This past weekend the HPI-Challenge Carpet Masters were held at the Arena33 in Andernach, Germany with 135 racers attending in the five classes of 13.5T Touring, 17.5T Touring, LMP, Classic and Rookie. In 13.5T Touring it was the Awesomatix trio of Max Mächler, Ingo Herschbach and Marcel Geiger who made up the top 3 after the A-mains with Henrik Heitsch (ARC) and Özer Yürüm (Awesomatix) completing the top 5.
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The opening round of the Swiss 1/8th Nitro Buggy Nationals was held this past weekend and in the Expert class it was HB Racing’s Jeremy Pittet with the TQ from Patrick Hofer (Team Associated) and Christoph Affolter. In the 45-minute A-main it was again the pairing of Jeremy and Patrick who made up the top 2 with the better end for Patrick who, despite an undercut from Jeremy, would bring home the win some five seconds in front of Pittet as HB Racing’s Kevin Zwahlen rounded out the top 3 results.
Image: Patrick Hofer
The 2018 EFRA 1/12th scale European Championships were held at the Racing Arena Limburg this past weekend. With nearly 150 entries the event was very well attended, making for competitive racing in both the Modified and Stock classes and ultimately it was Alexander Hagberg with the overall TQ from Olly Jefferies in the Modified class as Ollie Payne snatched the TQ in the Stock category from Michal Orlowski. In Modified Alexander Hagberg broke away at the start of the first leg, with Olly Jefferies running around a second behind him initially. This continued for six minutes, till Alex clipped a bot dot in the race control chicane, sending him into the barriers and an eventual retirement. This allowed Olly through to take the leg win, with Ollie Payne and Michel Orlowski continuing their battle from the stock class behind him. Ollie prevailed to take second with Michel third.
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The opening round of the Italian CRNS was held at the Fiorano track. In the 1/8th track class it was ARC driver Cristiano Sartor with the win from Capricorn’s Alessandro Merloni 2nd and Xray driver Alessandro Bracci 3rd. Sandro Sammarini and Fabrizio Iori would round out the top 5 results.
The first round of the 2018 BRCA Clubman Championship took place at West London on this past Sunday. After the previous days dry practice session drivers were greeted by a wet track for race day so the Shimizu rain tyres were the order of the day for the TC classes instead of the new Sweep control tyre TC has this year. A new grooved Sweep rain tyre for the Formula cars was introduced this year which proved to be a great improvement on the previous year’s slicks in the wet. With one round of practice completed for people to test how waterproofed or not their cars were and to acclimatise to the conditions round by round qualifying got under way. The 13.5 Open class was a challenge in the very wet conditions all day long with quite a few drivers turning the boost and turbos off and running in Blinky mode for the day to try and increase the traction. Aaron Rose took the top honours in round 1 from Andrew Robson and Daniel Moorey. Round 2 and it was Andrew Robson at the top from Aaron and third was Chris Lovley. Round 3 and it was Dominic Carters turn at the top followed by that busy man running 2 classes Damian Giddins and Stuart Rand finally finding some pace to finish third. The last round and Aaron made it two wins from four to take a fine TQ. A 2nd for Dominic and a 3rd for Andrew left us with the top ten looking like this:
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Yeah Racing have introduced a set of 12mm aluminium wheel hex adapters with 5mm offset. They are of a heavily machined design for a low weight yet great rigidity and are usable for a range of brands and applications including touring and drift cars as well as crawler trucks. The set includes four clamping-style adapters and it comes with cross pins and suitable screws.
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Phat Bodies have introduced their new Zed wing pack that has been developed as an alternative to the popular kit wing included with the company’s GTM and GTF body shells. The wings are supplied with new profiles for a different feel on track. Both can also be tuned to varied heights for high and low downforce tracks and they are moulded in 0.75mm Lexan polycarbonate to give minimal deflection under load for maximum downforce yet also lightweight to keep the centre of gravity as low as possible.
Coming from T-Works is a set of aluminium exhaust locks for most .21 and .12 exhaust pipes. The machined aluminium parts are designed to sandwich the pipe end in addition to the standard muffler grub screw, making for additional security and peace of mind in long mains or when running on rutted tracks. The machined aluminium items come black anodised for wear, in sets of two and including four grub screws.
