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September 14, 2018

EOS Season #8 kicks off at ‘Green Hell’

A new season of the Euro Offroad Series kicks off at the ‘Green Hell’ this weekend (14-16 Sept) with the extended six round 8th season of the 1:10 EP Offroad Championship returning to the Nurburgring in Germany. After being abscent from last season’s calendar, the legendary motorsport venue welcomes back the EOS for what will be its fourth visit. Running as part of the full size Blancpain GT Series weekend which will race on the real grand prix track, the event is a truely unique opportunity for RC racers. While iconic car manufacturers battle it out for victory outside, it will be double champion Michal Orlowski who heads the factory RC entry on the indoor carpet track. A 9-times EOS race winner, but never at the Nurburgring, the Schumacher driver will be aiming to take his tally to double digits this weekend and get his title defence off to the best possible start but his rivals have similar ambitions.

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September 13, 2018

Mikael Fransson takes 1/8th Rd4 in Sweden

Last weekend round 4 of the Swedish Nitro On-road Championships were held at Staffanstorps Raceway. In the 1/8th class it was Mikael Fransson who set the pace and took the top qualifier spot, while Oliver Olsson lined up 2nd and Stefan Andersson 3rd. At the start of the 45-minute final Serpent racer Mikael Fransson jumped straight into the lead and held that position to the end of the race. Oliver Olsson, driving a Mugen, missed the start having called a 10 minute time delay managed to work his way back from last position to finish in 2nd place 3 laps behind the winner with Shepherd driver Stefan Andersson finishing in 3rd place.

Thanks to Mikael Olsson for the update.

September 11, 2018

Jason Nugroho claims Indonesian Buggy Nats title

The 3rd round of the Indonesian National Buggy Championships were held last weekend at the famous C-Netic Track in Surabaya, East Java. It was the final round of the National series and a total of 39 drivers attended this event from Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Batam, Gresik, Madiun, Banjarmasin, Bali, Kendari and local drivers. The race comprised of 6 rounds of 10 minutes qualifying, with the best 4 counting. After 6 rounds of qualifying it was Jason Nugroho (Xray/Novarossi) who the TQ honours. In the 60 minute final the top qualifier also took the win followed by Stanley Wangsanegara (HB/OS) in 2nd and Ery Setiawan (Mugen/OS) in 3rd.

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September 11, 2018

Shanghai’s N8 Club – Race Report

This past weekend, the N8 Nitro Racing Club in Shanghai saw 20 drivers come out to compete. N8 is promoting nitro on road racing in China and getting great support from manufacturers all over the world such as Matrix Tires, VP Fuel and Sunpadow Batteries. With a growing interest for nitro racing in Shanghai, N8 has become the premier Nitro RC racing Club in China. Club qualifying and race format promotes interaction and participation between members. Qualifying is an hour long where drivers decide when to set their 3 consecutive fast laps to determine final heats. 2 car bump ups in each mains give drivers a chance to make the A-Main, all mains are 30 minutes. You don’t need to bring your own pitman because mechanics are assigned thru lottery where different members get to teams up with other members every month. The club meets every 6-8 weeks.

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September 10, 2018

Hansen & Stub-Holm take Danish National titles

Last weekend the final round of the Danish Nitro On-road Championship was held at the high speed track of Næstved model Racing club. In the 1/8th class it was Martin N.O Hansen who set the pace, and claimed the TQ spot by winning three qualifying rounds. Henrik Christensen lined up in 2nd and Bo Nielsen had to settle for the 3rd spot after the qualifiers. Going into the 30-minute final Martin N.O looked to be under pressure from Henrik and Bo, as they had set a high pace and were pushing Martin until some traffic that went wrong and left Bo in the grass with a damaged rear tyre, Henrik was still on the same lap as Martin, but was unlucky when he was lapping a slower car, as he ran a little too wide which sent him airborne and damaged his car and body. This allowed Martin N.O Hansen (ARC/Novarossi/Contact) to take the win five laps in front of Henrik Christensen (Shepherd/Novarossi/Contact) in 2nd and Bo Nielsen (Infinity/Kabuto/Ulti) 3rd. That is how they also finished in the championship.

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September 10, 2018

Tamiya Benelux final – Race report

The Tamiya Benelux final is the annual closing race of the Dutch and Belgian championship series. Like the previous years, the race was held at the fast and beautiful track of MAC de Baanbrekers in Rucphen, the Netherlands. The race attracted almost 120 racers, divided in the classes of Fighter (DT03 chassis), Euro Truck (TT01E chassis with truck bodies and Carson cup 16t motor), Euro stock (TT01 or TT02 chassis with Carson cup 540 brushed motor), Euro M-chassis (mostly M07 with Carson cup 16t motor), Euro TW (TA07 with Carson cup 16T motor), F1 (21,5 brushless) and Euro GT (TRF cars with Carson cup 12T motor). Saturday was open for free practice and a 2,5 hours Endurance race with TT01 Mercedes 190 cars. Sunday saw 2 rounds of qualifiers followed by 3 finals of 7 minutes each. Due to the high number of racers and the longer finals, the last final was run at 19pm.

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September 10, 2018

Wesley van Helmond joins Sworkz 1/8th team

Sworkz have announced the addition of top Dutch 1/10 racer Wesley van Helmond to their 1/8th team. Joining Jorn Neumann in using the combination of Schumacer brand in 1/10th and Sworkz in 1/8th, Wesley will use the Sworkz S35-3 in Nitro and Electric races and together with Jarno Pijpers will form a strong national team in the Netherlands.

Source: MW RC Cars [mwrccars.at]

September 7, 2018

Elliott Harper joins Xray Factory Team

Xray have announced that multi-time UK national champion Elliott Harper is joining their Factory Team to race the Xray T4 platform. Elliott leaves Schumacher after 3 plus years to return to a team for whom he raced with at the start of his career when he burst onto the international racing scene, making the final on his Worlds debut in Bangkok in 2008. He had the following to say about the deal.

I am very excited to rejoin the Xray factory team. Xray was the very first team I started to race professionally with almost 10 years ago, with great successes winning multiple European Junior Championships with the 1/10 Touring Car and 1/12. After collecting experiences with other teams in the last few years I am excited to be back “home” with the Xray team and I am honoured to represent them again. I am thankful for this opportunity and I’m confident that I will continue to grow and achieve the best possible results at the highest level, whilst working closely with all Xray drivers. I look forward to seeing you all at the track very soon!

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]