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March 10, 2016

Creation Model sign Jilles Groskamp

Creation Model have announced the signing of former IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Champion, Jilles Groskamp to the Infinity team. Jilles was chosen for his incredible driving skills, passion and dedication to the hobby. With his experience and professional attitude he will be an important part of the team while helping to improve current and develope future projects. The former HB/HPI driver had the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy to announce my career move to Creation Model. This new company has a great passion for R/C and I will be joining a great group of people. First I will be running the Infinity 1/8 at most big races but in the meantime we will also be working hard on future projects. I’m more then excited to start this new venture and I would like to thank Kenji Taira and all his staff for this great opportunity. See you at the track!

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

March 10, 2016

Markus Hellquist wins at SSIC finale

The final round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Alvesta, hosted by the Wäxjö MS club. The track was quite technical and it offered high traction, making a lot of drivers suffer from traction rolling. In the practice rounds Marc Fisher laid down the two best laps combined ahead of Markus Hellquist and Viktor Wilck, being less than a tenth behind. The qualifying result was based on the best single result, out of three rounds in total. After three rounds Viktor Wilck placed himself on the top spot, 0.052 seconds ahead of Markus Hellquist, and 2 seconds ahead of Marc Fisher. The finals then saw some really close racing between the top three drivers. After incidents that lead to the winner of the opening A-final being disqualified, and after the leader of the second final accidentally hit a car rolling across the track, Markus Hellquist managed to come out successful in A1 and A2 to grab the overall victory. Marc Fischer would end the day on the runner-up spot from Viktor Wilck in third.

View the top 6 result here

March 10, 2016

O.S. to power JJ Wang through to 2018

JJ Wang O.S. powered through to 2018

O.S. Engines have announced the signing of up and coming American-Chinese racer JJ Wang to their factory team. The 18-year old Mugen racer and 2014 IFMAR World Championship finalist has signed a 2-year deal that will see him use the Japanese power plant throughout his national and international 1/8th and 1/10th nitro campaign including this year’s 200mm World Championships in Italy. JJ had this to say about his new deal:

First of all, I would like to sincerely thank Novarossi for all the support they have given to me for so many years. In deciding how to improve my overall race package for the future, I am very excited and honored to join Team OS Speed for the next two years; Special thanks to Mr. Arata and Mr. Shimazaki for their support and having the confidence in me.

Source: O.S. Engine [os-engines.co.jp]

March 10, 2016

HIT Winter Racing Series final round – Report

The final round of the Czech 2015/16 HIT Winter Racing Series was held with over 80 entries in several electric on-road classes. The event took place in the sports hall of the city of Holešov and it attracted some of the country’s fastest drivers. In the Touring Open class Kuba Simurda took wins in A1 and A2 to grab the day’s win with one final to spare. The fight for the runner-up spot was thrilling until the last final leg, when Ludvík Kurečka set a very strong pace, taking a tone-to-tone victory. Oliver Havránek chased Ludvík for more than half of the race, but mistakes in the second half of the leg did cost him dearly. Finally he had to satisfy himself with the third spot overall. The fourth place went to Radek Voda, who wasn’t able to match his excellent performance from the qualifiers.

Continue reading the report here

March 10, 2016

Paolo Morganti wins 2016 Pacific Cup

The 2016 Pacific Cup was held this past weekend. The fast track offered high speed sweepers, a wide open chicane and a couple of hairpins, making it tricky to find the best setup in order to go fast but not destroy the tyres, specially in the GT class. The schedule was pretty straight forward with practice on Friday, qualifiers on Saturday and finals on Sunday. In the GT class the race was on between Fabrizio Martello and Paolo Morganti, the later having some setup issues during the qualifiers so Paolo had to go through the semifinal which gave him some extra time to work on the adjustments. Both ran 1-2 in the opening stages of the main final until Fabrizio ran into some problems. This gave Paolo the lead and the ability to focus on build an advantage and at the same time save as much tyre as possible. The strategy paid off and after a trouble free one hour final, Paolo was able to take the win from Fabrizio Martello in second and Rino Lino in third.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

March 10, 2016

Adams takes ROAR Carpet Nationals Modified TC title

ProlevelRC in Saint Louis, Missouri was the host of the 2016 ROAR Carpet On-Road Nationals. The Modified Touring Car class had some of the closest racing all weekend long with world class drivers battling it out for the top spot. Chris Adams set TQ in round 4 and would start from the point in the triple A-mains. The Xray driver drove two flawless runs in A2 and A3, securing the Nationals Title in front of Paul Lemieux and Andrew Hardman in second and third respectively.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

March 9, 2016

2016 IRCC Airport Race – Announcement

The annual IRCC Airport Race will take place from the 10th to 12th of June at the Chubu International Airport in Japan. As usual a purpose-build track will be laid out in an event hall near the arrivals section. With the airport having a hotel and restaurants, you won’t need to do much travelling and can in fact access the track by foot. The race will see the running of several on-road classes including Stock TC, FWD, Modified and Stock 1/12th scale, Formula, World GT and more with racers from the USA, Korea, Macao and other countries being awaited. Sign-up starts on 10th of March and racers interested can visit the official event site here and the IRCC Facebook page here.

March 9, 2016

Victor Pelaez successful at Spanish 200mm nationals

The opening round of the Spanish Nitro Touring Nationals was held at the Almussafes track this past weekend. The event was the first to be held under the new national rules including a Super Pole event and after the qualifiers Sergi Franch came out fastest from Jonhi Pastor and Nacho Lopez. Victor Pelaez would round out the top 4 with the latter three would run in the Super Pole format to evaluate the starting grid positions behind Sergi, with Victor coming out fastest from Nacho and Jonhi. The main final then saw Victor Pelaez taking the win in the 30 minute encounter following some struggling in the opening stages when the top 4 drivers were in tight battles for the positions. Behind Victor, Jonhi Pastor would grab the runner-up spot from David Belen. Jose Antonio Aldudo and Nacho Lopez rounded out the top 5.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]