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March 25, 2015

Dennis Sting joins Xray

Xray have announced the signing of young and talented multiple German Junior Champion Dennis Sting to their team. Dennis is focused for nitro on-road racing and will race at all major events including the Euros, the ENS and the German Nationals in 2015 using Xray’s RX8 and NT1 kits. Dennis had the following to say:

I am very happy and excited for this great opportunity and want to thanks to Xray for their trust in me. To be part of World Championship winning team is a great honor for me and I will do my best to represent Xray in the best possible way. I will be racing all the major nitro on-road races as well the ENS series and will be available to anyone to help out.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 25, 2015

Showtime as EOS heads to Austria

Following a two month break, the Euro Offroad Series resumes this weekend (March 27-29) with Round 3 of the 1:10 Offroad Championship taking drivers to Wels in Austria. For the second year running the EOS will run as part of Austria’s largest modelsport show ‘Modellbau Wels’ with show organisers this year placing the indoor track in one of the Messe Wels newly constructed entrance halls. In term of the racing action, the event marks a important stage in the championship in terms of determining who the title contenders will be and there will be a lot of attention around the championship’s most successful driver Joern Neumann as the Round 2 4WD winner makes his EOS debut with Serpent.

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March 25, 2015

Dutch BL-Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Dutch BL-Cup for 1/8th scale electric brushless buggies was held at Raco2000 in Utrecht. The previously modified track now offers more challenges for 1/8th buggies and it was the first race on the new layout. With 55 drivers from the Netherlands and Germany it was a good turnout for the BL-Cup which only started in Holland this year. Sunday started out cold but dry and around mid-day the sun came out making for perfect weather conditions. After the qualifiers Bart Mullink, Nick Anneveld and Stefan Petri were the fastest drivers with Bart having won two of the three qualification heats while Nick came out fastest in the other.

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March 25, 2015

Cody Turner doubles at JBRL Electric Season Opener

The 2015 JBRL Electric Series kicked off the season at IERC in Southern California this past weekend. The 1-Day JBRL race format with over 300 entries meant for a long day but once the sun set and the mains had been raced Cody Turner led the premier 2WD Modified Buggy class with Dylan Nelson in a close 2nd and Shawn Blackwell Sr. in 3rd.

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March 25, 2015

Markus Hellquist wins SSIC Rd6

The final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup for electric touring cars was held in the very South of Sweden in the small town of Tomelilla. The track was quite technical with low traction, making many drivers suffering from rear end traction. In the practice rounds Markus Hellquist laid down the fastest lap ahead of Daniel Carlsson and Jonas Andersson. After 3 rounds of qualifying with the best round to count the order kept the same, with Hellquist being roughly one lap ahead of Daniel Carlsson and Jonas Andersson.  In the finals Markus kept on with his previous pace and never let the cars behind him come close to fight for the victory. Behind Markus there wasn’t a whole lot of action either, the top 3 kept the same in all three finals resulting in the scoreboard being exactly the same as the qualifying for the top 3.

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March 25, 2015

Ollie Currie wins at HNMC Winter Series Rd12

Round 12 of the HNMC Winter Series brought plenty of guys out to play at the recently re-vamped Herts track. With many new features put in and the layout having changed a fair bit, there was a challenge for all to get used to it, with the old layout having been in place for a long time. Qualifying saw Ollie Currie laying it down, and after a mistake in round 1 costing him that TQ he made no such mistakes in rounds 2 and 3 to take the overall TQ for the meeting in fine style.

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March 25, 2015

LRP S8 Rebel carbon fibre shock towers

LRP have carbon fibre shock towers for the S8 Rebel 1/8th scale buggy available. Made to improve stability while lowering the overall weight of the buggy the shock towers come cut from high-quality carbon fibre and they sport machined LRP logos for easy identification. The parts are available separately and fit both the S8 Rebel BX nitro and BXe electric buggy.

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March 25, 2015

Cristian Artiles wins at Grand Canary Winter Series

The 2015 Winter Series was held this past weekend on the island of Grand Canary. The temperature of 25 degrees made for perfect racing conditions and after the qualifiers it was Cristian Artiles who took the TQ. The semifinals went well for Cristian too as he was able to take the pole position for the 30 minute main that he later won some three laps ahead of Leandro Romano.

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