Team C Absima rocked on 25.05 - 26.05.2013 the first Nitromasters run 2013 in Sand am Main. Among the total of 58 starters at the end 3 Team C rider were on the podium. Marco Schellein, Sven Wagner and Chris Schellein marked the podium.

The race was counted after the heats, as it began to rain very strong on Sunday.

Place 1. Marco Schellein

Place 2. Sven Wagner

Place 3. Chris Schellein

From 26.04 - 28.04.2013 took place the 8th international warm-up held at the Rhein-Main-Circuit at ESV Bischofsheim near Frankfurt.

Despite adverse weather conditions and 1.5 days of restless inaction, the international warm-up in Bischofsheim was a successful weekend for the Team C / Absima team. On friday only two training runs could take place and subsequently the event was interrupted until Sunday morning because of the continuous rain it could go further.

At the end our 1:8 talent Christopher Schellein came after a technical fault on the 13th Place.

At 04.05 - 05.05.2013 the 1st SM run 1:8 group south was held in Sand am Main.

Our 1:8 Team C / Absima team was with 4 starter represent. Among the first 10 drivers were 2. The winner was our great talent Christopher Schellein. He won the race with a lap ahead of Klemens Heiss who finished 2nd place.

Sven Wagner also delivered a very good race and finished the 1th SM race at the 10th place.

Standings:

1. Place: Christopher Schellein

10. Place: Sven Wagner

18. Place: Christian Krieger

25. Place: Jens Runge

On 10.04.2013 the classes of LRP Challenge and the 1/8 Brushless Electric Buggy Cup was extended to the Intermodellbau. Most starters were represented at the 1/8th class with 29 starters.

Here Jörg Mampel went with his team T8E C at the start. In the heats Jörg performed well and was able to drive up to the 10th place. In the semifinals, he went as 4th in the race and was able to drive up at the second place and thus secure it to the finals. In the final Jörg could drive equal up to 4th place at the start and was able to go with the fast pace. In the meantime he was even in 2nd place but then overturned the car and went out. In the end, he could still save place on 6th. Jürgen Kropp was ranked 9th

At 11.04 the NRW Offroad Cup (NORC) was extended. Here Jörg Mampel went in 2WD and 4WD Short Course class at the start.He went into the race in 7th and could drive up to the position 4. Unfortunately missed the podium over, but he had the fastest lap of all.

In the 4WD Short Course class it was absolutely new territory for Jörg. It was his very first race with the TS4 of Team C. In the final Jörg could keep up with and won the first two finals with one lap ahead. At the end of the day he won the class. 

Conclusion: It was a successful event and Team C cars were able to hold again or goats that they do not have to hide from the competitors.

On April 12th-14th 2013 the Final Rd. 4 of the EOS Series was held at the Dortmund Model Fair,  same location for the Final EOS round as in 2012.
 
With 250 entries the driver field was again fully booked out in all 4 classes 2WD, 2WD SC, 4WD and 4WDSC. The big Absima TeamC race team this time was formed by 21 team drivers from Europe and got a huge support with the appearance of Jürgen Laux the Director of Absima and Stephen Shih the owner of TeamC. This should become very important for the team for this round of the EOS series.
 
In 2WD Short Course Marc Schilling and Patrick Beltrallo put in a great race performance both driving the TeamC TS2TE Truck. Their Trucks always looked fast and with great set-ups they managed to qualify for the A and B Final of the race event. Marc Schilling achieved a very respectful 3rd place in the first A-final and with a 4th in the second A Final he could secure and overall 5th place in this class for the event. Patrick also finished 5th in the B-Final whereas he also could put in a great 3rd place finish in the 3. B Final.
 
