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October 27, 2017

Tim Wood crowned BRCA 1/8th IC Track Champion

The final round of the British IC Track Championship took place at the Cotswold circuit in central UK. Saturday Morning was damp, so cars hit the circuit for practice in the afternoon only. Noticeable quick cars were Green, Wood, Spashett, and Hastings. Sunday saw a fully dry track from the start. Four rounds of qualifying saw Mark Green take a superb TQ, but the title contenders lined up 2nd Spashett and 4th Wood. The start of the A-final saw a Green get away swiftly, with the title protagonists battling hard for 2nd. A close exciting race saw Wood’s Serpent hounding Spashett’s ARC and at the second round of pit stops, Tim’s mechanic Nicola performed the undercut – with a pitstop one lap early. This allowed Tim to squeeze past Dave into an exciting turn 1. After 30 minutes, the race result was declared as 1st Tim Wood, winning the 2017 British Championship from runner-up, Dave Spashett.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

October 26, 2017

ETS enters new decade in Vienna

After celebrating the completion of 10 seasons of world class racing back in July, the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is set to enter into a second decade of high profile competition as Vienna hosts the opening round of Season #11 this weekend (27-29 October). Taking place as part of the ‘Modellbau 2017’ model show in the Austrian Capital, the 58th race of the ETS also marks the 8th consecutive season of Yokomo being the title sponsor of the Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst created championship with the Japanese manufacturer one of a number of teams looking to take on the domination of a certain Bruno Coelho. As back to back champion, Coelho enters into only his fourth season of the ETS as the pre-season favourite. Also champion of the Euro Offroad Series and the Euro Nitro Series, last season the Xray driver claimed a record 5 wins from 6 races and getting fed up of being in the shadow of the Portuguese driver his rivals are more determined than ever to change this over the coming season.

Continue reading this announcement here

October 26, 2017

Brazilian Nitro On-road National Champs Rd3 – Report

The 3rd and final round of the Brazilian Nitro On-road National Championship was held in Americana/SP, home of the 2015 IFMAR 1/8th World Championship. High temperatures during the day made for challenging conditions for men and machines. In the 1/8th Pro class it was Flavio Elias with the win from Kazuo Ohara and Samuel Prato.

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October 26, 2017

Xray Racing Series Poland – Rd2

The second round of the XRS/PLMS on-road series was held in Ścinawka Średnia with more than 60 drivers in attendance. In the fastest class of the weekend, Touring Modified, the number of entries was pretty low, however the quality of racing was second to none as the top 3 had some super close battles for the win with Martin Korinek ultimately bringing home the overall from runner-up, Jarosław Siwek and 3rd placed Jakub Michalski who rounded out an all-Xray top 3.

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October 26, 2017

Kyosho MP9 gear differential sets

Kyosho’s Yuichi Kanai has announced the soon release of two gear differential sets for the MP9 and GT3 series of kits. The convenient packs do away with the need to buy all parts separately with the front/rear kits include the needed diff gear while the centre diff pack comes without main gear to let drivers choose the required size. All include hard-coated 7075 aluminium cross shafts for a low weight and to keep the oil cleaner for longer. The diff sets will hit stores soon.

View the centre diff kit here

October 26, 2017

Tamiya M-05 NSU TT Jägermeister – Coming soon

Coming soon from Tamiya is the M-05 chassis kit with NSU TT Jägermeister body shell. No further information is available when it comes to chassis features and specifications but as usual for most modellers the highly detailed body is the most important item in the kit with the NSU TT being an iconic German 1960/70’s race car whose replica body will feature plastic mirrors and a detailed decal sheet.

Source: Tamiya Blog [tamiyablog.com]

October 26, 2017

Mugen introduce new MBX7-series option parts

Coming from Mugen is a range of option parts for the Mugen MBX7 series of buggies, trucks and GT cars. Available from November are new front steering knuckle sets in in-line and 1.5 trailing axle configuration that include carbon fibre steering upright arms – the latter also being available separately to replace the standard alloy parts. The front uprights and carbon fibre steering arms are usable on the MBX7R buggy, MBX7TR truck and MGT on-road car, with the in-line configuration offering smooth steering response while the trailing knuckles make for increased steering. As for the carbon arms, the design was modified to allow space for the larger 15x21x4mm bearings when running the trailing front uprights. Also new is a 47T main gear for the HT centre diff that is good for use on smaller tracks or when in need of additional low-end power and acceleration. Last but not least comes a new IFMAR-legal, lightweight high downforce rear wing in white, yellow or black colour.

View the other new parts here

October 26, 2017

Xray T4’18 brass chassis stiffener

Xray have introduced a brass chassis stiffener for the T4’18 touring car. Designed to replace the carbon fibre brace, the stiffener adds 5g of weight to the most central part of the chassis, it eliminates pitch flex and holes for the multi-flex screws allow to fine-tune the chassis’ torsional flex characteristics.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]