Japanese manufacturer Axon has announced the signing of Germany’s Ronald Völker to their team. The Yokomo factory driver will use Axon products such as gears, oils and accessories. Ronald has already used Axon products to win the recent German Electric On-road Nationals with for sure more to come at the forthcoming IFMAR ISTC Worlds in China.
Source: Axon [facebook.com]
The organisers of the inaugural 2016 Dragon Stone Asian Nitro Buggy Championship in Luoyang City, China, have announced the addition of RC Concept’s Jerome Treignier to the ever growing field of drivers and supporters. Jerome will be available for technical support with additional high-class confirmations awaited soon. More information about the race can be found on the event’s Facebook page here.
Alessio Mazzeo has booked his place in the Nitro Touring Car World Championship final alongside fellow countryman & Top Qualifier Dario Balestri. Running third of the four Super Pole contenders, there was a huge roar from the crowd as the Serpent driver bettered the time of provisional pace setter Dominc Greiner who bettered the opening time of Robert Pietsch. With Simon Kurzbuch to run last, Mazzeo wasn’t content with his lap and sending the crowd into a frenzy with a blistering 6th & final lap that was almost 1/10th faster. With the benchmark clearly set, 16.302 the time to beat, Kurzbuch would try but was no match for the popular Italian managing a best time of 16.467 on his last lap, an identical time to that of Greiner.
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Simon Kurzbuch has taken the final round of qualifying at the 1:10 Nitro Touring Car World Championships in Gubbio. With the overall TQ decided yesterday when Dario Balestri posted his third TQ run in the penultimate round, the Shepherd driver topped the times from Mugen’s Takaaki Shimo with 2012 World Champion Meen Vejrak completing the Top 3. With Balestri using the sixth qualifier to run in a new rod and diffs in the Capricorn, it was Kurzbuch who laid the TQ pace eventually taking it by just over 2/10ths from Shimo. The big focus of the final qualifier would be on who would make the new for 2016 Super Pole that will be fought out by the drivers qualifying from 2 through to 5. In the end other than Kurzbuch the round would only see Q6 count as an improved points haul for former Worlds Top Qualifier Robert Pietsch who got a P6 to secure the final Super Pole placing behind Serpent pairing of Dominic Greiner and Alessio Mazzeo.
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Last Sunday the third round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held in difficult track conditions. Due to Saturday’s rain and the sugared track Sunday morning began with a surface drying session as the car’s tyres would take a lot of sugar, making it impossible to drive and reducing practice times to about 30 minutes. Xray’s Mike Gosvig would make the best out of the conditions, taking TQs in both Touring Stock and Modified.
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SWorkz have announced a change in organisation as Austrian company MW RC Cars and Taiwan-based Speedmster Hobby Co. LTD will take over the SWorkz brand. In the future MW RC Cars will be responsible for strategic planning and sales in Europe and the U.S. while Speedmaster will take care of development and production of the SWorkz kits as well as marketing and sales for the Asian markets.
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Gens Ace have announced the signing of 6-times Swedish National Champion, Viktor Wilck to their factory team. The Serpent team driver will use the company’s high-performance batteries from how on and he joins Gens Ace’s other high-class drivers such as Marc Fischer and David Ehrbar. Viktor’s first outing for his new power suppliers will be the forthcoming IFMAR World Championships in Beijing, China.
Source: Gens Ace [gensace.com]
Round four of this year’s Belgium Electric On-road Nationals was held at the Baanbrekers club in Rucphen. In the Touring Modified class it was Awesomatix’ Olivier Bultynck to take the pole position from Awesomatix team mate Nicolas Delisé and Xray driver Robby Engelen. The opening final began with a DNF for the TQ holder as technical issues prevent Olivier to complete more than a lap. This promoted Nicolas into the lead and he would make maximum use of the situation to walk away with the win in the opening A-main. The second and third leg then were a walk in the park for Ollie who took wins in A2 and A3 to grab the overall win from Nicolas with Mitchel Van Es (VBC) rounding out the top 3 result. Elsewhere in the Formula class it was again Oilvier Bultynck who took the winning honours, this time in from of Steve Deblaere and youngster Florian Joos.
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