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November 2, 2015

Laverychev & Karpov win at Palace Cup Rd1

The opening round of the Russian Palace Cup was held in the city of Vladimir in several electric on-road classes. In the Touring Modified class Maxim Laverychev (Awesomatix) took the win from Stanislav Glebov (Xray) and Ilya Plakhotnik (Serpent) while Alexey Butuzov (Xray) rounded out the top 4 result. The Touring 13.5T Stock class had Vitaly Karpov (Awesomatix) walking away with the day’s win from Alexander Smirnov (Awesomatix). Alexander Naumov (Xray) completed the podium.

View the Touring Car Stock podium here

November 2, 2015

EFRA releases 2016 race calendar

Following last weekend’s EFRA AGM, the European governing body has announced the (provisional) dates for next year’s European Championships. The season kicks off in April with the 1/12th scale Euros that are again being held in Trencin, Slovakia while the Summer season starts with the 1/8th On-road and 1/8th Off-road B Euros in May and June respectively. The Nitro Buggy Euros A in July starts a month of a total of seven European Championships including the Electric Touring Car, 1/10th Electric Buggy and 1/8th On-road A while the 1/8th E-Buggy and 40+ Euros round out the calendar in September. Several classes also saw clarifications or additions of existing rules with the EFRA now clarified on the status of EFRA A and B licences and the allowed drivers for the respective Euros. The 1/8th E-Buggy class saw an amendment of the existing bodyshell rules with the bodies now have “to have a real car shape” and they have “to be able to carry the EFRA Numbers at the front and both sides as high as possible”. As for the electric on-road side of things EFRA has added a 1/10th 21.5T Formula class that will be part of the European Championship and that is run with “open” 21.5T motors and blinky speed controllers. Full AGM details can be found here.

Click here to view the provisional race calendar

October 30, 2015

South African On-Road Gas Nationals Rd5 – Report

The season finale of the 2015 South African On-Road Gas National Championship took place at RC Zone in Middleburg, about two hours away from Tshwane, Pretoria. A favourite among the 200mm drivers for its technical layout, the track is fast and unforgiving with a brick wall barrier on the outside of the fast “horseshoe” section, which means that one small mistake would send the cars into the wall. The track offered a very high grip level all weekend, with some drivers complaining about too much grip later in the late afternoon. With the national series running a concurrent separate championship called the “Sprint” championship, which is based on qualifying results, first decisions in the championship would made when qualifiers kicked off on Saturday morning. This time the event had attracted more 200mm entries than 1/8 scale, which was not the norm for a national event and only four entries for the 235mm class means this class will likely not be run in the future. Mike Meyers would again dominate over Derrick Plank, Peter Plint and Tony George to take the TQ and seal his spot as Sprint champion for 2015.

Continue reading the report here

October 30, 2015

Hot Race Hagberg edition 1/12th foam tyres

Italian company Hot Race have announced the release of the Alexander Hagberg edition foam tyres for 1/12th scale pan cars. Using a special foam selected and formally exclusively used by Hot Race factory team driver Alexander Hagberg, the tyres are now also available to the public and they offer more grip and less wear compared to the standard foam, making them a tuning option for a range of track conditions. The tyres come pre-trued on Hot Race’s standard rims.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]

October 29, 2015

Lamberto Collari officially joins Infinity

Infinity and parent brand Creation Model have announced the official signing of 9-times record World Champion Lamberto Collari to their team following a recent period of unofficial collaboration between the Italian veteran racer and the Japanese company. His skills, experience, dedication and hard work for sure will be a great asset to the young Infinity brand and Lamberto has the following to say about the deal:

Once again it’s time to renew my challenge. I’m grateful to Creation Model and Infinity team to think at me like a resource to develop their brand new platform. I meet a wonderful team of people really dedicated and friendly. Can’t wait to attend next World’s with my new team mates. See you in Brazil!

Source: Infinity [cm-infinity.com]

October 28, 2015

Lemieux & Birchfield win at Stock Wars 2015

The recent Stock Wars 2015 race was hosted by Middle River Hobbies in Middle River Maryland, on a small to medium size high grip carpet track. The race format was Pro and Open stock classes with practice all day on Friday, three qualifiers on Saturday, and one qualifier on Sunday followed by single finals. Classes were 17.5 TC Pro, 17.5 TC Open, 17.5 1/12 Pro, 17.5 1/12 Open, USGT and F1. Celebrity announcer Scotty Ernst made the trip to add to the already big anticipation and excitement of the event. In the Pro Touring Car division Paul Lemieux set the pace from Q1 on. Paul had serious challenges in qualifying by Kyle Klingforth but was able to TQ by a moderate amount. Robby Dodge would also throw in his hat for TQ at times but would round out the top three in qualifying.

Continue reading the report here

October 28, 2015

Alberta Touring Series Rd1 – Report

The second season of the Alberta Touring Series started out in Calgary at the Calgary Horseshoe Club. The Calgary Area Remote Control Auto Racing Club put on a great show and in the Touring Car Modified class it was an exciting battle between TQ Wayne Mah (Awesomatix) and Pete Toszer (Team Associated). Wayne ran into early trouble in the opening laps but recovered to have a back and forth battle with Pete in the later part of the race. It would come down to the last lap with Wayne edging by Pete in the last couple of corners to lead to the line by a few car lengths. Matt Wilfort (Team Associated) would have a battle of his own to hold of his challenger to come in 3rd.

Continue reading the report here

October 28, 2015

Danish Electric On-road Nationals Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Danish Electric On-road Nationals was held at the MMRC RC club in Tollose on a permanent and pretty high-speed track. The low temperatures made for changing grip conditions which was challenging for most of the drivers. In the Modified Touring Car class Steven Olsen (Schumacher) took the round TQ in the opening qualifier from Stefan Finnich (Xray). In the second round Mike Gosvig (Xray) came out fastest from Steven while Casper Morgan (Tamiya) came in third. In the third and final round it was again Mike who took the TQ to grab the pole position for the A-main while this time Casper came in second and Frederik Brolos (Yokomo) rounded out the top 3 result.

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