this past weekend. Although a bit light in terms of entries the event had some special guests in the form of Ryan Lutz, Surkiarn C. and Meen Vejrak. The opening qualifier of the Nitro Buggy class belonged to Ryan Lutz but making too many mistakes and being stuck in traffic meant the US boy would not be able to improve, but he would end up with the TQ in Nitro Truggy. In the opening stages of the 45 minute Buggy A-main Ryan was in a battle with Meen for the lead until he found a groove and was able to open a 2 seconds gap. A disastrous lap with three mistakes soon after saw him loosing about 18 seconds on Meen but constantly pulling high 29 seconds laps while Meen was doing low 30’s allowed Lutz to close the gap slowly but steadily. In the lead by about 10 seconds Meen made a mistake and he soon after round his tyres to become unglued so he had to pit for a new set which allowed Ryan to take over the lead and to bring home the win by some five laps after the 45 minutes. Surikarn C. would grab the runner-up spot five seconds in front of Meen V. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truggy class Ryan Lutz had a pretty easy 45 minutes, winning the race some 8 laps in front of Edward Anthonijsz in second and Tamas Klein in third.

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December 7, 2015

Max Mächler wins Touring Stock class at Charity Race

The annual Charity Race was held this past weekend at RC Landia in Scandiano, Italy. As usual the race attracted the some of the fastest Italian drivers to compete against guests from abroad and in the 13.5T Touring Stock class it was Germany’s Max Mächler (Awesomatix) who would be in control of things by taking the overall TQ from Riccardo Rabitti and Gabriele Berselli (Xray). In the opening A-main Max would score a clean win some four seconds on front of Nico Catelani (Yokomo) and Riccardo. A2 and it was Nico who would come out fastest from Riccardo while Max only finished in 4th place meaning the third and final leg would bring the decision for the day’s win. Scoring the fastest lap in the finals, Max soon made his intensions clear to bring home the win in A3 and at the end he would come out successful some three seconds in front of Riccardo and Nico to grab the 13.5T Touring Stock title from Nico Catelani on the runner-up spot while Riccardo Rabitti rounded out the podium in third.

Image: Max Mächler

December 7, 2015

Euro Nitro Series releases 2016 calendar

The Euro Nitro Series has released details of its 2016 calendar with the third season of the hugely successful nitro onroad championship again set to run over four rounds. With almost 300 drivers from around the world registering championship points over the 2015 season, a growth of over 10% on its inaugural running in 2014, the ENS will take competitors to Italy, Austria and Germany.

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December 7, 2015

Maifield takes new 2WD to victory at JConcepts INS

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Ryan Maifield has taken the overall 2WD Mod Buggy win at the JConcepts Indoor National Series Finals in Omaha Nebraska. Winner of A1 from fourth on the grid, the TLR driver was gifted an early Christmas present in A2 when arch rival & Top Qualifier Ryan Cavalieri rolled his Associated onto its roof on lap 6 allowing Maifield to go to the front. While Maifield would make a mistake in the double double while leading, Cavalieri would simultaneously get it wrong in the same section of track allowing Maifield to survive to win the leg and claim the overall win on his dirt race debut with the TLR22 3.0. World Champion Spencer Rivkin would take a hard fought win in A3 but on the tie break it was Cavalieri who got second with the the 17-year-old having to settle for completing the podium at the Hobbyplex.

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December 3, 2015

Hudy to supply official tire additive for ETS 2015/16

Hudy Tire Additive (#106260) has once again been chosen by the ETS organisation as the official tire additive for the 2015/2016 season. The additive, which will be coloured for each round, comes supplied in a special ETS specific 30ml see-through bottle and will be handed out to all racers at the start of each event.

Source: Hudy [hudy.net]

December 2, 2015

Marco Baruffolo joins Hot Race Tyres

Italian company Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of 2013 European Champion B, Marco Baruffolo to their team. Following a very strong showing this year Marco will not only use Hot Race’s tyres in the 2016 season but he, along with his father, will also assist with product development during his campaign that will see appearances at all major national and international races including the IFMAR Worlds in Las Vegas.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]