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November 4, 2014

Elliott Harper announces departure from Durango

Former World Championship podium finisher Elliott Harper has confirmed that he has left Team Durango. The British racer has made the announcement following Durango’s news yesterday that they are dissolving their factory team. The former TRF team driver, who has helped with the development of Durango’s touring car project since signing for the UK based team back in early 2013 had the following to say:

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time racing for the UK-based Team Durango, and we have achieved some great results together. The highlights have been A main appearances at both the 2013 and 2014 European Championships, with a 3rd place podium finish in 2013. I would like to thank everyone at the team for their work and support over the past years and I wish them all the best for the future. However, I felt now was the right time for a change and for me to pursue new ventures. Therefore, I am grateful to Team Durango for agreeing to an early release from my current contract and happy that we part on good terms. I have not made any other decisions yet, and do not currently know where my future lies, but I will now take my time to carefully choose my new destination. My aim is to contend for the UK National title and podium results at ETS events, the European Championships and, importantly, the World Championship in Beijing in 2016. I am confident I will find the right team to give me the support necessary to achieve those goals. I would like to thank all my sponsors and friends worldwide for their on-going support, and I look forward to seeing everyone trackside very soon.

November 4, 2014

Golobic & Recio win at South American Championships

The South American Nitro On-road Championships took place this past weekend at the Hernan Matticoli track in Buenos Aires. The event saw a massive turn out on drivers from five different countries including Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Argentina. A total of 110 drivers attended the on-road classes of 1/8th, 10th and 1/8th GT. In the 1/8th class Juan Pablo Golobic (Capricorn/Novarossi) took the win from Sebastián Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Flavio Elias (Mugen/Novarossi). In the 1/10th 2oomm class Sebastián Recio (Capricorn/Novarossi) came out successful in front of Juan Pablo Golobic (Capricorn/Novarossi) and Agustin Cutini (Mugen/Novarossi).

Click here to view the 200mm podium

November 4, 2014

Ian Rickery doubles at South Islands On-Road Champs

Ian Rickery took the double-win at the 2014 South Island On-Road Championships hosted by the Otago R/C Car Club in Dunedin, New Zealand. Ian won the in Modified Touring Car class and backed it up with an impressive 1/12 Modified win.

Source: Team Associated [teamassociated.com]

November 4, 2014

Greek Touring Series Rd7 – Report

Greek Touring Series Rd7 - Report

The 7th and final round of the Greek Touring Series for Nitro and Electric Touring classes was held at the Fanatix track and saw John Sotiropoulos taking the win in the nitro class from Spiros Sotiropoulos and Tsiklitiras. In the overall championship John brought home the title from Spiros while Nick Nikiforos rounded out the podium in 3rd. In the electric class the race for the runner-up spot was on between five drivers. Georgiades already secured himself the championship title thanks to winning six out of six races and it was Papachristos who took the winning honours in the final round in front of Doucakus and Zogogianis. The win at the final round then handed Papachristos the overall 2nd place from Zogogianis.

Click here to view the Electric podium

November 3, 2014

Team Durango re-focus on local club racing

Following Ryan Lutz’s statement to leave Team Durango in favour of a new challenge Team Durango have announced a change to their strategy for the 2015 season and beyond. Instead of having a team of high-paid pro drivers, such as Ryan Lutz, Team Durango is set to re-focus on club racing which means the company will increase their community support through social media and public RC forums to grant all Team Durango drivers the best possible access to technical knowledge as a way to build a strong base of drivers that competes at local and regional race events. Doing so will not hamper vehicle development as the company will listen to racers and their demands rather than having Pro drivers leading development. Team Durango’s new race team program will be announced in the coming month with the meantime being used to improve parts support to make sure racers can get spares and options when they need them. The destiny of Team Durango’s Pro drivers such as Jörn Neumann remains in the dark for the moment with no official statement about the future their top-of-the-foodchain drivers being available but we understand that the company’s will to “dissolve [their] Pro race team” will also mean they are completely stepping away from paid drivers.

Read Team Durango’s statement in full here.

November 3, 2014

Mibosport Cup 2014/15 Rd1 – Report

The opening round of the Mibosport Cup took place this past weekend at the Hotel-Sport in Hrotovice. The event saw a massive turn out on drivers from six different countries including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Poland and Estonia. A total of 91 drivers attended the on-road classes with 34 drivers in Touring Car Modified, 38 in Stock LRP, 9 in Formula and 11 drivers in the 1/12th scale class. The off-road classes attracted a total of 82 drivers with 42 drivers participating in 2WD Buggy and 40 drivers in 4WD Buggy.

Click here to continue reading the report

November 3, 2014

EFRA releases 2015 race calendar

EFRA released 2015 race calendar

Following last weekend’s EFRA AGM, the European governing body have announced the (provisional) dates for next year’s European Championships. A busy Summer season starts with 2 ‘B’ championships, while next year the 200mm nitro on-road class sees a combined A and B championship being run in Turkey. The 2 40+ titles round out the season along with the usual ‘A’ titles that are up for grabs in the Summer. New is a dedicated European Championship for the growing 1/8th E-buggy class that will be held in August at the Austrian Fehring track. Beside the introduction of the 1/8th E-buggy class, EFRA will also try and establish the 1/8th nitro GT class with the governing body trying to evaluate a sensible set of rules based on existing GT/Rally rules. Several classes also saw clarifications on existing rules with the electric classes are not allowed to run “hybrid” motors built from the parts of different manufacturers anymore. The 1/12th scale Stock class will run 13.5T motors in the future and 1/8th nitro buggies will have to use 16 percent nitro fuel from 2016 on. Full AGM details can be found here.

Click here to view the provisional race calendar

November 3, 2014

Josh Cyrul doubles at International Indoor Champs

During the recent International Indoor Championships Josh Cyrul wrapped up both the TQ and win fin the World GT Expert Modified and 12th Scale 13.5 classes at this year’s 10th Anniversary event. Josh was pretty much untouchable all week long. He TQ’d every round of qualifying in both classes and won both A-Mains wire to wire. In 12th scale, Josh piloted his car to TQ with the only 45 lap run in the class. He then backed that TQ up by doing the only 45 lapper in the main, for the flawless win. In Expert World GT Mod, Josh again was just scary fast. In fact, his World GT lap times would have easily put him in the top half of the 12th scale Modified A-main. In the A-Main Josh lapped everyone up to 2nd place, and his fast lap of 9.6 seconds was 4 tenth quicker the 2nd place Hupo Honigl’s 10.0. Josh went on to do the only 31 lap run of the week in that class also.

Source: SpeedMerchand [teamspeedmerchant.com]