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November 20, 2014

Michele Romagnoli joins Capricorn

Capricorn announce the signing of Michele Romagnoli for the 2015 season. Michele, top qualifier and winner of the Italian 1/8th nitro on-road championship will start into the new venture by attending at the ETS using the company’s Lab TE02 touring car. In the 1/8th class Romagnoli will race Capricorn’s Lab C802 car with his campaign culminating in the attendance at the 1/8th World Championships. Michele has the following to say about the deal:

I’m very happy and excited for the upcoming season with the Capricorn team, I would like to thank Patrizio Rossi for this opportunity and I can’t wait to start racing.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

November 20, 2014

Euro Nitro Series unveils 2015 calendar

Following the ultra successful completion of its inaugural championship last month, Capricorn’s Eric Dankel and Team Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch crowned the respective 1:10 and 1:8 Champions, the organisers of the Euro Nitro Series are pleased to unveil its calendar for the 2015 season. As in 2014, when the ENS was contested by 149 1:8 and 118 1:10 drivers from around the world, the championship will continue to run over four races with Melzo in Italy once again hosting the season opener over the weekend of 17-19 April. From Italy the championship will move on to Austria, with Aigen the venue for Round 2 from June 12-14.

Continue reading the announcement here

November 20, 2014

Jerome Meile wins at 2014/15 SIC Rd1

The opening round of the Swiss 2014/15 SIC saw Jerome Meile taking the TQ in the Touring Car class. In the first A-main Jerome was not able to defend the first place and he came in 2nd behind Benni Stutz. The second final was a different affair with Jerome scoring a clean win from Benni. The third and decisive final had Sandro Kuriger taking the win while Jerome had to settle for 2nd. Being in a tiebreaker with Benni Jerome ultimately took the win thanks to a faster final run. Leg 3 winner Sandro rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 19, 2014

Danish DMSU nationals Rd2 – Report

The 2nd round of the Danish DMSU nationals was held at the Broendby Racing Club in the suburbs of Copenhagen on a small and technical track in the classes of Prostock, LeMans 1/10th pan car, Formula and a FWD. The biggest classes of the weekend were Prostock and Lemans with 22 and 16 drivers respectively. In the Prostock class Mike Gosvig took the overall TQ from Patrick Folman and Soren Boy Holst. Stefan Finnich and Patrick Danielsen rounded out the top 5 result.

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November 19, 2014

Vysin & Kopecky win at Winter Race Morava Rd2

Round 2 of the Winter Race Morava was held at the sport stadium of Jedovice. In the Touring Car Modified class Jirka Vysin came out successful in the A-final in front of Vitezslav Hola and Petr Grof. Jarda Kopecky and Michal Vitamvas rounded out the top 5 result. The Touring Car Stock class had Jarda Kopecky walking away with the win from Karel Kratochvil and Ales Pelikan.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 19, 2014

JJ Wang signs with HB-HPI through to 2016

HB announce that American racer JJ Wang has extended his contract to race wit the electric on-road and off-road racing team through to 2016. Now a veteran member of the HB-HPI Racing on-road racing team, JJ has been helping develop the new HB Pro 5 with the help of HB designers and teammate Andy Moore. JJ has also been campaigning the HB D413 at off-road tracks around the world. This is what JJ has to say about the deal:

I am very happy and excited to be able to continue with HB-HPI Racing for the upcoming season. I want to thank the team for providing me with this opportunity and I cant wait to continue racing with the best team and have another enjoyable season. I am looking forward to be back on the track soon with the new Pro 5 package as well as the D413.

Source: HPI [hpiracing.com]

November 19, 2014

Masters of Foam 2015 – Announcement

After a 3 year break the famous Masters of Foam pan car race is back in 2015. Addressing 1/12th scale and World GT racers alike the event will be held in the three classes of 1/12th Modified, 1/12th 10.5T Blinky and 1/10th World GT 10.5T/13.5T Blinky. The race will take place at the RC Nuclea Mol racing club in Mol, Belgium on the weekend of the 1st of February. The entry fee of 25 Euros has to be paid in advance via PayPal to marcus.willems1@pandora.be and entries can be made here. For more information please see the event’s Facebook page here.

November 18, 2014

Daniel Carlsson wins at South Swedish Indoor Cup Rd2

The 2nd round of the South Swedish Indoor Cup was held in Hassleholm, Sweden. The racers faced quite a small but yet technical layout with good grip. Right from the start local driver Daniel Carlsson found himself on top of the timesheets with a 4 seconds margin over the 2nd place driver in practice. Daniel then also lead the qualifying with Markus Hellquist coming in 2nd some 4 seconds behind while Christian Holmström ended the qualifiers in 3rd further 3 seconds down. The finals then were a done deal for Daniel who made a clean sweep in all three legs to take the overall win from Markus and Christian.

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