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September 2, 2019

Matt Gonzales doubles at Surf City Classic

OCRC Raceway of Huntington Beach, California played host to the 12th annual Pro-Line Surf City Classic this past weekend, attracting over 310 entries. In 13.5T Stock Buggy it was Yokomo’s Matthew Gonzales with the overall TQ and he would also take the win in the single 10-minute A-main event, leaving behind Team Associated’s Antonio Counsil in 2nd, a lap down. TLR’s Matthew Willbilly came in 3rd some 2.8 seconds down on Antonio to round out the podium. Over in 17.5T Stock Buggy it was again Matthew with the overall TQ and win as Antonio scored another runner-up spot, 9.6 seconds behind Matty G. Team Associated’s Ezra Keller would round out the top 3 another second down.

View the 2WD Stock Buggy podium here

September 2, 2019

Michal Orlowski sweeps oOple Invernational X

The oOple Invernational X was held at the Robin Hood Raceway in the UK this past weekend, attracting some of Europe’s fastest 1/10th off-road racers. Schumacher’s Michael Orlowski would take the overall TQ in 2WD Modified Buggy and he also came out on top in A2 and A3 after scoring a 4th place finish in the reverse grid A1. Team Associated’s Neil Cragg took 4-2-2 finishes for the overall runner-up spot from Greg Williams in 3rd with 9-3-3 runs. 4WD Modified Buggy again had Michal scathing the overall TQ and win from Neil as Allan O Brien (Schumacher) came in 3rd overall.

View the 4WD Modified Buggy podium here

September 2, 2019

2019 International German Pro10 Nationals – Report

The 2019 International German Pro10 Nationals were held at the Speedracer Bernau Club near Berlin in Modified and Sport classes with drivers from The Netherlands, the UK and Germany in attendance. The warm weather made for good traction conditions and the weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday followed by triple controlled practice runs and three qualifying rounds on Saturday. Sunday saw two more qualifiers and the triple A-mains. In the Modified class reigning German Champion, Tim Altmann set the pace in the timed practice followed by his brother Kai with Timo Schad and Tobias Weist completing the top 4.

Continue reading the report here

September 2, 2019

Alexandre Hirata wins at Brazilian Touring Champs

The 2019 Brazilian Electric Touring Car Championships were held in Joinville, Santa Catarina recently in 8.5T Modified and 13.5T Blinky classes. In 8.5T Modified the race for the overall TQ was on between Xray’s Erich Heshiki and WRC Racing’s Alexandre Hirata with the two ending tie on points after the qualifiers with the better tie-breaker handing Erich the overall TQ from Alexandre in 2nd. The finals would be held on Sunday and in very good weather conditions. The opening A-main saw ARC driver Cesar Salvadori taking the win from Denis Picktaill (Awesomatix) and Alexandre Hirata (WRC) – the latter having to recover from a bad start and being dead last in the opening stages. A2 then had Alexandre taking the win from Mugen’s Flavio Elias in 2nd. The final A-main would bring the decision for the overall win with Felipe Franceschi (Xray) taking the leg win and with it the overall 3rd place as Alexandre snatched the overall win and the Brazilian 8.5T Touring title with a 2nd place finish in A3. Cesar Salvadori came in 2nd overall with a steady performance in the finals.

View the final results here

September 2, 2019

Essential 1/12th & F1 RC Racer’s Guide

Essential 1/12th & F1 RC Racer’s Guide is a new book written by Dave Stevens with the support of 3.times IFMAR 1/12th scale World Champion, David Spashett and F1 IFMAR World Cup winner, Jan Ratheisky. It publication is a complete guide to 12th scale and Formula radio control pan cars, with everything drivers need to know from basic setup how-to features to advanced techniques used by world champions. It offers step-by-step guides, advice for every setup option, checklists, troubleshooting, case studies and quick reference material and it is beautifully presented with colour photos of events and cars from around the world. The full-colour 153-page book is available in selected online bookstores and RC stores.

Source: Dave Stevens [davebstevens.com]

September 2, 2019

Asian Nitro Championship Rd3 – Report

The third round of this year’s Asian Nitro Championship was held at the new Infinity International RC Speedway this past weekend. The newly built track is located near the famed Suzuka Raceway in Japan and in the premier 1/8th Open class the main was stacked with talent and with the current 1/8 World Champion thrown into the mix, anything was possible. Carmine Raiola captured the pole position and clearly he was aiming to keep the position for the win. The top two qualifiers, Tadahiko Sahashi and Chavit Saligupta set the pace early for the front runners as the pair were always within striking distance of each other for a large duration of the race. Behind them it was a totally different story as much of the field was jockeying for position. Current 1/8 World Champ Dario Balestri claimed the third position from past World Champ Naoto Matsukura for a bit as he had his sights set on the leaders preparing. By this time though, all cars were approaching pit stop time and how good your pit person is was going to start to determine if you can hold your position or not. If you had trouble following the order in the closing stages of the main, you weren’t alone. Race announcer Scotty Ernst called the action and kept things straight for the watching audience. By the sound of the end tone, second qualifier Sahashi managed to grab the big win with Chavit Saligupta coming all the way from the sixth qualifying spot to take second with TQ Carmine Raiola rounding out the top 3.

Continue reading the report here

September 2, 2019

PSM tease new balance weight main chassis plates

German company PSM has released first teaser images of their forthcoming new balance weight chassis for cars such as the Yokomo BD9, Xray T4, Tamiya TA07 and the Team Associated B74. No details are available yet beside two teaser images but by the look of things the chassis allow to add balance weights in milled pockets for a lower overall centre of gravity and upped overall weight when needed. Full details will be release later this week.

View another teaser image here

September 2, 2019

Pemberton RaceWorks Slash adjustable rear arms

Pemberton RaceWorks have announced the release of their The Final Answer Traxxas Slash Edition adjustable rear arms. These arms share a design as used in the 10th scale dirt oval world, and this very same technology is now available for the ever popular Traxxas Slash platform. The product offers a great amount of track side adjustability and allow for up to 12 degrees of rear toe adjustment (+6 degrees to -6 degrees) while also allowing to access track width adjustment. The arms sport two sliding rails that are captured in the arm’s front and rear pockets. The rails can be individually positioned at various lengths creating toe-in and/or toe-out at the outer hinge pin position. Advantages of the design include no change in wheelbase while adding toe settings, and toe positioning will not move as a result of a crash or brushing the wall. Built from nearly indestructible Nylon 6-6 and aluminium, these arms are also ultra-strong and applications include dirt oval, offroad, and drag racing. The set includes arms, rails, screws, pivot balls, shims and Lunsford Titanium inner and outer hinge pins.

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