Power Save Racing from Germany have announced the signing of Serpent’s Jörn Neumann to their team. Jörn was supported by P-S-R in the earlier stages of his career and he now returned to the company to run their line of accessories such as air filters, ball bearings and Revolution fluids in his 1/8th and 1/10th rides.
Source: P-S-R [power-save-racing.de]
The 6th and final round of the Dutch BL-Cup was again held at the Euregio circuit in Hengelo, this time as a combined event with the German BL-Cup, raising the number of entries and making for good competition. The Euregio track pleased the drivers with a new feature called the Carrera twister which was a nice addition. After the qualifiers Bart grabbed the TQ followed by runner-up Lucas Jost. In the semifinals it was again Bart who came out fastest to put his buggy on the pole position for the main final. Right from the start Bart was leading the pack but he wasn’t able to pull away and so he was closely followed by Lucas who in turn had to defend himself. On lap 3 the leader made a mistake and he fell back to 5th place and Bart managed to get back into the 3 spot only to retire later due to a problem on his buggy. Up front Lucas managed to retain the lead and to take the win from Sascha Gehring and Anne Strom in 2nd and 3rd respectively. Overall and despite the DNF Bart Mullink took the 2015 Dutch BL-Cup title.
Thanks to Oscar Koot for the report.
Round 8 of the Czech Open Masters was held in Mladá Boleslav at the PTS Tabornik club’s nicely prepared and partly refurbished track. In the main final Jiri Mara (Serpent) came out successful from Max Götzel (Xray) and Team Durango driver Karel Novotny.
Round six of this year’s Jimmy Babcock Racing League Nitro Series was held at RC Tracks of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Australia’s Kyle McBride (Team Associated) would take the win in the Expert Buggy class from Kyle Johnson (Mugen) in second and Ty Tessmann (HB) in third. Kyle would then also come out successful in the Expert Truggy main, beating Kyosho’s Cody King and Mugen’s Adam Drake. Elsewhere in the 1/8th Electric class Ty Tessmann grabbed the day’s win from the Mugen duo of Adam Drake and Steve Harris.
View the Truggy and E-Buggy podium here
Due to weather conditions early on in the year round 3 of the Irish 1/8th Off-road Nationals had been washed out so the rerun filled the reserve date. The weather was quiet a different story this time with 20 degree Celsius and the sun blazing over the CRCCC’s very fast and flowing European style track where any small mistakes punish big time. Qualification was nip and tuck with four drivers swapping places, Gary Baird, Alan Scroggie, Barkley Abernethy and Andrew McClean. Ultimately Scroggie was to take TQ on a tie by 1 second on the final run.
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The MBV Kampenhout played host for the fifth round of the Belgian SCT Cup on their fun yet selective astro turf track. The day started off wet and slippery and the track would stay like this until the fourth qualifying round. In the Pro2 class, Laurent Halluin (Team Associated) would take three of the four qualifiers to grab the overall TQ with the only 12 laps run. Runner-up Nicolas Evens (TLR) scored one round TQ and two second places to obtain the 2 spot on the grid in front of Tom Pierard (TLR) who completed the top 3 result.
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Schumacher Racing welcome top UK Off Road racer Tom Yardy to the team. Tom is an extremely accomplished racer finishing and excellent 4th in both 2WD and 4WD BRCA Championships last year with one race win at EPR. He has signed a multi-year deal and will also use Schumacher distributed brands, Hobbywing speed controls and motors, Intellect Batteries and Highest servos. Tom had this to say about the deal:
I’m delighted to be a part of the Schumacher team for 2016/17 – in my opinion they currently have the best cars on the market for European racing and I can’t wait to get them out on track. I’d like to thank Robin Schumacher, Mark Musgrove and Trish Neal for helping to make this move possible and I will do all I can to re-pay their faith in me.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Round four of the Swiss Electric Off-road Nationals was held at the Obernau track this past weekend. In the 4WD A-mains Nico Schmid grabbed the win from Team Associated teammate Patrick Hofer to take the national title. Third in the 4WD class was Fabian Luca Widmer (Yokomo). With a fine sixth place Nico’s brother Florian took the 4WD Swiss Junior title.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