4WD Short Course had a very strong line up of international drivers whereas Jörg Mampel driving the TeamC TS4TE Truck and using the new prototype Absima Speed Controller and 4 pole Short Course brushless motor was the only Absima TeamC driver in this category. With excellent preparation of his Truck from the NRW race held on Thursday before the EOS event, which Jörg already won the 4WD SC class, he could qualify for the A-Final of the EOS final round. In the end Jörg finished with a respectful 9th place with consistent 3 A-Final runs and showing the consistent performance of the TeamC 4WDSC Truck and the new Absima Electronics.
 
The 4WD buggy class had international super stars from all around the world such ach Ryan Cavalieri, Jörn Neumann, Robert Battle, Renaud Savoya and David Ronnefalk to mention just a few. Qualifying saw 8 Absima TeamC drivers racing the new TeamC T4V3 4WD buggy competing against some of the best drivers in the world. Oliver Scholz and Tom Maquel both had the pace for an A-Final spot and each putting in single Top 10 results but in addition of 2 fast qualification rounds it would just not be enough in this strong driver filed and both lined up in the B-Final with a surprise qualifying of Martin Hansen from Denmark to also qualify in the B-Final together with Oliver and Tom.

After completing the EOS Series 2012/2013 with counting 3 rounds of 4 race meeting in addition Oliver and Tom could place their TeamC T4V3 in the Top10 finally with very respectful 8th and 10th places for the season series results.

Team results of the final Rd. 4: 

12. Oliver Scholz                                                              
19. Tom Maquel                                                              
20. Martin Hansen                                                         
24. Marcus Lübke
32. Morten Iversen
46. Sascha Hengen
62. Marcel Pinkster
69. Luca Maring

Season series results of all 4 rounds of the EOS:

8. Oliver Scholz

10. Tom Maquel

11. Marcus Lübke

The 2WD buggy class had the most entries with 120 international drivers and many super stars from the USA, Spain, France, Austria, Germany and Sweden with the same names as in 4WD.

15 TeamC TM2 2WD buggies were piloted by the Absima TeamC team drivers with very good drivers throughout the field. From the German Team Oliver, Tom and Marcus all put in very good single round Top 10 results in qualifying and in the end Tom was able to line up his TeamC TM2 in the A-Final along with all the professional Team drivers of the other world teams. This result got very much backed up by putting further 3 TM2 buggies into the B-Final the ones of Denmark’s Torben Hojfield, Marcus Lübke and Oliver Scholz which should lead to another surprise result for the Absima TeamC Team.

After completing the EOS Series 2012/2013 with counting 3 rounds of 4 race meeting in addition Oliver, Marcus, Tom and Torben could place their TeamC TM2 in the Top10 finally with very respectful 4th, 8th, 9th, and 10th places for the season series results. Absima and TeamC would like to congratulate the Team for this excellent world class result of the final EOS Rd. 4 in Dortmund, for Tom making the A-Final in 2WD, for the Top 10 season results of Oliver, Marcus, Tom and Torben and to the exciting and thrilling Team performance of every Team driver who participated in the EOS 2012/2013 series!

Thank you Team!

Team results of the final Rd. 4:

8. Tom Maquel                                                                 
12. Torben Hojfeld                                                        
13. Marcus Lübke                                                            
18. Oliver Scholz                                                              
28. Martin Hansen
32. Morten Iversen
39. Rene Sagawe
51. Jörg Mampel
54. Mikkel Soholt
56. Macel Pinkster
58. Sascha Hengen
72. Tobias Hesse
84. Jan Braband
93. Luca Maring
106. Rasmus Soholt

Season series results of all 4 rounds of the EOS:

4. Oliver Scholz

8. Marcus Lübke

9. Tom Maquel

10. Torben Hojfeld

The community of interest"RC Bugglhupfer" from Vilsbiburg (Germany) hosted a small indoor race last weekend.

At 08.03 – 10.03.2013 the third round of the EOS series 2012/2013 was held in Loeben/Austria.

