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October 24, 2016

Lovan RC Challenge Rd1 – Report

The Lovan RC Challenge kicked off this past weekend with the opening round taking place at the new Velocitatem Arena, a permanent and pretty technical indoor track in Ingelmunster, in the western part of Belgium. The series is run in the four classes of Touring Superstock 10.5T blinky, Touring Stock 17.5T blinky, 1/12th scale 10.5T and Formula 21.5T. Tyres are limited to one set of Ride tyres for the Formula class and a set of Sorex, Volante, Ride or LRP tyres for the Touring classes. As for the schedule, an opening round of qualifying was held on Saturday with the remainder of the qualifiers were run on Sunday followed by triple mains for everyone. In Superstock Awesomatix’s Ollie Bultynck took a convincing pole position, one lap in front of Florian Joos (Tamiya), with the latter suffering transponder issues, and the Xray of Eric Denolf. The finals were a bit more exciting and Florian would put his Tamiya a bit closer to Ollie’s Awesomatix but ultimately Olivier would take the win from Florian while Kristof Dehert, an off-road aficionado, took his brand new WRC to a fine third place overall, all three running Volante 28 tyres.

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October 24, 2016

Serpent introduce new 411 diff internals

Coming from Serpent are updated diff internals for the Eryx 411 touring car. Already used in the company’s all-new Project 4-X tourer, the redesigned gears make for a significantly smoother diff action, resulting in improved overall performance. The composite gears are available separately as a 6-piece set to update existing units and they are also included in the V3 gear differential kit.

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October 24, 2016

JJ Wang takes double ROAR Fuel On-road titles

The 2016 ROAR Fuel On-road Nationals were held this past week at Homestead RC Raceway in Florida. Chinese-American JJ Wang was the man to beat in the premier 1/8th Open and 1/10th 200mm Sedan classes as he took the top qualifier position in both categories. In the hour-long 1/8th Open class final, JJ would lay down a commanding performance by taking the win some three laps ahead of Joaquin Desoto Jr. and Paolo Morganti, who completed the podium another three laps down. In the 200mm Sedan class, DJ Apolaro was in the mix for the overall win but JJ would ultimately hold the upper hand, ending the 60-minute encounter a lap in front of DJ with Scotty Gray rounding out the podium result in third.

Image: Rick Wang

October 24, 2016

Weissbauer & Mächler win at South German regional

Weissbauer & Mächler win at South German regionals

A round of the South German Indoor regionals was held this past weekend at the SLR Ingolstadt club. Thimo Weissbauer would take a dominant TQ in the Touring Modified class from Viktor Wilck in second and Frederik Südhoff in third. In the triple A-mains both Thimo and Frederik would battle for the overall win with each having scored a win and a second place before the third and decisive A-main. In leg three Thimo held everything together to take a second leg win some 2.7 seconds in front of Frederik to grab the overall win. Frederik came in second from Viktor Wilck who scored a 4-4-3 in the finals which let him end tie on points with Dominik Fleischmann but the better tie-breaker handed the Swede the final podium spot.

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October 24, 2016

Jeff Dayger successful at NORCAR Halloween Classic

The past weekend the 2016 NORCA Halloween Classic was held at The Gate and in the 1/12th 13.5T class it was Jeff Dayger who walked away with the win. In a star-studded field Jeff would come out fastest in the single 8-minute A-main from top qualifier, Johnny Wiita and runner-up after the qualifiers, Joe Trandel. Michael Hanulec, coming from the 9 spot on the grid ended the race in fourth place from veteran racer, Josh Cyrul in fifth.

Source: Trinity [trinityrc.com]

October 22, 2016

Leino takes final qualifier to start 2nd behind Greiner

Teemu Leino has TQ’d the final round of qualifying at the concluding round of the Euro Nitro Series in Italy and will start the title deciding 45-minute A-Main in Fiorano from second on the grid behind Top Qualifier Dominic Greiner. The Team Infinity driver topped Q3 by 6/10ths from Q1 & 2 pace setter Greiner, with new team-mate Marc Rheinard a further 7/10ths off completing the Top 3. For Leino’s main title rivals the round would net a P6 for championship points leader Dirk Wischnewski while Erik Dankel would go out with conrod failure while setting the TQ pace. The result means Wischnewski starts 5th while 2014 Champion Dankel will line up 9th.

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October 22, 2016

Team Orion Vortex Ultimate Stock brushless motors

Team Orion have released first information on their forthcoming Vortex Ultimate Stock brushless motors. Aimed at the ultra-competitive blinky stock racing the 540-size motors are developed in the USA from the ground up. They features a new high-power stator design, utilise low resistance copper windings and are built using a 3-piece low centre of gravity can design. The motors also feature a precision-balanced neodymium rotor, heavy duty pre-shaped solder tabs, widely adjustable timing and they are HV battery compatible. They are designed to meed IFMAR, ROAR and EFRA rules and they will soon be available in a 13.5T and 17.5T variant.

Source: Team Orion [teamorion.com]

October 22, 2016

Greiner secures TQ at ENS Finale

Dominic Greiner has secured the overall TQ at the season finale of the Euro Nitro Series again taking the second round of qualifying in Fiorano. The Serpent driver became the fourth different Top Qualifier of the season after topping the Q2 times ahead of Top Qualifiers of the last two races Erik Dankel and Teemu Leino. Top Qualifier of the event last year but lasting just 3-minutes in the final before suffering a conrod failure, today’s TQ marks Greiner’s first of the season with the World Champion determined to convert it into his first win of the season this time round. Unfortunately for this season’s other Top Qualifier, Round 1 pole sitter Bruno Coelho was to again suffer engine wows and failed to start the qualifier and with 2 out 3 heats to count it means the Portuguese driver is going to need a good run of bump ups if he is to stand a chance of making tomorrow’s A-Main.

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