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April 22, 2013

Olivier Bultynck wins Belgian Nats Rd1

The first race of the 2013 Belgian championship took place at the Lovan racing track in Zarren. The indoor track featured many technical areas and a fast layout. Defending champion Olivier Bultynck took TQ with his new VBC Racing Wildfire in front of Thomas Stockman and Nick Joosens. Gerrit van Swijgenhoven took a very good fourth on the grid. The first final saw a very close battle between Olivier and Thomas. Nick was just behind in third place. Olivier made no mistake and Thomas chased him hard but Olivier was able to open a gap and took the win. Thomas came in second in front of Nick and Gerrit. The second final again saw a win of Olivier after Thomas made a mistake in lap six. Meanwhile Nick climbed up to second place and encountered a lot of pressure from Thomas. The latter than touched the second placed but waited until Nick recovered. For the remainder of the final Nick was able to stay in second place with Thomas taking third place. Gerrit managed to take fourth in front of Manuel Henriet. The third final would be the decider for second place. Olivier also raced the last final as he wanted to learn his new car better. Olivier again took off and grabbed the win with the fastest time of the day. Thomas again was very fast and secured a second place. Nick came in third with Gerrit in fourth just in front of Manuel. The overall result saw Olivier Bultynck (VBC racing) taking the win with Thomas Stockman (Xray) in secede and Nick Joosens (Yokomo) in third.

Thanks to Krist Bultynck for sending the report.

April 22, 2013

DJ Apolaro signs with Spektrum

Spektrum signs National Champion and recent winner of the 2013 Winternats, DJ Apolaro to use all Spektrum products for the 2013 year. Having tested the radio and servos at the recent U.S. Open Fuel Championship, Apolaro was very pleased with the results, taking the TQ and Win. This is what DJ has to say about the deal:

First I would like to thank Craig Kaplan at Hobby People/Airtronic’s for their support over the past few years. We had great success together and they are a great group of people. I now look forward to my new venture with Horizon and Spektrum. Having tested the products at the Open Race and feeling very connected with the equipment was great. I want to thank Sonny Brown at Horizon for the opportunity and look forward to showing just how great the Spektrum products are. This weekend it was very easy to use the new radio with the simplified menu. That combined with the very precise servos was just awesome.

Source: Spektrum [spektrumrc.com]

April 22, 2013

Zac Ryan wins Malaysian buggy nats Rd2

Malaysia has become a hotbed of off-road nitro racing in the past couple of years. This past weekend with the effort of the new Putrajaya club and Alvin Lam along with the huge support of the local Putrajaya city and government officials a new track was launched. The Putrajaya city is creating sporting facilities for Malaysians to enjoy and within 100m of the new track were a RC flying field, RC drift track, a lake for RC boating and a world-class swimming complex. Supported by beautiful hotels set on the water it’s a great place to race. 135 drivers from Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and Brunei attended and would contest the second round of the national’s. Qualifying would be 3 rounds of 10-minute heats with the best 2 of 3 to count. Round one ended up being dropped due to a transponder loop issue so it would be best 1 of 2 rounds to count on Saturday. TQ went to new factory JConcepts driver Zac Ryan from Australia. With his first outing on the JC rubber and a brand new MP9 Tki3 he would be tough to beat as he led the timesheets. Close behind him was Felix Tan (JQ/GO/AKA) and Didier Perrin (Mugen/Novarossi/AKA).

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April 22, 2013

Matsukura doubles at RC Park Gojo off-road race

Naoto Matsukura doubles at JMRCA off-road nats

Naoto Matsukura scored a double victory at the recent off-road race held at the RC Park Gojo in Japan. The 1/12th on-road World Champion secured the 2WD title in Yusuke Sugiura (Kyosho) and Kohta Akimoto (Kyosho). The 4WD class saw an identical result with Naoto (Yokomo) taking the overall win followed by Yusuke and Kohta.

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April 22, 2013

Lee Martin wins at BRCA nationals

The first round of the BRCA 1/8th off-road nationals took place at the dirt track of the HNMC. Day two kicked off cold and dry and gave perfect conditions for the drivers. Kyosho’s Elliott Booth took TQ after the qualifiers but dropped out in the semis due to problems as did Team Associated’s Neil Cragg. The A final saw a great battle between Mugen driver Lee Martin and TLR’s Darren Bloomfield for the whole 45 minutes. Every time Bloomfield caught Martin he was forced into errors letting him drop back again. At the end it was Lee who took the race win in front of Darren Bloomfield and Simon Willetts. Jack Embling won the Junior category with Oliver Curry taking the runner-up spot. The third place went to Callun Niblet.

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April 22, 2013

Bittydesign 1/8th Stealth off-road wing

Bittydesign have released this teaser image of their soon-to-be-released 1/8th off-road wing called ‘Stealth’. The low-profile wing is designed to fit all current buggy and truggy kits and will make a first public appearance at the Asia Contest Race in the talented hands of the Bittydesign team drivers.

Source: Bittydesign [bittydesign.net]

April 22, 2013

Kim, Oh & Park win at Serpent On-Road Race Party

Serpent Korea organized the Serpent On-Road Race Party for gas-powered on-road cars and the meeting was held in 1/10th 200mm and 1/8th classes and also saw the introduction of the GT8 vehicles. In the 200mm sedan class it was Yeon Cheol Kim who took the win in front of Seung Seok Lee and Seung Won Choi. The 1/8th class saw Yong Taek Oh taking the win followed by Seong Go Jo in second and Yong Hoon Park in third place. Yong Hoon Park though took the win in the 1/8th GT class chased by Dong Hee Go with Deok Jin Kim taking the last remaining podium spot.

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April 22, 2013

P-S-R ball cup dust covers

Power-Save-Racing from Germany announce the release of their ball cup dust covers for 1/10th Team Associated vehicles and many other cars, trucks and buggies of that scale. Made from a special foam the water-cut rings offer a better fit and therefor improved protection compared to the original part. They prevent dust and dirt from entering the ball stud and ball cup assembly in order or reduce maintenance time and costs in the long run. The foam rings come in 10-piece packages and are available now.

Source: Power-Save-Racing [power-save-racing.de]