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May 6, 2019

CTS4 Rd5 – Report

Round 5 of the CTS4 was held at the beautiful Steel City RC Speedway in Fontana, California this past weekend, the soon to be new home track for the Reedy Race of Champions. Round 5 would not only be the second California race this season but is also Reedy Race warm up. In Modified Touring Brandon Clements would take the TQ and overall win. With the early cold weather shaking things up in the pits race started a little later hoping for better weather. In A1 Brandon takes off with the field scrambling to the front. In A2 a big accident in the carousel occurred giving Clements the lead taking home the win success as he sits out A3.

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May 6, 2019

Mack & Wischnewski win at German Nationals qualifier

The Minicar Club Wiesbaden played host to a round of the Central German Nitro On-road regionals this past weekend. In 1/8th IC Track class 1 it was Infinity’s Oliver Mack with the TQ and win from Shepherd’s Toni Gruber while Serpent’s Philip Sting rounded out the top 3 result after the 30-minute main final.

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May 6, 2019

T-Works MP10 30mm lightweight brake discs

Coming from T-Works and made for the new Kyosho MP10 and older MP9 TKI4 and TKI3 buggies is a lightweight brake disc set. The 30mm discs are precision-made and offer a vented design for less brake fading even in long mains and when running in high ambient temperatures. In addition the reduced material plates are also very light, making for quicker spool-up and acceleration. The brake disks come in sets of two and they are a direct fit.

Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]

May 6, 2019

TBR 6.0 Silver & Black Edition engines

Team Bianchi Racing have announced the release of their new TBR 6.0 Silver and Black Edition nitro off-road engines. Evolved from the 5.0, the 6.0 variants offer further improved throttle feeling and fuel consumption. It is understood that the Silver and Black Edition engine only differ by their head colours.

View the Black Edition engine here

May 5, 2019

Davide Ongaro sweeps RCGP opener

The opening round of the newly-founded RCGP series was held in Manila, Philippines this past weekend. The event is held in the RCGP Pro and RC2 Open classes with the latter being open to non-sponsored drivers while the RCGP category is intended for Pro teams of one to two drivers. The RCGP class is also separated into two races per weekend with race 1 being swept by Team Associated’s Davide Ongaro who took the TQ and overall win from the HB Racing duo of David Ronnefalk and Cole Ogden. Mugen’s Robert Batlle came in 4th from Infinity’s Kyle McBride in 5th. JQ Racing’s Max Mort, SWorkz’s Juan Carlos Canas and Infinity’s Lee Martin completed the top 8 results.

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May 5, 2019

Jesper Rasmussen TQs & wins at Danish Buggy Nats Rd1

The opening round of the Danish Electric Buggy Nationals was held at the Odense R/C Minirace club this weekend. Team Associated’s Jesper Rasmussen took the TQ and win in the 2WD Buggy class from up and coming Marcus Kaerup as veteran racer, Jonas Kaerup came in 3rd to round out an all-Team-Associated podium.

Image: Jesper Rasmussen

May 5, 2019

Pontus Larsson wins at Middle Swedish Cup Rd1

The first round of the Middle Swedish Cup was held in Skövde this weekend. The race attracted nearly 60 entries for the premier 1/8th Nitro Buggy class and it was Pontus Larsson (Serpent/Bullitt) with the clean sweep and overall TQ after the qualifiers. Jessica Palsson (Kyosho/O.S.) came in 2nd from Emil Magnusson (Kyosho/Picco) in 3rd. In the 30-minute main final Pontus, who had a troubles start into the main final, and Jessica came out on top, doing the extra lap with the two being separated by 12 seconds on the finish line while Emil same in 3rd, a lap down. Elias Johansson (HB Racing/Team Orion) and Hampus Berg (HB Racing/Team Orion) would make up the top 5 result.

Image: Jessica Palsson

May 5, 2019

Westenfelder & Jannik win at GT Euro warm-up

The GT Euro warm-up race was held in Leipzig, Germany this weekend. In the Nitro GT class it was SWorkz/Picco’s Uli Westenfelder with the win from Holger Schmidt (Serpent/O.S.) in 2nd while Denis Mlivic (JQRacing/Alpha) completed the top 3 result. Over in the 4S GTE category it was Jochen Jannik (HB Racing) with the win from Uli Wstenfelder (SWorkz) as Armin Junge (Mugen) completed the podium result.

View the 4S GTE podium here