Matrix have announced the renewal of their partnership with Martin Hudy. The international top driver and regular A-main contender is Xray’s very own on-road head designer and in the 2015 season Martin will be present at all major on-road races including the Euro Nitro Series.
Source: Matrix [matrixtires.it]
During last weekend’s FEMCA Asia Championships held at the TRC track in Hong Kong, KM Racing’s Takahaka Shoki grabbed the win in the premier 1/8th scale class some four laps in front of Mugen driver Chui Kai Leung. Wu Zheng Zhong (Serpent) rounded out the podium in 3rd, finishing another 3 laps down.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The Grand Opening WillSon Track Championship was held at the WillSon track in Denpasar, Bali. The track was designed and built by same track maker as the Cnetic track in Surabaya and thus it offers a fun and challenging layout. Racers from Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, and Medan attended the race with the race format seeing four rounds of 7 minute qualifiers followed by bump-up finals. After the qualifiers Jason Nugroho took the TQ and he started from pole position into the semifinals where he only finished in 3rd place following some issues with traffic. Starting from 3rd into the main final Jason had some more issues with traffic but around the 50 minute mark he was able to take the lead and never looked back to take the win in front of John Agus and Andre Irawan who came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
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The opening round of the RC Lemans Series was held at the MRG Genk track in Belgium. Warm temperatures and a high grip made for a pleasant time off and on the track and it attracted a good turnout of drivers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to compete in the Pro10 Modified and Stock classes. In the fast Modified class Tobias Weist from Germany took the TQ with the only 20 laps run in the qualifiers. Tim Altmann and Reinder Wilms came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Kai Altmann and Philipp Paul completed the top 5 result.
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The recent Philippine Masters, held in Manila, saw Team Associated’s Kyle McBride coming in 1st in the Nitro Buggy class followed by Novarossi teammate Adam Drake (Mugen). In the Truck category Adam Drake came out successful in front of fellow Novarossi driver Clemen Pancho.
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
A track where back in 1978 a 6-year-old Lamberto Collari would begin a career that has brought him 9-time World Champion titles, today the legend of the sport gave his rivals a master class in how to execute the perfect final as he took victory in the season opener of the Euro Nitro Series. Now owner of the L.Collari RC Raceway, Collari claimed his third ENS win by a full lap over Top Qualifier Dario Balestri with Andrea Pirani completing the podium in Bologna. The honour of best non Italian fell to defending champion Simon Kurzbuch who would finish 5th behind Alberto Picco after a difficult race.
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Man of the moment Bruno Coelho has won the opening round of Season #2 of the Euro Nitro Series in Bologna, Italy. Making his ENS debut, the factory Xray driver took victory in the 45-minute encounter over the HB of Jilles Groskamp and his Xray World Champion team-mate Alexander Hagberg. Top Qualifier Teemu Leino’s race would come to a sudden end when having lead the race for 25-minutes the Finn would pull a front corner of his HB as he hit the pitwall as he came in for a scheduled stop. 2014 ENS title front runner Dominic Greiner would suffer a similar faith as he broke the rear suspension on his Serpent 10-minutes into the race.
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Dario Balestri is the Top Qualifier for the season opening race of the Euro Nitro Series, the Capricorn driver set to start Sunday’s 45-minute Main ahead of host track owner and master of race strategy Lamberto Collari. Going into the sixth round of qualifying it was only Collari who could deny the European Champion from starting on pole but it would be Alberto Picco that would catch them all by surprise as he TQ’d what would become the days final qualifier. A scheduled seventh round of qualifying would be cancelled due to the arrival of rain at the L.Collari RC Raceway. Defending ENS Champion Simon Kurzbuch will line-up 6th for the start of his title defence, two places behind his main 2014 title rival Robert Pietsch.
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