Overall 180 drivers in the classes 2WD, 4WD, SC2WD and SC4WD were from all over europe there.  Among the most famous riders were Jörn Neumann, Hupo Hönigl, Robert Battle, Martin Bayr, Renaud Savoya and David Ronnefalk.

Oliver Scholz, Marcus Lübke, Tom Maquel, Sascha Hengen, Jan Braband and Luca Maring was there for the Team C / Absima Team -  other team C driver from Denmark and Hungary were joined by the German team and formed a great racing team with almost 15 riders.

Already on the day of training, the Team C / Absima Team sat down in scene by fast lap times. Thus, the other riders and the spectators were attentive.

In the heats Oliver Scholz was the fastest Team C driver and qualified with his TM2 on 4^th position for the A final. Tom and Marcus had also performed well in the heats with a 9th Place in race 2 for Tom and a 7th Place in Round 3 for Marcus, they were also contenders for the 2WD A-final - but unfortunately in the end was missing the essential bit of luck to go to another fast forward and so they ended up at the end of the B and C finals.

The 2WD finals ran very exciting for Oliver, he could always go with the best riders in Europe to equal or even surpass them. In the last A final he fought for the 2^nd place with Hupo Hönigl and he finished this race with a respectable 4^th place overall!

In 4WD it was similar for the Absima team, Oliver was also very focused and well prepared with two 6th Places in the heats to qualify for 8th place in the A final. Again, it wasn´t enough for Tom and Marcus to get in the A final and ended up the same as in 2WD in the B and C finals.

In 4WD finals Oliver unfortunately fell 2 times out because of a defect, cause he was involved in the fight position and therefore had to quit the race relegated to 10th place - yet alone his first EOS A final attendance with his T4V3 was already a success.

Congratulations to all Team C / Absima drivers for this very good EOS result:

2WD:

4. Oliver Scholz

12. Tom Maquel

21. Marcus Lübke

56. Sascha Hengen

72. Jan Braband

81. Luca Maring

4WD:

10. Oliver Scholz

17. Marcus Lübke

21. Tom Maquel

47. Sascha Hengen

At 02.03-03.03.2013 the first run of the NRW Offroad Cup took place in Langenfeld. They were distributed a total of 130 entries in five classes. The most of the starters (38 starters) were in the Short Course Stock 17,5T class and in the 2WD modified (30 starter). Jörg Mampel went in the 2WD Modified class at the start and Frank Geistmann tried his first race in the Short Course Stock class. In the heats, it was very close and it was fought for every meter. Jörg Mampel was in the 2WD class in 5th place after the heats and Frank Geistmann had found himself in 9th place in the Short Course Stock.

The first final was very good for Jörg. After hard fights he could win the first final. In the second final, he was temporarily in second place but in the fight against Michael Rybski have both hooked and fell back. In the end, Jörg was still third. In the last final Jörg didn´t have luck. Directly after the start in the first round he was thrown back to the last place. In the end he was still on 7th place. Overall Jörg was on second place behind Jens Becker and in front of Michael Rybski. 

In the first final Frank couldn´t win a place but he really fights hard. In the second final he jumps to the 7th place. In final three he did the same and overall the could save the 8th place.

It was a successful weekend for the Team C / Absima team and it proves that the cars are fully competitive.

2WD:

1. Jens Becker

2. Jörg Mampel

3. Michael Rybski

Short Course:

1. Michael Rybski

2. Guido Kraft

3. Thomas Möthe

8. Frank Geistmann

TM2 and T4 V2 wins in Solms.

On 09.02.2013 in Solms held the LRP Offroad Challenge for 1:10 Buggies. Called were 57 riders, but due to heavy snowfalls came just 40 riders. For Team C / Absima team at the start went Marcus Luebke, Jürgen Kropp, Daniel Laubach, Christian Laubach, Norbert Laubach, Lukas Drexelius, Melissa Luebke and Frank Heil.

