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November 23, 2015

Dutch MRC Cup Rd2 – Report

This past weekend the second round of the famous MRC Cup was held in the Netherlands. Considered the biggest indoor on-road series in the Netherlands the race attracted over 50 entries to compete in the four classes of Touring Stock 17.5, Tamiya Top Stock, Tamiya M-Chassis and Formula 21.5T. The race format was two qualifiers followed by triple finals. In the Touring Stock 17.5 class, run with Trackstar motors, some of the usual frontrunners were absent from the event and after the two qualifiers it was Rob Janssen (Team Magic) who took the TQ from Eric Bresser (Xray) in second and Jan Kraanen (Xray) in third.

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November 22, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch is 2015 IFMAR World Champion

With some delays, due to rain on Saturday morning the last 5 finals of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th onroad World Championships were run in the afternoon at the ZECA Elias track in Americana City SP. The final started just after 5pm with Simon Kurzbuch on pole position for Shepherd. Following a hard fought pair of Semi finals in which we lost contenders Balestri, Pietsch & Collari it would be Takaaki Shimo who would start from 2nd with fellow Japanese racer Yuya Sahashi in 3rd. Fourth on the grid was local favourite Flavio Elias starting ahead of reigning World Champion Tadahiko Sahashi in 5th, Sebastian Recio (coming from the 1/4 finals) 6th, Shinnosuke Yokoyama 7th, Henrique Winik (also from the Quarters) 8th, Robin D’Hondt 9th and Daniele Ielasi completing the grid in 10th, the only Italian in the final.

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November 22, 2015

The Rally Legends Lancia Delta Esso Grifone bodies

Italtrading have introduced two new 1/10th rally bodyshells out of their The Rally Legends line of scale rally cars and bodies. Available soon are the Lancia Delta S4 and Evo2 in the Esso Grifone design. The bodies come made from clear polycarbonate and they include comprehensive decal sheets as well as moulded details such as lightbars, windscreen wipers and more. The bodies fit Italtrading’s own line of The Rally Legend cars as well as many other 1/10th scale touring car chassis.

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November 20, 2015

Bratis wins at Greek Attiko Cup

The Greek Attico Cup was held recently at the Fanatix Racing Track. In the 1/10th Formula class Bratis (Xray) would come out successful from Zogogiannis (Xray) on the runner-up spot. Bouleros (Xray) rounded out the podium while Panagiotopoulos and Karounis completed a top 5 all-Xray result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 20, 2015

Lopez & Macia win Spanish Endurance Nationals

The Spanish 1/8th Nitro On-road Endurance Nationals were hosted by the Carsol club in Elche. The four hour Endurance race sees pretty simple rules with a limit of six sets of tyres and a 15 laps penalty for an extra set as well as 30 minute stints for 2-driver teams and 20 minute stints for 3-driver lineups. The race started in the afternoon and ended under floodlight to make for a very special atmosphere. Right before the start the team of Blanco and Sevilla ran into engine problems meaning they would loose around 15 minutes while up front Nacho Lopez and Pablo Macia set the early pace despite 5 minute fuel stints. In second place and on the same lap Alberto Alonso and Victor Gonzalez, on a 6 minute refuelling strategy, tried to keep up with the pace of the leaders. The team of Cuesta, Pastor and Revert would hold the third place in the opening stages.

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November 20, 2015

Marco Kaufmann wins at Pegasus Masters

The Pegasus Masters was held in Piding, Germany with 96 entries in four electric on-road classes. The track was made using the famous ETS carpet and the control tyre for the Touring classes was the Volante indoor tyre. In the Touring Modified class Marco Kaufmann (Xray) would dominate right from the start by coming out fastest after the practice and scoring round TQs in the first three qualifiers on Saturday. Despite posting the only 24 laps run the whole weekend Marco struggled on Sunday when Q4 and Q5 went to Xray teammate Tim Wahl. In the finals the fight was then on between Marco and Tim with the latter taking the win in the opening main following an early mistake of Marco. Kaufmann though stroke back with a win in A2, meaning the decision over the overall win would be made in the third and final A-main. From the tone both tried to open a gap on the field and due to the tight nature of the track overtaking was difficult and so Marco would hold the upper hand to take the win in A3 and with it the overall victory from Tim Wahl and Dominic Vogl (Yokomo).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 20, 2015

ROAR Super 8 regional – Report

The ROAR Super 8 regional was held at ProlevelRC in St. Louis, MO, on a technical yet fast and high-bite layout. The race saw the running of a Touring Modified, Touring Stock, 1/12th Modified, 1/12th Stock as well as Formula class and the race format was three rounds of qualifying on Saturday with a final qualifier on Sunday followed by the mains. In the Touring Mod class Cody Woods would come out fastest while in Touring Stock Eric Andreson took the overall TQ. Drew Ellis put his car on pole position in 1/12th Mod while the 1/12th Stock class had Jim Piersol taking the TQ honours. Finally in the Formula class it was Jack Kloeber who found the fastest way around the track.

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November 20, 2015

Simon Kurzbuch TQs IFMAR 1/8th Worlds in Brazil

The 2015 IFMAR 1/8th Nitro On-road World Championships are taking place this week in Americana City, Brazil, around 160 kilometres away from Sao Paulo. The event attracted around 75 drivers, most of which are from Brazil and Argentina, to compete at the Zeca Elias high-speed track whose concrete barriers are not allowing for many mistakes to be made. So far the temperatures were hot all week, varying between 27 and 32 degrees Celsius but up until now the rain has passed the track daily, with only a small shower that caused a delay of round 5. Racing wise Swiss ace Simon Kurzbuch has pretty much dominated the qualifying which is run using the points system. On Wednesday Simon made a clean sweep by winning three of the three qualifiers and another round TQ in the fourth qualifier on Thursday as well as a second place in the final round, following a DNF in round five, cemented Simon’s overall TQ with Takaaki Shimo on the 2 spot and Dario Balestri rounding out the top 3. The lower finals are set for Friday with the quarter, semi and main final to be held on Saturday.

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