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March 3, 2015

Jesse Munn doubles at Cabin Fever Classic

The 2015 Cabin Fever Classic was held this past weekend at the Lewiston Round-up Fairgrounds in Lewiston, Idaho. This annual event is typically the first major event in the Pacific Northwest each year. This year’s event attracted racers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and even Canada. Friday consisted of open practice, Saturday had 3 rounds of qualifying using the qual points format, and Sunday was triple A-Mains for electric and 30-45 mains for nitro.

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March 2, 2015

FX K5 DC .21 nitro off-road engine

New from FX comes the K5 DC 1/8th off-road competition racing engine. It is based on the 5K and brings all the refinements and improvements based on the experiences gained from the previous racing seasons and a European vice-Champion title. The refined engine features a new, sealed combustion chamber insert with larger surface for improved heat transition to the engine head, a redesigned lightweight engine head with improved cooling, a new carburettor with optimised needles which lead to easier to adjust mixture settings and the K5 also has a more linear power supply. The engine uses a refined manufacturing process and it comes with a DLC diamond coated crankshaft, a high-precision German rear ceramic bearing and a premium Japanese front bearing. The K5 is available as engine only or including muffler and manifold.

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March 2, 2015

RB Products under French commercial court protection

RB Products under French Commercial Court protection

Today French company RB Products issued a statement regarding the company’s future and to avoid any misleading rumours. From what is understood a shareholder of RB Products ran into financial problems but RB Products is currently working in a normal fashion and the 2015 engine range will be introduced next week. Support and products supply currently is unaffected by the new circumstances and restructuring will be finalised in March.

For some time, the GR Fi Group (a shareholder in RB Products) encountered difficulties with its banking partners. The best option was to be placed under the protection of the Commercial Court of Grenoble. Therefore, its subsidiary RB Products, is now under the same protection. The goal of this action is to ensure the continuation of the activity by the intervention of a new shareholder.

Read RB Products’ full statement here

March 2, 2015

Mike Gosvig renews with Xray

Xray has announced the contract renewal with young and talented Mike Gosvig from Denmark for the 2015 season. Mike is multi-class and multi-time Danish Champion and recently got on the podium at the ETS as well. Mike will be racing both on-road and off-road classes during his upcoming campaign and he had the following to say:

I have been racing Xray off-road cars this season, and the T4 since the European championship, and I am very happy and satisfied with everything – cars, products and the support that I get. I’m so proud to be a part of Team Xray, and I’m looking forward to the new 2015 season, and a successful year with all my Xray cars! I am very confident and proud to be part of one of the most successful and professional RC car teams in the world.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

March 2, 2015

Elliott Harper signs for Intellect batteries

Fresh off his A-final appearance at the Euro Touring Series event in Germany and 3rd place at the ICC event last weekend, multi-time World Championship A Finalist Elliott Harper has confirmed he has teamed up with Intellect Battery to run their range of IP-branded LiPo batteries in his Schumacher cars. Elliott had the following to say:

It is great to announce that I will be running the IP/Intellect batteries in 2015 and beyond. To have a deal with one of the largest LiPo battery manufacturers in the world is amazing and a unique opportunity. To be their first directly supported driver is a huge honour and the perfect way to complete my 2015 race package. Thank you to Intellect and especially Oliver Ng for placing their trust in me and I can’t wait to run the brand new packs in the next race!

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

March 2, 2015

Alexander Hagberg wins at 2015 TITC

The annual Thailand International Touring Championships was held in hot and humid Bangkok, Thailand over the weekend. For the 2015 edition the event came back to the famous RC Addict circuit. The race is particularly difficult and competitive since many of the world’s top RC drivers call Bangkok their home and this year the event saw more than 300+ competitors from all over Asia attending in five different classes. The super competitive Modified class as usual saw most of the world’s top drivers attending. As usual tyre strategy was key as every driver was allowed a maximum of four sets for the six rounds of qualifying of which three counted towards the qualifying result. In the end Alexander Hagberg managed to take the overall TQ with two 1st place and one 2nd place finishes in front of teammate Bruno Coelho.

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March 2, 2015

Tony Bishop takes BRCA Micro National Series title

This past weekend would see the last round of the 2014-15 BRCA Micro National Series take place at Caldicot. Going into the last round of the series there were four potential series winners, but only one would come out on top. After the qualifiers Tony Bishop grabbed the overall TQ for the finals in front of Phil Sleigh, Craig Harris and Andrew Jones.Going into the A-main it was all to play for as the any of the top 4 could win the series. Ultimately Tony Bishop would take the 2014-15 Series with a dominate display of 3 wins from 3, with team mates Phil Sleigh and Craig Harris tied for second on point with Andy Jones. The Series winners would be Carisma drivers Tony Bishop, Phil Sleigh and Craig Harris taking 1,2 and 3 and making it’s a Carisma podium lockout.

Source: CML Distribution [cmldistribution.co.uk]

March 2, 2015

Kaja Novotny fuelled by Maxima for 2015

Maxima Fuel has announced the signing of Czech off-road front runner Kaja Novotny to the team. Previously mainly running electric classes Kaja will also attend at nitro races in the 2015 season exclusively using Maxima fuel.

Source: Chiratech Europe [chiratech-europe.com]