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November 21, 2013

Atsushi Hara wins at Jet Cup ACO opening race

The past weekend was the Hara Jet Cup ACO Opening Race hosted by Jet Hobby & ACO Racing Circuit in Hong Kong. Atsushi Hara, multi-class IFMAR World Champion was the main attraction during the weekend, not only because he is a World Champion, but also the first time he has raced with the Schumacher Mi5. Subject of great speculation over recent months Hara is currently the most talked about Pro RC driver. Hara TQ’ed and won both the Touring car classes with Stick King taking a great second also driving a Schumacher car. In the F1 class Stick also took the TQ and win from Hiro Nakatani and Michael Lau 3rd with a 6-wheel F1 car.

Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]

November 21, 2013

South African national on-road championship – Report

The final round of the South African national electric on-road championship was hosted by the MMCRC club in the South of Johannesburg. It all came down to the final race to decide who was going to be the next electric on-road champion. Low traction on Saturday made it very difficult for those who had their cars ready to go on Friday and a lot of the drivers struggled to get their cars around the dusty surface. In 13.5T it was Antonio Caroli who pulled an “arrive and drive” move to take the overall TQ. The 17.5T TQ belonged to Ashley Hurley, in 1/12th it was the local boy Shaun Schutte who TQ’d and in the main event, touring modified, Jason Hillcoat dominated once again.

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November 21, 2013

Titan Cup 2013 Race for Relief – Report

The recent Titan Cup 2013 saw the running of an 1/8th nitro on-road, GT and 200mm class with all earnings being donated to the victims of typhoon Yolanda which recently ravaged the Visayas region. In the 1/8 class Serpent drivers Clemen Pancho and Rico Mendoza constantly swapped positions during the final until both ran into mechanical problems making way for Ricky Tangan (Serpent) who then went on to win the race in front of Rico Mendoza and Edward Sio.

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November 21, 2013

Michal Orlowski joins Speed Passion factory team

Speed Passion have announced the addition of talented Polish driver Michal Orlowski to their factory team. Having already used the company’s products for a number of years as a privateer and he will now receive full factory support for his upcoming off-road and on-road campaigns. This is what Michal has to say about the deal:

I have used Speed Passion motors and speed controller for a long time. I knew that the Speed Passion products are reliable, and I am fast on the track using them. It is an honour for me to join the Speed Passion Factory Team. The same team where Marc Rheinard, Lee Martin, and other great names were racing with before me! I am looking forward to see the great results at great races with my Team Durango cars powered by Speed Passion electronics in the future.

Source: Speed Passion [speedpassion.net]

November 19, 2013

Birinyi & Toth win at Hungarian champs Rd3

The 3rd round of the Hungarian national championship was held at the RCArena carpet track in Budapest. In the 13.5T boosted class Janos Birinyi took TQ but he was closely chased by his top 5 rivals who all finished qualifying within a 5 second margin. In the finals, Janos was able to win from flag to flag handing him the win in front of Peter Miko and Peter Taal. In the modified class Barnabas Toth came in first with Viktor Juhasz and Zsolt Kalnay completing the podium.

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November 19, 2013

Mustafa Alp wins at Legend4Ever race

The annual Legend4Ever race was held at the Team NCRC Arena in memory of Zeka Özteknik, a former Go Kart World Champion from Cyprus who also used to race RC cars. Nearly 50 drivers attended in the touring car modified and stock classes. Serpent driver Mustafa Alp soon became one of the favourites for the win in the modified class as he easily put himself on top of the time sheets in the controlled practice sessions and he also TQ’s every of the four qualifying rounds. The finals again saw Mustafa pulling away from the field easily but after winning the first A-main he scored a DNF in A2 due to an unforced driving error. In A3 the young man stayed calm again and easily won the final handing him the overall win in the modified class ahead of Halit Körpe and Erol Ucar.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

November 19, 2013

RaceWorks Hobbies on-road endurance race – Report

RaceWorks Hobbies in Singapore recently held its first on-road endurance race. A total of 9 teams took part in the event that was run over 4 hours with the drivers rotating every 40 minutes. Each team, consisting of three to four drivers, ran the Spec-R S1 Sports Edition car powered by 17.5T motors with blinky mode ESCs. A thunderstorm brought things to a halt beforehand but after a 15 minute delay the race started and soon after Team Quantum took over the lead with fast and consistent laps. The team stayed on top for around 2 hours until mechanical problems resulted in several unplanned pit stops allowing Team Trident to close the gap and eventually taking the lead in the 3rd hour.

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November 19, 2013

Fischer & Maquel win at MRC Winter Series Rd3

The 3rd round of the MRC Winter Series took place in Longwy, France, host of next month’s GP3F. Some 90 drivers attended including Factory Serpent driver Marc Fischer, French ace Loic Jasmin and 2011 1/5th scale World Champion Guillaume Solon. In Touring Car Modified, Marc Fischer put down an impressive performance by winning all three A-finals. French National champion Loic Jasmin took second place ahead of Cyril N’Diaye. 2013 French stock champion Nico Schwendimann did great job by taking 4th place ahead of ETS A-main finalist Julian Borowski.

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