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September 3, 2019

Billy Fletcher joins Awesomatix factory team

Awesomatix have announced the signing of UK Stock Touring Car specialist, Billy Fletcher to their factory team. The former UK Clubman’s champion and nationals podium finisher will campaign the A800X Evo kit at all major races across England and Europe. Billy has following to say:

Happy to announce that I am heading back to the Awesomatix family and work with them on the presence in the UK. My main focus will be the 17,5T and 13,5T stock classes where the competition got massively higher during the merge of Boosted and Blinky class. Massive thanks to Max Mächler and Gareth Hollis for this opportunity and I’m looking forward to working with all the Awesomatix drivers.

Source: Awesomatix [awesomatix.com]

September 3, 2019

Infinity World Challenge – Report

Last weekend the Infinity World Challenge Race was held at the Morac Ring in Austria. In the 1/8th IC Track class it was Nejc Mihelic with the round TQ in Q1 from Branislav Panak in 2nd. Q2 was lead by Branislav most of the time but a last lap mistake allowed Tomas Liptak to TQ the round. Overall however it was Nejc Mihelic with the TQ after the qualifiers. In the first of the two finals it was a clean run for Nejc Mihelic as he managed to run away from Branislav and Tomas while the two battled for 2nd position. The battle was lost for Branislav later as he ran out of fuel on lap 52 and then again on the last lap so it was an easy win for Nejc who would finish 1 lap ahead of Tomas and 2 laps in front of Branislav.

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September 3, 2019

Tamiya TRF420 electric touring car – Coming soon

Tamiya have released a first teaser image of their forthcoming new TRF420 electric touring car kit. The highly anticipated car looks to be a complete redesign with updated suspension components such as lower arms, insert-equipped arm mounts, new steering knuckles, new front and rear bulkheads, updated servo and battery mounts and possibly a lot more details not visible in this single image. We bring you more details on Tamiya latest top-of-the-foodchain kit as they become available.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

September 3, 2019

Brilliant RC aluminium pivot balls

Coming from Brilliant RC are new lightweight aluminium pivot balls for various nitro on-road cars. They weight in at just 1.15g for the short and 1.4g for the long variants, equalling a weight saving of about 60 percent compared to standard steel pivot balls. Thanks to a special hardcoating method the surface friction is reduced significantly while a comfortable durability is still ensured. The 8mm pivot balls feature a 2.5mm hex and fit various nitro on-road cars. They are available in sets of four pieces in two different lengths; 20mm and 26mm.

Source: Brilliant RC [brilliant-rc.com]

September 3, 2019

Mauritian Electric On-road Championship Rd6 – Report

The Mauritian RLMC/MMC Electric On-road Championship recently concluded with the sixth and final round of the series. The event was again held three different classes with 1/8th BL Open being won by Mosheen Casseem from Christophe Cazin on the runner-up spot. Jovanni Appasamy came in 3rd to round out the podium at round 6.

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September 3, 2019

SBS 1/10 EP Malaysian Major League Rd4 – Report

Round 4 of the SBS Major League at the SBS Speedway in Sg Buloh, Malaysia recently. The penultimate round of the series saw a hiccup with the timing software, forcing the race director to start the race later in the afternoon but with a lower than usual amount of entries finishing by the end of the day was not a concern. As in every round so far, 4WD Modified Buggy saw the most participants and this time was no different. Competition was fierce with reigning champion Bashir (Team Associated) battling against Shahrin (Xray) and Kent (Tekno) for the the win this round, however Bashir maintained his composure and grabbed the win in all the mains. Shahrin came in 2nd and Kent was 3rd.

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September 3, 2019

MST FXX 2.0 KMW drift car kit – Coming soon

MST have released a couple of teaser images of their forthcoming new FXX 2.0 KMW RWD drift car kit. Equipped with a front motor/rear battery design the car utilises a 3.5mm carbon fibre chassis that shifts the weight bias more towards the rear for improved traction while the new aluminium front motor mount houses the updated upper and lower alloy front arms. A new steering and revised Ackermann geometry allows for greatly increased steering angles and the rear alloy MB suspension with adjustable reactive toe enables the owner to fine-tune increase or decrease the rear slip force. A fully adjustable suspension allows to adapt the chassis perfectly to different driving styles and body shells while purple anodised alloy parts and mock-up brake discs and callipers improve visual impact. The kit will hit stores soon.

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September 3, 2019

Fenix March 240 6-wheel formula body shell

Fenix Racing have released first prototype images of their forthcoming new March 240 6-wheel formula body shell. The full-scale car was developed in the crazy 1970’s that also brought the Tyrell P34 6-wheeler, however the March 240 was never used in a Formula 1 race as the ambitions project, that promised less aerodynamic drag and better traction thanks to its rear 4WD drive drivetrain, was too much to chew for a small team like March. Nevertheless it gained some popularity and the 4WD package later made it into Roy Lane’s successful hillclimb March 771. As for the 1/10th scale replica, Fenix is currently finalising its design and the body will hit the stores in kit form very soon.

Source: Fenix Racing [fenix-racing.com]