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August 1, 2017

Roche Rapide F1 aluminium front body post mount

Made for the Rapide F1 car is an aluminium front body post mount from Roche. Machined from high-quality aluminium and coming black or red anodised and with machined silver edge details the part ensures the front body mount post is keeping its position when swapping front wing types. This will reduce the amount of bodies to have while also making for a more sturdy body mounting at the same time. Included with the brace comes suitable mounting hardware for the wing and mount.

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July 31, 2017

Chris Brame wins at SWCS Race Rd5

After a very hot weekend of racing at RCRCNT in Dallas, Texas, Chris Brame took win after a gruelling 30-minute main event at round 5 of the SWCS. Brame’s Novarossi-powered IGT8 powered out a victory on the hot and slick track while TQ Jeff Whiting (Serpent/Novarossi) ran into issues at about the seven-minute mark. The heat also got to Richard “Pit” Racer’s (IGT8/Picco) clutch and quickly fell off the pace as well. Ultimately and behind Chris it was Darrell Byrd (Serpent/Novarossi) with the runner-up spot while Keith Byrd (Serpent/Picco) rounded out the top 3 result.

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July 31, 2017

Champion Coelho caps of ETS season with record 5th win

Back to back Euro Touring Series Champion Bruno Coelho has capped off his title winning campaign with a record breaking 5th win of the season at Minidrom Ettlingen in Germany. Top Qualifier for a 5th time in Season #10, the Xray driver wrapped up his 10th ETS career win with another dominant drive in A2, this time heading home team-mate Tim Wahl. Behind the Xrays, contact between the two Infinity’s of Naoto Matsukura and Marc Rheinard would mix things up a little allowing Ronald Volker through to third. In the end Matsukura would take back the position from his former team-mate to complete the top 3 after seeing off a final corner pass attempt by Mugen’s Robert Pietsch.

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July 31, 2017

Haugen & Husman win at EFRA 40+ IC Track Euros

The 2017 EFRA 40+ Nitro On-road European Championships were held in Skarpnäck, Sweden, this past weekend. With the Friday being rained off the event was basically a 1-day affair which made it necessary to reduce the qualifiers to three rounds with the two best to count. In 1/8th on-road it was Sweden’s Mikael Fransson (Serpent) with the TQ while Andreas Husman (Mugen) TQ’d the 200mm Touring class. After the Superpole Lars Haugen (Mugen) in 1/8th and Mickael Brandt (Xray) in Nitro Touring were the two other drivers to score direct spots in their respective main finals.

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July 31, 2017

Caroli & Laubscher win at SARDA 1/12th Series Rd3

The third round of the 2017 South-African ORE 1/12th national championship series was held at the Welkom RC Arena this past weekend. With a tight 2017 RC racing schedule in South Africa some of the 1/12th drivers could not participate in the event but all the championship contenders were present for the four qualifying rounds and three finals. Most of the drivers arrived Friday for some practise and setup on the fast and very high traction track. Practice on Friday showed that the local Antonio Caroli and newcomer Hein Kotze would be drivers to beat in Modified and youngsters Brandon Solomon and Francois Laubscher in the 13.5T blinky stock class.

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July 31, 2017

GForce TS50A Rev Control brushless speed controller

Coming from GForce is the TS50A Rev Control brushless speed controller. It offers a compact size of 35.3×32.4×19.7mm, a 6V/2A BEC system and it is usable with down to 8.5T motor in on-road classes and down to 11.5T motors for 1/10th buggy applications. Unique to the Rev Control is an RPM limiter that can be set to values between 10,000 and 20,000 RPM in 500 RPM increments using the optional Progbox device. The controller is rounded out by an aluminium heatsink case as well as a dust-protected electronic power switch.

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July 30, 2017

Nuclear ASM Type 3 .21 nitro engine

Japanese company Nuclear have introduced the ASM Type 3 3.5cc nitro engine. It comes with a new piston, sleeve, connecting rod, piston pin and back plate that underwent a special process to reduce friction as much as possible. The piston and sleeve also show greatly reduced pinch without sacrificing compression to further up the performance with all parts being matched for optimised durability. Apart from the complete engine the con rod, piston pin and back plate are also available separately.

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July 30, 2017

Coelho cruises to A1 win at ETS Germany

Bruno Coelho cruised to an easy win in the opening A-Main of the ETS Season Finale in Germany this morning, the Top Qualifier having a winning margin of almost three seconds over Naoto Matsukura. Top Qualifier at the uniquely challenging Minidrom Ettlingen track, Coelho immediately took control of A1 making a blistering start ahead of Xray team-mate Tim Wahl. Starting his first ever outdoor ETS A-Main from second on the grid, Wahl was looking good in 2nd early on but had a slight moment on the curbing was enough to let Matsukura and the rest of the pack to close, the Infinity driver executing an impressive move on the German on the entry to the sweeper to take second. Matsukura’s Infinity team-mate Marc Rheinard would shortly make a similar pass on Wahl, these being the only two passes of the race, the rest of the field finishing in the order they started.

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