April 24, 2017

Ride sign Jan Ratheisky

Ride have announced the signing of Xray’s Jan Ratheisky to their factory team. The German front runner and multi-class specialist has a long list of international race wins under his belt at events such as the ETS, TITC and many more. Jan will be using the full range of Ride products while also helping with Research and Development and he had the following to say:

I’m really happy to join team Ride and excited to be a part of the team to represent the brand and the products. Also, I will be involving product testing for their R&D and will start using all Ride products at the race events I will attend. Looking forward to see everyone at the tracks.

Source: Ride [rc-ride.co.jp]

April 24, 2017

BRCA Touring Car Nationals Rd1 – Report

Round one of this season’s BRCA Touring Car series saw a new revised format with the old 2-day event now condensed in to a 1-day meeting. The established Modified and 13.5 Boosted classes were also bolstered up by a 13.5 Blinky class and a full entry of 110 drivers made for a very competitive round one at the technical West London track. The new format meant less opportunity for mistakes and qualifying heats were very close, in Modified it was Xray’s Olly Jefferies that took three of the four rounds of qualifying to line up ahead of Schumacher’s Elliott Harper and defending champion, Team Associated’s Chris Grainger. In the 13.5 Boosted class Zak Finlay took TQ and looked to be on for another dominant win, Zak took the win in all four rounds of qualifying while in the new Blinky class Danny Booker took TQ.

Continue reading the report here

April 24, 2017

Tamyia M-07 Concept – Teaser image

Tamiya recently released information on their forthcoming all-new M-07 Concept M-chassis kit and now a first rendering of the chassis became available. The car will adapt the chassis frame design introduced with the TA-07 Pro touring car for an easier to work on platform while long front and rear suspension arms improve overall performance. A gear differential in combination with universal driveshafts and ball bearings make for an efficient and durable drivetrain and the car usable with standard and shorty LiPo batteries without any modification. The kit is set for a release at the end of June.

Image: RC Monkey [rcmonkey.jp]

April 24, 2017

Yannick Aigoin wins French 1/8th Buggy Nats Rd2

The second round of the French 1/8th Off-road National Championship was held in Charmes-sur-Rhones over the weekend. TLR’s Renaud Savoya would come out on top after the five rounds of qualifying but it was Jerome Aigoin (Xray/Ultimate) who would start from pole position into the 45-minute main final. Due to smaller issues for both Renaud and Jerome it was Yannick Aigoin (Xray/Ultimate) who capitalised, taking the win one lap ahead of Jerome while Renaud (TLR/RC Concept) had to settle for third overall.

View the final results here

April 24, 2017

Mattia Dall’Oca wins Jokerteam GT12 Champs Rd2

Round two of the Jokerteam GT12 Championship was held in Bolzano, Italy over the weekend. A chilly early morning gave way to beautiful sunshine and perfect conditions to set the stage for round two of the series while the newly designed track delivered once again optimal traction levels. This time the track was run counter clockwise meaning the drivers had to learn new lines and once the qualification rounds got under way, Mattia Dall’Oca made immediately clear that he was once again the man to beat, TQ-ing all three rounds and delivering an impressive 29-lap run in Q3. Nevertheless Ivan Milesi opposed fierce resistance by having a remarkable pace and thus securing P2 for the A-mains, just ahead of teammate Alessandro Rampini. Behind the top 3 drivers, the battle for P4 on the grid was on between Johnny Orsolin, Claudio Giovanelli, Alessandro Giubbilei and Lorenzo Crepaldi all drove within a gap of less than 2 seconds.

Continue reading the report here

April 24, 2017

Kammer wins East German 1/8 IC Track regionals Rd1

Round one of the East German Nitro On-road regionals was held in Senftenberg on a technical low-grip track. In the 1/8th IC class Toni Gruber (WRC/Novarossi) would take the TQ after the qualifiers in front of the Shepherd/Mikrotek duo of Michael Kammer and Torsten Müller. After the start of the main final Toni took the lead in front of Torsten and Michael. Due to a rain shower shortly before the start of the main the track was pretty difficult to tackle, leading to early mishaps of Toni and later Torsten. Later and due to a thunderstorm the main had to be called a day some 17 minutes into the race, handing Michael Kammer the win from Xray driver Wilfried Stecker with Torsten Müller rounding out the podium.

Thanks to Torsten Müller for the report.

April 24, 2017

SPower S7 Evo II Tuned .21 nitro off-road engine

SWorkz Europe have introduced the new SPower S7 Evo II Tuned 3.5cc nitro off-road engine. The 3-port power plant offers improved fuel consumption and thus increased mileage with optimised power delivery. The engine utilises a black-coated crankcase, a balanced a DLC-coated crankshaft, it features a high-quality ceramic main bearing and a 3-needle carburettor. The S7 Evo II is available now.

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