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October 29, 2013

Grand Prix des 3 Frontieres – Announcement

The 10th running of the GP3F will be held on the weekend of the 15th of December in Longwy, France, very close to the Luxemberg and Belgium boarder. Classes run are Touring Car Modified and 10.5T Blinky. The race schedule sees 5 practice runs, 5 qualifiers and 3 final for every driver to get the maximum track time out of the weekend. Included in the entry fee are two sets of hand-out tyres, a T-shirt and a raffle ticket. More information and the registration details can be found here.

October 28, 2013

FEMCA EP Off-Road Champs – Report

Following this year’s FEMCA 1/8th Off-Road Championships held in China back in August the Far East Model Car Association held the 2013 1/10th EP Off-Road Champs in Taichung City, Taiwan last weekend. Located on the top of a mountain a lot of effort went into the track that was only built the week before the race. Kudos to the organisers who created a fun and challenging track whose surface had been treated with the famous honey and sugar mixture that was first used in Pattaya, Thailand and than at the FEMCA 1/8th event in Beijing. The treatment made for high traction and tyre wear; as Hara San said: Maximum. The FEMCA race this time attracted racers from all over Asia, including Japan, Korea, Thailand, China and Australia and with host country Taiwan had the most drivers attending, showing that 1/10th Buggy is a rapidly growing class.

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October 25, 2013

2013/14 Mibosport Cup Rd1 – Report

The first out of seven races of the 2013/14 Mibosport Cup attracted over 130 drivers from six countries including some of the World’s top drivers such as Ronald Völker, Marc Rheinard, Marc Fischer and Zdenko Kunák. The race was held in a variety of electric classes such as 2WD and 4WD buggy, Formula, Yokomo GT, Stock LRP and Modified TC. In the Touring Car Modified class all qualifiers and finals went to Yokomo team driver Ronald Völker. Second overall became Marc Fischer (Serpent) in front of Marc Rheinard (Tamiya). A great battle was on for fourth place between Zdenko Kunak and Rene Klockner with the better end for Zdenko.

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October 23, 2013

Craig Xavier wins World GT at IIC

SpeedMerchant driver Craig Xavier TQ’d and won the Wold GT class at the 2013 Las Vegas International Indoor Championships. After taking pole position Craig went on to win the World GT A-Main wire to wire while lapping the field all the way up to 3rd place. Craig was joined in the A-Main by team mate Dave Berger who finished 6th with his Protoform Gianna GT clad SpeedMerchant World GT 3hree.

Source: SpeedMerchant [teamspeedmerchant.com]

October 23, 2013

Muchmore joins ETS as official electronic supplier

With 10-days remaining until to the opening round of Season #7 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Czech Republic, the organisers are excited to announce Muchmore as their new electronics partner for the Xray Pro Stock class. The biggest of the three classes on the ETS program, 383 drivers having registered points in the 13.5T Touring Car class last season, the deal with Muchmore will see racers use a handout FLETA EURO ESC in combination with the FLETA ZX 13.5T motor which will also be laser engraved with the ETS logo and unique serial number.

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October 21, 2013

Knapp, Grosse and Ficco win at IIC

Knapp, Ficco and Grosse win at IIC

The 2013 International Indoor Championship in Las Vegas again saw a huge number of drivers attending in the pan car classes. In 1/12 13.5T CRC’s Andrew Knapp dominated qualifying by winning 3 out of 4 rounds and he also lead the final from wire to wire. The 1/12 17.5T class had Randy Grosse (CRC) taking the win from team mate John Wiita who finished second. In F1, a growing class in the U.S., CRC’s Brian Wynn took TQ with the CRC Works Team Formula 1 prototype and looked like he would easily win the A main until he was taken out in the very last lap by a backmarker handing his team mate Mario Ficco (CRC) the win.

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October 20, 2013

Neumann maintains EOS winning record

Neumann maintain EOS winning record

Joern Neumann pulled off an impressive feat at the opening round of the Euro Offroad Series in Poland taking the overall 4WD Buggy win to maintain his unbeaten run of consecutive victories. The third season of the indoor series for 1:10 electric offroad, the Durango driver claimed win number 8 by backing up his Leg 1 win in the second A-Main but unlike the first 5-minute encounter he didn’t have it easy. Team Xray’s Renaud Savoya mounted a serious last lap challenge on the German but unfortunately for the French ace he would over jump the double just before the finish line. Sending his XB4 into the barrier it allowed Neumann to take the leg by 1.8 seconds. With Hupo Honigl, who was running on Savoya’s rear gearbox, spectacularly cartwheeling out of third on the last lap Martin Bayer completed the Top 3.

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October 20, 2013

Honigl claims first EOS victory

One of the leading drivers who encouraged the organisers of the world famous Euro Touring Series to bring their concept to the the world of 1:10 Electric Offroad, Hupo Honigl today finally claimed his first overall win at the season opener of the Euro Offroad Series. Having won leg 1 by not putting a wheel wrong, second time round the Austrian had to work hard for the win with himself and Top Qualifier Tom Cockerill putting on a great show for the large crowds. After a coming together between Cockerill and Neumann at the start of the last lap, Honigl could breath again and cruise to the finish to take an emotional win by over 3-seconds. Cockerill would finish second with Neumann third, the two set to go head to head in Leg 3 for the runners-up spot here in Poland.

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