The Greek nitro off-road season opening race was held in Athens on a newly refurbished track and under perfect weather conditions. The TQ after the qualifiers went to Tasos Paparegas in front of Kodouzoglou and Zagorisos.
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FX have announced the contract renewal with young and talented Lorenzo Crolla for the 2015 season. The French front runner will use the FX engines during his off-road campaign that will include the EFRA Euros, the French nationals, the NEO Race and more. Lorenzo had the following to say:
I have raced the FX engines during the entire 2014 season and being satisfied with the performance and reliability there is no other consideration than to continue with FX for 2015 as well. I will race all the major nitro off-road races in France as well international races including European Championship, EFRA GPs and NEO race. I am looking forward the 2015 season with my FX engine.
Source: FX [fx-engines.com]
New from Xray comes the independent servo mount set for the XB4 buggy. The floating servo mount design is a common sight in electric touring car racing as it eliminated tweak created by the steering servo and it also makes appearances in off-road racing nowadays with the Xray set allowing to mount the servo on the left or right side of the chassis. Included come black anodised 7075 aluminium servo mounting brackets and a carbon fibre brace.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Serpent have announced the return of Niclas Nillson to their electric on-road team. The Swede will be racing Serpent’s Eryx 3.0 touring car and the S120-LTR 1/12th scale pan car while working closely with Serpent designer Michael Salven and the factory team of Marc Fischer, Viktor Wilck, David Ehrbar and Hupo Hönigl in terms of testing and racing.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The third round of the Slovakia Cup was held at the Hudy Racing Arena this past weekend in the six classes of Touring Car Modified and Stock, Pan Car, Formula and 2WD and 4WD Buggy. The Touring Car Modified class was dominated by Martin Hudy who won all qualifiers and finals to grab the day’s win. David Nemcek came in 2nd while Igor Liptak rounded out the top 3 result. Lacko Toth and Daniel Zak completed the top 5 result.
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Matrix have announced that Former Dutch Champion and 2014 ENS race winner John Ermen will continue with the Italian company for 2015. A driver with more than 20 years of experience, his contribution is very important to the team both in terms of racing and product development. The newly signed ARC team driver will be racing this year’s ENS as well as the Benelux Cup, the German Nationals and the EFRA Euros.
Source: Matrix [matrixtires.it]
New from Orcan comes the Push Box, a specially designed part to improve engine performance and mileage. Used in prototype form by Alexander Hagberg to win the 2014 IFMAR 200mm Worlds the Push Box is made to become looped in the pressure line between the exhaust and the fuel tank and it makes for a more reliable and constant engine performance especially right after refuelling when running with high fuel levels as it prevents the engine from running too rich.
Source: Orcan [orcan.de]
The Navan Winter Series attracted drivers from all over Ireland and it finished up at the weekend. In Nitro Buggy Jason Noonan took 3rd, Jakub Wawrzacz 2nd and Barkley Abernethy took the overall win for an all-Agama podium lock-out while in E-Buggy Agama driver Colin Whelan grabbed the overall win.
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