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May 13, 2015

Gruber wins at German IC Track East division regionals

The second round of the German East division nitro on-road regionals was held in Leipzig. In 1/8th scale class 1 Serpent’s Toni Gruber took the win after coming from 4th on the grid. Toni soon was able to move his way up the field and eventually took over the lead after a mistake of the front runner. Mugen’s Torsten Müller came in 2nd while Rico Kröber (Capricorn) rounded out the podium of the fastest 1/8th class.

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May 13, 2015

RSD X12 Old School Front End conversion kit

Reflex Racing introduce the RSD X12 Old School Front End conversion kit for the Xray X12 1/12th scale pan car. Designed for the use with no camber gain “old school” front end suspensions the converted car will be dialled especially for high-bite surfaces found at big races. Included in the set are all needed carbon pieces including RSD’s own servo mount as well as the shock unimount.

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May 12, 2015

Belgian FBA Electric On-road Nationals Rd3 – Report

The third round of the FBA Electric On-road Nationals was held in Bierset with the weather forecast not looking very good for Sunday. In the EFRA class Manuel Henriet managed to take the TQ in front of Olivier Bultynck and Nick Joosens. The opening A-final was held in totally wet conditions and with Olivier and Manu touching each other while Nick jumped into the lead in front of Nicolas. Meanwhile Manu was attacking hard while Olivier broke a tyre and came into the pits. Up front Nicolas was in the lead after he passed Nick and later Manu also found a way past Nick. At the end Nicolas took the win right in front of Manu and Nick.

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May 12, 2015

Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Dutch 1/8th Nitro On-road National Championship was held last weekend at the Real 80 track in Groningen in the North of the Netherlands. The weekend started with free practice on Friday which resumed on Saturday but unfortunately changing weather conditions with some very light rain made for difficult track conditions and a lot of uncertainties in terms of the setup. However on Sunday the weather changed to the better and the race would start as planned. In the 30-minute final of the premier NK class Martin Zevenhoven (Serpent) came out successful from Ad Vissenberg (ARC) and Marcel Schouten who rounded out the podium in 3rd.

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May 12, 2015

Alessio Menicucci joins LRP

LRP have announced the signing of Italian top touring car driver Alessio Menicucci to their team. Despite his young age of 24 Alessio can show an impressive list of achievements including 11 National Championship titles, ETS Stock and Modified A-main appearances as well as EFRA Euros top 20 finishes. Alessio will use LRP’s full line of speedos, motors, batteries and electric equipment in his campaign that will see appearances at the ETS, the Italian UISP and AMSCI Nationals as well as the EFRA Euros.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

May 12, 2015

BIRC Hong Kong Grand Prix – Announcement

The BIRC Hong Kong Grand Prix will be held on the weekend of the 21st of June at the Tom Racing Circuit in the three classes of Modified Touring Car, 13.5T Open Brushless Touring Car and 1/12th Pan Car. The winner of the Modified Touring class will be awarded a flight ticket to the Bangkok International RC Car Championship round in Thailand, held on the 1st and 2nd of August. More information can soon be found on the Facebook pages of the BIRC and of the Tom Racing Circuit.

May 12, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch wins at Swiss On-road Nats Rd2

Last weekend the second round of the Swiss Nitro On-road Nationals was held at the Aigle track. In 1/8th scale, right from the start on Saturday morning Simon Kurzbuch clocked some good laptimes making him one of the favourites of the weekend. After changing to bi-compound tyres he improved his laptimes even more what resulted in a domination over the whole weekend. In the first qualifier Simon posted the fastest time with an 8 seconds gap to the 2nd placed driver and by doing so, he also set a new lap record of 17.358 seconds. After also winning the third and fourth qualifier Simon started from the 1 spot into the 20 minute semi-final where he again set the fastest time which secured him the pole position for the 45 minute main final in front of Shasa Lackner and Silvio Hächler. Continuing his dominant performance in the main Simon drove a flawless race and he crossed the finish line more than one lap in front of Silvio Hächler, with 3rd placed Christophe Pethoud being another 2 laps down.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

May 12, 2015

Weist & Libar win at RC Lemans Series Rd2

Weist & Libar win at RC Lemans Rd2

The 2nd round of the RC Lemans Series was held this past weekend at the iconic track of the LMCC Luxembourg with drivers from France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg in attendance. In the Pro10 Modified class it was round 1 winner Tobias Weist who set the pace and took the TQ some 1.5 seconds in front of Reinder Wilms and Kai Altmann in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Arnaud Lemperiere and Patrick Miltat from France rounded out the top 5 qualifying result. In the Stock class local hero Jacques Libar took an undefeated TQ in his first ever Pro10 race with a one lap margin on Andreas Dick and Sascha Lennartz.

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