Team Durango announce that IFMAR World Championship A finalist Travis Amezcua has signed for another 12 month with the UK-based company. The highly experienced Pro racer will continue to use Team Durango’s line of 1/10th off-road buggies and trucks during his busy 2014 campaign.
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The 3rd round of the Hungarian national championship was held at the RCArena carpet track in Budapest. In the 13.5T boosted class Janos Birinyi took TQ but he was closely chased by his top 5 rivals who all finished qualifying within a 5 second margin. In the finals, Janos was able to win from flag to flag handing him the win in front of Peter Miko and Peter Taal. In the modified class Barnabas Toth came in first with Viktor Juhasz and Zsolt Kalnay completing the podium.
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The annual Legend4Ever race was held at the Team NCRC Arena in memory of Zeka Özteknik, a former Go Kart World Champion from Cyprus who also used to race RC cars. Nearly 50 drivers attended in the touring car modified and stock classes. Serpent driver Mustafa Alp soon became one of the favourites for the win in the modified class as he easily put himself on top of the time sheets in the controlled practice sessions and he also TQ’s every of the four qualifying rounds. The finals again saw Mustafa pulling away from the field easily but after winning the first A-main he scored a DNF in A2 due to an unforced driving error. In A3 the young man stayed calm again and easily won the final handing him the overall win in the modified class ahead of Halit Körpe and Erol Ucar.
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RaceWorks Hobbies in Singapore recently held its first on-road endurance race. A total of 9 teams took part in the event that was run over 4 hours with the drivers rotating every 40 minutes. Each team, consisting of three to four drivers, ran the Spec-R S1 Sports Edition car powered by 17.5T motors with blinky mode ESCs. A thunderstorm brought things to a halt beforehand but after a 15 minute delay the race started and soon after Team Quantum took over the lead with fast and consistent laps. The team stayed on top for around 2 hours until mechanical problems resulted in several unplanned pit stops allowing Team Trident to close the gap and eventually taking the lead in the 3rd hour.
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The 3rd round of the MRC Winter Series took place in Longwy, France, host of next month’s GP3F. Some 90 drivers attended including Factory Serpent driver Marc Fischer, French ace Loic Jasmin and 2011 1/5th scale World Champion Guillaume Solon. In Touring Car Modified, Marc Fischer put down an impressive performance by winning all three A-finals. French National champion Loic Jasmin took second place ahead of Cyril N’Diaye. 2013 French stock champion Nico Schwendimann did great job by taking 4th place ahead of ETS A-main finalist Julian Borowski.
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This year’s F1RCGP Hong King Final will take place at the ACO racing track in Fanling, Hong Kong on the weekend of the 1st of December. The final of the race series, founded by Hideo Kitazawa, will be run in cooperation with Waigo Hobby and it sees the running of an F1 and F1 GP, F1 Asia and F1 Scale class with drivers from Hong Kong and Japan along some international drivers being awaited. More information can be found here and here.
Arrowmax release the a new design turnbuckle wrench for 3mm, 4mm, 5mm and 5.5mm links. The wrench sports a stepped design allowing to adjust 3mm and 4mm turnbuckles with one side and 5mm and 5.5mm with the other side. Made from high-quality spring steel the tool is both lightweight and strong while the compact size makes storage easy.
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The 2013 Spektrum Challenge was held this past weekend at Trackside Hobbies & Raceway in Milwaukee, WI, the home track to World Famous race announcer Scotty Ernst. The race attracted a lot of local talent to mix up with World-class drivers such as Ryan Cavalieri, Dustin Evans or Dakotah Phend making for an amazing 361 entries race. The race started on Wednesday with open practice, Friday and Saturday had two rounds of qualifying with Sunday being the final’s day. In 2WD Modified Buggy Team Associated’s Ryan Cavalieri went onto take the overall TQ for this class. Cavalieri then went on to win A-mains 1 and 2 to take home his first Championship of the weekend. TLR’s Dustin Evans started 2nd on the grid for the main events. Evans would finish 2nd overall by recording a 3rd place finish in A-main 2 and taking the win in A-main 3. Dustin’s TLR team mate Dakotah Phend started 3rd on the grid and would round out the podium in 3rd place overall by finishing 2nd in A-Main 1 and 2.
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