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January 12, 2016

Kyle McBride wins Keilor Invitational

The 2016 Australian racing season kicked off in a big way with the 2016 Keilor GForce Invitational held at the Keilor track in Melbourne, Australia. Running a Reedy Race style format of head-head racing with 2WD and 4WD buggies, this year’s event saw a huge surge in entries with racers from all around Australia and close to 180 buggies running over the weekend on a new clay track constructed for the event. The Invitational classes were run over 5 heats of 2WD and 5 heats of 4WD, and Open classes were offered with the winner getting an invite to the 2017 Invite class. Unique to this event, classes are run for both Modified and 17.5T buggies.

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January 12, 2016

Kilic brothers join Nemo Racing

After being with Horizon Hobby and TLR for four year Germany’s Burak and Berkan Kilic have made the switch to Nemo Racing for the 2016 season and beyound. The successful siblings will use the use the Agama A215 nitro buggy, the forthcoming A215E E-buggy as well as the A8T truggy along Bullitt engines and Beta tyres. The former German 1/8th Nitro Truggy Junior Champions along father and mentor Abdullah “Apo” Kilic have the following to say about the deal:

After four years of being with Horizon Hobby we are switching over to Nemo Racing UK. It’s been a fantastic four years for us and we would like to thank Horizon Hobby and especially Mr. and Mrs. Schamuhn for the fantastic support. We now look forward to racing for Nemo Racing and we would like to thank Jon Hazlewood for the trust in us. We will race both nationally and internationally and we are trying to bring the Agama brand further ahead.

January 11, 2016

Mike Truhe O.S. powered for 2016

O.S. Engine have announced the signing of Mike Truhe to their team for the 2016 season. The multi-time ROAR national champion will use the Japanese engines in his Mugen vehicles and he has the following to say about the deal:

O.S. engines are the best products you can buy. I can honestly say that I feel like I have absolutely no kinks in the armour.

Source: O.S. Engine [osengines.com]

January 11, 2016

Tasos Batas sweeps Sweep Challenge Rd10

The tenth round of the Greek Sweep Challenge was held at the RC Ring indoor race track. Xray driver Tasos Batas swept the qualifying by winning all rounds and he would continue to lead the proceedings in the finals as he took the win in all legs with a huge margin on second placed Isaakidis (Tamiya) and third placed Totomis (Capricorn). Vasilopoulos (TOP) and Papadakis (Yokomo) rounded out the top 5 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 11, 2016

2016 Rebels Race – Report

The Czech Rebels Race was held last weekend in Prague in a large sports hall laid out with the famous ETS carpet. The organisers received a total of 84 entries for the seven classes and in Touring Car Open it was Vita Hola who the qualifiers with three round TQs. In the finals there was some close racing between the TQ holder and formed winner of the series, Michal Blahovsky, who was challenging Vita, but Hola would hold the upper hand to take the overall win from Michal. Behind the two, Karel Dolezal would round out the top 3 result.

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January 11, 2016

Valtier & Crolla win at French CML Masters

The French CML Masters was held this past weekend near Paris. In the 2WD class Ludovic Valtier would come out successful from Lorenzo Crolla in second and Stephane Deroch in third. In the 4WD class Lorenzo Crolla grabbed the TQ after winning two of the three qualifiers and he would be able to conserve his qualifying performance in the finals to take the overall win from Jean-Pierrick Sartel and Stephane Deroch in second and third respectively.

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January 11, 2016

Bowie Ginting dominates East Touring Series Rd1

The opening round of the East Touring Series was held at the technical, high-grip East RC Speedway in Indonesia. Qualifying took place in hot and sunny conditions and in the 13.5T non-boost class Bowie Ginting scored a pretty easy TQ from Serpent teammate who put his car on the 2 spot for the finals, a lap behind. Arya Seta in third would round out an all-Serpent top 3. In the triple A-mains Bowie grabbed the overall victory with two leg wins and the fastest lap of the day while both Christian and Arya retained their qualifying positions to complete the podium in second and third respectively.

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January 11, 2016

Philipp Walleser wins at Longwy Winter Series Rd3

Round three of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held in Longwy in the North of France. The 10.5T Stock category was the most popular class of the weekend and it saw round two winner Philipp Walleser taking the day’s win from the pole position. Jan Bickendorf grabbed the runner-up spot from Jeremy Deladondre in third.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]