The Italian Riccione track held their ETS warm-up race this past weekend with many national and international drivers taking the opportunity to get some laps under their belts in preparation for round 4 of the series. In the Touring Modified class Alexander Hagberg took the overall TQ after winning two of the four qualifiers. Alessio Menicucci showed a very strong pace and after TQing Q4 he put himself 2nd on the grid.
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Round one of the Swiss Nitro On-road National Championship was held at the iconic Lostallo circuit. The event was run anti-clockwise which meant some difficulties for the 200mm pilots due to the small chicane entering the main straight. Fuel consumption is always an issue on the fast track and in the 1/8th class Simon Kurzbuch and Mattia Pesenti made the best out of it, obtained the top 2 spots after qualifying. In the 45-minute main final Simon Kurzbuch once again showed a World-class performance, taking the win some three laps in front of Michael Henzi while Raphael Roider ended the main another three laps down in third.
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The opening round of the Nitro-West-Masters (NWM), a popular championship held in the western part of Germany, turned into a full-throttle party on the fast 310-meter Hamm track last weekend. With a total of 64 entries, practice on Saturday was intense and the event would start in full on Sunday morning with three heats of 7-minutes qualifying of which the three fastest laps would count. In the premier 1/8th Open class it was Tobias Hepp who snatched the pole position less than two hundredth of a second ahead of ARC teammate John Ermen. On the 3rd and 4th spot, Michael Salven (Serpent) and René Puepke (Shepherd) were the last direct qualifiers for the main.
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The second round of East Touring Series was held at the Sunter International Speedway. The race was held in a Reedy Race format for both the Modified and Mini chassis classes. The race format saw 7-rounds of reverse grid racing and in the end Bowie Ginting would score four wins in the Touring Modified class to take the win from Arya Seta and Suwardi Suliandy in 2nd and 3rd respectively. In the Open Mini class it would be young gun Ridhwan Sutedja who made a clean sweep for the win.
IGT8 have announce the release of the 2017 version of their high-performance IFMAR spec 1/8th nitro GT chassis. Updates include an optimised suspension geometry for less roll and more traction, harder suspension arms for less flex and increased response as well as a lighter and smaller transmission with 0.8 pitch. Also included in the kit are a lightweight high performance clutch bell for better acceleration and all features that were previously part of the IGT8 Red. The new car, a successor of the proven and aforementioned IGT8 Red, is expected to hit the market in May 2017.
Coming from Techra and made for the Xray T4 series of touring cars is a battery mount system. Utilising machined, L-shaped 7075-T6 aluminium brackets the mounts are designed to minimise chassis tweak while giving the option of using the supplied hook and loop strap or optional fibre-reinforced tape to hold down the battery pack. The brackets sport a 2-tone black and orange finish and included in the set is also suitable mounting hardware.
Italian company Mon-Tech Racing has introduced their new WR4 body shell for 1/10th rally cars. Made from touch 1mm polycarbonate the lid sports VW Polo-inspired contours and it comes with a 2-piece rear wing, window masks and a decal sheet and it fits most 190mm touring and rally car chassis.
The second round of the French Electric On-road Nationals was held in Lentilly near Lyon with 76 drivers signing in for the four classes of Touring Modified, Touring 10.5T, Touring 13.5T and Formula. In the premier Touring Modified class it was Alexandre Duchet who took the TQ in front of Loic Jasmin and Remi Callens. After the finals the top spots mixed up a bit with Loic taking the day’s win from Alexandre and Remi.
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