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October 21, 2015

Jack Embling joins Kyosho international team

Kyosho Europe have announced the signing of UK’s Jack Embling to the international team. Jack will be using the Inferno MP9 TKI3 chassis with Reds Racing engines and AKA tyres. The young man has improved each year of his career and is now ready to go that extra step and follow his new team mate Elliott Boots to success in 2016. Jack had the following to say:

I am incredibly excited to be joining Kyosho factory team for 2016. It’s always been my ambition to drive for Kyosho and I see this as a great opportunity to take my racing to the next level. I would like to thank Mike, Christophe, Kenji and Mitsuo for making this happen. So 2015-2016 is going to be a busy year, starting with the upcoming race at Padova in November, then on to Montpellier, Neo, Euros, UK Nationals, and the Worlds in Vegas, its going to be a fantastic year. I am feeling super confident running one of the best packages around with my proven Reds engines and AKA tyres.

Source: Kyosho [kyoshoeurope.com]

October 21, 2015

Adam Drake doubles at MNRC Series finals

Last weekend the MNRC Series finals headed to the Motodome race facility in Browerville, Minnesota. The event had some 160 entries and in the Nitro Buggy class, Adam Drake took the TQ honors and he would also win the 30 minute main final. Elsewhere in the Nitro Truck final Adam again controlled the race and to take the day’s win.

View the Truck podium here

October 21, 2015

Czech Xray Winter Series – Announcement

Xray have released more dates and venues for their Xray Winter Series. The Czech XWS will be held at seven dates between November and April at the sports hall in Kolin, Czech Republic in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Limited, Formula, Buggy and Short Course. All dates and more details (in Czech language) are available here.

October 20, 2015

Luk Chi Hung wins at Team C Open

Tom Racing Circuit in Hong Kong played host to the Team C Open. Up and coming Lai Chan Hay (Mugen) took the TQ in the 1/8th Nitro class in what was his first ever race in this class and Lai would also set a new lap record with 13.9 seconds. In the 45 minute main final the TQ holder would ran into unexpected issues promoting Luk Chi Hung (HB) into the lead which he would maintain until the end to take the win some eight laps in front of Ng Chui Man (HB) who was in an exciting fight with Simon Tung (HB) in the closing stages. Ultimately both were only separated by one second.

Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]

October 20, 2015

2015/16 WCICS Rd1 – Report

The Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series 2015/2016 season recently opened with a bang in the flatlands of Saskatoon, SK. This year the guys at SARCAR took it to the next level by arranging for a professional camera crew to document the weekend and boy did it turn out great. The coverage can be found on WCICS’ website here. As usual the first race of the season brought out everyone’s excitement to get back on the carpet and the racing was proof. Modified Touring Car really is the pinnacle of RC and the WCICS series has some seriously good drivers in this class and the Saskatoon race was no exception. As usual Wayne Mah and Danny Buck were doing their dance, but this time Blake Bell, Matt Wilfort and Josh Carter all joined to make things a bit more interesting.

Continue reading the report here

October 20, 2015

Belgium/Dutch Buggy Championship Rd8 – Report

The eighth and final round of the combined Belgium/Dutch Electric Off-road Championship was held at the MIO indoor carpet track in Oss. A total of 111 racers attended the championship that was held on a variety tracks including indoor and outdoor clay, astro turf and carpet. At the end, Wesley van Helmond dominated the Dutch 2WD title with his TLR 22 2.0 followed by Arjan van de Graaf, driving a Yokomo B-Max2 and Tom van Drunen (Team Associated B5M) and Wesley would also take the combined Belgium/Dutch title.

Continue reading the report here

October 20, 2015

Semi Pro class win for Deslina at Mugen Cup

Last weekend’s Mugen Cup at the MRCC Track in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia not only saw Jason Nugroho taking the win in the Pro Buggy class but also Deslina (Kyosho) coming out successful in the Semi Pro category. Jhonny placed his Xray buggy on the TQ in the class but he got into traffic in the 45 minute main final and only finished in 4th place. Up front Awi (Xray) would end the race on the runner-up spot while Bun Bun (Mugen) rounded out the top 3 result.

View the final result here

October 20, 2015

2015 Turkish On-road Championship – Report

The Turkish On-road Championship recently concluded with the fourth and final round held at the Bumod track. A total of 105 racers attended the series that hosts the four classes of Touring Modified and Touring Stock as well as 1/10th and 1/8th Nitro with the final round also offering a supporting 1/10th Formula class. After the four races, held both at the Izmir Efmod and Bumod tracks, the Touring Modified category had Kayhan Ketenci (Xray) taking the title, but he was tie on points with Xray team mate Fatih Kaya who had to settle for second. Erol Uçar (Xray) rounded out the podium two points short with a total of 604 points.

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