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November 2, 2016

Yaniv Sivan wins Israeli League Rd2

The second round of the Israeli League was held at the recently renewed Omer-Ring race track. After the four rounds of qualifying on the technical and challenging track it was Yaniv Sivan who took the top qualifier spot. Right at the start of the 40-minute main final Yaniv jumped the lead followed by Tal Siles and Ido Carmon but an early mistake of Tal cost him the second spot, promoting Ido into the runner-up position. Behind the two the battle was on for the final podium spot between Aviv Maymon and Ofir Avitan. Ultimately Aviv would hold the upper hand to take the final podium spot behind winner Yaniv and second placed Ido.

View the final results here

November 1, 2016

MRC Winter Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.

Continue reading the report here

November 1, 2016

Alessio Menicucci teams up with Mon-Tech Racing

Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has announced the signing of Alessio Menicucci to their team. The multiple Italian national champion and ETS finalist will deck out his Xray rides with Mon-Tech bodyshells from now on, joining swift team mates such as Portugal’s Bruno Coelho.

Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]

November 1, 2016

Burak Kilic wins Adventscup Warm-Up race

The Adventscup Warm-up race was held this past weekend at the Czypu-Drom indoor off-road dirt track in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. About 60 drivers signed in for the 1/8th E-buggy class and after the opening qualifier on Saturday it looked like a lot of drivers would battle for the overall win with Carsten Keller, Luca Rau, Philip Lüdgart and Burak Kilic all being in the mix. After the qualifiers on Sunday, Burak Kilic (Agama) held the upper hand over the other drivers and he would take the win in the main final from tone to tone, leaving Philip Lüdgart (Kyosho) and Luca Rau (Kyosho) behind in second and third respectively.

Thanks to Abdullah Kilic for the report.

November 1, 2016

Team 46 wins Team C GT 5 hours endurance race

This past weekend the Team C GT 5 hours endurance race was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong. A total of 14 teams battled for the victory with each team consisting of four members. The rules were pretty open with free chassis and body choice but SP control tyres had to be used. The race started at 11 a.m. on Sunday and after 300 intense minutes it was Team 46 (Serpent) that walked away with the win from Team C (Team C) with Team HEC (Mugen) rounding out the podium result.

Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]

October 31, 2016

Roman Larkin wins at Russian 1/10th off-road Champs

The city of Sochi, located on the Black Sea coast recently played host to this year’s Russian 1/10th Off-road Championships. In the 4WD Buggy class it was multi-time winner, Roman Larkin who brought home leg wins in A1 and A2 to take the overall victory for the third time in a row.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 31, 2016

Anthony Abisset TQs & wins at GP of Marseille

The Grand Prix of Marseille was held this past weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took the TQ from Adrien Bertin (HB Racing) and Christophe Louis in second and third respectively. At the end of the 30-minute main final Anthony retained his position with Adrien ending the race some three seconds down. Two laps behind Mathias Kalaris (Capricorn) completed the podium result in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 31, 2016

Jerome Defrenne wins at Modelifun champs Rd1

The opening round of the Belgium Modelifun Championship was held in Meux, Belgium. The Touring Car class was won by Jerome Defrenne from Michel Smets in second and Pascal Delferiere in third. Cedric Colen and Cornard Olivier completed the top 5 result in fourth and fifth respectively.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]