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June 23, 2015

RC Lemans Series Rd3 – Report

Round 3 of the 2015 RC Lemans Series was held in Utrecht, NL over the weekend in the classes of Pro10 Modified and Stock. Following a dry practice day the race day started out wet with the three qualifiers all being run under very severe weather conditions. In the Modified class Tim Altmann grabbed his first pole position of the 2015 season in front of his brother Kai. Tobias Weist, Reinder Wilms and Michael Finger rounded out the top 5 result. In the 10.5T non-boost class Sascha Lennartz took the TQ from Franz-Jakob Reinartz, Roy Pie, Mathijs Hermens and Nick Boon.

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June 23, 2015

Bernhard Poinstingl wins at Hobby Cup Austria Rd1

The opening round of the Hobby Cup Austria was held in Loosdorf. Saturday’s practice was called off because of the track being too wet to run on and Sunday started off with four round of qualifying followed by triple A-mains for the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the finals Bernhard Poinstingl took the win from Jan Kruisz who won the first A-main and was in the lead in A3 but a mistake had him fall back so he eventually finished on the runner-up spot. The 3rd and final podium place was grabbed by Josef Wasacs.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

June 23, 2015

Endurance Championship Austria 2015 – Report

The 2015 Endurance Championship Austria was held at the Tirol Ring in Austria last Saturday with 8 teams and a total of 24 drivers in attendance. The practice took place on a very wet track and the qualifying started at noon with team MRC Zillertal I (Egger / Gehrig / Stoeckl) putting their car on the pole position in front of the RC Bike Team (Kranewitter / Wäckerle / Feilner) and the team Fahr(t)raum (Klausner / Klausner / Reiser). The actual race, run over 10 hours, started at 1 p.m. on a drying track. The pole setters started off quick but some 13 minutes into the race the hopes for the overall win went up in smoke due to a motor failure. After a 14 minute break the guys managed to get back on track and they would ultimately finish in 4th place with a total of 1055 laps. Up front the team Fahr(t)raum won the race with 1119 laps, only 3 laps in front of the RC Bike Team with the 3rd placed Geisler Racing Team coming in only another lap down after 10 hours.

Thanks to Christian Stöckl for the report.

June 23, 2015

Schäfer & Thalheimer win at Central German Champs

Round 3 of the Central German Nitro On-road Championships took place in Kirchhain with a total of 44 drivers in attendance despite the weather forecast being not very good. Luckily the main finals could be raced under dry conditions but the race time was shortened to 20 minutes as more rain was predicted. At the start of the 1/8th scale class 1 finale the track was still wet at some places so everybody was driving carefully. Patrick Schäfer had to start from 6th position as he had a technical problem in the single dry qualifier. Lap by lap he moved up the order and after the first round of pit stops he took over the lead from Peter Poldvere. Without looking back he controlled the race from the front crossing the finishing line 2 laps in front of Peter with Alex Schmitt completing the podium another lap down.

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June 23, 2015

Yannic Prümper signs with Hitec

Hitec have announced the signing of German frontrunner Yannic Prümper to their team. Yannic, who won the Italian round of this year’s Euro Touring Series, will use the company’s Lynx 4S radio system from the upcoming ETS finale in Slovakia on. The Yokomo factory driver has the following to say about the deal:

I am very happy to be part of the Hitec team and I cannot await my first race with the new radio system. The transmitter is very well balanced and perfectly fits my needs. I really look forward to use the Lynx 4S at the ETS finale in Trencin.

Source: Hitec [hitecrc.de]

June 23, 2015

Tamiya TG10 Mk.2 FZ Raikiri GT

Tamiya soon have a new bodyshell variant for their TG10 Mk.2 FZ 1/10th 4WD nitro on-road chassis available in the form of the Raikiri GT. The body was designed by a former Toyota Motor Cooperation designer although it also shares some design ideas with Honda’s iconic NSX 2-door coupe. As for the chassis underneath the TG10 is a shaft-driven 4WD platform with 3mm aluminium chassis, composite upper deck, a 2-speed gearbox, widely adjustable pivot-ball suspension and a 2.1cc FS-12FZ recoil starter engine. The kit will hit the stores by end of June.

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June 23, 2015

1st Annual Club RC Dash for Cash – Report

Club R/C located in Houston, Texas recently hosted their first Dash for Cash race. On Friday, the doors opened at 9am for a full day of practice. The track had a new layout installed less than a week ago so it was starting to build grip as practice went along. On Saturday morning doors opened at 7am with 2 hours of open practice. Drivers meeting and the start of round 1 qualifying at 9:15am. Qualifying was based on your 1 fastest round. 4 full rounds were run on Saturday. All A mains where set with the 1 fastest qualifier and no bumps with triple A mains being run to decide the over all winner of each class.

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June 23, 2015

Lars Hoppe wins at German Nitro On-road regionals

Last weekend saw the running of the 3rd round of the North German Nitro On-road regionals at the famous Munster track. After changing weather conditions on Saturday the race day would dry, making for good weather conditions. In the 1/8th class Lars Hoppe (ARC/Reds) would take the TQ, win and fastest lap to round out a perfect weekend. Starting from pole position, Lars set the pace in the final and he was followed by Lennart Skornia (Serpent/Orcan), Merlin Depta (Serpent/Picco), Andreas Giesa (Shepherd/Picco) and Timo Schröder (Shepherd/XRD). The spectators witnessed some very exciting 30 minutes with a fierce final lap battle between Marco Kruse (Mugen/RB) and Timo Schröder for the runner-up spot. At the end Marco was able to come in 2nd in front of Timo while Lars ended the final some six laps in front of the two.

Source: ARC [arc-rc.com.tw]