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September 5, 2017

Mibosport Cup Winter Series – Announcement

The 2017/18 season of the popular Mibosport Cup Winter Series will kick off on the weekend of the 14th of October in Hrotovice. Attracting almost 400 drivers in total including the likes of Ronald Völker, Lee Martin, Viljami Kutvonen, Alexander Hagberg, Viktor Wilck, Hupo Hönigl, Martin Hudy and Martin Bayer, last year’s series was again a great success. This year the series is run in the eight classes of Touring Car Modified, Stock LRP, Formula, 1/12th scale as well as 2WD and 4WD Buggy. New categories are 2WD Stock 17.5T and 4WD Stock 13.5T Buggy. The Touring Modified and Formula classes will roll on Volante tyres, the Stock class utilises Sweep rubber while the off-road categories will run the brand new Schumacher Cactus tyres. As usual the on-road races will be run on the proven black ETS carpet while the off-road track is laid out with the same carpet as used at the EOS. More information about the series can be found here.

September 5, 2017

Frederic Santos takes back-to-back Portuguese TC title

The final round of the Portuguese 1/10th Touring National Championship was held at the fast Pista Das Travessas track in Sao Joao Da Maderia. The race was held in a single Stock 10.5T Blinky class and it was the title decider between Helder Silva, Jorge Simoes and Frederic Santos. Frederic would start from pole into the finals and he also won the opening A-main while Helder and Jorge fought for 2nd and 3rd. A2 was won by Jorge as Frederic wasn’t able to hold his position and things even got worse in the final main when Frederic had to retire with a broken car on lap 1 as Helder took the win. Overall Jorge Simoes would take the day’s win from Helder Silva and Frederic Santos, whose 3rd place was enough to take his second national title in a row.

View the final results here

September 5, 2017

David Ehrbar wins European F1 Masters

The popular Lostallo track in Switzerland played host to the European F1 Masters this past weekend with drivers from Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland in attendance. David Ehrbar would take three round TQs to line up in 1st on the grid while Julian Borowski, with two round TQs, came in 2nd from Sidney Blokker 3rd. In the triple A-mains David made maximum use of his starting position and he would take wins in all three mains to snatch the title from 2nd placed Julian Borowski and 3rd placed Sidney Blokker.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]

September 5, 2017

Xray X12 US Spec aluminium bushings

Xray have introduced two additional sets of aluminium front suspension bushings for the X12’18 US Spec 1/12th scale pan car. Adding to the standard setting are 0.5mm and 1.0mm specifications that help to either narrow or widen the track width, depending of the orientation. The bushings are machined from high-quality aluminium, they come orange anodised, are marked for easy identification and they come in sets of two.

View the 1.0mm bushings here

September 5, 2017

X-Grip 1/10th touring car springs

Coming from X-Grip is a new range of shock springs for 1/10th electric touring cars. The 20mm springs are usable with nearly all low-profile shock absorbers and they are offered in five different colour-coded hardnesses from red super soft to black super hard.

Source: Mikimodel [mikimodel.net]

September 5, 2017

Fenix Flexy Sexy E4RS4 & updated TC7.1 alloy chassis

Fenix have introduced their Flexy Sexy aluminium chassis for the Team Magic E4RS4 and also an updated main plate for the Team Associated TC7.1. Starting with the Team Magic chassis, it is 85mm wide and weighs in at 82g. Excessive machining in the middle section makes for optimised flex characteristics of the fully symmetrical chassis, making it ideal for all medium to high-bite conditions. As for the updated TC7.1 chassis the main plate now offers ARS mounting positions directly on the chassis. An “ARS” engraving makes for easy identification of the updated item.

View the TC7.1 ARS chassis here

September 5, 2017

Turkish On-road National Championship Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the Turkish On-road National Championship was held at the Bumod track in Bursa. This time the track was run anti-clockwise which made for about four to five seconds lower lap times in the 200mm Nitro Touring class compared to running clockwise. Alain Sarafyan made a clean sweep in the Nitro Touring class, taking the TQ and his first pole position in this category. In the main final Alain kept his cool and with swift laps and a flawless run he was able to open a gap on the field and control the other drivers to give him the win from Kagan Aydin 2nd and Halit Körpe 3rd.

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September 5, 2017

Belgian Electric On-road Nationals Rd5 – Report

The fifth and final round of the Belgian Electric On-road Nationals was hosted by the MRCZ club in Zwevegem this past weekend. The race was held on a purpose built track laid out in a local parking lot. Two weeks before the Belgian nats, the club hosted a club race and an open practice during which it turned out that the grip levels were quite low, and this resulted in a lower turnout for this championship decider. In the three main classes of Touring Modified, Touring Stock and Formula the race for the overall title was still open.

Continue reading the report here