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July 25, 2017

BRCA Truggy & E-Buggy Nationals Rd4 – Report

Round four of the BRCA Truggy & E-Buggy Nationals was held in South Wales at the Pembrey Racing Circuit. The day’s racing was interesting to say the least. There was heavy rain during the night so the track was wet to start with. The numbers for this meeting as a little disappointing with only 36 drivers turning up. During the booking-in process the sun had come out, but as luck would have it during the drivers briefing it started to rain. The first few rounds of qualifying was wet but the track did dry out very quickly. Once the track had dried out the lap times were getting lower, and true to South Wales Fashion the rain came down again for the last round in qualifying.

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July 25, 2017

IGT8 4-shoe GT clutch set

Coming from IGT8 is a new 4-shoe clutch set. The clutch provides a wide range of tuning options, including a very aggressive setting for high traction GT racing. Looking similar to other designs, its unique initial spring preload ensures a more consistent engagement during extended runs where a good clutch is critical. The clutch fits the IGT8 GT and most GT cars.

Source: RC Target [rctarget.com]

July 24, 2017

2017 Benelux Electric On-road race – Report

The annual Benelux 1/10th scale electric race was held this past weekend at the fast track of Rucphen in the Netherlands. Free practice on Friday took place in ideal weather conditions with track temperatures exceeding 35 degree Celsius. The weather forecast for the weekend wasn’t so good though and this lead to several last-minute withdrawals. Nevertheless a good amount of drivers turned up to attend in the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pro10 10.5T. In Touring Modified, Mitchell Van Es, one of contenders for the overall victory in the modified class, had a glitch on the main straight and crashed his Awesomatix at full speed into the barriers. This meant that the young Dutch driver had to defend his chances with his old Yokomo.

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July 24, 2017

Daniele Conte successful at World Freedom Cup

The World Freedom Cup was held this past weekend at the famous Minicar Fiorano track in Italy. The somewhat special event saw a single 15-minute A-main for the Formula class and it was Daniele Conte with the TQ and win in front of Luca Fantinel and Mirco Bordin in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]

July 24, 2017

Hoppe & Tödtmann win Northern German regionals Rd3

Round 3 of the Northern German Nitro On-road regionals was held at the MC Munster track, home of the German 1/10th 200mm Nationals later this year. In 1/8th on-road class 1 it was Timo Schröder (Shepherd) with the overall TQ but the 30-minute main final was narrowly won by Shepherd’s Lars Hoppe who left Serpent’s Merlin Depta behind in 2nd by about 3/10th of a second. Timo Schröder would round out the top 3 result in 3rd.

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July 24, 2017

Capricorn ONE .21 nitro on-road engine

Coming from Capricorn’s ONE brand is a new .21 nitro on-road engine. Completing their on-road range, the power plant utilises a hand-tuned crankcase, crankshaft and cylinder with the modifications improving the internal mixture flow. Other features include selected, ONE-branded bearings, with a standard ball race for the front and a ceramic bearing being used as main ball race. Optionally available are also full steel or full ceramic bearings. The engine package is rounded out by an anodised 2-tone cooling head in a black and golden finish and the ONE option conrod that was introduced last week.

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July 24, 2017

David Ronnefalk successful at Bubo Race

The Bubo Race was held at the ARCF 42 track in Boisset Saint Priest, France, over the weekend. HB Racing’s David Ronnefalk made a clean sweep in the 1/8th Nitro Buggy class by taking all five qualifying rounds to grab the overall TQ. In the 45-minute long A-main final David was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win some two laps in front of HB Racing’s Adrien Bertin while Celian Rousset rounded out the podium result in 3rd, only five seconds short of Adrien and making it a HB Racing/Team Orion 1-2-3 finish.

Source: David Ronnefalk [davidronnefalk.com]

July 24, 2017

Akio Sobue takes JMRCA Super Expert Touring title

This past weekend the Japanese JMRCA All Japan Touring Outdoor Championship was held at Keitune Racing Speedway. In the Super Expert class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ from Infinity teammate Akio Sobue in 2nd. Yokomo’s Ronald Völker, who made an appearance at the race as did fellow Yokomo driver and countryman, Christopher Krapp, came in 3rd after the qualifiers. After the exciting triple A-mains, that saw Naoto taking the win in A1 and Akio coming out fastest in A2, it was Akio with the championship title from Naoto 2nd and Ronald 3rd.

Image: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]