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January 20, 2017

Estonian Onroad Racing Series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the Estonian Onroad Racing Series was held last weekend in Tallinn, Estonia. Seven rounds of Reedy Race style heats made for exciting racing and in the end Karl Kasekamp (Team Durango) would take the win in the 1/10th Stock class from Risto Haug (Xray) and Henri Nurmela (Yokomo). Reimo Kosk (Awesomatix) and Raivo Laak (3Racing) completed the top 5 result. In the Formula class Rainer Ressar (Xray) took the overall win from Reimo Kosk (Yokomo) and Kaley Lukk (Yokomo) while the GT12 category was won by Henri Nurmela (Schumacher) from Hans Mötshärg (Schumacher).

View the Formula and GT12 podium here

January 20, 2017

XRS Slovenia Rd2 – Report

Round two of the Xray Racing Series Slovenia was held at the newly resurfaced track in Maribor. The new layout in combination with the proven ETS carpet made for close racing and in the Formula category it was Damir Cindrić to take the TQ after three round of qualifying in front of Matevž Furlan and Sašo Kramljak. The Touring Stock class had Jan Popič coming out fastest from Rok Rudl and Viktor Bolšec while in the fastest class of the weekend, 1/12th scale, Alojzij Osvald took the top qualifying honours from Herfried Pucher and Nejc Mihelič.

Continue reading the report here

January 20, 2017

Serpent welcome Walter Diaz

Serpent have announced the return of Walter Diaz to their US on-road team. After a stint with Capricorn Walter will run Serpent’s gas and electric on-road cars at events throughout the country and he has the following to say:

Thank you for the opportunity to be back and part of the team again, I really appreciate it and I am looking forward to a great year.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

January 19, 2017

Creation Model/Infinity welcomes Takaaki Shimo

Creation Model have announced the signing of Japan’s Takaaki Shimo to their team. The long-time Mugen development driver will be part of the company’s nitro research and development program and Creation Model are really happy to welcome Shimo San on board to race Infinity’s nitro on-road cars both on a national and international level. Takaaki says:

I’m pleased to join one of the strongest team I ever see in my racing career; I’m really excited to team up again with some of team mates I shared good times in the past like Lamberto, Francesco and Nikaido San. I will spend all my efforts to develop the Infinity nitro platforms for the upcoming season and beyond. It’s a new chapter of my life and I hope it could be a successful one once again. See you at racing track!

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

January 19, 2017

Daniele Ielasi joins FastRace SuperGT team

FastRace from Italy have announced the signing of former IFMAR 1/10th 200mm World Champion, Daniele Ielasi to their SuperGT team. After so far doing only select races with the GT-R15, included the win of the Euro GT race back in 2015, Daniele will now enjoy a full season with FastRace, including appearances at the Italian Nationals and the European Championship.

Source: FastRace [fastraceshop.com]

January 19, 2017

Maclan sign Chui & Lo to their factory team

Maclan Racing have announced the signing of two new factory team drivers in Hong Kong. Keith Chui and Ivan Lo are both front runners in the Hong Kong on-road community. Both drivers participated in a lot of developmental testing of Maclan’s MMax Pro ESC and the two will be running Maclan Racing ESCs and motors in the 2017 season.

View Ivan Lo here

January 18, 2017

Marcel Ellissen wins at Neujahrscup

The recent Neujahrscup was held in Lingen, Germany and it attracted about 40 drivers to compete in the Formula class, run according to ETS rules. The category saw Marcel Ellissen taking a dominant TQ, some two laps in front of Michael Schröder. In the finals things looked a bit different in A1 and A2 when Marcel scored DNFs but for A3 and A4 Marcel was back on track, taking leg wins and with them the overall win from Michael Schröder in second, Rene Fischer in third and Sander Berfhoff fourth.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

January 18, 2017

Team Magic Europe sign Andres Gonzales

Team Magic Europe have announced the signing of former Galician Touring Modified Champion and Spanish Nationals A-finalist, Andres Gonzales to their team. Andres will campaign Team Magic’s electric touring car at local and national races and also at select international events including the ETS.

Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]