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April 21, 2015

Carsten Keller shines at Anglühen 2015

The season-opening Anglühen race for 1/8th nitro off-road buggies was held at the NitroManiacs track in Mönchengladbach, Germany, attracting nearly 100 drivers. Carsten Keller pretty much dominated the event by taking the TQ for the main final and coming out successful in the 45 minute A-main. Mike Wiesweg, who was able to close the gap on Carsten a bit in the second half of the final, ended the race a lap down on the winner while Christian Hahlen rounded out the top 3 result.

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April 21, 2015

Edenburn & Henriksen dominate Novak Race

The 2015 Novak Race at the Plex was held at the famous HobbyPlex facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Cole Henriksen and Zach Edenburn both had great weekends dominating the Stock classes. Stock 2WD Buggy was the largest class of the event stretching all the way to a G-main. TQ would go to Cole but he would have to settle for 2nd place behind Zack. Stock Truck was much of the same with the TQ and win going to Cole, Zach would finish up in 2nd. The Zach and Cole show would continue in Stock SCT with Zach taking TQ, but this time Cole would steal the show taking the overall win.

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April 21, 2015

Mile High Indoor Championships – Report

5280 Raceway in Denver, Colorado hosted the 2015 Mile High Indoor Champs. While the weather outside was cold and slushy, the action on the track was scorching hot with some very close action across most classes during an event featuring Formula, World GT, Touring Car and 1/12th scale classes. The “Mile High” kicked off with open practice most of the day on Thursday followed by the regularly scheduled club race that evening, which provided those who travelled to the event early a taste of racing action before the actual event began. Most drivers found solid pace by the end of controlled practice on Friday and lap times began to fall as qualifying began Saturday morning on this fast and fairly open layout, designed to encourage passing and plentiful on-track action. In Modified Touring Car Paul Lemieux snatched the TQ spot by just over 2 tenths from Kevin Hebert. Others rounding out the TQ honors were local club president Mario Ficco in Formula, Brian Wynn in WGT, Kyle Klingforth in 13.5 Touring Car, Bill Sydor in 17.5 Touring Car, Kevin Hebert in Modified 1/12th scale and Mitch Witteman in both 13.5 and 17.5 1/12th scale.

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April 21, 2015

Takahaka Shoki wins at FEMCA Asia Champsionships

During last weekend’s FEMCA Asia Championships held at the TRC track in Hong Kong, KM Racing’s Takahaka Shoki grabbed the win in the premier 1/8th scale class some four laps in front of Mugen driver Chui Kai Leung. Wu Zheng Zhong (Serpent) rounded out the podium in 3rd, finishing another 3 laps down.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

April 21, 2015

Rivkin & Fenster win at JBRL Electric Series Rd2

Round 2 of the 2015 JBRL Electric Series was held at Coyote Hobbies in Victorville, CA this past weekend. The premier class of 2WD Modified saw a Team Associated podium lockout with Spencer Rivkin coming in 1st followed by Jake Mayo in 2nd and Kody Numedahl in 3rd.

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April 21, 2015

Jason Nugroho wins WillSon Track Grand Opening race

The Grand Opening WillSon Track Championship was held at the WillSon track in Denpasar, Bali. The track was designed and built by same track maker as the Cnetic track in Surabaya and thus it offers a fun and challenging layout. Racers from Singapore, Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, and Medan attended the race with the race format seeing four rounds of 7 minute qualifiers followed by bump-up finals. After the qualifiers Jason Nugroho took the TQ and he started from pole position into the semifinals where he only finished in 3rd place following some issues with traffic. Starting from 3rd into the main final Jason had some more issues with traffic but around the 50 minute mark he was able to take the lead and never looked back to take the win in front of John Agus and Andre Irawan who came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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April 21, 2015

RC Lemans Series Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the RC Lemans Series was held at the MRG Genk track in Belgium. Warm temperatures and a high grip made for a pleasant time off and on the track and it attracted a good turnout of drivers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to compete in the Pro10 Modified and Stock classes. In the fast Modified class Tobias Weist from Germany took the TQ with the only 20 laps run in the qualifiers. Tim Altmann and Reinder Wilms came in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Kai Altmann and Philipp Paul completed the top 5 result.

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April 21, 2015

Yokomo Drift Package D1 Version GReddy R35 Spec-D

Yokomo have introduced their latest Drift Package set, the GReddy R35 Spec-D. Building on a proven shaft-drive 4WD drift car chassis with double wishbone suspension, front and rear solid axles, universal front driveshafts and adjustable shock absorbers with moulded shock bodies the car is ready for some serious drift action right out of the box. Included with the rolling chassis comes a Nissan GTR bodyshell with numerous drift-specific aerodynamic details. A suitable Running Set, including a 2.4GHz radio system, steering servo, motor, speed controller and charger is available separately.

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