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June 6, 2016

Wahl, Hettrich & Vogel join T-Works

T-Works have announced the signing of Germany’s Tim Wahl, Valentin Hettrich and Tobias Vogel to their international team. The three will be using the company’s Tweak Terminator, Anti Tweak Blocks as well as accessories such as turnbuckles, body post locators and more during their campaign. This is what the three have to say:

One of the most important things with touring cars is to make sure that its always tweak free. T-Works has the best tools for this and we are thrilled to start this cooperation. Additionally T-Works also has great accessories for all kinds of cars. Thanks to T-Works for the trust and support as well as AME for making the deal happen.

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

June 6, 2016

Bill Likaris wins Greek 200mm Championship Rd1

The first round of the Greek 1/10th Nitro Championship took place at the Fanatix Racing track in Stamata. After four rounds of qualification it was John Sotiropoulos who took the TQ spot in front of Dimitris Dimitriou, Nikos Karabelas and Bill Likaris. The top qualifiers made some mistakes already in the first few minutes of the main final what helped Bill Likaris to take over the lead. After a great 20 minute battle with Dimitris Dimitriou and Nikos Karabelas Likaris managed to see the checkered flag in first position with Karabelas in second and Dimitrou in third.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

June 6, 2016

Suwardi Suliandy TQs & wins at Indonesia Nats Rd3

The third round of Indonesia National Championship was held at the Marina Red Carpet Circuit in Semarang in the two classes of Touring Stock and FWD. The weather was fairly hot and dry with no rain all weekend. In the 13.5T Boosted class, Suwardi Suliandy (Xray) took the TQ from Chandra Yosef and Ronny Suwarto (both Xray). In the A-mains Suwardi was able to conserve his qualifying performance to came out fastest in A1 and A2 while Ronny grabbed the win in A3. Behind Suwardi and after the tie-breaker with Ronny, Chandra took the runner-up spot, leaving Ronny in third.

View the final results here

June 6, 2016

Rick V. & Marco Kruse win at Dutch 1/8th Nats Rd2

The second round of the Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the technical MBC de Sluis track in Gounda with 43 drivers attending. Nice Summer weather with temperatures of above 25 degree Celsius made for perfect racing conditions. The new, combined ABC final system again ensured nice battles during the finals as the drivers races more on their own level. In the premier NK class Rick Vrielijnck took a pretty easy win in the 30-minute A-main some three laps ahead of runner-up, Jeffrey Rietveld. Only some 1.3 seconds down, Frank Baggen completed the podium result in third.

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June 6, 2016

Wang Haifeng wins at RC Beijing GP

The RC Beijing GP was held at the new Incom Arena in Beijing, China, with racers from as far as Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai in attendance. Special guest for the event, that saw Electric Touring, 1/12th scale Pancar and 1/10th Le Mans classes, was 14-time IFMAR World Champion, Masami Hirosaka. In the Touring class young Nicholas Xu grabbed the 4 spot on the grid behind TQ Hirosaka who was followed by Zhang and Wang.

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June 6, 2016

Michael Salven wins at West German regionals Rd3

Round three of the West German Nitro On-road regionals, a qualifier to the German Championships, was held at the Hamm track over the weekend. Serpent’s Michael Salven would end the day on the top spot with team mate Merlin Depta a lap down after the 30-minute encounter. Christian Wurst (ARC) would complete the podium result in third, another lap down.

View the final results here

June 6, 2016

BRCA Touring Car Nationals Rd2 – Report

This last weekend saw the BRCA Touring Car Nationals head to Adur near Brighton on the south coast of England. Unusually for the UK the drivers were blessed with great sunshine all weekend and with low winds the track conditions were quite different to the previous weekend’s Schumacher BTCC race. Schumacher’s Elliott Harper was in a different league this weekend TQ-ing the first three rounds of qualifying just using one set of three allocated sets of Sorex 32RY tyres. In Pro Stock James Hart (Schumacher) was taking the fight to current BRCA champ Zak Finlay (Xray) putting in some strong performances to line up second on the grid.

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June 6, 2016

RC Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the RC Lemans Series was held at the EVMC club in Velp, The Netherlands over the weekend. Following cold and rainy low-grip conditions at the previous rounds all drivers were looking forward to a sunny weekend with asphalt temperatures of about 50 degree Celsius. In the LMP1 Modified class Sven Stoffels took the TQ only a couple of tenth of a second from championship leader Tim Altmann. Reinder Wilms matched Tim’s time down to a hundred of a second over the five minute run. Behind the three Philipp Paul, Kai Altmann, Tobias Weist, Andy Dick and Joachim Behnken were not far away, promising some exciting A-mains.

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