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November 9, 2015

Hot Race Roma 1/8th buggy tyre

Italian company Hot Race Tyres has introduced the first in a line of new 1/8th buggy tyres. Called the Roma, the tyre sports a medium-size square block tread with specially shaped outer blocks while an inner mesh design makes for lower and more even tyre wear. The Roma is available in a supersoft, soft, medium and hard compound and despite the somewhat directional design it does not have a fixed rolling direction and can be used both ways around to adjust the overall traction.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

November 9, 2015

Autumn Shoot Out Series Rd3 – Report

The penultimate round of the Autumn Shoot Out Series was held at C.A.R.S in Chesterfield. Round 3 saw a field of over 50 entries and Andy Murray was on form in the LMP 10.5 qualifying as he took TQ by a clear three laps from Richard Norris. The 13.5 class was a lot closer with Fred Hatfield just managed to take the TQ in the last few stages for qualifying. The Formula class qualifying could’t have been more exciting, Mark Burgess took an early TQ but run into a lot of problems in the remaining rounds. It was James Wright who took control in the latter rounds with a dominant run to take TQ by a clear lap. He would be joined on the front row with Swifts team mate Stephen Baggley. The remaining five positions were split by just five seconds. For GT12, qualifying was controlled by Craig Mawson who held TQ from start to finish. He was closely followed by Mark Jewitt and Andy Murray. The final promised to be another entertaining show like Round 2.

Continue reading the report here

November 9, 2015

Jack Neal wins at Silverstone Winter Series Rd2

At the recent second round of the Silverstone Winter Series David Poulter set TQ in the 2WD Buggy class and he led a very close and entertaining final for over four minutes, under constant pressure from Schumacher teammates Nathan Waters and Jack Neal. Finally Dave made a small error, which blocked Nathan, and allowed Jack Neal to squeeze past and take the win, from David in 2nd and Nathan in 3rd.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 9, 2015

Xray Winter Series Greece – Announcement

The Greek Fanatix Racing Track in Stamata, Attiki is another venue of Xray’s growing Xray Winter Series that spreads across Europe this coming 2015/16 season. The five round national series kicks off on the 6th of December with the final round taking place on the 3rd of April. The series is held in the four classes of Touring Modified, Formula, 1/10th Pancar and 1/12th Pancar and race registration can be found here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 9, 2015

Berton & Boots successful at Kyosho Masters

The 2015 Kyosho Masters USA were held this past weekend at RC Tracks of Las Vegas, home of the 2016 IFMAR 1/8th Buggy World Championships. The event saw the attendance not only of U.S. Kyosho drivers but also some swift guests from abroad such as Riccardo Berton, Elliott Boots and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai. In the premier Nitro Buggy class 2015 Italian Nitro Buggy Champion Riccardo Berton made a clean sweep by TQing three of the five qualifiers to take the overall TQ from Elliott Boots and Cody King who came out fastest in the remaining rounds. Jared Tebo and Kyle Johnson completed the top 5 after the qualifiers.

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November 9, 2015

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian 13.5T Boosted TC title

The final round of the Indonesian Electric On-road National Championship was held at the East RC Speedway, Jakarta. Going into the event Bowie Ginting was points leader in the 13.5T Boosted Touring class and he only needed to qualify for the A-main in order to take this year’s title. Bowie soon made his intentions clear to round out a perfect season with another win as he took a pretty undefeated TQ some five seconds clear of Muhammad Izzah and Peter Anthonijsz while Christian Mamesah rounded out the top 4. The opening A-main then was won by Bowie after an unlucky Muhammad collided with a tyre barrier that was hit and thrown on the straight. Two laps down Ronald Kasengkang ended the opening leg in second position. The second A-main again had Bowie coming out fastest, this time from Izzah and Peter. The overall win also handed Bowie the national title and he would sit out A3 to let the other drivers battle for the runner-up spot. Ultimately Muhammad Izzah grabbed the win in the final A-main to end the day in second place from Peter Anthonijsz who rounded out the top 3 result.

View the top 10 result here

November 9, 2015

HRC Distribution grey T-shirt

HRC Distribution have introduced their new T-shirt. Coming with a mainly orange and white print sporting Team Magic, HRC, Hard and PF logos the merchandise is made using grey colour, high-quality Heavy Cotton Gildan shirts.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]

November 9, 2015

Naoto Matsukura joins Roche factory team

Roche Products International have announced the signing of multiple IFMAR 1/12th and 2014 ISTC World Champion Naoto Matsukura to race the company’s Rapide P12 1/12th scale pan car in the coming season. His campaign will also include the 2016 1/12th World Championships in China and additionally Naoto will help with further R&D work on Roche’s Rapide P12 platform.

Source: Roche [rocherc.com]