In the 2WD class, Jürgen set from the start at the top with flawless rounds and took TQ for the finale before Marcus Luebke. In the 4WD class Dai ​​Sakaguchi himself could also secure TQ before Marcus Luebke, by error free prelims.

The 3x 8 min finals all promised to bring a lot of excitement. In 2WD the rankings between Jürgen and Marcus changed several times. So at the end Marcus won the first and the third final and won the 2WD class. 

In the 4WD class Marcus made it less exciting and won both first finals with his T4 V2.

Congratulations to the entire team!

From January 4 to 6 was the first 1:10 offroad races held in 2013. The EOS in Langenfeld Germany. Among the 267 drivers from all over the world also Absima / Team C Team Europe was at the start.

With 11 drivers in 3 classes Team C was very strong and made a good impression on the track. In 2WD most of them put the brand new TM2 2WD, which they had only received shortly before the event.

With the reigning german champion Oliver Scholz we also had a top driver which was good for a surprise and the other drivers were surprised when he drove with his TM2 in the A finals. Out of place 7 he delivered himself fair fights with the best off-road drivers in the world and he was able to drive a third place in the first A final. At the end he finished the race with the 6th place and fulfilledmore than all expectations.

In 4WD Oli then unfortunately missed the A final and had to start from position 13 of the B Final.

In 2WD Short Course 2 Absima driver and V.I.P guest driver (Jimmy from oOple) were at the start. They tried in the rougher driving class to enforce. This was sometimes more, sometimes less, but Marc Schilling could win the last A final and showed that the TS2TE has the potential to keep up.

Results:

2WD Buggy:

6. Oliver Scholz

19. Jörg Mampel

33. Tom Maquel

51. Sascha Hengen

59. Tobias Hesse

86. Thomas Henrich

112. Luca Maring

119. Uli Georg

4WD Buggy:

17. Tom Maquel

20. Oliver Scholz

37. Sascha Hengen

48. Thomas Henrich

54. Marcel Pinkster

2WD Short Course

4. Marc Schilling

22. Yves Dury

Guest driver Jimmy finished the race on place 15. 

The C team boys spent an exhausting but highly entertaining weekend with friends and looking forward to the next joint appearance.
 

Next race is the "European Indoor Race in Belgium at 1-3 February 2013.

See you on the track. 

Last weekend the Edling Model Club close to Munich hosted ist 3. anual
Indoor Dirt Race, which attrackted over 160 Drivers from Switzerland,
Austria, Italy and Germany.

The 2WD Mod class had the most entries with 79 drivers.
Absima TeamC Team driver and current 2WD German Champion Oliver Scholz
used the brand new TeamC 2WD mid motor Prototype which he online received
one day before the race. It was used at the EOS race the previous
week-end by the Team.

Oliver could immediately adapt to the Buggy and was Super fast from the
first practice session and leading by 2 sec on three consecutive fast
laps on Friday. In Qualifying he then dominated the field by winning 3
out of 4 and setting TQ pace.

Oliver finished his perfect race week-end by winning all three finals
ahead of Kyosho's Chrissi Krapp and Durango driver Benni Gröschel. With
blistering lap times and overall race Time Oliver could have also won the
4WD event with his 2WD.

The Team C / Absima Team had a great race week-end overall! Here are the results:  

1.Place Oliver Scholz

33. Place Florian Maschke

39. Place Corin Weinmann

55. Place Patrick Ehmer

From 5th to 7th October 2012 took place the MCL cup at the Leipziger Toy Fair. Team C driver Cris Krieger gave his debut in the OR8E class and could directly saves the 3rd place. In the nitro final he was stopped by a motor stop ans Cris had to deal with th 9th place to settle.

All in all a respectable performance in two classes to go to the finals and to secure a podium finish!

The Bavarian cup took place at the MSC Sand on 15.09-16.09.2012. In the 1/8 class were been 68 starter. Team C driver Christopher Schellein secured the victory with incredible 2 laps ahead of 2nd. The teammate Sven Wagner, Thomas Süßmuth and Marco Schellein rounded off the result with the 3rd, 5th and 12th place.

