The 2016 1/10th Electric Off-road French Cup was held this past weekend in Reims, Champagne. Held at the new indoor facility of the Reims Enduro Model Car Club the event attracted some of the country’s quickest drivers and in the 2WD Buggy class it was TQ holder Sylvain Gallo-Selva who came out in front after the A-mains to take the 2016 2WD French Cup title.
Source: Yokomo France [facebook.com]
Team Titan have introduced the new Blitz TS035 1/8th scale nitro on-road bodyshell. Building on the popular TS030 and TS040 the body offers the initial steering response and rear end stability of the TS030 combined with the mid corner and on-power steering of the TS040, making it a third tuning option for the dedicated racer. The body is moulded from high-quality polycarbonate and available in a super-tough 1.0mm variant and also as lightweight 0.8mm and super-lightweight 0.7mm body. All include a window mask, decal sheet and they sport pre-marked bodypost and engine head positions for ARC’s R8.0 car.
The recent Montech and A+Paint Trophy took place at the Minicar Fontanellato track in Fontanellato, Italy. Classes run were Touring Modified, Touring Stock 13.5T, Formula and Pan Car. In Touring Modified Mattia Collina took the TQ in front of Silvio Boni and Luca Torreggiani. In the final Collina would confirmed his dominant performance while Torreggiani and Boni would swap placed on the podium.
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Round three of the Greek electric off-road nationals was held at the Zorri RC track in Athens. In the 4WD class Delbederis took the overall TQ thanks to round TQs in Q2 and Q3 but the finals were a different affair as the TQ holder struggled with traction in the opening main but he would come out fastest in A2. A3 then saw Delbederis being dead last after an incident with another car and he was only able to recover to third. Overall Fotinos (Yokomo) would take the win from Delbederis (Xray) in second and Papanikolaou (Kyosho) in third. With two races left, and thanks to his second place at round three, Delbederis now leads the overall championship.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The final round of the Portuguese Nitro On-road Championship was held in Funchal, Madeira. The 1/10th 200mm Touring A-main was won by Hugo Exposto from Paulo Rodrigues and Carlos Manuel, who was the championship favorite alongside Franco Vilarinho. After running into problems in his semifinal and only starting from the P10 spot, Carlos’ was able to recover with the third place being enough to win him his second national championship title with Franco Vilarinho and Hugo Mendes completing the championship podium.
Italian company WRC have introduced their new P-One brand tool range. Made using high-quality aluminium handles and durable steel tool tips, the wrenches are available as 1.5mm to 3mm hex drivers, 5.5mm and 7mm hex wrenches and also as flat and cross tip screwdrivers. All come with lightened hollow handles and colour-coded end caps.
Source: WRC [wrc-racing.com]
The popular Clermont Ferrand track played host to the French Cup this past weekend, offing racing in several nitro on-road classes. The 1/8th class qualifying saw Anthony Abisset (Serpent/Picco) coming out fastest from Leo Arnold (Xray/Team Orion) and Arnaud Mathieu (Capricorn/Team Orion). Richard Volta (Infinity/Novarossi) and Christophe Louis (Mugen/Nds) would round out the top 5.
The Silverstone Winter Series kicked off with a great day’s racing at Moulton College in Northampton, UK. The main 2WD class featured 100 drivers. With brand new EOS style carpet and with Schumacher Minipin 1 or Minipin 2 control tyres there was plenty of grip and negligible tyre wear.
Veteran racer Ellis Stafford took the 2WD win with his TLR buggy, closely followed by Schumacher drivers Greg Williams and Charlie Ware.
