Round 6 of the UK Short Course Nationals was hosted by the A1 Racing Club near Grantham this past weekend. The final round of the championship saw Darren Boyle managing to take the TQ and the win in both the 2WD and 4WD classes. This capped a great season for him, sealing both the 2WD and 4WD National Championships.
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The sixth and final round of the BRCA 1/10th Off-road National Championship was held at the Boughton track this past weekend. In the 2WD class Team Associated’s Neil Cragg secured his 22nd national championship title by bringing home the win from Yokomo’s Lee Martin 2nd and Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski 3rd. Overall in the Championship Lee Martin and Tom Yardy would round out the top 3 results. Over in the 4WD class, run on Sunday, it was Lee Martin with the win from Michal Orlowski 2nd and Neil Cragg in 3rd. The final podium spot however was enough for Neil to bring home national championship number 23 as Lee Martin and Tom Cockerill came in 2nd and 3rd overall.
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The final round of the 2018 East Touring Series was held at East RC Speedway in Jakarta over the weekend. A technical layout combined with a high traction surface and a bright, sunny day make for perfect racing conditions. It was Bowie Ginting who took all four qualifiers to take the TQ in the Open Brushless class with team-mates Arya Seta and Christian Mamesah lining up 2nd and 3rd respectively. The main final saw a close fight in the front row, which featured Bowie who took all final legs followed by Arya and Christian.
Coming from Schelle Racing Innovations are the Nova Slipper clutch sets for the Team Associated B6.1 and T6.1 kits. The 3-plate compact slipper clutch offers improved driving feel, greater duality and a lower mass. The weight is reduced by over 6g while offering 20 percent more torque capacity in a compact package that helps to put more power to the ground. The sets include two slipper pads of each type , white and red, and a tuning guide to help racers learn how to tune the clutch for different conditions from slick dirt to astro-turf. The B6.1 buggy Set includes 72 and 78 tooth spur gears for either spec of modified racing while the T6.1 set, that is also compatible with the SC6.1, comes with two 81T spur gears.
Round 5 of the BRCA Truggy and E8 Buggy Nationals was held at the Slough track over the weekend. SWorkz’s Jack Embling brought home the win in the 30-minute Nitro Truggy A-main final to take this year’s overall title from Agama’s Jon Hazlewood on the runner-up spot. Team Associated’s Matt Lewis would round out the overall top 3.
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Coming from Arrowmax is their new V2 setup system for 1/10th touring cars. Using customer feedback Arrowmax have updated the faceplates of the tool to allow for finer adjustments with the base being now wider to provide more stability. The setup system comes in a neutral, grey colour and it sports Arrowmax’s signature honeycomb design. Included beside the toe, caster and camber measuring plates are four wheel thumb nuts and a transparent toe measuring plate as well as a zipped bag for easy transportation and storage.
Xray have announced the soon release of their new XB2C’19 1/10th scale 2WD off-road buggy. Historically the “C” variant of Xray’s 2WD kits is designed for high-traction surfaces such as carpet and astro turf and we await official details in time for the release that shouldn’t be too far away now.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
During this week’s 2018 IFMAR ISTC World Championships, held in Welkom, South Africa, Serpent’s David Ehrbar is running a prototype of the forthcoming S110 S4 1/10th formula car. David had his first roll out of the car in China in the days before making his way onto Welkom for the race. Officially still a prototype, it was finished just the night before he arrived to test in China, the car is the basis for their upcoming kit release which will be known as the F110 S4. Key features of the car are a new rear wing mounting system which is now mounted to the main chassis plate and not to the pod as before. The car has also moved away from using side links to using bearings which David says makes the car more linear especially when cornering and accelerating at the same time.
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