VBC Racing have announced the signing of Germany’s Jan Rettke to their team. A Stock class expert, the 2015 1/12th 10.5T German National Champion will use the company’s products from now on and he has the following to say:
I am very happy and want to thank Victor L and VBC Racing for giving me the opportunity to use their products. I can’t wait to work together with my new team and looking forward to next season.
Source: VBC Racing [vbcracing.com]
Round five of the Slovakian Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the RC-Comorra track in Komarno. It was again a hot and dusty race and in 2WD buggy it was Lucas Grainer who took the TQ after an awesome qualification. In the finals Lucas was able to stay on top to win the race from Michal Nagy and Milos Svihran.
The Southern Nationals Indoor Off-road Race was held at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, Louisiana this past weekend. The event attracted both internationally experienced racers and local talent and in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy it was reigning World Champion, Ty Tessmann (HB Racing) who locked down the prestigious TQ positions and he would also bring home popular wins in both classes from Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst. Mugen’s Cole Ogden would take the final podium spot in Nitro Buggy and Nitro Truggy while elsewhere in the 1/8th E-Buggy class it was Joe Bornhorst who top qualified and won the race.
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Maxima have released a teaser for their forthcoming Mx B4 nitro off-road engine. The newly designed power house will offer improved performance and it sports a new cooling head with special Las Vegas graphics to celebrate this year’s IFMAR Gas Buggy World Championship that will be held in “Sin City” early October. We bring you more information on the engine as soon as they surface.
Source: Maxima [facebook.com]
The Summer portion of the Czech National On-road Championships was recently held in Brno-Bosonohy. Over 50 drivers from all over the country attended in the five classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula, GT Open and GT Stock. The event started off with practice on Friday followed by five qualifiers on Saturday and triple mains on Sunday. The rubber tyre 4WD classes used Hot Race hand out tyres with great results as even in the hot weather conditions the tyres held up fine, making for equal conditions for everyone. In the premier Touring Modified class it looked like Jiri Vysin would take an easy TQ with his closest competitor, Radek Flek struggling with overheating tyre. Fast Kuba Simurda ran in to electronic issues and another pre-event favourite, Petr Grof, was simply not fast enough. And out of nowhere Radek Voda scored low-point results to take a popular overall TQ from Jiri and Radek, promising some nice battles for the A-mains.
This past Sunday saw the start of the Traction 2016 race series at Swifts Raceway. The revamped Autumn Shootout was back to sort the winners from the wannabes. Like last year the championship had attracted some of the UK’s top drivers such as National champions Adam Catchpole, Darren Newton and Andy Murray. Also joining the field was newly crowned Formula Clubman champion Luke Lee. Once again the pit lane was full of activity and great banter before the track wars begun. The track layout seem to favour the GT10’s and Formula classes with a lot of fast flowing corners. It was going to make it a very close meeting for the smaller GT12’s.
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The 2016 LRP-HPI-Challenge finale was held at the RCCT-Münden track in Hannoversch Münden, Germany over the weekend with about 145 entries for the four classes of Stock 13.5T, GT 17.5T, Classic and Rookie. Unfortunately the weather was pretty changing over the weekend with especially the Saturday brought some unexpected results on the sometimes wet, sometimes drying track. Fortunately the finals on Sunday would be held in better weather with the Sun eventually coming out. The fastest class of the series is Touring Stock 13.5T with Team Magic’s Patrick Gassauer taking the opening A-main while Lars Hoppe (ARC) scored a win in A2. Kevin Sparbier (Serpent) came out fastest in A3 and when the dust settled it was Patrick who came out on top from Kevin with both being tie on points but the better tie-breaker handed Patrick the title. In third Lars completed the podium result.
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Italian company Mon-Tech Racing have announced the addition of Germany’s Marco Kaufmann to their team. A multiple ETS and European Championship finalist, Marco will use the bodyshells during his 2016/17 campaign that will include all major national and international races.
Source: Mon-Tech Racing [mon-techracing.net]
