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January 23, 2018

Picco V1-3518 & S1-1218 nitro engines

Coming from Picco are the new V1-3518 Team DLC Ceramic and S1-2918 Team nitro engines. Starting with the V1-3518, the power plant is an updated version of the engine that won last year’s 1/8th Buggy Euros in Sweden. The 5-port cylinder, paired with the long stroke design, provides plenty of power throughout the whole power band. The crankshaft received an DLC treatment in order to increase its durability even in the most demanding off-road situation and it rotates in a Swiss-made ceramic rear bearing. The carburettor sports the latest double bottom-end adjustment for fine-tuning and improved reliability and the engine is rounded out by a new cooling head design.

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January 22, 2018

2017/18 RugRacers series Rd4 – Report

Round four of the 2017/18 RugRacers series was held this past weekend. Zak Finlay now has one hand on the 13.5 blinky title after wrapping up round 4 with FTQ and both leg final wins. It may not of been as straight forward but for the intense battle taking place for 2nd place between Billy Fletcher and Paul Pinkney, however with a challenging track rewarding the least mistakes Zak was able to increase the gap, Ashley Wiffen able to capitalise on the battle and take 3rd overall. Zak only needs FTQ or a leg win over the final two rounds to confirm the title.

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January 22, 2018

MCD Racing XR5 Max 1/5th rally cross kit

MCD Racing from Turkey have introduced their new XR5 Max Factory Team Spec 1/5th scale gas-powered rally cross kit. A long wheelbase variant of the existing XR5, the Max offers an extended wheelbase, a wider track and an all-new body shell. Other newly introduced features include reinforced rear stiffeners, an alloy layshaft carrier, new alloy shock bodies and shock towers as well as the aforementioned redesigned LWB chassis.

View a list of the features and more images here

January 22, 2018

RCMC Singapore GP Nationals Rd1 – Report 

Last Sunday saw the running of the first Round of the RCMC Singapore GP Nationals for 1/8th GP and GT classes. Having had to move the race from the previous week owing to a small monsoon, Sunday saw a complete change in the weather conditions. Blue sky, blazing sunshine and a very hot track which had been cleaned by the previous weeks rain, provided less grip than everyone was ready & prepared for. After three rounds of qualifying in the GP class, local RCMC Singapore Club Champion Chavit Saligupta from Thailand took the TQ, followed by Andy Moore from Great Britain, and Trin from Thailand, a first 3-grid lock-out by the Infinity team. Local pro Nelson Lee from Singapore took 4th with his ARC after a stunning 3rd round qualifying effort.

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January 22, 2018

Xray NT1 2018 200mm kit – Coming soon

Xray have announced the soon release of their forthcoming NT1 2018 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road kit. No official information about the new features and specifications are available yet but racers can expect wisely made changes to the double IFMAR World Championship platform.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

January 22, 2018

Prümper & Bultynck win at GP3F

The Grand Prix des 3 Frontiers, also known as GP3F was held by the French MRC Longwy club this past weekend. As usual the event attracts some of Europe’s fastest drivers to battle it out in the Touring Modified and Touring Stock classes. The 2018 edition made no exception and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Germany’s Yannic Prümper who lead a Yokomo 1-2-3 after the qualifiers with fellow countrymen Ronald Völker and Christopher Krapp completing the top 3 as Marc Rheinard and Thimo Weissbauer came in 4th and 5th.

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January 22, 2018

Scottish GT12 Regionals Rd1 – Report

The first round of the BRCA Scottish GT12 regionals 2018 was hosted by Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub. This was the first round of a four round series involving Dundee and Angus Radio Controlled Car Klub, Grampian Radio Car Club and Lothian Radio Control Car Club. The series is now in its fifth year and continued the successful format of previous years of 4 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals for all racers. As well as GT12 cars support classes for 13.5 blinky touring cars and Formula 1 cars were also offered.

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January 22, 2018

Mibosport Winter Cup Rd4 – Report

The penultimate round of the 2017/18 Mibosport Winter Cup was held in Hrotovice this past weekend. Fresh off the Christmas break a total of 220 drivers signed in for the event that was held in the usual mix of electric on-road and off-road class with 103 entries for the on-road and 117 entries for the off-road categories. Drivers from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and even Italy signed in as did some well-known named from series such as the ETS and EOS. In Touring Modified, Dominic Vogl did not feel confident in qualifications, but it was a brand new story in the final legs. In the first one Oliver Havranek crashed on the roll out lap so that he was forced to score a DNS and nothing could prevent Dominic from taking the win. In the second leg Oliver kept the doors shut setting the final run to be the decider. It was a great fight between those two guys and finally Dominic passed Oliver for the overall. Matej Sulc completed the as Patrick Gollner lost a few spots compared to his starting position and finished 4th in front of Zdeno Kunak.

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