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April 1, 2017

EWS International practice & Q1 update

With controlled practice now completed, the overall results showed a tie on the official ranking list with both Yokomo’s Ronald Völker and Infinity’s Kyle Branson setting an identical time of 45.65 seconds over three laps. Having no other way to separate the drivers, race announcer Oli Meggitt chose to use the second best time set, which means it will be the World Champion who carries the number one sticker on his car through the four rounds of qualifying.

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April 1, 2017

Völker quickest as EWS International gets underway

The 2017 EWS International presented by Infinity and Sweep got underway on Friday evening, with three rounds of optional free practice to allow the 130 entries to acclimatise themselves to the new track layout. The track, designed by race announcer Oli Meggitt and realised by Richard King and the EWS track team, features a huge area of 34×24 metres and the unique EWS corner kerbs. Commenting on the track layout, recently crowned EWS Series champion Elliott Harper noted that there was a “good variety of corners” and expected this to lead to some “close times throughout practice and qualifying”.

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March 31, 2017

Video – Ronald Volker Interview – Germany, 2017

During a break at the 2016/17 Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Germany last month Red RC’s Oli Meggitt sat down with newly crowned World Champion Ronald Völker to talk about the World title he won in China as well as finding a balance between his racing and personal life.

March 31, 2017

Xray NT1’17 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road kit

Xray have introduced the 2017 variant of their successful NT1 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road kit. IFMAR World and EFRA European as well as multi-time national champion, the NT1 has proven to be very successful in the past with the 2017 variant again offering many refined areas over radical new designs and so the car is based off of a slightly updated aluminium main chassis that features larger cut-outs in the front and reinforcements in the rear for updated flex characteristics while a mirrored flywheel opening makes for equal left-to-right flex.

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March 31, 2017

Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria Rd1 – Report

Round one of the Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria was held at the Slovenian Mini Circuit Na Logo in Tolmin with drivers from five different countries in attendance. The weekend started off with practice on Saturday that held pretty high temperatures for this time of the year but cooler and even rainy weather was predicted for Sunday. As for the racing action, in 1/10th Electric Touring it was Andrea Ghilotti who took the TQ while in 1/8th Electric GT it was Grega Hrovat on pole. In the three nitro classes the TQ positions went to Gabor Laszlo in 1/10th Touring, Fabio Callegari in 1/8th GT and Nejc MIhelič in 1/8th on-road. Due to the predicted rain kicking in the organisers opted to sit out the rain shower and to shorten the mains.

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March 31, 2017

Hobbywing sign Naoto Matsukura

Hobbywing have announced the signing of multi-time IFMAR World Champion, Naoto Matsukura to their factory team. The Infinity driver will use Hobbywing brushless speed controller and motors in all of his electric rides in 2017 and he has the following to say about the deal:

I am very happy to join Hobbywing team. I tested 1:10 off-road power combos last month and found it super good. Then I decided to use Hobbywing power in CETC first round to feel it on my touring car and it worked amazing. I think Hobbywing can provide me the best combos in all my electric classes. Thanks to Hobby and Sekido for this good opportunity.

Source: Hobbywing [hobbywing.com]

March 31, 2017

7075.it T4 battery mount system & centre brass weights

Italian company 7075.it have introduced new option parts for the Xray T4 series of touring cars in the form of a battery mount system and two centre brass weights. Starting with the battery mounts, they utilise new brackets that incorporate slots for the mounting tape, doing away with the need to use the respective chassis slots which results in reduced chassis tweak and also a more secure battery mounting as there are less chances to damaging the tape during a run. The brackets are included as lightweight 9g aluminium and heavy 20g brass blocks which gives the possibility to adapt the weight bias and overall weight. The brackets can also be mixed for even greater influence on the weight distribution and to top things off they also use adjustable stops to shift the battery pack forth and back by about 3mm. The alloy parts come black anodised and laser-etched for wear and looks.

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March 31, 2017

Active Hobby Products wide flange M4 wheel nuts

Japanese company Active Hobby Products have introduced their new wide flange M4 wheel nuts for 1/10th on-road and off-road cars. Offering an increased diameter of 11.3mm, compared to the 9.6mm of most flanged M4 nuts, the parts allow for a more secure wheel fitment while also reducing wobbling issues associated with small diameter nuts. At 5mm they are also thicker than many fasteners and a serrated back section grips into the wheel’s surface for greater security against unintended loosing than standard nyloc nuts. The wheel nuts come in sets of four, in the five colours of black, blue, red, orange and silver and due to their diameter they may not fit all wheels on the market.

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