Capricorn have introduced the new Sapporo ball bearing kits for the C803 1/8th scale car. Containing 18 Japan-made high-quality ABEC X grade ball races each, the kits are available for the “standard” and “lightweight” transmission configurations and they are meant to greatly reduce drivetrain friction and thus up acceleration, top speed and milleage.
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The third round of the Texas Electric On-Road Series was held at NControl RC Raceway, site of the upcoming 2017 ROAR Electric On-Road Paved Nationals in Dale, Texas. The permanent track features smooth asphalt and wide flowing lanes that made for close racing across all 6 classes. The event produced record breaking turnouts, which made making a spot on the podium all the more challenging and rewarding. In the star-studded Modified Touring class, Chris Tosolini and Ralph Burch would trade TQ position back and forth over the opening three qualifying rounds, with Tosolini eventually securing TQ honors. In the A-main, Tosolini would lead wire-to-wire followed by Burch in second. The real battle took place between 5th place qualifier Cristian Tabush and 3rd place qualifier Chris Adams. Within the first few laps of the main, Tabush was able to jump from 5th to 3rd, where he would battle with Adams for the rest of the race swapping positions. In the end, Tabush would claim the final podium position.
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Capricorn have introduced two new Tesla-branded set-up stations for 1/8th and 1/10th nitro on-road cars. Both are made of black anodised 7075 aluminium and they come with laser-engraved markings for easy and precise wheel camber adjustments. Additional polycarbonate plates make front and rear toe settings a breeze. Both systems come in handy bags for convenient storage and transportation.
The opening round of the Dutch 1/8th On-road National Championship was held at the AMC Apeldoorn track last weekend. In the premier NK class it was Arie Manten who took the win in the 30 minute main after getting past Joey Sorber on the last lap thanks to being on a different tyre and fuel strategy. Joey Sorber had to settle for second, 1.2s down on Arie while Jeffrey Rietveld completed the top 3 result one lap down.
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Emerainville near Paris, host of round five of this year’s French Electric On-road Nationals later in September, recently held a round of their Emerainville League series. In the Touring 10.5T Stock class local Awesomatix driver Cyril N’Diaye took the win from Team Magic’s Thomas Vigneron while Yoann Bukowski (Schumacher) rounded out the podium in third.
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The final round of the Xray Racing Series Slovakia was held at the Hudy Racing Arean in Trencin over the weekend in both electric on-road and off-road classes. In Touring Modified Olivier Havranek would take the overall TQ despite having radio issues in the second qualifier. He would outperform Xray’s own Martin Hudy on his home track and Olivier would also come out successful after the A-mains despite not finishing the final leg due to a collision with another driver.
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HRC Racing have introduced their new line of 540-size brushed motors for hobby applications. The dual ball-raced and fully rebuildable motors are available in four different windings, including “modified” 13T, “stock” 17T and 19T as well as 60T crawler variants. The motors come pre-wired and they will hit stores in May.
Coming from Shepherd and made for the Velox F1 formula kit are a 2.25mm carbon fibre chassis and lower pod plate. Developed in cooperation with Shepherd factory driver Olivier Bultynck, the parts, machined from German-made high-quality carbon fibre, offer optimised flex characteristics for outdoor racing on asphalt. The chassis and pod plate have already proven their performance as Olivier took the TQ and runner-up spot at the recent Spanish ETS round held in Madrid. Both the main plate and lower pod plate are available now.
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