The French CML Masters was held this past weekend near Paris. In the 2WD class Ludovic Valtier would come out successful from Lorenzo Crolla in second and Stephane Deroch in third. In the 4WD class Lorenzo Crolla grabbed the TQ after winning two of the three qualifiers and he would be able to conserve his qualifying performance in the finals to take the overall win from Jean-Pierrick Sartel and Stephane Deroch in second and third respectively.
The opening round of the East Touring Series was held at the technical, high-grip East RC Speedway in Indonesia. Qualifying took place in hot and sunny conditions and in the 13.5T non-boost class Bowie Ginting scored a pretty easy TQ from Serpent teammate who put his car on the 2 spot for the finals, a lap behind. Arya Seta in third would round out an all-Serpent top 3. In the triple A-mains Bowie grabbed the overall victory with two leg wins and the fastest lap of the day while both Christian and Arya retained their qualifying positions to complete the podium in second and third respectively.
Round three of the MRC Longwy Winter Series was held in Longwy in the North of France. The 10.5T Stock category was the most popular class of the weekend and it saw round two winner Philipp Walleser taking the day’s win from the pole position. Jan Bickendorf grabbed the runner-up spot from Jeremy Deladondre in third.
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The Tonisport MCSS Open was hosted this past weekend by the MCSS Althengstett club in Germany. Held in several on-road classes including Touring Modified, Touring Sport and Sportscar there was also a Stock Masters class held in a Reedy Race format with some of Germany’s fastest Stock racers in attendance. The format was ten rounds of which the best eight counted towards the overall result. Max Mächler would be the driver to beat as he scored four wins, two second places finishes and a fifth place to grab the overall win from Daniel Wohlgemuth who scored two wins, two second places and two third place finishes. Tobias Vogel would round out the top 3 with four runner-up spots and three third place finishes.
Image: Max Mächler
The annual Italian Job Race was held at the IBR Padova indoor facility in Italy over the weekend. As usual the race attracted Europe’s best 1/8th off-road drivers to compete in the premier Nitro Buggy and the supporting 1/8th E-buggy classes. The Pro Nitro class qualifying was a tight affair between Marco Baruffolo (TLR/Picco), Elliott Boots (Kyosho/Reds Racing), Alex Zenchettin (TLR/Reds Racing) and Darren Bloomfield (Agama/Bullitt). In the end Marco would make a clean sweep though with three round TQs to secure the overall TQ from Elliott, Alex and Darren. The E-Buggy class had Agama’s Darren Bloomfield taking the TQ from fellow countryman Elliott Boots (Kyosho) with both ending tie on points. Marco Baruffolo (TLR) rounded out the top 3 result after the qualifiers.
New from Arrowmax comes a body post trimmer for 1/10th touring car body posts. The aluminium tool makes use of an optional cutter knife or scalpel blade and it allows to easily and conveniently cut the body posts to size while creating a clean chamfered edge in a second step. The result is a visually pleasing body stay with the chamfered edge also making for easier body installation. The tool is made from anodised aluminium, it comes in grey, black and purple anodising but without the needed blades.
The 29th annual CRCRC Winter Midwest Championships were held at The Ohio R/C Factory in Jeffersonville, Ohio this past weekend. Ryan Cavalieri (Team Associated) and Jared Tebo (Kyosho) would battle it out for the overall TQ in the Modified Buggy classes with the better end for Ryan who would grab the pole position for both the 2WD and 4WD Modified Buggy classes. Ryan would then also snatch the TQ for the 2WD Modified SCT class while Jared came out fastest in Modified Truck to start the finals from the 1 spot.
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Coming from MIP is a range of C1 X-Duty CVD spline drive sets for several Axial off-road vehicles. A tried and true design, the male and female centre driveshaft halves are utilising a nine spline design to distribute the load throughout the system to ensure the highest load efficiency and wear characteristics. The sets include front and rear centre driveshafts, mounting hardware and they are available for the AX10 and SCX10 line of vehicles.
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