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June 4, 2014

World Champion returns as ETS makes first visit to Luxembourg

In contrast to the tight boards style track of Round 4 held at the fahr(T)raum Museum in Mattsee, Austria, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series travels for the first time to Luxembourg this weekend (6-8th June) to what is rated by many drivers as one of the greatest outdoor tracks in Europe – Mini Circuit “Ville de Luxembourg”. The penultimate round of the championship, the event marks the return of former champion Jilles Groskamp, the reigning World Champion having some great memories of the track as it was where the Tamiya Racing Factory driver won his first major title back in 2009. Another significant name on the 240 plus entry list is that of r/c racing legend David Spashett who despite many years of being involved in the championship as a sponsor will make his first race outing. Amassing an impressive 4 World Championship titles and 13 European crowns, Spashett will go up against the biggest current day names of the sport including Groskamp having entered the Ride Modified class in which he will be driving an ARC R10.

Continue reading the announcement here

June 4, 2014

Rex on-road & off-road engines by Novarossi

Italian nitro engine manufacturer Novarossi introduce their new line of Rex engines for on-road and off-road use. All engines base on quality blocks combined with high performance parts to ensure reliable power output. The range will include .21 buggy engines such as the R21 Plus8 8-port, R21 Plus5 5-port, and Paloma.21 7-port engine as well as the R28-7M 7-port truck engine. On-road racers may welcome the R-Flash.21 9-port ceramic main bearing engine and the as well as the standard bearing R35 Plus 21 Tuned 9-port offering. For the 200mm 1/10th class Novarossi have the Rex R-Flash.12 Tuned 3-port ceramic main bearing engine up for grabs. All engines come with a characteristic blue anodised cooling head with laser-etched writings.

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June 4, 2014

Tamiya TRF101W “wide” formula chassis kit

Tamiya TRF101W "wide" formula chassis kit

We wrote about Tamiya’s forthcoming TRF101W “wide spec” formula 1 kit some time ago and now Tamiya Japan have an official product image and information available. The car is based off the already known TRF101 standard track width kit and features a 2.5mm carbon fibre chassis, a new longer upper deck as well as “wide” lower carbon fibre A-arms made from 2.5mm carbon fibre. Also included in the kit, that is designed for the use with foam tyres, is a new piston for the side damper making for an improved damper action in tight corners. The kit comes without body, wings and tyres and will hit the stores mid-July.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

June 4, 2014

RB 18T & 20T steel pinion gears

RBPinions

RB introduce two new pinion gears for the RB E One and E One R. They are cut from high-quality steel and give additional gear ratio possibilities not only to RB’s electric 1/8th buggies but also all other electric vehicles that use these type of pinions.

Source: RB [rbproducts.com]

June 4, 2014

Hagberg to bolster Xray entry at ENS Hockenheim

Having taken their first win of the Euro Nitro Series at Round 2 of the all new nitro onroad championship last month in Austria, Team Xray are to bolster their factory team line-up for Round 3 at Hockenheim in Germany in two weeks (13-15 June). Taking his RX8 to victory in the 1:8 A-Main in Aigen, Dutch ace John Ermen will be joined by Alexander Hagberg as the Slovakian manufacturer looks to also take a first 1:10th ENS victory. While Xray are one of the main sponsors of the ENS, other racing commitments have prevented Hagberg from attending since his participation in the second of last year’s ENS Pilot Races in which the Swede finished 4th.

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June 4, 2014

Matias wins 3rd round of Portuguese buggy nats

Last weekend the 3rd round of Portuguese national 1/8th off-road championships took place at the 2010 EFRA European Championship track in Guarda. This track is well known for being very hard and demanding not only for the drivers but especially for the cars, tyres, and engines. In the final Xray’s Miguel Matias came out successful in front of his team mates Nuno Rebelo and Bruno Coelho. Joao Lopes and Tiago Aguiar completed the top 5 result.

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June 4, 2014

Traxxas TQi radio systems & modules

Traxxas introduce their new TQi 2-channel and 4-channel 2.4GHz telemetry radio systems as well as the Telemetry Expander and GPS Speed Telemetry modules. Starting with the TQi radio systems, the transmitters include the Traxxas Link wireless module to bundle the transmitters with an iPod, iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth in order to access real time telemetry data send from the model. A co-driver can also access and alter adjustments to the electronics while you drive. The radios are available as a set including a 5-channel micro receiver with the transmitters and the wireless module also being available separately.

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June 4, 2014

The New Generation (Part I)

It’s a topic that’s often discussed and bought up, and something I’ve alluded to in a number of my previous columns. But I thought it was finally time to dedicate a whole piece to the subject. In fact, so much so that I know I’ll need to split this out into a couple of parts! How do we get more youngsters involved in our sport?

Continue reading Oli’s column here