Coming from Team Titan is the new Blitz RS5 200mm touring car body shell. Designed to fit 1/10th 200mm nitro and electric touring cars the body’s design will make for a neutral handling and an easy to drive car in most track conditions. The lid is available in standard 0.8mm or lightweight 0.7mm thickness, it comes clear, including window masks, stickers and wing mounting hardware.
SMJ have introduced their new Silver Line shock spring range for 1/8th on-road cars. The R-series is available in four short front and five long rear variants all of which are colour-coded for easy identification. They have already proven their performance at the recent JMRCA All-Japan nationals when all three SMJ spring-equipped cars made it into the main and as a novelty they feature a clear tube over the colour code dot to prevent the markings from being rubbed away by the tyres.
Coming from Team Associated are two new option parts for the TC7.1 touring car. First up are Factory Team suspension arm shims in 0.2mm thickness. The tuning option allows finer increment adjustments for the roll centre and the set includes four 0.2mm outer shims and eight 0.2mm inner shims that fit the TC7.1. TC7 and TC6.2. Also new are Factory Team steel inner hinge pin balls as a replacement for the machined composite part. The steel part allows the hinge pin to pivot inside, allowing more precise fitment and consistent performance. Sold in sets of eight balls, enough for one complete chassis the parts fit the TC7.1, TC7 and TC6.2.
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The recent third round of the South Swedish Indoor Series was held alongside the Middle Swedish Electric Series and the event was hosted at the Miracl facilities just outside of the small town of Åtvidaberg. The track was put together using older spec ETS Carpet with a darker gray colour, instead of the more recent black one. The traction started out low during Friday’s free practice, but came up soon. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Markus Hellquist started off quick by winning all practice rounds, qualifiers and finals. Team Associated’s Daniel Carlsson came in 2nd as Andreas Johansson (Serpent) obtained the 3 spot on the podium.
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New from Infinity is the release of the PRS passive rear steering set for their electric touring car. The latest optional release for the IF14, PRS helps to achieve greater corner speed by changing the toe angle of the rear tyre according to the amount of stroke of the rear suspension. The amount of rear toe angle can can be fine tuned by the mounting angle of the linkage rod. In addition, the height of the steering block has two height options so it is possible to change the roll centre to correspond to the track conditions and layout.
The ACRP Clube Radiomodelismo club in Porto, Portugal will hold their Indoor Speed Challenge event on the 14th of January. The race will see 1/10th Formula, 1/12th scale and 1/10th M-Chassis racing and more information can be found on the club’s social media site here.
Last weekend’s second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series saw Yokomo’s Ronald Völker sweeping the Touring Modified class. Ronald would take the overall TQ with the only 26-laps run of the qualifiers from Lucas Urbain (VBC Racing) 2nd and Loic Jasmin (Yokomo) 3rd. In the finals Ronald would again bring home wins with a 1-lap margin as Loic Jasmin came in 2nd in both A1 and A2. A3 then had again Ronald taking the win, however some seven seconds behind it was Lucas Urbain on the runner-up spot to secure himself the final podium spot behind winner Ronald and runner-up, Loic.
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This past weekend the second round of the MRC Longwy Winter Series took place in Longwy, France. The event was booked out after five minutes and a total of 115 drivers attending made for some stiff competition. In the Formula category Olivier Bultynck started from pole position and he would also set the pace in the A-mains with his Shepherd car. Winning A1, also setting the fastest lap of the weekend, traffic issues in A2 prevented an early overall victory, but he came back strong in A3 to take the overall win in front of Jacques Libar (VBC Racing) and Nicolas Delisé (Roche) who completed the podium in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
