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November 7, 2016

Essex Winter Series R2 – Report

The second round of the Essex Winter Series took place this weekend. The popular championship once again attracted an almost-capacity entry, with well over 100 drivers competing across the two classes of Modified and Super Stock Touring. In the Modified class, the entry was bolstered by the attendance of Xray stars Alexander Hagberg and Olly Jefferies. But it was round one runner-up Andy Moore who set the initial pace, topping the first qualifier from Elliott Harper, and the Xray team-mates of Olly and Alexander. However, this produced possibly one of the tightest qualifying results ever, with second to seventh places covered by one second.

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November 7, 2016

Lahti Touring Car Challenge 2016 – Report

The Lahti Touring Car Challenge 2016, season opener for the FinTrack National Touring Car Championship, was held as part of the Kätevä & Tekevä hobby & crafts expo at the Lahti Fair Centre. The expo gathered about 10.000 visitors with many of them watching the finals from the grandstands. In previous years the Lahti Touring Car Challenge race has been held in an invite Reedy style format but for this year it was promoted to be the first round of FinTrack Tour. The race was held in several classes and in Touring Modified it was Awesomatix’s Viljami Kutvonen who TQ’d all qualifiers and he would also come out fastest in all finals to take the day’s win from the Awesomatix duo of Miko Teponoja and Kalle Lehto.

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November 7, 2016

Maker, De Nardis & Rabot win Australian titles

The 2016 AARCMCC Australian National Titles were held at Templestowe Flat Track Racers this past weekend. The event attracted the country’s fastest on-road drivers and it also saw the attendance of current IFMAR Electric Touring Car World Champion, Ronald Völker. At the end of the day and in the premier Touring Modified class it was Ryan Maker who took the TQ and win from Ronald in second. Super Stock 13.5T was TQ’d and won by Tom De Nardis with Tony William McMahon in second. Finally in Stock 21.5T it was Wayne Rabot who made a clean sweep by TQ-ing and winning the class from Glenn Wilson on the runner-up spot.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

November 7, 2016

Hillcoat & Schutte take SARDA Touring Car titles

With the recent fifth round of the SARDA Electric On-road Nationals, held at the TRAP RC venue in Pretoria, the championship concluded and it was Jason Hilcoat that walked away with the overall title in the Touring Modified class from Xray team mate Shaun Schutte and Antonio Caroli.

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November 7, 2016

Roberto Castañón Palomo wins Asturian TC finale

The sixth and final round of the Asturian Regional 1/10th Electric Touring Championship was held at the Automodelismo Gijon club. In the Touring Stock class the pole position went to Aitor Fernández and the finals proved to be a very close affair between the pole position holder and young Roberto Castañón Palomo, who is in his first year of racing and ultimately won the finals by four tenth of a second to take the overall win from Aitor while Álvaro Díaz Nieto rounded out the top 3 result.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 6, 2016

Marc Valero takes Spanish Pro10 Championship

The final round of the Spanish Pro10 Championship was held at the Rubi track in Barcelona. Pre-event favourite Marc Valero grabbed the TQ from Sergio Lacuesta in second and Jaime Lacuesta in third. The finals then saw Marc continue to dominate, as he took the day’s win and with it the overall championship title. Sergio ended the day on the runner-up spot from Raul Carmona while Jaime made a mistake, taking him out of the decision for the podium spots. Overall in the Championship it was Jaime Lacuesta who obtained the vice championship title from Sergio Lacuesta in third.

Source: Coches RC [cochesrc.com]

November 4, 2016

Protoform 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 bodyshell

Protoform 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 bodyshell-1

Protoform have introduced the 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 bodyshell for the VTA and other vintage touring car classes. One of the iconic cars of its generation, the Z28 tore up both the streets and Trans-Am series tracks with pure American V8 power. In true Super Chevy style, Protoform replicated the distinctive “split-bumper” configuration along with all the other signature Z28 design details for an exceptionally scale look. For the first time in PF’s VTA body lineup, the Z28 is formed from a single piece of genuine Lexan and requires no assembly. An all-new moulding process developed by the engineers at Protoform has allowed to capture realistic front and rear undercuts on the Z28 without the need for an add-on nose piece. The officially-licensed product meets all VTA Class rules and includes a detailed decal sheet, protective overspray film and window masks.

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November 4, 2016

Shepherd Velox V8 WC 1/8th nitro on-road kit

After an extensive development and testing phase Shepherd have announced the release the Velox V8 WC 1/8th nitro on-road car kit. Made to honour the 2015 World Championship title of Simon Kurzbuch the Velox V8 WC features state-of-the-art technologies as well as proven design features. The included 0.8 module gearbox Simon used in prototype stages at the Worlds in Brazil is now available in a refined version and it saves about 20 percent of weight compared to its predecessor, improving the car’s acceleration significantly.

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