Serpent have announced the signing of Singapore’s Nicholas Lee to their nitro on-road team. Nicholas will campaign the company’s Viper 977 and Natrix 748 cars at the Asian FEMCA races and other events while giving on-track support together with recently signed Felix Law. Nicholas had the following to say:
I would like to thank Serpent for the opportunity and Felix for the help. I’m ready to race!
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Keeping pit spaces more tidy and organised is now easier with the help of Xceed’s new aluminium tyre stand. Usable for Touring Car, Formula and Drift tyres the aluminium construction utilises grey anodised X-shaped aluminium side plates and inner struts that allow to fit two sets of touring car tyres in the narrow variant and two sets of wide formula tyres in the wide configuration. The set includes both sizes of struts for easy and convenient adaption.
HPI Racing have introduced the 28R Challenge tyre set. The pre-glued tyres utilise a unique blend of rubber to deliver good traction with high durability. The wheel is a 24mm with 0mm offset dish design moulded in a stiff plastic for improved high-speed stability and it features a printed HPI logo to give the wheel an unique look. The soft closed cell foam inserts used in the wheel supports the tyre uniformly to give good all-round traction and even tyre wear both indoors and outdoors. The tyres are sold in sets of four.
Source: HPI Racing [hpiracing.com]
Coming from Hudy is the new Premium ball bearing oil. The specially formulated lubricant offers ultra-smooth bearing operation thanks to a blend that greatly reduces friction while ensuring a strong lubricating film at the same time. It it recommended for the use in dusty conditions or when bearing contamination with carpet fluff is a problem and it is to be used in addition to a standard bearing oil.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
Round three of the 2016 BRCA LMP nationals took place last weekend at the the Tamworth track just north of Birmingham. Drivers would compete over two days, with Saturday seeing all drivers racing in the 13.5 fixed timing class and Sunday seeing classes split into 6.5 Modified and 13.5 Sports Modified, both fixed timing. As always the central location saw a strong field of drivers, which was headed by 3-time 1/12th European Champion Alexander Hagberg. Competing against Alexander would be multiple World Champion David Spashett, past European Champion Chris Kerswell and a host of European A-finalists headed by Mark Stiles and Ollie Payne.
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Xray have announced the dates for the Xray Racing Series Germany that will be held on four weekends between January and March 2017. The season will kick off on the weekend of the 15th of January in Adenau and finishes on the 12th of March, again in Adenau. Drivers of select classes will receive an Xray promo package and each driver has the change to win a T4 kit at the series finale. More information and all dates can be found here.
The 2016 U.S. World Nitro Cup was held at Full Throttle RC Raceway in Kissimmee, Florida over the weekend. As usual the event attracted some of the country’s fastest nitro on-road racers to compete against guests from abroad and it would be Australia’s Jesse Davis (Infinity) that would lead the way in 1/8th Open qualifying to take the TQ after four rounds of qualifying. In the 45-minute main final though it would be Italy’s Alberto Picco (Mugen) that took the overall win some 7.6s in front of Jesse while Lamberto Collari (Infinity) completed the podium result in third, one lap down.
Source: Mugen [mugen.eu]
Round three of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series attracted more then 100 drivers to compete in a total of five electric on-road classes. After three qualifiers and triple mains it was Ronald Völker who came out fastest in the premier Touring Modified class from Remi Callens in second and Loic Jasmin third. Matthias Keding and Nicolas Delise would round out the top 5 result.
