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May 29, 2015

Volker tops free practice as rain haults proceedings

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Rain haulted proceedings at Round 5 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Luxembourg just as controlled practice was due to get underway at Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. Having started off a dry day, allowing two rounds of free practice to be completed, the heavy rain left race organisers with no choice but to stop the event with the free practice times now expected to determine the reseeding of the qualifying heats. The free practice times would produce no surprises with last year’s race winner Ronald Volker fastest from team-mate Yannic Prumper. Behind them Xray’s Bruno Coelho completed the Top 3 in front of Marc Rheinard.

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May 29, 2015

Swedish 1/10th Off-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Swedish 1/10th Off-road Nationals was held in Söderhamn on a challenging and pretty low-grip astroturf track. The 2WD class saw some nice battles for the win between Niclas Maansson and young Malin Karlsen with Niclas coming out successful in the opening A-main while Malin was able to strike back in A2 following some small errors of Niclas. For the third and decisive A-main Malin was in a better position as she had scored a 1st and 2nd place while Niclas had a 1st and 3rd place to count. After the start both were running like a freight train until Niclas made a small mistake allowing Malin to get past and open up a small gap. But after having a few small bobbles of her own Niclas was able to catch up on Malin in the very last lap, taking a chance and jumping long on the table top in the winds to just barely put his front end ahead of Malin. Crossing the line both were just 1/10th of a second apart with Niclas coming in 1st.

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May 29, 2015

Max Mort teams up with Schumacher

Schumacher welcome young up and coming Finnish star Max Mort to their team. Max will be competing in many regional and national races in Finland as well as select international races such as the EOS events. This is what Max has to say:

I am happy to start driving with Schumacher Off Road cars for 2015-2016 season. I was given an opportunity to drive with factory support with really competitive cars on carpet and I couldn’t have said “no”. I am really looking forward to the EOS season and Finnish races and I hope that we can have a great year together.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

May 29, 2015

2015 Muchmore Masters – Report

The recent 2015 Muchmore Masters took place last at Sydney Model Autosports with this year’s racing format was a 1 day event with finals completed under lights in the evening. The classes contended were Touring Car Stock 13.5T, 21.5T, Formula and 1/12th scale. After drying off the track due to overnight rain practice and qualification rounds kicked off just before lunch time. After the four qualifications rounds and some very close racing Christian Silva and Damien Zarb were at the front of the Touring Car Stock field in position 1 and 2.

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May 29, 2015

Ehrhardt wins at East German LRP-HPI-Challenge Rd2

The 2nd outdoor round the the East German division LRP-HPI-Challenge was held at the MRC raceway in Hoeckendorf near Dresden, host of the 2011 German championships. In the fastest of the Stock classes, run with 10,5T brushless motors, zero boost controllers and open gear ratio Fabian Ehrhardt took the overall TQ by winning two out of three qualifying heats. The opening A-main then was an easy affair for TQ-holder as Fabian won the leg some 8 seconds ahead of Tony Streit. The second A-main then saw a close battle between Tony Streit and Fabian but Tony took benefit of a small mistake to grab the win in the second A-main too. A-main number three then again had Fabian coming out successful to underline his good performance this weekend.

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May 29, 2015

2016 Dirt Nitro Challenge – Announcement

TheDirt Racing have announced the official dates for the 2016 DNC to be February 17th to 21st. The 17th annual event will be held once again at Fear Farm in Phoenix, AZ with the organisers are planning early for the 2016 event and there will also be an entries cap for the first time ever the the 17 year history of the race. After the huge influx of last minute entries last year the organisers decided it was time to make sure they have a manageable number of entries to make sure the event can be run within reasonable time scales. The official flier and entry form will be posted after the Summer with the entry limit as well as the opening sign up dates to ensure everyone has a fair chance to get signed up. To kick off the Summer TheDirt Racing are offering an “Early Entry Summer Discount”. It is officially open now and will end on Tuesday the 2nd of June. The cost is $60 per entry. You can take advantage of this Summer sale by using PayPal and sending your entry to thedirtracing@aol.com or email Joey Christensen at thedirtracing@aol.com.

May 29, 2015

Daniele Ielasi leaves BMT for WRC

Former IFMAR World Champion and Italian frontrunner Daniele Ielasi has announced his departure from former car sponsors BMT to make a move to WRC Racing. He addresses that the move was mainly done for business reasons rather than being technically related. This is what Daniele has to say about the 2-year deal:

First of all I want thank Pasquale (BMT) for the support in the last year, and is important for me all the people must know the reason of my changing was not technical, but just for business, because in my position today is not important just make the “driver” and sometime in this world of RC the changing are unexpected and instant. So, now I’m really really excited to join in the team WRC and I hope to have good result this season and also the next!

May 28, 2015

Team Associated SC5M Team Kit short course truck

Team Associated have introduced the all-new SC5M Team Kit 1/10th scale 2WD short course truck. Based on Team Associated’s B5M platform, the truck shares closes ties with the of the B5M and T5M to design the ultimate short course truck chassis that utilises all the advantages that come with a mid-motor configuration. The kit features a high performance, no-compromise dedicated mid-motor designed chassis, configured specifically for short course and it shares nearly 90 percent of the parts as the B5M and T5M Team Kits, making it easier than ever to run multiple classes at the same time. From the aluminium hard anodised chassis, to the Factory Team V2 threaded shocks, to the Factory Team VTS slipper clutch, the SC5M Team Kit comes with all of these features and many more. The kit will become available in July.

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