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March 28, 2015

Martin Bayer joins Orca

Orca have announced the signing of 2013 1/10th 4WD Electric Off-Road European Champion Martin Bayer to their off-road team. Martin will race both 1/8th and 1/10th classes using Orca electronics and he had the following to say:

I spend a lot of time to test speed controls, motors and batteries. I try also Orca and I was very happy with all products speed control, motor and batteries. Everything fit to me very quickly and I was very confident. I am very happy to join Team Orca and I will help them to develop off-road product for futures.

Source: Orca [orcarc.com]

March 27, 2015

Ronnefalk fastest at the end of 4WD practice

David Ronnefalk has ended Day 1 of the Euro Offroad Series in Wels, Austria, at the top of the times sheets with the HB driver setting the fastest 4WD practice time ahead of Lee Martin who earlier in the day topped 2WD practice. Setting his fastest 3-consecutive laps in the second of the controlled practice rounds Ronnefalk would end up 1/10th of a second faster than Martin who set his time in CP1. Behind them Martin Bayer would complete the Top 3, the Xray driver making a substantial improvement on his opening seeding pace in the final practice.

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March 27, 2015

Martin tops 2WD practice at EOS Wels

Potentially able to secure his first ever EOS title this weekend, Lee Martin got Round 3 of the championship in Wels, Austria off to an encouraging start as he took his Yokomo to the top of the times in 2WD practice. The British driver, who claimed his first EOS win with defending champions Yokomo at the prevous round in Berlin, set the fastest time over 3-consecutive laps from Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski. Overall it was a good start to the weekend for Yokomo with the strongly represented Japanese manufacturer getting four cars in the Top 10 with Bjorn Prumper completing the Top 3.

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March 26, 2015

McBride doubles at Australian 1/8 National Champs

The 2015 Australian 1/8 Fuel Off-Road National Championships were held at the Model Off-Road Buggy Club in Perth, Australia. As qualifying got underway, it was clear that Kyle McBride would be one of the drivers to beat for the title in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy and Truggy classes. Comfortable from the first lap, the 18-year-old drove with the experience of a top veteran and put himself in great positions for the main events. First up was the Truggy main where McBride jumped out to an early lead and never looked back, lapping the field twice. In the Buggy class the results were similar, with McBride putting three laps on the competition getting him his fifth Buggy Championship in a row.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

March 26, 2015

Ty Tessmann fuelled by VP Powermaster

1/8th Nitro Buggy World Champion Ty Tessmann has teamed up with VP Racing Fuels for the Silver State and Neo race. Ty will “officially” be using VP PowerMaster’s “Tessmann Edition” fuel at the 2015 Silver State in Las Vegas and at the 2015 NeoX race at Harper Adams University in Newport, Shropshire, England. After extensive on-track testing and racing, Tessman was convinced that the custom formulated VP Powermaster delivered the performance demanded at the highest levels of R/C Offroad racing. “Fuel mileage is very important to us without sacrificing power, with this blend we do not sacrifice anything”, said Gord Tessmann.

Source: VP [powermasterfuels.com]

March 25, 2015

Ryan Maifield teams up with TKO

TKO have announced that Team Losi Racing’s Ryan Maifield has joined their team. TKO products, such as wheel, clutch and engine bearings will be in his race cars and with the rolling out of TKO’s new electric performance product line Ryan will also help with testing and development. Currently Ryan is running TKO products such as ceramic engine bearings, flat & finished diff rings, special RT clutch bearings and wheel bearings, Eureka gear box lube, and Enhanced Rotation bearing lube with more to come.

Source: TKO [tkocompetitiondev.com]

March 25, 2015

Showtime as EOS heads to Austria

Following a two month break, the Euro Offroad Series resumes this weekend (March 27-29) with Round 3 of the 1:10 Offroad Championship taking drivers to Wels in Austria. For the second year running the EOS will run as part of Austria’s largest modelsport show ‘Modellbau Wels’ with show organisers this year placing the indoor track in one of the Messe Wels newly constructed entrance halls. In term of the racing action, the event marks a important stage in the championship in terms of determining who the title contenders will be and there will be a lot of attention around the championship’s most successful driver Joern Neumann as the Round 2 4WD winner makes his EOS debut with Serpent.

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March 25, 2015

Dutch BL-Cup Rd1 – Report

The first round of the Dutch BL-Cup for 1/8th scale electric brushless buggies was held at Raco2000 in Utrecht. The previously modified track now offers more challenges for 1/8th buggies and it was the first race on the new layout. With 55 drivers from the Netherlands and Germany it was a good turnout for the BL-Cup which only started in Holland this year. Sunday started out cold but dry and around mid-day the sun came out making for perfect weather conditions. After the qualifiers Bart Mullink, Nick Anneveld and Stefan Petri were the fastest drivers with Bart having won two of the three qualification heats while Nick came out fastest in the other.

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