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June 16, 2014

Damien Thirion wins at French nitro on-road nats Rd3

This past weekend the 3rd round of the French nitro on-road nationals was held in Vieux-Charmont in the Northeast of France on a small and technical track. In the main Serpent driver Anthony Abisset, coming from 4th on the grid, took the lead around 10 minutes into the final while Serpent team mate Damien Thirion settled for 2nd. At the 25 minute mark Anthony struggled during a pitstop for tyres allowing Damien to take the lead which he never gave back to take the win at the 3rd round of the championship. Anthony decided to take things easy following a small mistake and to grab valuable points for the championship by coming in 2nd. Xray driver Thomas Eytard completed the podium in 3rd.

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June 16, 2014

Elliott Boots doubles at Kyosho Masters 2014

The 16th edition of the Kyosho Masters took place last weekend at the track of Sucy en Brie. Run in 4 classes of GP Buggy Elite, Expert and Ligue as well as an E-Buggy class, the race attracted some of the fastest Kyosho drivers in Europe. In the premier class of Elite Buggy Jerome Aigoin took the TQ from Elliott Boots and Linus Thern. In the 45 minute finale Elliott was able to fight back and to take the win some 11 seconds from Jerome. 3 laps down Mikael Palsson completed the podium in 3rd position. Thomas Carandi, Riccardo Berton and Kyosho’s own Yuichi Kanai rounded out the top 6 result.

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June 16, 2014

Shin Dongcheol wins Korean Truggy championships

The 2014 Korea 1/8 GP Truggy Championship was held at the Banwol Off-road Race-Way last weekend. Serpent’s Shin Dongcheol came out successful in what was a very close race as the top 3 was only separated by a view seconds with 10 minutes to go in the race. At the end Shin was able to take control of the group and ended the race in 1st place. Bae Seongsik came in 2nd while Jeon Hanyoung completed the podium in 3rd.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

June 16, 2014

JQ Products THECar gear kit & anti-roll bars

JQ Products have new option parts for their THECar 1/8th off-road buggy available in the form of the THE Even Smoother Gearing set and updated front and rear anti-roll bars. The new gear set is the evolution of the Smooth Gearing Kit released back in 2011. With the current trend of hard-packed and often sugar-treated tracks the updated gear kit helps to lay the power down in the most efficient way as it includes 45T/14 front and rear crown gears, a 49T main gear and a 14T pinion. The new gearing makes for an even smoother and more controllable acceleration with less wheel spin and better overall throttle control. Also new are THECar White Edition anti-roll bars with the front wires being available in 2.2mm, 2.4mm, 2.5mm and 2.6mm diameter while the rear ones come in 2.3mm, 2.4mm, 2.6mm, 2.8mm and 3.0mm diameter.

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June 16, 2014

Atsushi Hara wins FEMCA championships

The 2014 FEMCA 1/8 Nitro Buggy Asian Championships took place at the 3 Stone Park track in Luala Lumpur, Malaysia. Despite some issues in qualifying SWorkz’ Atsushi Hara was the dominant driver in the sizzling hot conditions with his OS-powered prototype buggy as he shifted into second gear on the final day of qualifying, easily taking round wins to take the overall top qualifier position over fellow countryman Wataru Takeshiro (Kyosho/OS) and Australia’s Aaron Stringer (Kyosho/RB). Zac Ryan (Kyosho/OS) and Felix Tan (Prospeed/GO). In the final Atsushi stayed on top and in control of the proceedings taking the win from Wataru Takashiro while Aaron Stringer completed the podium in 3rd position.

Image: Stephen Shih

June 15, 2014

Pietsch claims first ENS win at Hockenheimring

Robert Pietsch claimed his first win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series, when in a somewhat reversal of the season opener he won the Hockenheimring event from Top Qualifier Simon Kurzbuch. Top Qualifier in Melzo but having to settle for second behind the No.2 qualifier Lamberto Collari, today starting from second the Mugen driver took a close win over Championship points leader Kurzbuch, who ran out of fuel on the last lap, with Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe completing the podium at the German track.

Continue reading the report here or view our complete event coverage here.

June 15, 2014

Project Push 1/8th quick release wheel axles

Italian company Project in cooperation with AGM introduce the new Push quick release wheel mounts for 1/8th on-road vehicles. Born from the ideas of Armando Gallorini and designed by Project the wheel axles feature a symmetrical design minimising possible imbalance as associated with conventional lever-type quick release mounts. It is understood that the wheels axles will become available for all major brands such as Mugen, Serpent and Shepherd.

Source: Project [facebook.com]

June 15, 2014

Dankel takes second ENS win

Having struggled throughout qualifying Eric Dankel would pull off an impressive performance at Hockenheimring in Germany to take his second win of the inaugural Euro Nitro Series Championship. Starting from 5th on the grid, the winner of the season opener in Melzo, would work his way to the front getting passed early race dominator Teemu Leino in the final 10 minutes to win the race from Ronald Volker with a late crash & resulting flame-out dropping Leino to third. For Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner, who lead for the first 10-minutes of the 45-minute encounter, a problem with his throttle servo linkage would see him retire just before the race reached 2/3 distance.

Continue reading the report here or view our complete event coverage here.