It was a very successful race weekend for the young Team C / Absima team.

1. Place: Christopher Schellein

3. Place: Sven Wagner

5. Place: Thomas Süßmuth

12. Place: Marco Schellein

The 2WD modified & stock Off-Road German Championships took place last weekend. In 2WD modified Absima TeamC team driver Oliver Scholz showed excellent performance throughout the entire race weekend with his TeamC TC02C 2WD buggy. After 5 rounds of qualifying Oliver set the TQ pace and would start the A Finals from the number 1 spot. With a perfect start to finish run in A Final leg 1 Oliver also could wrap up the title in Leg 2. In Leg 2 he lost his position on the first lap but impressively closed the gap to the race leader Joern Neumann whom he passed half way through the race and went on to extend the lead to win by 5 seconds ahead of Joern and wrap up the overall title.

he MC Dortmund was host of the German Championships 4WD & 4WD, the same track of the 2011 German Championships 1:10 electric Monster Truck and where TeamC Team Driver Lucas Wessel had secured the first German Nats victory previous year.

In 4WD TeamC Team Driver Oliver Scholz drove his very first 4WD German Nationals race and put in a strong performance. He qualified 5Th for the A Final in a very competitve line up. Oliver was tangled in many position changes in the back of the field for A Final 1 & 2 just to wait and show all of his and the TeamC T4TE performance in A Final 3. He won this last A Final with a 7 second lead infront of Chrissi Krapp and Hupo Hoenigel and earning all of the spectators applause after the race! A very young and very fast talent finishing 5Th overall.

In 4WD SC three TeamC Driver could line up their brand new TS4 truck in the A Final, Sacha Hengen on P10, Lucas Wessel on P6 and Marcus Lübke on P4. The weather conditions for the Finals day very very wet and which meant that the Trucks would pack on additional 1KG of mud during the finals - giving the Motors and Speedos a lot of challenge to not overheat the 4KG heavy mud packed trucks.
In the end Marcus managed to race his TS4 on to the podium and finishing 3rd overall in very difficult track conditions.

Recently the german Nationals for 2WD Truck and Short Course took place in Wehrheim. After a exciting race at best conditions it was Marcus Luebke who took double Victory in Truck and Short Course.
Teammate Tom Maquel perfected the result by taking the 2nd place in Short Course and the 6th in Truck.
All over a great result for the young Team C / Absima Team and a great result for TS2TE and TC02T!

At 23.06 and 24.06.2012 the EMC Wehrheim club held the german nationals warm up race in 2WD short course and monster truck. Racers from all over Germany came to get a 2 day race event and learn the dirt track for the upcomming championshio in august. Absima /Team C driver Marcus Lübke set the pace in the monster truck class by taking TQ after 8 rounds of qualifying and he also qualified 2nd in the 2WD short course class.

The A-finals showed exciting fights with many changes in the lead during the 7min runs. At the end of the event it was Marcus Lübke who won both classes at this event with his Team C TC02T and TS2 trucks.

The Team C / Absima Team had a great race week-end overall! Here are the results:  

Monster Truck 2WD.

1 place: Marcus Lübke

Short Course 2WD:

1 place: Marcus Lübke

On 26.05 - 27.05.2012 was the first SM run 1:8 buggy at the MSC Sand. There were 73 drivers in the expert class and in the amateur class 24 drivers at the start. In the final of the expert class were Schellein Christopher (8th) and Christian Krieger (9th) able to enter significant places. A very good result, considering that Hupo Hönigl landed on 3rd place. Hupo is one of the top 20 drivers in this class.

The Team C Absima Team had a great race week-end overall. Here are the Team results: 

Place 8: Christopher Schellein/Team C

Place 9: Christian Krieger/Team C

Solms attrackted on 18.02. Off-Road Racers to race against each other at the LRP Off-Road Challenge -  with 75 Racers this is a Germany wide record.

