Radiosistemi RR8 driver David Crompton walked away with the win at the 5th round of the SWorkz Winter Series. Neil Cragg (Team Associated) came in second while Colin Brennan (Xray) completed the podium. Graeme Miller (TLR) and Gavin Uttely (SWorkz) rounded out the top five.
Source: Radiosistemi [radiosistemi.it]
The 38th annual Florida Winternats were run last weekend in Fort Myers, Florida. The race again attracted a huge number of drivers including some international starts alongside the fastest nitro on-road racers from the U.S.. In 1/8th Open Capricorn driver Dario Balestri, running for his new engine sponsor XRD, took the win some six laps ahead of top qualifier Mike Swauger (Xray/Picco) with Flavio Elias (Mugen/Novarossi) coming in third another three laps down.
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Mugen’s Robert Batlle has won the annual Grand Prix de Montpellier in a thrilling final against Agama’s Darren Bloomfield who took TQ for the hour long final. First Robert was challenged by Darren Bloomfield and Elliot Boots (Kyosho) and also Xray’s Renaud Savoya was in the mix but once Elliot broke his car and Renaud suffered a short engine hick-up Robert could open a gap to the field. Towards the end Darren then shifted into second gear, charging Battle hard and eventually overtaking him only minutes from the one hour mark but an empty fuel tank prevented Darren from taking the win for Agama. Robert would take the win for Mugen while Darren managed to take the runner-up spot. Reno Savoya came in third, only one lap down.
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9-time World Champion Lamberto Collari has been in contact to give us an update on his current situation heading into the 2014 season, answering the many requests he has received concerning his race package. For the first time in many years the Italian RC legend will run the season without a chassis sponsor which will allow him to evaluate what car best suits him ahead of the 2015 World Championships. In terms of engine, he hopes to remain with long time sponsor Novarossi, but no deal has yet been finalised. Those who are onboard so far for the new season are previous sponsors Sanwa and Protoform, while new for this year are Hudy tools and Zac Project tires.
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Round 6 of the Western Canadian Indoor Championship Series was held on the wide open prairies of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The Regina Club FASTRAXX hosted a great event, with 7 classes and championship points all on the line. In the World GT class it was the 2013 WCICS WGT champion, CRC sponsored Korgae Scales with his GenX-10SE that took TQ and win over Team Associated’s Peter Tozser and his RC10R5.1. WCICS President Josh Carter drove his Xray X10 to the final spot on the podium. Next up is round 7 in British Columbia hosted by Thompson Valley RC in Kamloops on March 7-9th.
Source: WCICS [wcics.ca]
It has been announced that current European Champion David Ronnefalk has changed fuel sponsor for the new season. After 5 year with Meccamo he has joined Italian company Runner Time for 2014, and his first race for the team will be the Nitro Challenge in Phoenix next week. David had the following to say:
I want to thank Matteo Passerini at Runner Time to the opportunity to be in the Team, and hope for another successful year. I also want to thank Meccamo for the last 5 years of support.
Source: David Ronnefalk
Exotek now have this carbon fibre mounting strap for the Team Associated B5 buggy available. The “Flite” weighs in at only 6.5g and is therefore almost 4g lighter than the stock part. Added rigidity makes for a secure battery mounting while the design and material used underline the cool factory look.
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After the glamour of the Reedy Race of Champions thanks to the welcomed presence of Monster Energy and their easy on the eye female employees, it was always going to be a near impossible act to follow for the next few races I would be attending. Flying back from California, with a day off before heading to Round 2 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series, I would receive an e-mail that while not bringing much glamour to the race would certain excite R/C fans all over the world. As press officer for the ETS, Yokomo had given me the go ahead to officially announce that they had signed to their touring car team r/c super star Atsushi Hara with part of his deal being to contest the ETS. With so much talk and rumour as to where or what Hara would do, it was very exciting to be able to let the world know that for the class in which he won his first world title and in a world championship year he was signing with Yokomo, the same manufacturer with whom he won that 2000 title. As press releases go sitting down to type up the announcement was by far the easiest one I have had to write yet for the series.
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