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December 9, 2016

David Ronnefalk joins Roche 1/12th scale team

Roche have announced that current 1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion, David Ronnefalk will be racing their 1/12th pan car over the Winter season. The HB Racing and Team Orion factory driver decided he wanted to have some fun this Winter racing 1/12 LMP. When asked the Roche team and Max Ma didn’t hesitate and David was soon supplied with the latest Roche P12 and parts. David has taken his time building and with support from Team Orion on the electrics, HotRace Nicola Marrone for tyres and Zen-Racing for some help and guidance David is all ready to race for fun this Winter.

Source: Zen Racing [zen-racing.co.uk]

December 9, 2016

2016 Serpent Asia Cup – Report

The recent 2016 Serpent Asia Cup was run along side the season finale of the Serpent GT Cup and held at the Hong Kong based TRC track. 52 drivers signed in for GT Modified class while over 100 entries were received for the GT RTR category. The Serpent Asia Cup then added two more classes to the special event in the form of the 1/10th Nitro Touring class and 1/8th Nitro on-road class. Current 1/10th Nitro Touring World Champion, Dominic Greiner as well as former IFMAR A-main finalist Takumi Matsuda made the trip as special guest as did Serpent’s Michael Salven and Billy Easton who raced in the 1/8th on-road and GT Modified class respectively. The Asia Cup also attracted driver from America, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippine, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. With more then 100 drivers all on Serpent chassis, the races were intense with a friendly atmosphere around the pit area.

Continue reading the report here

December 9, 2016

Baldo brothers Picco-propelled

Shortly after walking away from former long-time sponsors Mugen and Modelix and signing a contract with TLR and Horizon Hobby, Spanish front runners Bryan and Oscar Baldo now also secured a new engine deal. The two will use the Italian-made Picco engines in their 2017 campaign that will include appearances at the Spanish national championship, the Euros and other major events.

Source: Picco [teampicco.com]

December 8, 2016

Jacqueloot & Van Katwijk win at MIO Rd2

The second round of the MIO race series was held last weekend and in the 2WD Buggy class it was Team Associated driver Thibault Jacqueloot that came out on top after the triple A-mains. The Xray duo of Jarno Pijpers and Bart Wubben would complete the top 3 result in second and third respectively while Sander Van Genechtenen and Stephane Roufosse rounded out the top 5 result.

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December 8, 2016

Vesa Yli wins at Finnish 12Track Tour Rd1

Aanekoski R/C center, near Jyvaskyla, Finland, hosted the first round in a series of four national championship races, the 12Track Tour. The hosting club did a great job organizing their first-ever 1/12th nats to showcase the 30x16m track’s technical layout. Classes were 1/12th Mod 6.5 blinky, Stock 13.5, run with GT bodies, and a Formula class. Vesa Yli took three out of four qualifying rounds to take the TQ ahead of Ari-Pekka Kyykka, followed by Panu Vehniainen in third. Vesa managed to lead from wire to wire in all three mains to take the victory home from the opening round. The order remained the same in top three as in qualifying. The series will continue the first weekend of February in Eurajoki, with rounds three and fourto be raced at a double event in Oulu at the end of February.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

December 8, 2016

EWS International 2017 – Announcement

The Essex Winter Series team have announced the 2017 EWS International event. Formerly known as the ICC, now re-named in line with their well-known EWS series of races, the event will take place over the weekend of 31 March to 02 April 2017, at EWS’s popular venue in the south-east of the UK. An ETS-carpet track covering 24×34 metres will greet racers, with classes for Modified and Super Stock 13.5 Touring Car, plus a Formula class. The event looks to grown on previous years, with race teams and international drivers from Infinity, Tonisport and Awesomatix already confirmed to attend. Entries are open now, and will only remain open until 23 December. Race entries, along with details of hotels, travel tips and full event rules, can be found on the EWS Website here, or by emailing Oli Meggitt (oli.meggitt@gmail.com).

December 7, 2016

Serpent sign Felix Law

Serpent have announced the signing of Felix Law to their Asian team. One of the friendliest and loudest in the pits, Felix, also known as “More Powa” will be driving both on-road and off-road classes throughout Asia. With the knowledge of multi-platform racing Felix will also support all Serpent customers and stage some race clinics too. Felix has the following to say about the deal:

After a long thinkover, I have finally decided to join Team Serpent for upcoming seasons and start this exciting adventure. I have to thank Serpent and Mr. Lau for giving me the chance to work with Team Serpent to expand all of their upcoming projects and ideas. For anyone out there, feel free I contact me on Facebook if you have any question, I will do my best to help.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

December 7, 2016

Ryan Lutz wins Pro Nitro Buggy at 2016 Fall Brawl

The 2016 edition of the popular Fall Brawl race was held this past weekend at Badlands in Myrtle Beach with over 550 entries. The track was very fast overall with lap times dipping to 21 seconds and the surface stayed very smooth. The conditions however were ever changing and the paramount tire choice was the hardest part of the racing. In Pro Nitro Buggy Mugen’s Cole Ogden would take the overall TQ from Tekno RC’s Ryan Lutz. Main day Sunday started at 7am and the program was shortened throughout with shorter mains so the organisers and driver could try to beat the incoming rain. The A-main started and Ryan Lutz crashed after shorting the first double and fell to 9th on the first lap. He quickly moved up to 4th and then both third and second let him by as he came up on them and Lutz set his sights on Ogden who was 5 seconds up. A couple laps later Cole got into a crash and Ryan just moved past him into the lead. Ogden eventually had to come in for a tire change as his was coming unglued so now Ryan worked up a 5 second lead ahead of Noah Dickerson about 7 minutes in and that seemed to be the same cushion for the next 10 minutes as Noah stayed on Ryan’s pace. After the last stop though Ryan suddenly had a 14 second lead and eventually he found himself right behind Noah on the last two laps. Lutz wanted to put him a lap down and he knew Noah wanted to stay on same lap and Dickerson fought him off hard and Lutz couldn’t get past and so Ryan Lutz came home with just under a lap victory from Noah Dickerson (Mugen) second and Griffin Hanna (Serpent) third while top qualifier, Cole Ogden had to settle for fourth overall.

Source: Ryan Lutz [facebook.com]