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May 3, 2016

Witsarut Roumlarp wins New RC Club Race Rd3

Last weekend the third round of the New RC Club Race series was held at the New RC track in Thailand with more than 70 sign-ups for the one day event. Witsarut Roumlarp would grab the TQ for the 45 minute A-main and he would jump into the lead right from the start but some five minutes into the race an error let him drop to 4th. Mongkolphan L. then lead the field until around mid-race when Meen V. held the top spot. With around 15 minutes to go, Witsarut Roumlarp grabbed the lead from Meen who would later run out of fuel sitting in second. This allowed Witsarut Roumlarp to cruise to the win in front of Paphon C and Witchapoom while Meen had to settle for fourth.

Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]

May 3, 2016

1/8th Buggy Euros Warm-up Race – Announcement

The warm-up for the 2016 1/8th Nitro EFRA Off-road European Championships will be held from the 13th to 15th of May at the RC Redovan track in Alicante in the south-east of Spain. Registration for the event is open until the 9th of May and it can be found here together with additional information about the race that is open for all drivers with respective national licences.

May 3, 2016

Ryan Lutz doubles at Pro-Line Gas Champs

The 8th annual Pro-Line Gas Champs were held this past weekend at the Pro-Line test track in Banning, California. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers including prominent guests from abroad, such as Sweden’s David Ronnefalk. The 2-day event saw three rounds of heads up qualifying on Saturday and the mains on Sunday and in the premier Nitro Buggy class it was Tekno’s Ryan Lutz who took the TQ and winning honours, leaving HB’s David Ronnefalk and Tekno RC’s Joe Bornhorst behind in second and third respectively.

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May 3, 2016

Jonathan Yeung teams up with Alpha

Alpha have announced the signing of up and coming Hong Kong driver Jonathan Yeung to their team. The Chinese National Champion will power his Tekno RC vehicles using Alpha’s competition engines and he has the following to say about the deal:

It is amazing to join the Alpha Factory Team and I am eager to run the Alpha engines in various nitro Off-road race. The latest Dragon III series is just perfectly match with my requirements in power demand at different RPM, low fuel consumption and extreme reliable under serious race conditions. I would like to take this chance to thanks for Alpha to offer me this opportunity to join the team. I am confident that Alpha engine can help me to achieve great results in coming IFMAR 1/8 nitro Buggy Worlds in Las Vegas!

Source: Alpha [alpha-rc.com]

May 3, 2016

2016 Red River Spring Fling – Report

Red River Spring Fling – Report

T&T Speedway in Shreveport, Louisiana was host of the Red River Spring Fling. The 3-day race brought together some of the best talent from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. In qualifying, the high grip clay provided fast and extremely close qualifying in all classes. In Modified 4WD, Tyler Keel was able to take overall TQ honors by setting the fastest time in both round 1 and round 2. In Modified Truck, it was a back and forth battle over the three rounds between Cody Avant and Tyler Keel. Avant made two consistent runs to Keel’s one and took the overall TQ honors followed by Keel. The closest qualifying took place in Modified 2WD with Tyler Keel missing round 1 TQ by a few seconds. In round 2 Tyler Keel laid down the only 15 lap run in qualifying taking the TQ in that round followed by Mike Stoll and Drew Spurgeon. In round 3, with Keel and Brian Henn having one TQ each, they would battle it out for the entire 5 minute qualifier. Swapping back and forth throughout the race it came down to the final lap where Keel edged out Henn by a few seconds to take the overall TQ honors in Modified 2WD.

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May 2, 2016

Kerstin & Christian Bessler join Ielasi Tuned

Ielasi Tuned have announced the signing of Germany’s Kerstin and Christian Bessler to their off-road team. The couple will power their Team Associated buggies using the new Ielasi Tuned buggy engines in this year’s campaign that will include the German National Championship, the European Championships A as well as during selected Italian events such as the Bitty Contest in Bologna.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

May 2, 2016

Maxim Laverychev wins at Russian Grand Prix

The recent Russian Grand Prix was held in Moscow with the event attracting some of the fastest Russian drivers to compete on a purpose-built, complex, and high-bite carpet indoor track. In the 4WD Buggy class ETS A-finalist Maxim Laverychev and Dmitry Malyshko battled for the TQ with the better end for Dmitry but Maxim stroke back in the finals as he was able to come out fastest in A1 and A2 to grab the overall win early.

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May 2, 2016

Bart Mullink wins Dutch BL-Cup season opener

Round one of the Dutch BL-Cup was held at the RC de Fivelcrossers track in Appingedam. After a week of rain and cold weather the drivers were greeted by a dry and sunny weekend and a track that soon started to dry once the opening round of qualifiers was done. Bart Mullink would come out fastest in the qualifiers from Kris la Gasse and Wintercup winner Patrick Carels. For 2016 the organisers introduced a new last change heat for the 12 dropouts before the main final and Mike Plekkepoel and Tim Donk were the first to enjoy this new opportunity. The main final then saw Bart dropping the second early but the lap after Bart took over the lead from Kris and from that moment on he never looked back to take the win with a 15 seconds gap on Kris while Patrick rounded out the top 3 result.

Thanks to Oscar Koot for the report.