The opening round of the popular MRC Longwy Winter Series was held this past weekend with over 100 entries for the four classes of Touring Modified, 10.5T, 13.5T and Rookie. In the Modified class it was VBC Racing’s Lucas Urbain who walked away with the win from Xray’s Tim Wahl and Yokomo driver Loic Jasmin.
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Coming from Roche and made for the Rapide F1 1/10th scale formula car are a carbon fibre rear axle and a titanium-coated shock shaft. Starting with the rear axle, the assembly uses a carbon fibre shaft with a lightweight yet durable aluminium differential plate and a threaded aluminium insert for the adjustment nut. Using the part will improve acceleration and top speed while also giving more on-power steering due to a different weight distribution. Also new and made for the Rapide F1 is a titanium-coated centre shock shaft. The space age coating will reduce friction, making for a smoother and more efficiently working shock absorber.
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Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has announced the signing of Alessio Menicucci to their team. The multiple Italian national champion and ETS finalist will deck out his Xray rides with Mon-Tech bodyshells from now on, joining swift team mates such as Portugal’s Bruno Coelho.
Source: Mon-Tech [mon-techracing.net]
Tamiya have introduced two new TT-02 based kits in the form of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 and the TT-02R race kit. Starting with the Merc, the AMG GT3 comes on the proven TT-02 entry-level 4WD chassis and it includes a replica body shell that mimics Mercedes’ successful GT race car. The kit will hit stores about mid-December and it includes a comprehensive decal sheet and grippy slick tyres on multi-spoke rims.
This past weekend the Team C GT 5 hours endurance race was held at the TRC race track in Hong Kong. A total of 14 teams battled for the victory with each team consisting of four members. The rules were pretty open with free chassis and body choice but SP control tyres had to be used. The race started at 11 a.m. on Sunday and after 300 intense minutes it was Team 46 (Serpent) that walked away with the win from Team C (Team C) with Team HEC (Mugen) rounding out the podium result.
Source: Team C [teamcracing.net]
The Grand Prix of Marseille was held this past weekend and in the 1/8th Nitro On-road class it was Anthony Abisset (Serpent) who took the TQ from Adrien Bertin (HB Racing) and Christophe Louis in second and third respectively. At the end of the 30-minute main final Anthony retained his position with Adrien ending the race some three seconds down. Two laps behind Mathias Kalaris (Capricorn) completed the podium result in third.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
The opening round of the Belgium Modelifun Championship was held in Meux, Belgium. The Touring Car class was won by Jerome Defrenne from Michel Smets in second and Pascal Delferiere in third. Cedric Colen and Cornard Olivier completed the top 5 result in fourth and fifth respectively.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
Xray have released a first teaser image of their forthcoming 1/8th nitro GT kit. The GT or Rally Game class, as it is called in their south European birth countries, attracts more and more companies to convert their nitro buggies into tarmac-eating on-road machines with Xray being the latest to hit the stage. We bring you more information on the project as they surface.
