The 2015 Norwegian 1/8th Offroad Championship was hosted by the OMBK club in Oslo. 40 of Norway’s fastest drivers showed up to fight for the title and after the 45 minutes long final on a challenging track it was Lars Erik Mo who secured his second national title in front of TQ holder Björn Ivar Haug in second and Rune Karlsen in third.
Source: Reds Racing [reds-racing.com]
The final round of the Danish Formula Championship was held at the Odense track. Originally designed for large scale cars the track proved to be pretty big for the small 1/10th scale cars and the layout made for high speeds and a lot of slipstream racing. The race also attracted some racers from abroad and so racing was tight and at the end Christian Lehm (Xray) was able to grab the TQ, the day’s win and the overall title. Johnni Lyng came in second while Henrik Rasmussen rounded out the all-Xray podium in third.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Tekno RC have announced former JQRacing marketing wizard Ilias Arkoudaris as their European sales and team manager. He brings with him years of RC experience and know how and will be focused on expanding Tekno RC’s presence in the EU. Ilias has a strong track record of effectively building and managing a successful race team. Equally as impressive is his ability to put customers first and ensure people are getting the most out of our products. He will be building new relationships with dealers and distributors to maximize parts support around Europe and he will also be traveling around the region to support customers and drivers at many large events throughout the year. Ilias says:
I am proud to be part of the great Tekno RC family! I want to thank Daniel Lewis and Matt Wolter for giving me the opportunity to represent one of the fastest growing companies in the RC Industry and making me feel at home. Stay tuned, great things to come from us very soon!
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
Last weekend’s Great Lakes Challenge saw Capricorn’s DJ Apolaro (Capricorn/Novarossi) walking away with the win in the 1/10th 200mm Sedan class. Already very consistent in qualifying DJ was able to pretty much control the main final thanks to a good pit strategy, swift refuelling and a tyre-saving drive to take the win in front of Paolo Morganti (Serpent/Picco) and Ralph Burch (Xray/Max Power).
Source: Novarossi [novarossi.it]
The Miniautodromo Jody Scheckter in Fiorano, Italy played host for the 2015 Novarossi Onroad Trophy. The event attracted most of the fast Italian nitro on-road drivers and in the 1/8th class it was Dario Balestri who came out successful from Andrea Pirani and Mattia Collaveo in second and third respectively. In the 1/10th 200mm class Luca Redaelli brought home the win from Alessandro Balboni and Manuel Strano.
The Spanish edition of the The Italian Job Race was held in La Nucia this past weekend. The event attracted both local talent and guests from abroad, such as Reno Savoya and Alex Zanchettin. In the Nitro A-main Spanish frontrunner Robert Batlle battled it out with Reno Savoya and Bryan Baldo with the better end for Robert who won the final in front of Reno and Bryan. Elsewhere in the E-Buggy class it was again Robert who found himself on top of the game by taking the win in A1 and A2 to grab the second title of the weekend.
View the Nitro Buggy A-main result and E-Buggy podium here
Last weekend saw the ACT State Titles ran in Australia’s Capital territory. The track was technical and very high grip all weekend. In both the Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy classes Craig Laughton took the win to round out a perfect weekend. The Sportsman division had young Riley Searl taking the win from Mason Cameron.
View the Sportsman podium here
Graupner have announced the signing of newly crowned German 1/8th Nitro Buggy National Champion Marvin Fritschler. Marvin will use the Graupner/SOAR 998 buggies and a package of products from the Graupner portfolio such as the Colt HoTT radio, O.S. engines and Titan fuel. Marvin’s first major outing for his new sponsors will be the forthcoming 1/8th E-Buggy Nationals in Bistensee.
Source: Graupner [graupner.de]
