Coming from Yeah Racing and made for HPI Racing’s Sprint 2 touring car are front and rear Urethane drive belts. 4mm wide and made from Urethane material the belts are meant to improve drivetrain efficiency with the belts being available separately for the front or the rear of the car.
The penultimate round of the 2017 Texas Electric Onroad Series was held in San Antonio, Texas. Hosted by the Alamo City Racing Club, the race took place at a local community park on a converted tennis court. The abrasive tennis court surface provided high traction, but also high tire wear. The track itself was large and flowing, allowing for high speeds and some extremely close racing. Unforgiving wooden lane barriers made driving a clean race essential, as one wrong brush against the boards could send a driver back to the pits early. The event featured six different race classes. In Modified Touring, Chris Tosolini would take both TQ and 1st in the A-main. Ron Atomic would post the single fastest lap in the main, while working his way from fourth on the starting grid to finish second overall. John Hodges would round out the top 3 drivers.
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The final round of the 2016/17 Protoform WCICS went down in Calgary, Alberta. In the premier Touring Modified class Wayne Mah dominated but not without a strong challenge from Blake Bell. Bell and Mah traded hotlaps back and forth all weekend but Mah was able to string a few more hotlaps together in the mains to take the overall win. Bell was close to secure the second podium position and Pittman, Chapman and Scales were all close in the battle as well with Pittman taking two 3rds, Chapman taking a 3rd and 5th and Scales taking a 2nd and a couple DNF.
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UK Nosram distributors Schumacher have introduced the new HD StockSpec brushless speed control. The HD Stock Spec comes pre-installed with the all-new v5.1 software. This software is adapted to the new hardware and new vital features have been added to make it best possible for today’s need in Stock racing. Initial Drive Feel Compensation (IDFC) has been developed especially with Stock racing in mind to maximise the comfort of initial drive feel over the whole race. Activating IDFC will provide initial drive increments depending on the temperature of the motor. This innovative feature will help to match the same power feeling on throttle over the whole race. Users can either select no compensation or adjust more IDFC to match the desired feeling on throttle after the motor gets hotter and battery weaker. Newly developed Stock parameters for the timing allow to unleash the full power potential in all boosted classes. The new BDX-S break rounds off the package for Stock drivers. Four different brake types including BDX-S are now included, enabling maximum braking power with increased response for pin-point accuracy when entering tight corners. By the time of release, Nosram continues to use its well-known system for trackside adjustments with push buttons, with no need to use a separate programming unit. The Nosram HD speed control series however is designed to support external programming device which is planned to be offered later on.
The second round of the Belgian nitro on-road nationals was held at the Model Race Genk track last weekend. Due to a motocross track near the RC circuit traction was hard to find thanks to a dust layer on the surface, meaning lot of setup work for all drivers. Ultimately Robin D’hondt would make the best out of the conditions, taking the pole position for the A-mains and grabbing the day’s win some seven laps in front of Yves Zoma in 2nd and Raphaël Benkhélifa, who ended the 30-minute race another two laps down in 3rd.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The NSW State Championship was held at the John Grant Raceway in Sydney, Australia. From the moment practice started on Thursday, Aaron lee was setting the pace but after some solid consistent qualifying Jeff Hamon took the TQ spot by one point. The crowd at the track saw a final that was going to go down to the wire. The start was clean until Aaron made a mistake and dropped five seconds and completed the first lap in last place. Putting his head down Aaron had made his way back to 2nd place by the first pit stop. Pushing hard the gap was closing on Hamon out front. By the second pit stop Hamon had flamed out which gave Aaron Lee (Shepherd) the lead that he would hold onto until the checkered, winning by four laps and also setting the fastest lap of the race. Kane Alderton (Xray) in 2nd place and Leigh Dytor (Mugen) in 3rd were completing the podium.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
Yeah Racing have introduced an optional carbon fibre main chassis plate and top deck for the 3Racing Sakura D4 drift car. The main plate is cut from 2.5mm carbon fibre and it will stiffen the chassis assembly to get more grip out of the car with the same applying to the 2.0mm upper deck. The parts are usable on AWD and RWD kits and they are available separately.
The third round of the Greek On-road Championship was held recently at the Fanatic Racing Track and in the 200mm Nitro Touring class it was championship leader Likaris who took the TQ and pole position. Dimitriou would start from the 2 spot and the race for the win would be between these two drivers who soon opened a big gap on the field. Ultimately Dimitriou would bring home the win after finding a way past Likaris although he would only take the win by a narrow two seconds with Tsiklitiras completing the podium in 3rd. With the win Dimitriou is now back in the game for the overall title.
