The fifth and final round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Reding. In the premier class of Touring Car Modified Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) took the day’s win from Team Magic driver Cyril N’Diaye and Xray’s Hugo Ragaut. Jérémy Limoges and Rémi Callens in fourth and fifth respectively rounded out the top 5 result.
New from Avid and made for Team Associated’s 5th generation 1/10th off-road vehicles are the titanium steering system screws. The fasteners are shouldered to remove the slop out of the steering rack while also dropping 3g of weight. Also the kit screws measure in at 2.91mm where Avid’s titanium shouldered screws come in at 2.99mm for a much tighter bearing fit. The screws are machined from billet 6Al-4V titanium, each package includes two 3-12mm and two 3-22mm fasteners and they fit the B5, B5M, T5M, and SC5M.
The 2015 Team Associated Top Gun Shootout will be held from the 12th to 13th of December at SDRC Raceway in San Diego, California. The event will see the usual mix of 1/10th Buggy and Truck classes along an 1/8th E-Buggy category and more information and signup can be found here.
The Scale Reproduction Inc Showdown 29th Anniversary race was recently held with a 170+ entries field. Noah Ford would take the round TQs in the first and third qualifier to grab the overall TQ in the 1/8th E-Buggy class. In the opening A-main Noah would lead from tone to tone only to run into problems in the second A-main. An early mistake let Ford drop to fourth place. With three minutes to go Noah had moved up to second place and he started to close in on the leader who would make a mistake with two laps to go. Ford was able to get around and hold the lead for the remainder of the race to take the overall class win.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Coming soon from Japanese company Tresrey is the HT-1 1/10th 4WD touring car kit. The car is based on a carbon fibre double deck chassis, it features purple anodised front and rear shock towers as well as gun metal anodised aluminium suspension and layshaft mounts. Also part of the package are an aluminium floating steering servo mount as well as a rail-type steering assembly. More details should become available in time for the release.
New from Hitec come the D-series 32-bit high-performance digital servos for a range of 1/8th and 1/10th scale applications. Combining high-resolution and ultra-response technology with a 32-bit MCU and 12-bit ADC for programmability and flexibility, these servos are meant to deliver significantly smoother movement. The speedy, powerful line operates on a wide 4.8 to 8.4 voltage range, allowing use with any common battery chemistry without the need for adapters or regulators. The dual ball-raced coreless motor servos come in several specifications, as are the titanium gear D-980TW (0.14s/44kg-cm), D-950TW (0.14s/35kg-cm), D-945TW (0.10s/23kg-cm), and D-940TW (0.06s/16.5kg-cm). Also available are the metal geared D-645MW (0.17s/13kg-cm) and the D-625MW (0.13s/10kg-cm). All sport industry standard dimensions with the 9-series servo featuring a heatsink middle case while the 6-series servo sporting a plain mid section.
Round four of the TORC Championship was held in Bumod Bursa, Turkey in rather cool weather conditions compared to the previous round. In the 1/10th 200mm Nitro Touring class Mustafa Alp put himself directly into the final thanks to TQing three qualifiers. At the start of the main final Mustafa took off with no problems and he quickly opened a gap to his competitors. Some 25 minutes into the race he came in for a scheduled stop for tyres and at the end Mustafa brought home the win after a very clean run and with an 8 laps margin on runner-up Halit Korpe who suffered from several flameouts during the race. Mert Ekinci would round out the top 3 result.
The 21st Annual Halloween Classic was hosted at its home track “The Gate” in Cleveland, Ohio. This race has gone back many years as the warm-up to the Cleveland Indoor Champs and has grown its own prestige over time. The event format was official practice on Friday with three qualifiers on Saturday and one qualifier on Sunday followed by the finals. This year’s race sold out at 220 entries in 90 minutes when the online sign-ups opened. This year it was considered the first race of carpet season for the US so it is fair to say that there was some big anticipation for everyone to get back to carpet racing.