In 4WD it was TeamC Absima Team Driver Marcus Lübke who secured Pole Position and the Victory with his T4. It was exactely 1 year after the LRP Off-Road Challenge had debuted and at which Marcus already TQed and finished second in 4WD.

In 2WD TeamC Absima Team Driver Felix Wiessmann finished with his TC02EVO on a very respectable 2nd Place overall at his very first 2WD Off-Road race ever. Watch out for more to come.

The Team C Absima Team had a great race week-end overall. Here are the Team results:

4WD
1. Marcus Lübke
2. Tom Maquel
13. Frank Heil

2WD
2. Felix Wiessmann
4. Tom Maquel
7. Sascha Hengen
10. Mike Wagner
12. Thomas Stenger
16. Nicolas Barrioso
26. Joe Harry

Short Course
3. Tom Maquel
7. Sascha Hengen
9. Mike Wagner
10. Frank Heil
14. Joe Hary

At 28^th/29^th of April 2012 the “International NRW Cup” took place on the “Astro-Turf Track” from Mach-One in Helmond (Netherlands). The complete Team C/Absima/Pro-Buggy Team went for the first time with the Team C “TS2” Short Course Truck. 

31 drivers started in the “stock class” which is a handsome number for short course races which is getting more and more popular.

Bastiaan Giehlen won the race by a clear margin and drove also the fastest lap of this weekend!!

The Absima/Team C Europe team want to thank our friends from PRO-Buggy - Netherlands for this awesome result and hope for much more victories in the next few weeks/months/years – THANKS!

Results NRW Cup Helmond – SC Stock:

1. Bastiaan Giehlen

6. Jos van Dal

10. Geralt Kraaijvanger

16. Damien Kraaijvanger

This week-end the RC Cars Köngen hosted the first round of German Nats

Qualification on the Astro Turf track which will also be the 2WD German

Nats Track later this year.

The race attrackted 65 drivers of which 33 raced the highly competetive

2WD class and which saw guest drivers already attending to get practice

time - here HUPO HÖNIGL would stand for the most talented 2WD driver

of the event.

Absima TeamC driver Olvier Scholz though showed up well prepared with

his TC02C 2WD and dominated qualifications to start from TQ position

into the A-Final.

A very close race between Oliver and Hupo saw Oliver winnng A-Final 1

with Hupo winning A-Final 2 to get the decision on the overall race

evet winner to be made in A-Final 3. Oliver and Hupo showed their best

race of the day with a thriller finishing just 0,6 Seconds separating

both at the finish line and giving Oliver the advantage and another

exciting win this season! Congratulations!!!

The Team C Absima Team had a great race week-end overall. Here are the results for 2WD:

1. Oliver Scholz

10. Tobias Hesse

On 08.05.2012 was held the first Hessen Cup run 2012 in Kirchhain. 42 drivers were at the start. The track in Kirchhain consists mainly of astro turf and had to go through the rainy conditions very slippery and difficult. After the foreruns, Thomas Henrich is on the second place, this place after the race he could also hold and thus secure a good result to start the season in the Hessen Cup.

The Team C Absima Team had a great race week-end overall. Here are the Team results:

1. place: Tim Kunz/ProSpeed

2. place: Thomas Henrich/Team c

3. place: Kolja Kljaic/Mugen

The first run of the Nitromasters 2012 was held at the 19.05 and 20.05.2012 at MSC Sand. The weather was perfect and also the performance of our team drivers. At this week-end it was Christopher Schellein who was the winner. 54 driver were at the start in the buggy class.

The Teamc C/Absima Team had a great race week-end overall. Here are the Team results:

Platz 1: Christopher Schellein

Platz 4: Thomas Süßmuth

Platz 11: Christian Krieger

Platz 14: Marco Schellein