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January 11, 2016

Bowie Ginting dominates East Touring Series Rd1

The opening round of the East Touring Series was held at the technical, high-grip East RC Speedway in Indonesia. Qualifying took place in hot and sunny conditions and in the 13.5T non-boost class Bowie Ginting scored a pretty easy TQ from Serpent teammate who put his car on the 2 spot for the finals, a lap behind. Arya Seta in third would round out an all-Serpent top 3. In the triple A-mains Bowie grabbed the overall victory with two leg wins and the fastest lap of the day while both Christian and Arya retained their qualifying positions to complete the podium in second and third respectively.

View the top 10 result here

January 11, 2016

Philipp Walleser wins at Longwy Winter Series Rd3

Round three of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held in Longwy in the North of France. The 10.5T Stock category was the most popular class of the weekend and it saw round two winner Philipp Walleser taking the day’s win from the pole position. Jan Bickendorf grabbed the runner-up spot from Jeremy Deladondre in third.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

January 11, 2016

Max Mächler wins at Tonisport MCSS Open

The Tonisport MCSS Open was hosted this past weekend by the MCSS Althengstett club in Germany. Held in several on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Sport and Sportscar there was also a Stock Masters class held in a Reedy Race format with some of Germany’s fastest Stock racers in attendance. The format was ten rounds of which the best eight counted towards the overall result. Max Mächler would be the driver to beat as he scored four wins, two second places finishes and a fifth place to grab the overall win from Daniel Wohlgemuth who scored two wins, two second places and two third place finishes. Tobias Vogel would round out the top 3 with four runner-up spots and three third place finishes.

Image: Max Mächler

January 11, 2016

Arrowmax body post trimmer

New from Arrowmax comes a body post trimmer for 1/10th touring car body posts. The aluminium tool makes use of an optional cutter knife or scalpel blade and it allows to easily and conveniently cut the body posts to size while creating a clean chamfered edge in a second step. The result is a visually pleasing body stay with the chamfered edge also making for easier body installation. The tool is made from anodised aluminium, it comes in grey, black and purple anodising but without the needed blades.

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January 10, 2016

Volker takes easy A1 win at DHI Cup

Ronald Volker claimed an easy win in the opening A-Main at the DHI Cup this morning in Denmark. The Top Qualifier and reigning champion lead from start to finish with an anticipated challenge from Awesomatix driver Viljami Kutvonen failing to materialise. In the end, after a late roll by Kutvonen, Volker’s Yokomo would win by over 4-seconds with Xray’s Bruno Coelho a distant third.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

January 9, 2016

Volker is Top Qualifier at DHI Cup

Ronald Volker is Top Qualifier for the DHI Cup, the Yokomo driver securing his fifth pole position at the Danish classic when he made it three from three in the penultimate round of qualifying. Chasing a 7th win at the Odense based event, the German topped the times in Q3 from Xray’s Alexander Hagberg after an early mistake by Viljami Kutvonen ended the Awesomtaix driver’s expected challenge of Volker’s reign on proceedings.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

January 9, 2016

Viljami closes gap but it’s Volker again in Q2

Viljami closes gap but it's Volker again in Q2

Viljami Kutvonen reduced his deficit by half to record a P2 in the second round of qualifying at the DHI Cup this morning. As in last night’s opening qualifier, the Awesomatix driver again set the fastest lap finishing just 0.452 of a second off defending champion Ronald Volker. With track conditions proving fastest on Day 2 of the event, having TQ’d the first qualifier Volker would improve on that time by 3-seconds. After a slow start to the event yesterday, Bruno Coelho would post a Top 3 run finishing just ahead of Xray team-mate Alexander Hagberg, but with both drivers making mistakes the gap was a considerable 6-seconds.

Continue reading this report here or view our complete event coverage here.

January 9, 2016

Andrea Pirani joins F.T. Line

Only days after signing Rick Vrieljinck, F.T. Line have announced another high-class addition to their team. Andrea Pirani will join Rick V. and Francesco Tironi himself to run the F.T. Line .21 engine throughout 2016. The ENS podium finisher has the following to say about the deal:

I am very happy to start this new partnership with F.T. Line. I would like to thank O.S. Engines for the support they gave me in the past two years, with a special thank you going to Mr. Shimazaki and Mr. Yukami. I’m ready to face a tough 2016 season with F.T. Line, sure i’ll be able to better the results achieved in 2015. I also want to thank F.T. Line in the person of Gino Voghera for the chance they gave me. I will be competing in the Euro Nitro Series, European Championship and AMSCI Italian Nationals.

Source: F.T. Line Engine [facebook.com]