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April 29, 2015

Michal Abrahamek wins at IFR 2015

The IFR 2015 in was held at the Morac Graz in Austria with drivers from Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Austria in attendance. The temperature of about 25 degree Celsius made for nice racing conditions although the grip level was pretty low. Xray driver Michal Abrahamek came out as top qualifier and he went on to win the main final without problems. Igor Liptak (Xray) came in 2nd while Gergö Lehner (Shepherd) rounded out the top 3 result.

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April 27, 2015

Jörn Neumann sweeps International Warmup Race

The 10th International Warmup Race was held at the ESV Bischofsheim track with around 180 drivers in attendance in the three classes of 1/8th Nitro Buggy, Nitro Truggy and E-Buggy. The Nitro Buggy class had Jörn Neumann dominating the class with Marcel Guske and Carsten Keller coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively in the main final. The Truggy class again had Jörn Neumann coming out successful, this time in front of Alex Hardt and young Burak Kilic. Last but not least in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was again Jörn who came out successful for a clean sweep at the traditional off-road season opener. A hard chasing Joseph Quagraine finished on the runner-up spot while Carsten Keller rounded out the podium in 3rd.

Image: Jörn Neumann

April 24, 2015

Hideo Kitazawa joins Trinity A-team

Trinity have announced the signing of 4-time Japan National On-road Champion Hideo Kitazawa to their A-team. Hideo is a veteran 1/12th scale racer and engineer at Futaba where he designed the 4PX, 4PK and 4PL.

Source: Trinity [trinityrc.com]

April 23, 2015

Martin Hudy continues with Matrix

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]

April 21, 2015

Takahaka Shoki wins at FEMCA Asia Champsionships

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]

April 21, 2015

Jason Nugroho wins WillSon Track Grand Opening race

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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April 21, 2015

RC Lemans Series Rd1 – Report

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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April 20, 2015

McBride & Drake win at Philippine Masters

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]