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November 30, 2014

Bowie Ginting wins at Indonesian Year End Race

The Indonesian Electric On-Road Year End Race 2014 was held at the Sunter International Speedway, with 60 drivers competing in the premier class of 13.5T Boosted Touring Car, as well as the supporting FWD, Mini, 1/12 pan car and Scalpel classes. The weather was cloudy with a bit of rain pouring down in Saturday’s qualifying but the Sunday stayed dry. In the 13.5T Boosted class, Bowie Ginting set the quickest time to secure the TQ spot in front of Muhammad Izzah, who was just 0.3 seconds behind. PY tang lined up in 3rd followed by Peter Anthonijsz and Andy Sanjaya who completed the top 5 result. In the finals Bowie scored a clean sweep all three legs, allowing him to take the overall win from Izzah and PY in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

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November 28, 2014

Rino Lino doubles at Mexican Capricorn Cup

The Mexican Capricorn Cup was held in Merida, Mexico with drivers from all over the country attending. Backed by the support of both the city of Merida and the local media the race attracted a good amount of drivers. Qualifying in the Nitro 200mm Sedan and Electric Touring classes was dominated by Rino Lino who would also come out successful in the mains of both classes. In the Sedan class it was Luis Hidalgo who grabbed the runner-up spot while Manual Ortiz completed the podium in 3rd.

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November 27, 2014

Alexander Hagberg dominates Orca Cup in Taiwan

The Taiwanese Orca Cup was held in Taoyuan, close to Taipei, in the classes of Touring Car Modified and 1/12th scale Modified. The drivers were challenged by a fairly low-grip carpet and it was Xray’s Alexander Hagberg who came out successful in the Touring Car class starting from pole position. Hong Kong drivers Chan Hay Lai and Chan Chau Man rounded out the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the 1/12th scale class it was again Alexander to took the TQ and win to round out a perfect weekend.

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November 26, 2014

Michal Orlowski teams up with Schumacher

Schumacher welcomes young Michal Orlowski to the team. Michal, at only 13 years old, has already made A-mains at the EFRA 1/10th Offroad Euros and the very competitive EOS series. In touring cars Michal is current EFRA junior champion and Euros B finalist. The young gun from Poland will be racing the Schumacher Mi5 Evo, CAT K1 Aero, and Cougar KF, at major international races in Europe, USA, and Asia in 2015. Michal has the following to say:

First of all I would like to say big thanks to Team Durango, for all the support I got from them over last 2 years. Especially to my Team friends Elliott Harper and Jorn Neumann and Gerd Strenge. With Team Durango’s change of direction, my future plans are associated only with big, international races, Euros and especially the 1:10 electric buggy Worlds in Japan in October 2015. Now I start new adventure with Team Schumacher. Great Team, great cars and great people. I’m really excited start racing with the cars, true engineers masterpieces which I could observe at the race tracks and in the pits. Big thanks to Team Schumacher and Robin Schumacher for the offer to support my race career. I could not wait for the first races with new team.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 26, 2014

Loran Whiting joins Hobbywing

Hobbywing have announced the signing of US racer Loran Whiting to their team. Loran is an avid nitro onroad racer with a busy racing schedule that included the European-based ENS series and the recent IFMAR Worlds in Thailand and for the 2015 season she will be increasing her program to include more electric racing following a season of electric touring car and 2WD buggy appearances. Using Hobbywing products Loran will also race in the 4WD buggy class in the coming season. She had the following to say:

I am very excited to join the Hobbywing team and am thankful for the opportunity to help build the Hobbywing brand. I have been racing for 12 years and have recently started to work on stepping up my electric racing. In 2014, I ran more modified electric touring car and 2WD buggy, with an expansion into 4WD buggy and other classes coming in the next year. I can’t wait to expand my knowledge alongside Hobbywing in the US and internationally. I am really looking forward to the 2015 onroad and offroad season.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

November 26, 2014

LiveTime scoring engine software

LiveTime, a sister company to LiveRC, announce its very own scoring engine software offering intuitive scoring and never-seen-before features. The software is designed to integrate seamlessly with LiveRC to broadcast scoring, video, and results to viewers around the world via real-time cloud synchronisation. LiveTime also interfaces with a global driver database that allows users to view their results archives from any track in the world.

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November 25, 2014

Hungary Electric On-road Nationals – Report

The Hungarian Electric On-road National Championship was held in Budapest last weekend in the four classes of Touring Car Modified, Super Stock, Stock and World GT. The finals of the Modified class had Barnabas Toth taking the win after close racing in all three legs from Viktor Juhasz and Zsolt Kalnay. Balint Rajki and Zsolt Bajusz rounded out the top 5.

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November 25, 2014

Hayato Ishioka wins 1/12th scale at AOC

The 5th and final round of the Asia On-Road Championship was held over the weekend at the World-famous Yatabe Arena with over 200 participants. In the 1/12th scale class it was Hayato Ishioka who took the TQ with the only 37 laps run in the qualifiers. Ishioka then went on to dominate the A-main also by bringing home the win with his Trinity-powered CRC ride in front of Masatsugo Edo (Yokomo) and Toto Ebukuro (Yokomo).

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